Hi everyone

May I please ask a beginner question. How do you run a zone for a database? Eg Postgres or redis

Do you use a sparse zone with the omnios pkg of postgres?

Do you use a ipkg zone with the pkgsrc postgres?

Do you use a lx zone with Linux distributed Postgres?

Or something else? I'm just starting out and I'm keen to step off on the best foot

i tend to just use lipkg zones for most things

sure, it takes a bit more space than sparse but you can install different versions in the zone than in the gz thar way

Using lipkg is far and away the most flexible, so should be the starting point

The KYSTY principle says to build your own copy of any application you care about, which is what we always did in production

Thank you sjorge and ptribble.