Docker killed the value proposition. "Worse is better". FreeBSD's jails and illumos's zones have always been far, far superior technically, providing actual ker

Docker killed the value proposition. "Worse is better". FreeBSD's jails and illumos's zones have always been far, far superior technically, providing actual kernel encapsulation and coherent administration utilities, but Docker had the triple combination of the familiarity of Linux, the cute whale, and the bonfire of VC dollars to drive adoption. There is still a great deal of administrative/technical value in using anything-but-Docker if you can tolerate the social stigma, but who can? The CxOs need that Docker/Kubernetes feather in their cap so they can look cool at conferences. Suggesting SmartOS/illumos gets you sideways looks at the very bare minimum. When I stated that I was thinking about using it here over a year ago, my inbox was immediately flooded with accusations that I was part of a Joyent-bankrolled cabal, because clearly no sane ordinary person would consider such a dead platform. In the interim, OmniTI has gone belly-up and OpenZFS has deemed ZFS on Linux the rightful heir to the ZFS throne, and now the Joyent Public Cloud is shuttering. If the impression that you had to be part of a conspiracy to use SmartOS for a greenfield project was reasonable then, it's only more reasonable now. The sun may yet rise again on illumos some day, but it's time to accept that it's well into the night now.