[jskaggz]

Love SmartOS! IMHO zones set the bar on containers back in the 2000's, and SmartOS is the evolved logical progression of this. It's truly a ferrari. However, it needs a paint job to accrete community. If you want a cohesive system, and want to become a paas provider, triton-sdc. But I think at the medium and low-end, smartos needs something like proxmox to compete where project fifo appears to be having a hard time. Any takers?

[jskaggz]

Let me clarify, proxmox (or the vsphere web ui for example), would be a fantastic management ui on top of the smartos engine that would bring some gravity to accrete userbase. Some organizations are just more comfortable with UI tools. Sure, your hairy-knuckled sa's and programmers will favor maintaining version controlled manifests for zones, and keeping things highly automated, using terraform, etc, but there's a huge base out there that will download smartos, stare at the console prompt, and lose interest unless they can treat it like a vsphere or proxmox machine, like they're used to, and are trained on. Project fifo...frankly, needs some good natured competition to breed better product in this space.

[wkearney99]

'accrete userbase'? Yeesh, where did that bit of geek-speak crawl out from under? Put it back.

[jskaggz]

Do you hear that whooshing sound? It's the point I was making that flew right by you.