2. Hi, I’m @postwait
• Theo Schlossnagle
• Founder of OmniTI
• Avid open source developer
• Illumos contributor
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3. Motivation
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sir Alexander Dane You're just going to have to figure out what it wants.
What is its motivation?
Jason Nesmith It's a rock monster.
It doesn't have motivation.
Sir Alexander Dane See, that's your problem, Jason.
You were never serious about the craft.
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9. Some brief history
• We ran a lot of Solaris (10 GA⇾u9 + SXCE)
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10. Some brief history
• We ran a lot of Solaris (10 GA⇾u9 + SXCE)
• I learned that I like: DTrace, crossbow
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11. Some brief history
• We ran a lot of Solaris (10 GA⇾u9 + SXCE)
• I learned that I like: DTrace, crossbow
• I learned that I love: ABI stability, zones
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12. Some brief history
• We ran a lot of Solaris (10 GA⇾u9 + SXCE)
• I learned that I like: DTrace, crossbow
• I learned that I love: ABI stability, zones
• I learned that I need: ZFS, open source
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13. Some brief history
• We ran a lot of Solaris (10 GA⇾u9 + SXCE)
• I learned that I like: DTrace, crossbow
• I learned that I love: ABI stability, zones
• I learned that I need: ZFS, open source
• The future was bright
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14. The Oracle Solar(is) Ecplise: 2013/08/13
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-August/059310.html
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15. Pouring a 40 for Sun... and moving on.
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17. The motivation
• We have a lot of customers with
“traditional deployments”
(servers, not instances)
• We would likely have bought Solaris 11,
if I could build it from source.
• We needed a path of least resistance for
our Solaris 10 users... that delivered on
the promises Sun made.
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26. Goals
Bring userland
recent to prolong life
#3
gcc 4.6.3
(4.4 for kernel)
Sadly, Illumos needs
OpenSSL, libxml2 and zlib
(1.0.1)
(2.9.0)
(1.2.7)
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27. Goals
Build all of OmniOS
with core OmniOS
A subjective, “thick” take on JEOS
#4
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28. Goals
Build all of OmniOS
with core OmniOS
A subjective, “thick” take on JEOS
#4
Only 111
pieces of software
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29. Goals
Build all of OmniOS
with core OmniOS
A subjective, “thick” take on JEOS
#4
Only 111
pieces of software
“Put that shit in a box and ship it.”
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38. Kayak Installs Simple Stupid
• Kayak (http://omnios.omniti.com/browse.php/core/kayak)
• builds an altroot install
• zfs sends it (to a file, then over HTTP)
• makes a miniroot (served over TFTP)
• written in shell (sysadmins rejoice)
• tiny python web server (not required)
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60. Operating System Holy War Outcomes
Editor: vi (naturally)
Filesystem: ZFS (obviously)
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61. Operating System Holy War Outcomes
Editor: vi (naturally)
Filesystem: ZFS (obviously)
Packaging: IPS (WTF?!)
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62. IPS Controversy
✓IPS sucks (yes, like the rest)
✓IPS made new problems to solve
✓IPS is uncommon
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63. IPS Justification
• IPS builds are part of Illumos
• ipkg zone is something we use
• I’m disaffected:
"It's packaging other people's software
that makes system administrators violent people"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieCTIPG43no
• Avoid “solutions:”
I’m looking at you facets
• Minimal use of incorporations
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64. IPS niceties
• IPS is a network resource
• pkgsend is tool, not a framework
• All HTTP micro assets (cacheable)
• Handles all the BE magic
• Without the “features” it just works
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65. What we learned.
• We built packages for Solaris 10
...and for Linux ...and for FreeBSD
• Because we’re a snowflake
...just like very one else.
• Rule: “keep your shit to yourself.”
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66. Minimal: not useful
• OmniOS only ships “core”
• no web server. no database.
no proxy cache. no PHP. no Ruby.
no bind.
• we ship perl, use your own.
• we ship python, use your own.
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67. Minimal: awesome-sauce
We use OmniOS...
like a layered cake
Publisher URL
ms.omniti.com http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-ms/
perl.omniti.com http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-perl/
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69. Adieu
• Thanks
• Go get it as Vagrant box, ISO, USB, or AMI
http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Installation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theaucitron/5810163712
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jefflippold/7237388878/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angietorres/4564135455/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/2102499200/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6551534889/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61423903@N06/8085629858/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-flores/6629287755/
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