Bryan Cantrill

Systems We Love

It took a little while to get the logistics down, but I'm very happy to report that Systems We Love is on: December 13th in San Francisco! To determine the program, I am honored to be joined by an extraordinary program committee: hailing from a wide-range of backgrounds, experience levels, and interests—and united by a shared love of systems.

Alexandra White

Introduction to ContainerPilot for building applications

A lot has been written about the benefits of the Autopilot Pattern and ContainerPilot, including most recently how to use Node.js with it. There’s something to be said about enabling developers to focus on building better applications instead of worrying about scaling, startup, shutdown, and recovery from anticipated failures. The Autopilot Pattern approach to orchestration works with the scheduler of your choice, from complex solutions like Kubernetes or Mesos to solutions as simple and developer-friendly as Docker Compose to automate the configuration of applications in separate containers. It handles stateless containers as well as those with persistent data, and it’s portable to any container infrastructure, from your local machine to large-scale clouds, and everywhere in between.

Wyatt Lyon Preul

Autopilot Pattern Node.js in Docker

The Autopilot Pattern makes it easy to build applications that can automatically configure themselves when you deploy them (making it easy to bring up copies of the application for testing and development), and reconfigure themselves when you scale them up and down with traffic or roll out updates. Today we're introducing two Node.js modules to make it even easier to build Node.js apps that use the Autopilot Pattern.

Alexandra White

Dockerizing my first app

Confession: upon starting my job at Joyent as Documentation Editor, my experience with Docker amounted to hearing the word and having a vague understanding of what it means for the state of development. Previously, I had worked as a front-end developer, for the most part without total knowledge of the environment my work was running in. I started playing around with the concepts of containers and images and got up to speed quickly. Now that I'm done with my first week, I’m going to walk you through step by step how to dockerize an app.

Donal Power

Samsung buys Joyent to kick off $1.2 billion investment in U.S.

Samsung is pumping up its cloud-based capabilities with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Joyent for an undisclosed amount. Information Week reports that Joyent’s private and public cloud computing services will support the South Korean electronics giant’s Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and cloud-based lines of business.

Oliver Rist

Drawn to Containers, Samsung Buys Joyent

Samsung stepped away from its usual strategy of building intellectual property in-house by announcing yesterday that it was buying cloud provider and container pioneer Joyent for an undisclosed sum, but one that should, by all accounts, be significantly less than the $26 billion that Satya Nadella promised to LinkedIn earlier this week. The move makes sense for Samsung, which up until now has been heavily dependent on Amazon Web Services at Amazon to provide its cloud infrastructure and services.

Matthew Pick

Containers are in Fashion at Saks 5th Avenue

The Blue Pill

An On-Premise Collaborative Development Environment

In this post, I’m going to share my thoughts about an on-premises private cloud configuration for collaborative software development. These are just some conceptual notes, but I’ll try to double back later and provide step-by-step directions for setting up the system I’m going to describe here.

Joyent

Introducing Triton Container Name Service

Today, Joyent introduces our free, automated DNS solution, Triton Container Name Service. Triton CNS makes it easy to use consistent and predictable addresses for all Triton compute instances, including Docker containers, infrastructure containers, and hardware virtual machines. The FAQ below includes examples for using it as a global DNS or to connect application components, and for instructions on how to turn it on and off, using it via Docker, and with the Triton CLI/CloudAPI.

Joyent

Modern application blueprint: Node.js + Docker + NoSQL

One of the most confusing challenges developers and operators face when building modern applications is how to design them for easy deployment and scaling. The most critical factor in that is how to automate the process of connecting the components of the application together, and doing so in a way that works on our laptops as well as it does in production.

Rags Srinivas

From Solaris Zones to Docker. Thanks to @bcantrill and @joyent at #containersummit NYC.

Joyent

Implementing the autopilot pattern

Deploying containerized applications and connecting them together is a challenge because it forces developers to design for operationalization. The autopilot pattern is a powerful approach to solving these problems. By pushing the responsibility for understanding startup, shutdown, scaling, and recovery from failure into the application, we can build intelligent architectures that minimize human intervention in operation. But we can't rewrite all our applications at once, so we need a way to build application containers that can knit together legacy and greenfield applications alike.

Luke Lefler

A Historical Perspective and the Future of Containers

For this podcast, Bryan Cantrill assumed the role of historian and explained how technologies such as AJAX, JSON, COBRA and SOA contributed to the rise of monolithic systems. From this historical vantage, Cantrill discussed legacy providers and also how the idea of “microservices” is significantly older than the word itself. Cantrill also talked about creating optimal development environments for microservices, the CAP Theorem, and about the “Uber-ization” of software-driven enterprises.

InfoWorld

InfoWorld's 2016 Technology of the Year Award winners

You’ve never heard of it before, right? However, if you want a manageable, container-oriented architecture that is production ready and proven today, Joyent is a name to know. Joyent is a company with an impressive technology portfolio, and Triton -- software for running Docker-compatible containers on bare metal -- is the cornerstone.

Peter Wayner

Review: Joyent Cloud runs closer to the metal

The world of cloud computing is dominated by Tyrannosaurus Rex-sized corporations like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, big companies that have used their prowess and might to build giant data centers full of racks and racks of machines. Then there’s Joyent, a small but nimble competitor that might be called mammal-sized, if only for the sake of a metaphor. It deserves notice for shaking up the cloud marketplace with clever mods of the operating system layer that are producing great results.

James Nugent

As a (very happy) Triton user, this is pretty exciting!

**Replying to @joyent:** Introducing our #Terraform provider for #Joyent Triton and improved Terraform support for #Docker.

Joyent

Spin up a Docker dev/test environment in 60 minutes or less

I was a Joyent customer before I joined as an employee. I discovered Joyent's infrastructure automation solutions while looking for a hybrid cloud solution that would allow me to run dev and test code in a private environment and production in a public cloud with a global presence. The Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure (formerly SmartDataCenter or SDC7) that powers Joyent's public cloud is open source and available for anybody to install to power private clouds, allowing users to enjoy the same platform everywhere. It's free for use as open source, but enterprises of all sizes take advantage of our commercial support offerings.