Joyent Inc., the
container-native infrastructure company, today announced the ability to
run container-native Linux images directly on bare metal with
Joyent Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure,
released into general availability earlier this week. Joyent also
announced a partnership with Canonical to provide certified
container-native Ubuntu images, optimized for Triton, to all Joyent
customers.
"Triton is already the best place to run Docker containers, providing
the ideal solution for microservices architectures and stateless
processes," said Bill Fine, VP of Product at Joyent. "Now, leveraging
container-native Linux on Triton, the benefits of containerization can
easily be extended to legacy applications and stateful services, such as
databases."
While Triton is compatible with all major Linux distributions, Joyent
and Canonical engineers have collaborated to produce certified,
container-native Ubuntu images optimized for Triton.
"We are very excited to have the best developer experience of Ubuntu,
the number one cloud OS, running on the leading container platform in
the business, Triton," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and
Ubuntu. "And, with Ubuntu Advantage Support, we are taking that
experience to the next level."
Benefits of Bare Metal: Performance and Elasticity
Triton Infrastructure Containers deliver both bare metal performance
and elasticity. By eliminating layers of virtualization and running
containers directly on bare metal, applications enjoy the highest
possible performance. Hardware virtual machines can't match the
filesystem and network I/O performance or workload density offered by
Triton.
"With financial transactions, security, performance and speed are
everything. At Lucera, high performance containers such as Triton have
allowed us to unlock the true benefits of containerization by
eliminating the hardware hypervisor layer, allowing us to better utilize
our infrastructure," said Jacob Loveless, CEO, Lucera. "Instead of
wrapping containers in layers of guest operating systems and virtual
machines, we are able to deploy containers in production securely,
delivering bare-metal performance to our customers and cost efficiency
to our business."
"Couchbase's standout performance and near linear horizontal
scalability comes from our unique architecture that collapses the
caching and database tiers into one system. Triton does something
similar at the virtualization tier. By eliminating the need for virtual
machine hosts, Triton is able to offer bare-metal performance on
containers," said Ravi Mayuram, SVP Products and Engineering, Couchbase.
"The combined architectural synergies between these systems will offer
the bare metal performance, easy elasticity and simplified deployment
demanded by mission critical Couchbase deployments."
Making Containerizing Applications Easy
Containerizing an application
or data service on Triton is easy because Triton Infrastructure
Containers offer all the services of a typical Unix host and behave
similarly to hardware virtual machines:
- Convenient network access for every container: Triton's built-in
networking offers each container one or more network interfaces, so each
container has a full IP stack and is a full peer on the network.
- Security baked in: Triton Infrastructure Containers are built on
Joyent's nearly ten years of experience running containers on
multi-tenant bare metal, under persistent security threat, in the Joyent
Public Cloud.
- Resource management: No need to worry about one container swamping
the resources of a host machine. Patented resource protections insulate
containers from noisy neighbors and insure that each container gets its
fair share of I/O.
"Most companies are just starting their efforts to Dockerize their
applications," said Scott Hammond, CEO of Joyent. "Triton delivers the
benefits of containers to all of their Linux applications, even those
that have not been 'Dockerized' yet."
"Our team found Triton to work seamlessly with our systems," said
Antione Hage, Founder, SOAJS. "Triton is incredibly useful and quickly
became indispensable for our worldwide development team."
Through Joyent's expanded participation in the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud program, Triton Elastic Container Service
customers will be able to enjoy the same level of high quality,
security and frequent updates that they now enjoy with Ubuntu standard
images on Joyent's legacy Compute Service. Additionally, Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure
customers will have access to Ubuntu Advantage Support packages from
the experts at Canonical that help organizations around the world manage
their Ubuntu deployments.