We've been running our private cloud on Triton / SmartOS with Packer and Terraform for a while now and for us its really working well. I do think however that T

We've been running our private cloud on Triton / SmartOS with Packer and Terraform for a while now and for us its really working well. I do think however that Triton / SmartOS works best when used in a true cloud native fashion (meaning stateless containers). One could probably use it in a "classic" way but you might not reap all the benefits of the solution. I also like that Triton has clear upgrade paths when new versions are released. Something that was usually the biggest issue with OpenStack. I try to run everything as much as possible in native (ie. Illumos) zones since I like SMF better then systemd. But if I can't get it to work I use an LX zone (container with Linux ABI compatibly) with CentOS. Which gets me all the benefits of true containers (Zones) with ZFS and dtrace.