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Uh, so I've never really heard of SmartOS or Joyent's SDC before now... This stuff looks pretty fucking unreal. What's the catch? It looks like it solves so ma

Uh, so I've never really heard of SmartOS or Joyent's SDC before now... This stuff looks pretty fucking unreal. What's the catch? It looks like it solves so many problems with clustered container deployment. Exposing a whole datacenter as a single Docker host seems like the end-game to me. Am I missing something? I'm a little low on sleep today. edit: To answer my own question a little: I guess the docker-sdc isn't quite fully baked yet. That's not really a huge issue since it's still a preview, I think?

bananaoomarang 12y ago
Nope, SmartOS is pretty neat.
- ssmoot 12y ago
  Ditto. We were early adopters at work. KVM + ZFS and practically no setup is ace.
jgrowl 12y ago
I'm right there with you. It feels like the beginning of skynet
pannon 12y ago
No catch, it is a truly innovative/disruptive technology.
_delirium 12y ago
The main catch (which may also be a plus) is that the Joyent set of technologies is quite opinionated about how to manage a cloud, so you more or less have to "buy in" and do things its way. Your node OS will be SmartOS, nodes will be PXE-booted, your filesystem will be ZFS, the network topology will work in a specific way, etc. More practically, it also takes some time to be proficient in operating it (or even just get it working), because there are quite a few moving parts. Getting a SmartDataCenter deployment running, and then things like Manta and now sdc-docker running on top of it, is more than an afternoon's work. But if you're willing to buy in to the system and its choices fit your needs, it's really well engineered, imo much more "done right" than e.g. OpenStack is.