Zones + Docker

Bryan Cantrill on SmartOS + Docker.

Docker and the Future of Containers in Production from bcantrill

SPARC M7

I'm a proud owner of the fastest CPU in the world!

ZFS: Persistent L2ARC

Recently Oracle integrated persistent L2ARC in ZFS and this is currently available in the ZFS-SA. It is not yet in Solaris 11 but it should be coming soon. Finally!

To make the very good news even better - it stores blocks in their raw format, so if for example you have compression enabled in your pool then L2ARC will store blocks compressed as well (similarly for encryption). If your data compresses well you L2ARC suddenly became much bigger as well.

Docker on SmartOS

Bryan blogged about running Linux Docker containers on SmartOS. Really cool. Now I would love to see something similar in Solaris 11...