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packet.com
Company blog · packet.com/blogsystemsprogramming
packet.com is the company blog at packet.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2018, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Open sourcing Tinkerbell packet.net’s cloud control plane”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Packet's blog and product pages on bare metal servers, ARM cloud instances and Kubernetes hosting. Linked items include the Tinkerbell open-source release and the Equinix acquisition post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Open sourcing Tinkerbell packet.net’s cloud control plane4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-05-05
- Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-04
- Equinix is acquiring Packet2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- /cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-31
- /cloud/servers/c1-large-arm/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-08
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-18
What Hacker News says?
There's a renewed interest in on-prem bare metal recently with a lot of different offerings helping to make various parts of the stack easier to manage. Awesome bare metal is a new repo created by Alex Ellis that tracks a lot of the projects: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal Also we (Packet) just open sourced Tinkerbell, our bare metal provisioning engine: https://www.packet.com/blog/open-sourcing-tink…
Comment linking /blog/open-sourcing-tinkerbell/
on “Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?”Submitted Equinix is acquiring Packet as a story · 143 points
HN discussionTry project Gardener. It's fully open source and uses kubernetes to run kubernetes control planes and manage underlying infrastructure across many infrastructure providers. Manage homogeneous kubernetes clusters across Azure, AWS, GCP, Alicloud, OpenStack, VMWare at scale. Kubernetes on bare metal with Packet Cloud or using open source metal-stack coming soon. Extensible for other infrastructures, contribute support…
Comment linking /developers/integrations/container-management/gardener/
on “Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6”Submitted Ping, Power and Processors as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWho do you peer with in Europe? I see in the US you use Packet ( https://www.packet.com/ ) but I couldn't find any information about the EU, or do you focus on the US market for now? We're also a LIR and want to build an anycast network (we anonymize streaming data), any helpful resources you can share on this? Cool product btw! I think this will be a very interesting area in the coming years, the fact that you offe…
Comment linking /
on “Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users”Submitted Open sourcing Tinkerbell packet.net’s cloud control plane as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Packet... all have AMD shapes, in bare metal and VM to varying degrees. The list goes on and on. Oracle: https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2018-10-23-amd-and-ora... Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-lv2-se... AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introduci... Packet: https://www.packet.com/hardware/amd/
Comment linking /hardware/amd/
on “AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details”Submitted Open-sourcing Tinkerbell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPacket|Multiple Positions|New York, NY or Palo Alto, CA|www.Packet.com We're looking for people who are passionate about infrastructure as code, who like getting their hands dirty with hardware, and enjoy working in a fast-moving, "David vs Goliath" atmosphere. Apply: https://www.packet.com/about/careers/ At Packet, we're building infrastructure automation for tomorrow's workloads - from self driving cars and virtua…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted We Failed at OpenStack (2015) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'll add that you should look for the PLUS skus, ie SFN-8522-PLUS. They come with all the fun stuff. Might also want to look at Packet. They offer bare metal cloud servers by the hour, some of which have Mellanox NICs in them[0]. I'm less familiar with Mellanox than SolarFlare, but I think they have a similar feature set. [0] https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c3-small/
Comment linking /cloud/servers/c3-small/
on “Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)”Submitted Open Sourcing Tinkerbell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe switch to tea? https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/
Comment linking /cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/
on “Ampere’s Product List: 80 Cores, up to 3.3 GHz at 250 W; 128 Core in Q4”Submitted Open Sourcing Tinkerbell – Packet's bare-metal provisioner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHow about https://www.packet.com/solutions/kubernetes/ ?
Comment linking /solutions/kubernetes/
on “Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison”Submitted Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDoesn't seem practical. It might be useful as a learning-framework for MPI / Supercomputer programming... but it wouldn't be a tool that I'd use personally. A practical baseline for anyone interested in ARM-compute, would be the Thunder X CPU (Cloud rental: https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c1-large-arm/ ). 48-cores per socket, 2x for 96-core servers. As another commenter said: the primary use of this NanoPi is t…
Comment linking /cloud/servers/c1-large-arm/
on “96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3”Submitted Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPacket's blog post: https://www.packet.com/blog/ping-power-processors/ This is probably a good play for Equinix as it provides a lower barrier to entry to a segment of the market that they typically haven't engaged (Packet being largely profitable probably helps). In addition, I believe Packet already had presence in a number of Equinix datacenters so "landlord buys tenant" comes to mind...
Comment linking /blog/ping-power-processors/
on “Equinix is acquiring Packet”Submitted Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRealistically you probably want to just use QEMU for builds until you find yourself needing to scale to something like https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c1-large-arm/ If you're doing it just for the novelty or really want to do it on site natively at a reasonable cost check out the Jetson TX2 dev kit. The TX2 has been mainlined for a while now and this kit offers 8 GB RAM with a fast CPU and the ability to connec…
Comment linking /cloud/servers/c1-large-arm/
on “Building a 64-bit aarch64 kernel and userspace for the Raspberry Pi 4”Submitted Welcome to the Year of Subscale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat is possible here for $1/hr https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/ I was able to login, install rust via rustup, install htop, build ripgrep showing nearly all of the cores being used, use ripgrep and kill the instance in about the same time on large x86 box.
Comment linking /cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/
on “Avantek's Arm Workstation: Ampere EMAG 8180 32-Core Arm64 Review”Submitted Packet.net launches GPU machines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPacket also has eMAG for $1/hour in the cloud if you want to try before you buy: https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/ Geekbench scores: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/11678329?baseli...
Comment linking /cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/
on “Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation”Maybe have a look at Packet https://www.packet.com/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers?”
