To be honest I hadn't even heard of those projects before they were mentioned in this comment thread. I took a quick look, discovered the technology was derived from OpenSolaris / Illumos, and reported back on my somewhat hasty conclusion. Thanks for taking the effort to explain why you thought I was mistaken.
The very strong endorsement from two community members indicates it may be wise to take a deeper look on whether this is something we could leverage for TKLX. I don't think I've encountered such enthusiastic support for any other hypervisor.
We'll still need to consider other factors besides the technology, such as the vitality of the open source community relative to other options, but that's mainly an issue if we're cornered into picking a winning horse. As a counter example of when that's not the case, the base images for TKLX support both Docker and RKT.
You're right, I'm not familiar with SmartOS / Triton
The very strong endorsement from two community members indicates it may be wise to take a deeper look on whether this is something we could leverage for TKLX. I don't think I've encountered such enthusiastic support for any other hypervisor.
We'll still need to consider other factors besides the technology, such as the vitality of the open source community relative to other options, but that's mainly an issue if we're cornered into picking a winning horse. As a counter example of when that's not the case, the base images for TKLX support both Docker and RKT.