{"id":634,"date":"2013-02-27T22:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2013-02-27T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:41:10","slug":"london-solaris-sig-february-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"London Solaris SIG February 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursdays talk, SmartOS <\/a>in the cloud was interesting, not least because it was the first meeting I’ve been to where the presenter was giving the talk via Webex.\u00a0It worked well. Perhaps one day Ben Rockwood’s descendant will be able to give a talk via tele-holo-vision, as if he were in the room.<\/p>\n

The interest for me also came from looking at cloud technologies at the far end of the spectrum from the major vendors offerings, which is where all the\u00a0professional services work is. Joyent <\/a>does have a share of this market but I’m not sure if it is more than a Rizla worth. Perhaps I am doing them a\u00a0disservice.<\/p>\n

We were reminded that Illumos <\/a>is the Opensource continuation of the OpenSolaris kernel, upon which SmartOS, OmniOS, OpenIndiana and Tribblix distros\u00a0are built. These all have different uses. SmartOS is purpose built for virtualisation and is certainly not a general purpose operating system. It\u00a0is lightweight, stateless (think esxi), has zones and KVM and essence of Solaris”. This cool sounding OS runs in RAM and is best booted from PXE.<\/p>\n

We went into quite a lot of technical stuff, and Ben could have carried on for hours (another time). What struck me was the amount of open source\u00a0software in the stack. Some of them I remember are Zabbix, chef, jabber, pingdom, openldap, bart. Of course, if you are a FTSE100 company you like\u00a0to buy your software from other big companies. Personally I like open source software.<\/p>\n

One question which I didn’t get the opportunity to ask was regarding the commercials. If you are selling a cloud service (which Joyent are),\u00a0on the back of all this free software, are there any legal or licensing issues? Do you have to give you users loads of license files to tick? At\u00a0one point, some open source software disallowed it’s use for commercial purposes. Perhaps I am out of date, or more likely Joyent themselves pay\u00a0for it in some way.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it looks good and definitely worth bearing in mind, and even labbing if time were no barrier.<\/p>\n

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