Re:Why we started CoreOS
by cyphar on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:30AM
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They specifically referred to bare-metal deployments (presumably local). While you could deploy SmartOS locally and run Triton yourself, I have a feeling that running a control plane like Triton is a bit overkill for a self-hosted deployment. Not to mention it likely takes several days too.
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There is "CoaL", or "Cloud on a Laptop" from Joyent just to get the feet wet with Triton:
http://blog.shalman.org/running-sdc-coal-on-smartos/
this video demonstrates that it doesn't take days and the description even says it is just as suitable for bare metal as it is for VMware: