Comparison

SmartOS combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor.

Key Features of SmartOS

Secure containers

Full isolation per container in a multi-tenant environment

SmartOS leverages Zones, a hardened container runtime environment that does not depend upon VM hosts for security. Patented resource protections insulate containers and ensure that each container gets its fair share of I/O.

Built-in networking

Each SmartOS container has it's own unique IP address

SmartOS eliminates the complexities associated with VM host dependent solutions. 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, eliminating port conflicts and making network management easy.

Built-in storage

Secure, isolated, resizable filesystems for each container

SmartOS leverages ZFS to free container storage from VM host dependencies. ZFS storage virtualization makes secure storage management easy, while maximizing performance. ZFS’ flexible provisioning, copy-on-write, and data integrity checking are an ideal match for containers, while advanced caching techniques make even spinning disks perform as fast as SSDs.

Bare metal performance

The speed of bare metal performance + the flexibility of virtualization

By eliminating layers of virtualization and running containers directly on bare metal, applications enjoy the highest possible performance. And, because you are running on OS virtualized containers, you can easily scale your applications and infrastructure up and down.

Open

Don't lock yourself into a proprietary cloud

Triton is open source and can be easily deployed and optimized for your data center or bare metal provider within a few hours.

Join a community of innovative engineers

We have a long track record of creating and growing vibrant open source communities and projects, including Node.js, SmartOS, Triton, and ContainerPilot.

Get the support you need, when you need it

Whether you leverage Triton as a fully managed private cloud or self-operated, we provide a variety of support options designed to ensure your success.

Engineered

Built for security

Designed from the ground up to deliver robust security, networking, orchestration, monitoring, and management capabilities.

Built to scale

Many of the world's most recognizable and respected companies depend on Triton to run their large, globally distributed applications.

Built for high performance

Our container-native architecture can deliver up to 5x better performance than what is possible with legacy, virtual machine based clouds.

Evolved

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Container Native

Over 10 years of experience running containers securely, simply and at scale.

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Big Data Ready

Our object storage and analytics solutions power the world's largest applications.

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Container native infrastructure and hybrid deployment options drive down costs.

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