Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by cryptonector on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:13PM
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The story as I understand it is that Sun wanted to license Solaris on a number of hosts basis while Google considered the number of servers they had to be a critical secret.
> maybe we’d all be running containers based on solaris zones
There were a lot of nice things about Solaris. The Solaris engineering org was amazing, full of visionary giants. ZFS, Zones, DTrace, mdb, SMF (systemd, but done better and ten years earlier), the fault tolerance stuff -- all created by engineers as skunkworks.
Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by fishnchips on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:53PM
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Fun fact - some Google servers ran Solaris. I worked on the tape backup team and the machines connected to LTE drives were indeed running Solaris.
Wow i had no idea that had almost happened!
Anyone care to elaborate further on that?
I wonder what could have been, if later solaris was open sourced and google could push their improvements… maybe we’d all be running containers based on solaris zones, and would have solaris on our smartphones? Who knows!