Running our microVM's inside of a jailed zone, at least gives me some peace of mind.. It's far from perfect, as a zone escape could be lurking.. but at least it's a layer of defense.

Many people don't realize they can be live patching the kernel themselves.. if nothing else, hopefully this will raise awareness and get folks using tools that exist, or building on this for their specific needs.

My long term goal here, is an open service you can run for ay distro.

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Code + issues are active under https://github.com/TritonDataCenter (smartos-live, illumos-joyent, triton, etc.), and docs are at https://docs.smartos.org/.

SmartOS is released every two weeks, and Triton is released every 8 weeks -- see https://www.tritondatacenter.com/downloads

And Triton object storage will have S3 support in the next release!

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using our package manager pkgsrc [https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/], you can install the MTA of your choice too!

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We've released a new version every two weeks post acquisition, and are continuing to develop and invest.

We also hold office hours events roughly every two weeks on Discord[2], and would love for you to stop by and ask any questions, or just listen along!

[1]: https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/a-new-chapter-begins-f... [2]: https://discord.gg/v4NwA3Hqay

Aside from Triton, there's a quite a bit of interest in Proxmox and XCP-ng in the community.

While alternatives are gaining popularity, they certainly do not have the same ecosystem that VMware users are accustomed to. Organizations are going to have to pony up, or make concessions.

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Currently this is supported on Triton DataCenter only, but our internal roadmap has us building a standalone version similar to how folks use SmartOS standalone.

[1]: https://www.tritondatacenter.com/smartos

[2]: https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/linux-live

The key to success is having the right on-prem solution to help bring both teams together while driving costs down. Our solution at Triton Datacenter (https://tritondatacenter.com) has helped various enterprises tackle this issue by providing a public cloud-like experience on-prem.

  - Realtime kernel/lib patching.
  - Patch management.
  - 24x7 monitoring and response.
  - Metric collections, alerting, and health reviews. 
  - Tuning and infrastructure best practices wherever you are (AWS/GCP/Azure/mnx/colo).
  - Ad-hoc support - example this week -- one customer who runs large ecommerce valentine day related -- needed eyes on all infrastructure.  We sat in slack with them, and huddled realtime to work through any issues.