[OpenIndiana-discuss] Docker

[Reginald Beardsley]

 FWIW Solaris is the result of Sun and AT&T agreeing to unify the 2 versions of Unix. So it is the only descendant of both lines. The rest of the participants in the workstation wars formed OSF, built OSF/1 which only DEC shipped as Tru64. So that didn't go far.

I don't know anything about Docker and only very generally about zones, containers, etc in Solaris. Not relevant to my use case as a scientist/programmer.

FreeBSD is far beyond its origins. I've been reading the 2nd ed of McKusick et al on FreeBSD. Which is better for your use case is not something anyone can determine but you. I'd certainly give both a close look. I dislike systemd(1m), but svcadm(1m) is the Solaris version of the same concept. Mostly I dislike Gnu/Linux because it breaks tradition when there is no valid justification for doing so.

I recommend you try out both. Set up a machine so that you can easily swap drives and install them for testing. But make sure you're wearing a ground strap if you use trayless bays. Despite my disdain for Linux, I'd actually do all 3+. The biggest problem I have with Linux is the denumerably infinite number of distros. My current preference is Debian. I've not yet tried Oracle Linux.

I've run Solaris 10 for 15 years, OI for 8-9 years. I use 3 disks with a 100 GB s0 slice for the root pool and the rest of the drive in the s1 slice using RAIDZ1 for the /export pool. Both have been incredibly reliable thanks to ZFS. I created that configuration because you couldn't boot from RAIDZ at the time. I still think it is a good design as it gives me a 3 way mirror for the root pool. I have successfully recovered from faults on all pools without any loss of data despite several disk failures. I also built a system with a 4 disk 4 way s0 root pool mirror with a RAIDZ2 array in s1. Because of laziness, I never have used it much. But when I built it, I pulled 1/2 the drives and it recovered with no data loss. That is impressive.

I've been battling a kernel panic level fault on my Solaris 10 u8 instance which I think I've finally resolved. After 10 years of operation using a 3 disk in 2x 5.25" bay without problems, it began faulting in weird ways with no useful diagnostics. At the moment I think the issue was dust on the backplane board of the cage. This is currently under test.

Have Fun!
Reg




     On Friday, April 2, 2021, 06:37:39 PM CDT, Austin Kim <freennix at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi,

I’m trying to decide between running OpenIndiana and running FreeBSD as the OS whereon to build a WWW and application server; I prefer Illumos’s UNIX System V Release 4 provenance via OpenSolaris to FreeBSD’s 4.4BSD-Lite2 origins via 386BSD (I considered Linux but am really turned off by systemd), but I would also like to be able to run Docker containers.

Can anyone point me to some documentation for running Docker on Illumos/OpenIndiana?  A quick DuckDuckGo search turned up nothing (or maybe I just didn’t know where to look).  ’preciate it

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