Why on fresh Smartos install, when I after install put external_nic mac and IP in /usbkey/config (booting from zpnes pool) , external interface actually does not comes up? No desired IP address on external interface up.

dladm says external interface is up

probably it only gives access to external interface to newly created VMs and zones ?

So SmartOS doesn't expose anything from global zone there, because no IP assigned on external to global zone

hard to say, I'd take a look at /var/svc/log/network-physical:default.log to see if there's anything of interest

Trying to switch manta from commercial signed to triton-dehydrated certificates is proving to be difficult but I cannot find any "manta" specific docs on setting this up. Any tips?

Update job gets created and shows completed successfully in sdc-workflow but the certificates never change.

It never ends in the console though. Just shows "created" infinitely

Looks like it only recognises a single load-balancer

The deploy challenge is created successfully. Seems like it just doesn't go past that part.

You need to have your DNS names pointed at the loadbalancer service.

barfield: gist.github.com/bahamat/5c4085fc7540b82b2d658dabdba00579

And there's no limit to the number of loadbalancers you have. The cert gets added to sapi and manta-oneach is used to restart services.

If that didn't work for an arbitrary number of instances then manta would be fundamentally broken.

bahamat: Thank you! Ended up chatting with Mike for a bit and we determined that `use_login: false` was preventing me from getting the `poseidon` records.

All is well now.

in `cnsadm config`

since I failed to process a complete thought in that sentence.

Beware that use_login=true is unsafe for a public cloud.

That's why it defaults to false.