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You'll know this already but I'd say when you're coming from FreeBSD you'll be disappointed with Docker in particular, because it serves no purpose in the (usua

You'll know this already but I'd say when you're coming from FreeBSD you'll be disappointed with Docker in particular, because it serves no purpose in the (usually) well-organized BSD world where the good stuff is built from source, and developed to POSIX guidelines most of the time anyway. Docker is just a workaround for the perceived mess of shared libraries in the Linux world of multiple O/S vendors (by not using shared libs in the first place which could be solved by statically linking everything), and FreeBSD's jails is IMHO superior as sandbox technology anyway.

jitl 8y ago
I found the jails ecosystem as old and creaky as FreeBSD itself; the technology is good, and everything makes sense, but after using Docker on Mac and Linux for a while, I've started to prefer the lighter-weight and more user-friendly abstractions. If there was a Jailfile equivalent for FreeBSD and a command-line tool with the same interfaces as docker, namely `docker run --rm -it ...`, I might be staying on FreeBSD.