Using containerized applications is easy as pie with Triton

Jun 19, 2015 06:49 GMT  ·  By

On June 18, Canonical, the company behind the world's most popular free operating system, and Joyent, a container-native infrastructure company, were happy to announce a partnership for providing certified container-native Ubuntu images that were optimized for the Joyent Triton Elastic Container infrastructure.

All Joyent customers can now benefit from the new supported and certified Ubuntu images that were optimized from the ground up for Joyent Triton containers. Also, Joyent announced that container-native Linux/Ubuntu images can now run directly on bare metal with Joyent Triton Elastic Container infrastructure.

The Triton Infrastructure Containers infrastructure from Joyent was engineered from the offset to be capable of delivering both bare metal flexibility and performance. Applications that run on the Joyent's platform can enjoy the highest possible performance thanks to the ability to run containers straight on bare metal.

"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."

Hardware virtual machines cannot match the performance of Triton

Joyent's Triton Elastic Container is so powerful that you cannot compare it with hardware virtual machines when running containers directly on bare metal, thanks to its amazing features that include workload density, as well as network I/O and filesystem performance.

Using containerized data services and apps on the Triton Elastic Container infrastructure is easy as pie, as the platform was designed in such a way that it offers similar behavior to hardware virtual machines and all the services that are included in a standard UNIX host. More details can be found in the press release attached below.

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