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OS-level virtualization in the cloud
• Joyent runs OS containers in the cloud via SmartOS
(our illumos derivative) — and we have run containers in
multi-tenant production since ~2006
• Core SmartOS facilities are container-aware and
optimized: Zones, ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF, etc.
• SmartOS also supports hardware-level virtualization —
but we have long advocated OS-level virtualization for
new build out
• We emphasized their operational characteristics
(performance, elasticity, tenancy), and for many years
we were a lone voice...