[smartos-discuss] SmartOS release-20160512

[Orlando Vazquez]

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2
curl -C - -O
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.bz2

A generated changelog is here:


https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20160512T071413Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20160512T071413Z/

# Highlights

* Fixes related to OpenSSL 1.0.1t/1.0.2h update


# General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-MMDD" release branch and
builds for SmartOS (and SmartDataCenter and Manta, as well).

Cheers,
Orlando, on behalf of the SmartOS developers
https://smartos.org


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[smartos-discuss] SmartOS Ops Job in the UK

[Thomas Haggett]

Hi!

I wondered if anyone on this list might be interested in a job working with 
SmartOS (amongst other things)? My team, the Ops team at FreeAgent[1], is 
hiring for someone based in the UK to come and join us.

We've been running everything on SmartOS since 2012 [2] so it's pretty deeply 
embedded in our infrastructure and we're very happy with it. Right now we're a 
fully remote team of 3 engineers managing ~400 containers (mix of OS and some 
LX-brand and KVM) on hardware that we own, running in multiple co-lo data 
centres. 

There are specific details on our website and, if you're interested, you can go 
on to apply from there (or email me directly if you have any questions).

http://www.freeagent.com/company/careers/senior-operations-engineer/ 

Many apologies if this email isn't appropriate for this list.

Cheers,
Thomas!

[1] https://www.freeagent.com/company/
[2] https://engineering.freeagent.com/2012/05/21/bunking-off/




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Re: [smartos-discuss] Community interest in illumos PF port?

[Jorge Schrauwen]

On 2016-05-12 23:39, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:

On 12 May 2016 at 14:32, Adam Števko  wrote:
Well, I suppose the smaller the divergence, the better it would be. 
But

that’s the theory.


In some senses that's true.  As I was working on it, though, it became
obvious that there are a number of things that will just be different:
e.g., we have rather different data structures (list_t, avl_t), our
packet filter hooks are a bit different, we're already an SMP capable
kernel, we have zones (and each zone needs its own idea of what is,
today, a single-instance firewall), we generally want to have prefixed
structures and typedef types.

In the end, it might be possible to do a port that did _not_ use as
many of our native facilities, but then it would be less easy to debug
and less of a first class citizen.  Part of this work is not just
doing a port, but deciding on the legacy you'll be creating: who will
look after it over time, and how.

Also, at the time I had not had opportunity to evaluate "npf" from
NetBSD.  Perhaps it'd be a better fit?  I'm not sure.


npf is also pretty nice, I was looking at this a while back.
The fact that SMP was not an afterthought for npf was nice,
also there seems to be some extension like support (IIRC) which may make
plugging in zones, ... easier.


Who would be funded via the Kickstarter to actually do the work?
The person is not yet known. We just want to know how many potential 
backers

could we get and if it’s even possible to fund the port.


I think if you're looking to fund work, you should probably first
figure out who you would be funding.


Well that as our problem, both me and xenol were toying with the idea 
but well
neither of us has heaps of cash to spare. So we decided to start by 
poking the
community to get a feel if there is any interest in this. If it is just 
us, no

point and trying to figure out a kickstarter or similar idea.

Alanc (on IRC) said it was multiple engineers for a year+ when they did 
it.
That would put the required funding target very high, probably not 
something

that just a few community people chipping in can gather :(


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Re: [smartos-discuss] Community interest in illumos PF port?

[InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter]

Am 5/13/2016 um 4:40 AM schrieb Jerry Kemp:
> 
> 
> For those of you exploring this in the background, FYI stuff on the
> Solaris 11.3 implementation that may be of value.

PF on 11.3 works fine so far, but its not really feature complete
compared to upstream OpenBSD PF. Anyway, its lovely to use the same
Firewall Syntax on several Platforms :)

> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/12/16 03:59 PM, Adam Števko wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some of us love the Packet Filter (PF) from OpenBSD.
>>
>> It would be awesome to have this available on illumos as alternative
>> to ipf.
>> We (sjorge and xenol) played around with the idea of a kickstarter.
>> The budget required for that would probably be much more than what we
>> can collect.
>>
>> But not trying is not a winning move. Is there any other interest in
>> this from anyone in the illumos community?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam and Jorge
>>
>>
> 
> 


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