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OpenSolaris Community: Zones

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Zones Resources

Documentation: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones
FAQ: Take a look here before asking...
zones-discuss: Forum for Zones related topics
Zones Bugs: Bugs with zones keyword
BigAdmin: Solaris Zones on BigAdmin

Zones are an operating system abstraction for partitioning systems, allowing multiple applications to run in isolation from each other on the same physical hardware. This isolation prevents processes running within a zone from monitoring or affecting processes running in other zones, seeing each other's data, or manipulating the underlying hardware. Zones also provide an abstraction layer that separates applications from physical attributes of the machine on which they are deployed, such as physical device paths and network interface names.

This community is the home base for the Zones community: Users, application developers, folks who want to contribute to the zones infrastructure itself, and those developing management solutions.

FAQ!

Read the ZONES FAQ!

Getting Started

Lots of useful stuff at the BigAdmin Zones Page.
Dennis Clarke's article Get in the Zone
Zone Examples from SolarisInternals.com
Amy Rich's Spotlight on Solaris Zones
John Beck announces Zones.

Conference Papers

Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads. The USENIX 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference.
Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Server Consolidation. From The USENIX Third Virtual Machine Research & Technology Symposium.

Documentation

Developing Applications

Bringing Your Application Into the Zone

For OS Developers

Zones RFEs & Bugs
Open Task List [Soon]
Project Documents [New!]

Other Resources

Softpanorama zones page
Apache Software Foundation uses zones!
The ZoneStats package by Bruno Bonfils lets you graphically monitor the zones on your system.

Blogs

jerrysblog - Writing the OpenSolaris Bible

Jan 6, 4:35 PM

2008 was a busy year for me since I spent most of my free time co-authoring a book on OpenSolaris; the OpenSolaris Bible . Having never written a book before, this was a new experience for me. Nick ...

Sun Search - tags:zones tags:containers - The dot in .- Http proxy in a zone

Jan 1, 1:51 PM

Http proxy in a zone Now that the new crossbow networkin stack is in OpenSolaris I have been able to configure a transparent proxy server for the Sun Ray users. By having a zone act as the only route ...

jerrysblog - Updating zones on OpenSolaris 2008.11 using detach/attach

Dec 23, 9:59 AM

In my last post I talked a bit about the new way that software and dataset management works for zones on the 2008.11 release. One of the features that is still under development is to provide a way ...

Sun Search - tags:zones tags:containers - Bernd Finger's Weblog - OpenSolaris 2008.11: More on unattended zones installation and the ...

Dec 22, 4:38 AM

OpenSolaris 2008.11: More on unattended zones installation and the sysidcfg file After my posting about a new zone for a web server, I did some more tests with the sysidcfg file and found that the ...

menno - Dutch OpenSolaris mirror

Dec 18, 10:50 PM

Bart Muijzer reports that the fine folks at NLUUG are now offering the latest OpenSolaris 2008.11 release for download on their site. They rsync daily, so all future OpenSolaris releases will show up ...