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Omicron: Oxide control plane

18 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 5 stories, 13 comments · first 2021-11-30 · latest 2026-10-09

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  1. …that way. But it would not be pretty. However! You absolutely can use non-simulated Omicron: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/blob/main/docs/how-... You'll get a single node control plane that's mostly workable, and be able to spin…
    comment by stevekaram · 2026-10-09 · in Our $445M Series D
  2. Their entire control plan is open source and you can run it on commodity hardware: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/blob/main/docs/how-...
    comment by tylerhillery · 2026-10-09 · in Our $445M Series D
  3. We have a number of TLA+ models at Oxide. Here's one: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/blob/8b0886dbd02229...
    comment by sunshowers · 2026-06-17 · in Formal methods and the future of programming
  4. …names you can always look at the actual code that had a bug - here it is before the bug was fixed: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/blob/a253f541a4a32a...
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    Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
    story by bcantrill · 2025-10-31 · 245 comments
  6. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/blob/5fd1c35/nexus/...
    comment by taminka · 2025-08-23 · in I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
  7. …/ SSDs / CPUs / ASICs from the usual vendors. The "secret sauce management layer" is available at https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron , released under the MPLv2 license. (I work at Oxide)
    comment by mkeeter · 2025-07-30 · in Our $100M Series B
  8. I don't want to scare you... but here's a function from a codebase at work. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/blob/5fd1c3588a45ad... That's ninety lines of type constraints.
  9. …for more complicated ones. [1] https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest/commit/efd194b2e1d8d61... [2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/commit/b07a8f593325...
    comment by sunshowers · 2024-02-01 · in My favourite Git commit (2019)
  10. …in the office (literally named dogfood) that employees can use for various things if they wish. 1: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron?tab=readme-ov-file#...
  11. …See perhaps "This repo houses the work-in-progress Oxide Rack control plane." * https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron
    comment by throw0101c · 2023-10-26 · in The Cloud Computer
  12. …[7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar... [8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron [9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis [10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris
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    Tracing a Go Memory Allocation Bug to Illumos Signal Handling
    story by philosopher1234 · 2022-12-16 · 0 comments
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    CockroachDB crashed in Go runtime during test run: s.allocCount = s.nelems
    story by ThatGeoGuy · 2022-12-16 · 0 comments
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    Debugging CockroachDB crash in Go runtime during test run
    story by todsacerdoti · 2022-12-16 · 0 comments
  16. …them for our own product, we know that they are at least usable outside of Oxide![3][4] [0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron [1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis [2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible [3]…
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    Apparent CockroachDB data corruption due to CockroachDB issue 74475
    story by tosh · 2022-04-28 · 0 comments
  18. Speaking of interesting names, their control plane is called Omicron: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron