Re:Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”
by simtel20 on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @12:18PM
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Well, since 2010 Sun has died, and opensolaris is no more. It lives on as an open source effort called Illumos. At one point, solaris could run Linux binaries unmodified under a solaris kernel and userspace. That became un-maintained, but it is now working again.
One of the reasons this feature fell out of use was because it could only run 32-bit linux binaries. Now it can run 64-bit binaries too.
If you want to try it out there is a company you may not be familiar with, dear time-traveler from 2010, called Joyent, that will let you use this.
What is very interesting dear time traveler is that there is a format for containing programs and their environments called docker that allows you to use features, as you could in a zone, but which is easier to use than zones. You can deploy your containers built on linux to solaris zones with this feature, and Joyent lets you do it.
Re:Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”
by pyre on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @01:16PM
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Oracle bought Sun in 2009 and finalized in Jan. 2010, so this time traveller would have to be from a very specific slice of 2010 to not know about the demise of Sun. :P
One of the reasons this feature fell out of use was because it could only run 32-bit linux binaries. Now it can run 64-bit binaries too.
If you want to try it out there is a company you may not be familiar with, dear time-traveler from 2010, called Joyent, that will let you use this.
What is very interesting dear time traveler is that there is a format for containing programs and their environments called docker that allows you to use features, as you could in a zone, but which is easier to use than zones. You can deploy your containers built on linux to solaris zones with this feature, and Joyent lets you do it.