Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

> I would like to set up a distributed system with at one baremetal HN and a
> couple of iPXE booted VPS nodes to play around with and to see what might be
> possible.  Currently, I have the VPS nodes, each with a static IP and GW, from
> another project that I want to use and am currently looking at getting a
> baremetal server from a dedicated host provider and am wondering if I might 
> get
> some suggestions from the community. Mostly, this whole system is to run 
> docker
> containers and Kubernetes that is being developed.

As I don't know exactly what you try to accomplish and what resources
you have at your disposal here's what I would suggest evaluating Triton:

1) CoaL: If you have an environment that allows CoaL to be run, try
this first. You basically need just one VM with enough memory and
diskspace in order to try most of the Triton services.

2) If you want to try a setup with more CNs, you need to be able to
PXE-boot your CNs (or boot all of them from usb) and have basically two
VLANs. I don't know whether a hosting provider or a lab-setup with
Intel NUCs (like described in
https://www.joyent.com/blog/spin-up-a-docker-dev-test-environment-in-60-minutes-or-less)
is cheaper. 

Triton can run "VMs" (on a basis of kvm) and "Zones/Containers" (on a
basis of SmartOS zones). You can provison via docker and
docker-compose. Joyents philosophy is more on the side of
self-orchestrating apps (using Containerpilot).

If you want to run kubernetes on Triton
(https://www.joyent.com/blog/kubernetes-the-easy-way), that would
require setting up VMs (e. g. with Ubuntu installed in them) and then
kubernetes rolled out on top of that. But that's a setup you could
have on Openstack or VMWare, as well. 

Kind regards,
Toens
-- 
There is no safe distance.


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