Show Date: Monday, April 8, 2013

In this episode, we discuss SmartOS and other Solaris derivatives.

• Panel
• Chef News
• Outline
• Reading List
• Picks
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Panel

• Ben Rockwood github, twitter
• Blake Irvin github, twitter
• Eric Saxby github, twitter
• Bryan Horstmann-Allen github, twitter
• John Vincent, aka Lusis twitter, github
• Brandon Burton github, twitter, irc: solarce
• Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

In the News

Outline

• Introductions
  • Nathen Harvey
  • Brandon Burton
  • Ben Rockwood
  • Blake Irvin
  • Eric Saxby
• History of SmartOS
  • Open Solaris
  • illumos
  • SmartOS
  • OmniOS
  • Open Indiana
  • Nexenta
• Joyent’s path to using Solaris and making SmartOS
• More Introductions
  • Bryan Horstmann-Allen
  • John Vincent (aka lusis)
• Mention of Bryan Cantrill’s “Fork Yeah!” talk

• Why use Illumos?

  • Operability
    • Visibility
    • Commands are easy to script
    • This is operable software!
  • DTrace
  • SMF
  • ZFS
  • ZPool
  • ZFS Snapshots
  • Adaptive Replacement Cache

  • kstat:

    [root@headnode (latisys-va:0) ~]# kstat -l | wc -l

    40210
    

• Instruments - A GarageBand interface to DTrace on the Mac.

• pkgsrc
  • 7,000 binary packages for OSX Lion
  • pkgin
• crossbow
• kvm on SmartOS
• SNGL - SNGL makes SmartOS Look Just Like Linux
• An anecdote about swap and SmartOS
• Picks

Other Resources

• Bryan Cantrill’s LISA Presnetation - Fork Yeah! The Rise & Development of Illumos
  • video
  • slides
• smf cookbook
• zfs on Mac OSX
• SmartOS: An SA Primer
• OpenSolaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control
• btrfs

Picks

lusis

• Ben’s Meetup Introduction to Illumos
• cuddletech blog

Eric

• prstat -Lm - microstate accounting of all processes and threads
• prctl / prstat -J
• SmartOS /proc Tools
• Terroir Gin

Blake

• prstat
• IP Failover - crossbow tools are awesome! dladm

Bryan

• Brendan Gregg on the USE Method: Thinking Methodically About Performance
  • Video on Joyent’s Blog
  • Food Fight Show Episode 39: USE - Thinking Methodically About Performance
• Joyent SmartDataCenter
• Project FiFo

Ben

• lusis
• Vagrant provider for the Joyent Cloud and SmartDatacenter
• sumologic - logging as a service
• Duo:Security - Two-factor authentication made “non-sucky”
• Anything from Heretic Brewery

Nathen

• #ChefConf 2013 and the Hack Day at Joyent’s offices immediately following #ChefConf.

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