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Tribblix
Tribblix is an operating system descended from OpenSolaris, using
illumos as the foundation. It is designed to be fast, lightweight,
and efficient, with the flexibility to support a wide range of uses.
Tribblix has a number of advanced features.
The zones(7) facility provides isolated environments for running
applications. A zone has its own namespace and networking, and looks
like an independent system to users and applications, while sharing
resources with the host it's running on for performance and
efficiency.
Storage in Tribblix is managed using ZFS, an advanced filesystem and
volume manager. ZFS provides protection against data corruption,
automatic repair if redundant data is available, space saving with
data compression, snapshots for recovery and clones, and efficient
replication to a local or remote system. Storage devices are
combined together into pools, which are managed with the zpool(8)
utility. That storage pool can then be presented as filesystems or
block volumes, which are managed with the zfs(8) utility.
The service management facility, smf(7), provides a robust mechanism
for running services and applications in a predictable manner. It
takes care of dependencies between services, and will restart
services automatically in the event of a failure. It also uses
rbac(7), role-based access control, to allow service administration
to be delegated to users without having to hand over full
administrative privileges.
To query the state of the system's services, use svcs(1). To manage
the state of services, use svcadm(8). To manage service
configuration, use svccfg(8).
With Crossbow, Tribblix has a highly flexible and fully virtualizable
network stack. The tool to manage physical and virtual network
devices is dladm(8), and IP address management on those devices uses
the ipadm(8) utility.
Because Tribblix and illumos value compatibility, the traditional
method of configuring networks using ifconfig(8) will still work.
While zones allow you to run native applications in an isolated
environment, to run a whole alternative operating system requires a
full virtual machine, which is where bhyve(8) comes in.
The normal way to run bhyve in Tribblix is to use zap(1) to create a
bhyve(7) zone, allowing a higher level of security and control.
The zap(1) utility is the primary administration utility in Tribblix.
Using zap(1), you can add, remove, and update software, and upgrade
the whole system to a newer release.
While zones can be managed using the traditional tools, zap(1)
provides a much simpler interface and hides much of the underlying
complexity. In particular, zap(1) will take care of managing the
appropriate ZFS and network configuration associated with a zone for
you.
The zap(1) utility also simplifies management of users, installed
locales, the system hostname, and the system timezone.
svcs(1), zap(1), bhyve(7), rbac(7), smf(7), zones(7), bhyve(8),
dladm(8), ifconfig(8), ipadm(8), svcadm(8), svccfg(8), zfs(8),
zpool(8)
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NAME
Tribblix
DESCRIPTION
Tribblix is an operating system descended from OpenSolaris, using
illumos as the foundation. It is designed to be fast, lightweight,
and efficient, with the flexibility to support a wide range of uses.
FEATURES
Tribblix has a number of advanced features.
Zones
The zones(7) facility provides isolated environments for running
applications. A zone has its own namespace and networking, and looks
like an independent system to users and applications, while sharing
resources with the host it's running on for performance and
efficiency.
ZFS
Storage in Tribblix is managed using ZFS, an advanced filesystem and
volume manager. ZFS provides protection against data corruption,
automatic repair if redundant data is available, space saving with
data compression, snapshots for recovery and clones, and efficient
replication to a local or remote system. Storage devices are
combined together into pools, which are managed with the zpool(8)
utility. That storage pool can then be presented as filesystems or
block volumes, which are managed with the zfs(8) utility.
SMF
The service management facility, smf(7), provides a robust mechanism
for running services and applications in a predictable manner. It
takes care of dependencies between services, and will restart
services automatically in the event of a failure. It also uses
rbac(7), role-based access control, to allow service administration
to be delegated to users without having to hand over full
administrative privileges.
To query the state of the system's services, use svcs(1). To manage
the state of services, use svcadm(8). To manage service
configuration, use svccfg(8).
Advanced Networking
With Crossbow, Tribblix has a highly flexible and fully virtualizable
network stack. The tool to manage physical and virtual network
devices is dladm(8), and IP address management on those devices uses
the ipadm(8) utility.
Because Tribblix and illumos value compatibility, the traditional
method of configuring networks using ifconfig(8) will still work.
Bhyve
While zones allow you to run native applications in an isolated
environment, to run a whole alternative operating system requires a
full virtual machine, which is where bhyve(8) comes in.
The normal way to run bhyve in Tribblix is to use zap(1) to create a
bhyve(7) zone, allowing a higher level of security and control.
ADMINISTRATION
The zap(1) utility is the primary administration utility in Tribblix.
Using zap(1), you can add, remove, and update software, and upgrade
the whole system to a newer release.
While zones can be managed using the traditional tools, zap(1)
provides a much simpler interface and hides much of the underlying
complexity. In particular, zap(1) will take care of managing the
appropriate ZFS and network configuration associated with a zone for
you.
The zap(1) utility also simplifies management of users, installed
locales, the system hostname, and the system timezone.
SEE ALSO
svcs(1), zap(1), bhyve(7), rbac(7), smf(7), zones(7), bhyve(8),
dladm(8), ifconfig(8), ipadm(8), svcadm(8), svccfg(8), zfs(8),
zpool(8)
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