Container OS comparison

Re:Container OS comparison by xj9 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @01:48PM (#9820432)

What about SmartOS? It's been container-native for, like, ten years and Joyent just recently added support for running Docker containers on bare metal.

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Re:Container OS comparison by jonasrosland on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:41PM (#9821482)

I posted a reply on the original post, so I'll add it here as well:

Yes, SmartOS is indeed very interesting and has been around for many years already. They've done some incredible work to get Docker containers to work on their platform. The purpose of the comparison here is to show some of the Linux OSes that are focused on containers (mainly Docker but also others), and it's never gonna be an exhaustive list. SmartOS could've been on the list as another alternative.

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Re:Container OS comparison by justincormack on Thursday July 02, 2015 @01:52PM (#9820461)

It is quite odd running Ubuntu "GNU/Linux" not on Linux: "Linux 3.13.0 BrandZ virtual linux x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

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Re:Container OS comparison by yellowapple on Thursday July 02, 2015 @02:14PM (#9820600)

Seconding SmartOS. I haven't used it for running containers yet, but I've had wonderful experiences with it running Zones and traditional VMs (mostly OpenBSD, with a few Linuxen).

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Re:Container OS comparison by xj9 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:11PM (#9822581)

Triton is pretty sweet. Provisioning is a little slow, but everything is blazing fast once its running.

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