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Containerization is overrated in the sense, that you can have it all for "free" with chroot in openbsd or jail in freebsd.

• rahen 4y ago
  chroots have a filesystem namespace but miss user, process and network namespaces. Besides, the Docker registry is fairly convenient.
  • kstrauser 4y ago
    FreeBSD jails have those things.
    • sdze 4y ago
      In Regards to registries: My "builds" are also reproducible. Why? I run the same build and deploy script each time. Wow. For me this all is old wine in new pipes. Cold coffee. Registries.
    • rahen 4y ago
      Jails can use the Docker registry? The nice thing with Dockerfiles and the Docker registry is how quickly I get a reproducible, stateless, isolated environment for any large, proprietary or foreign app I may need, without resorting to a VM or polluting my system. All it takes is an Ubuntu or CentOS base, pull the apps and its dependencies, throw it away when I'm done while keeping a lean Alpine system underneath. Jails would require me to set things from scratch each time I need a new app, even for a short while. It's just impractical. I'm considering Nix as a potential alternative, but it doesn't work on the BSDs yet. If you know a way to run "modern workloads" in a KISS, convenient, Unix-y way, please let me know.
      • saralily 4y ago
        BastilleBSD facilitates a lot of these things.
      • nix23 4y ago
        >I'm considering Nix as a potential alternative, but it doesn't work on the BSDs yet. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Nix https://wiki.freebsd.org/Nix
  • sdze 4y ago
    Aha... ? And? What do you want to achieve? That is the question.