Solaris/Illumos/SmartOS (Joyent's O/S, Joyent being Cantrill's company that offers a public cloud like AWS), has built-in lightweight containers that have all the right isolation characteristics (esp. security)

Docker/CoreOS build upon Linux primitives for isolated name spaces, but security is a problem because of Linux's flawed implementation. But Docker is the flavor of the month, even though it is technically inferior to SmartOS's.

So they (Joyent, Cantrill's company) wrapped SmartOS with the docker remote API, so when you do 'docker ps', you see all the VMs in the entire data center. The whole cloud works as one machine.

Joyent chose BSD which does containers better than Linux and Cantrill is pissed that everyone chose Linux+VMs.

> Joyent chose BSD which does containers better than Linux and Cantrill is pissed that everyone chose Linux+VMs

(Disclaimer: I sit next to Bryan at Joyent)

We chose _SmartOS_, a distribution of illumos -- itself a fork of the last drop of OpenSolaris before Oracle closed the gate. It is emphatically not a BSD, though Solaris has included aspects of at least AT&T UNIX and BSD (amongst other things) in its long and rich heritage.

I'm starting to totally love SmartOS. Kudos to you and colleagues.

Thanks for the correction. I should have gotten that right. I don't think the talk mentioned Illumos at all.

EDIT: he did mention Illumos but he was talking really fast.

Here is a TL/DR; in one word: Triton