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If you go to joyent.com you'll see "Multi-Cloud Kubernetes" is on their homepage above the fold and listed in their products & services category. SmartOS is an operating system. Triton is a data center for running container instances. Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool. These are all solving separate problems...



Triton can orchestrate containers[1] (they're actually Solaris zones[2], to which constraints in terms of project definitions[3] can optionally be applied, and those constraints are actually containers).

[1] https://www.joyent.com/content/11-containerpilot/chart.15076..., https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud

[2] http://illumos.org/man/1M/zonecfg

[3] http://illumos.org/man/1M/projadd




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