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Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead. Edit: My viewpoint was focused more on the composability a

Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead. Edit: My viewpoint was focused more on the composability aspect of containers. But I stand corrected otherwise.

2trill2spill 10y ago
> Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead. Thats incorrect both jails and "containers" are examples of OS level virtualization[1]. Instead of virtualizing the hardware you virtualize the operating system, ie system call table. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtual...
empthought 10y ago
No, jails are basically containers. Docker on FreeBSD uses jails for isolation -- see the wiki page at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker