— bhyve hypervisor kernel improvements
— desktop usability
— developer tools such as LLD
— hardware support on new ARM and RISC-V devices
— installer
— jails – usability/orchestration/OCI-compatibility
— networking
— packaging – including package base (pkgbase)
— …
Any time period, any style -- I'm interested in seeing different ways of combining these forces, and studying the nuts and bolts of #orchestration.
If you're a #conductor, #choral director, or #composer who has wrestled with this, what would you say are the key do's and don'ts of writing for this combination?
Today I got to tell my students that in the bad old days we used to write scripts that just SSHed into every machine and ran sed on config files but today we had puppet and I regret to inform you that based on their facial expressions we apparently still write scripts that just SSH into every machine and run sed on config files
Watched a Thomas Goss video about Ravel orchestrating his own piano music today and /holy shit/ do I have a lot to learn. It's staggering, but also exhilarating. The techniques he employed are ridiculously awesome. I just wish there was a way to get a full orchestra recording, with the sheet music, and the ability to solo instruments and sections to hear each technique in action - the full texture is of course the end goal, but as a training exercise it would be so amazing. #orchestration
I have a #devops (or what we used to call #sysadmin) question...
I like Docker Swarm for its simplicity and apparent "lightweight" nature. From a user standpoint, you can simply define a set of services and it's not that much of a leap to go from a docker-compose file to a full blown distributed system for a small number f nodes.
The problems are that Docker Swarm only appears to be offered by Docker (tm) and requires the real Docker (tm) stack, as opposed to the solution most distros use today, which is to use podman as a Docker replacement (for many good reasons).
And the fact that Docker is owned by Mirantis, Mirantis's future seems uncertain is good reason not to stay.
Is anyone still using Docker Swarm? If not, do you have a lightweight alternative (not Kubernetes)? I've heard not-great things about Nomad.
I feel like this is a huge missing area in the orchestration landscape.