libre #smartos

21 Feb 2023

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• 13:00
  neuroserve
  nikolam : have you tried setting up with an internal dns domain (which doesn't exist)?
• 13:06
  nikolam
  neuroserve, hi, yes, I changed config for everything to be .internal domain
• 13:06
  nikolam
  But I didn't reinstall form scratch per se using those settings. I might try that.
• 14:06
  Guest32
  Hello, is there a bhyve orchestration engine? I found one called pot, but was wondering if anyone here had any experience/recommendation regarding this.
• 14:16
  gonzosysadm[m]
  pot you say
• 15:02
  teutat3s
  Guest32 (LIBERA-IRC): TritonDataCenter?
• 15:30
  Guest32
  that looks promising, thank you
• 15:31
  bahamat
  Guest32: SmartOS has bhyve built in. You use the vmadm command to manage all types of virtual instances, including bhyve, zones, containers, docker, and kvm.
• 15:31
  bahamat
  Triton is for managing multiple SmartOS compute nodes.
• 15:32
  zizzy
  and for having a usable VM management interface, for me
• 15:32
  bahamat
  You can go anywhere from two to several thousand.
• 15:33
  zizzy
  last time I played with smartos, vmadm usage boiled down to writing JSON files which defined the VMs
• 15:33
  bahamat
  For a single compute node, it's probably better to just use SmartOS by itself. But there are benefits with Triton starting at 2+. And the more you have, the more it makes sense to use Triton instead.
• 15:33
  bahamat
  zizzy: That's true, but most people keep templates around.
• 15:34
  bahamat
  zizzy: e.g.,: here are mine github.com/bahamat/smartos-flair/tree/master/templates
• 15:34
  otis
  or if even smartos is not a hard requirement, then freebsd and bhyve.npulse.net might come handy.
• 15:34
  zizzy
  bahamat: oh, nice, thank you
• 15:39
  Guest32
  right, thank you all! ideally, I was looking to kubernetes-like "deployments" for SmartOS VMs, automatic failover, global monitoring, etc
• 15:41
  bahamat
  Triton has HA/redundancy and monitoring features built in.
• 15:43
  bahamat
  There's also a mature API and CLI tool.
• 15:53
  Guest32
  nice! I saw zizzy talking about VM management interface, is this built in or an external package?
• 15:54
  zizzy
  probably built-in
• 15:55
  zizzy
  smartdatacenter is a rather large appliance which uses smartos as base, but it's hassle-free to setup
• 15:56
  zizzy
  you can test it inside a virtual machine using CoaL image (cloud on a laptop)
• 15:58
  zizzy
  iirc it's pretty much standard sdc image, but with absurd overprovisioning config values to make it schedule zones on a mem/cpu-limited environment, like a virtual machine
• 15:59
  zizzy
  zones = "instances" in triton lingo, basically
• 15:59
  zizzy
  (the term "zone" is actually derived from solaris zones, but that's just trivia)
• 16:07
  Guest32
  I think I'll try out CoaL. thanks again!