Here is our third and final post walking through the setting up of the Joyent Triton platform in the Dell CTO lab. In the first post, Don Walker of the CTO office gave an overview of what we were doing and why. The second laid out the actual components and configuration of the platform.
Today’s video is a walk-through of the installation process where Don shares his experience in setting up the Triton Platform.
When we pick this series up again it will focus on containerizing Dell’s Active System Manager and then loading it on Triton. Not sure how long this work will take so stay tuned!
Some of the ground Don covers:
- Before installing Triton, you need networking set up and working. Don double clicks on the network configuration and what we did to make sure it was working.
- Step one in installing Triton, is to create a bootable USB key and install the head node. There is a scripted set up which is dead simple. Lays down SmartOS and Triton services
- Compute node install is also scripted which contains a lot of the info you entered during the head node configuration. After this you run acceptance tests
- Great support from Joyent with a couple of small issues we had
- Unacceptable character in pswd. This info was fed back to the devs and is now fixed.
- We forgot to disable the SATA port and kept getting error messages. Once we disabled it, it worked.
- Reference: Installing Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure — Joyent website
Extra credit reading
- The platform supporting Joyent’s Triton — Dell CTO lab
- Intro: Setting up Joyent’s Triton in Dell’s CTO lab
- Containers, VMs and Joyent’s Triton — how they relate
- Learning about Joyent and Triton, the elastic container infrastructure
Pau for now…
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