While I was in San Francisco back in November, I stopped by Joyent’s headquarters. The main purpose was to talk about the Docker/Triton platform we are setting up in the CTO lab.
While I was there I chatted with Joyent’s Casey Bisson, director of product management. Casey took me through a couple of white board sessions around containers and VMs. This first session talks about how containers and VMs work together, how they’re different and where Joyent’s elastic container infrastructure, Triton, fits.
Some of the ground Casey covers
- Linux allows you to build containers on your laptop and push them, as is, to the cloud. For other OS’s you need to use VMs
- Containers in the cloud within VMs and the affect on efficiency
- Running containers on bare metal, security concerns and how Joyent addresses these concerns
- How Triton virtualizes the network into the container
Extra-credit reading
- KubeCon: Learning about Joyent and Triton, the elastic container infrastructure – Barton’s blog
Barton's Blog 