Watch it Wednesdays: SmartOS: An SA Primer
February 27, 2013 - by joyentdeirdre
SmartOS basics for sysadmins presented by Ben Rockwood. Slides.
Talk highlights:
- SmartOS is a Virtualization Platform.
- Designed for Virtualization
- Lightweight Deployment via USB or PXE
- Sparse Zones: The Revenge Super lightweight virtualization
- Thinking SmartOS Overcoming Tactical Challenges in a Non-Persistent Environment tl;dr Essential Skills
- Basic configuration is in /usbkey/config
- USB Deployment Workflow
- Downloading Images
- Zones Workflow
- QEMU Runs inside minimal zone
- Creating an Image
- DS Manifest
- Serving Images