Thanks for your wonderful response to my post and I am very eager to really start getting SmartOS, with Triton Data Center, and Container Pilot setup for the initial POC of the project. I truly must admit that the more I read about SmartOS, Triton Data Center, and other component integrations like Docker container and Kubernetes into the hypervisor capabilities, the more that I ask myself why I did not start in this area first.
>From this point, I think that you are correct and I will try to work out a simple topology and add more as the project evolves. With this in mind, I currently have 4 VPS systems and although I know that this is not optimal for SmartOS, I think that I will also have to get a dedicated baremetal server as well, if needed, so that I will be able to set up the POC with a mixture of baremetal and VPS nodes to see how the basic functionality works with everything installed. Of course, part of this will be so that I can also learn more about how SmartOS works as well, but I will need to move quickly to see about getting the basic SmartOS, with Triton Data Center, and Container Pilot code in place so that I can support the Docker Containers and Kubernetes that we want to put on to the system. Perhaps 1 baremetal controller and 4 VPS nodes would be the best way. Any suggestions? Right now, I am going to dig through the to find some guides on setting up these basic components so I am very happy to take any suggestions that you, or the community might have that will move me in the right direction towards this goal. Thanks again and have a great night. Lonnie On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 July 2017 at 15:56, Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote: > > More to the point, was that I came across SmartOS and Triton which seems > to be in much more alignment with that I want for the basis of the project > to build upon, but a question that I have was how well does it scale. I > know that some container offerings can easily scale to hundreds and > hundreds of concurrently running containers with low impact on the total > system, but I was not sure about how well SmartOS can scale and wanted to > ask the community? > > We (at Joyent) have been running some experiments recently to see just > how many containers we can fit on a single, large SmartOS host. We're > definitely into to the thousands at this point. On production > systems, tens or hundreds of containers is the norm -- depending on > the number of CPU cores, the quantity of RAM, and the capacity of disk > storage in your servers, of course! > > One of the design goals for Triton is to be able to aggregate > thousands of compute servers, each running many customer containers, > in a data centre behind a single provisioning API service (whether you > use the Triton-specific CloudAPI, or the Docker API). You can start > with just a handful of servers, adding more as your capacity and > redundancy needs grow. > > > Also, I was wondering about how easily it might be to set up something > like PeerVPN or TincVPN between SmartOS nodes so that they could all be on > the same subnet, etc.... > > Triton actually provides "fabric networking". We use VXLAN to > encapsulate private customer networks and bridge them between > underlying physical servers in the same data centre. > > Cheers. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > UNIX Admin/Developer > http://blog.sysmgr.org > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
