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I could be alone in this, but I think getting containers (OCI, Docker) running on FreeBSD seems like a better direction - I totally get that Docker is a Linux k
by jensenbox 2y ago
I could be alone in this, but I think getting containers (OCI, Docker) running on FreeBSD seems like a better direction - I totally get that Docker is a Linux kernel thing but the idea of a file system with layers, registries etc could be a thing right?
I love FreeBSD but cannot really use it in a production environment until I can deploy containers on it as that is pretty much the defacto for our workflow.
Maybe it is impossible.
- acsowerby 2y agoHi! You may be pleased to hear that this is an active area of development, in fact there is currently a testing project for Podman on FreeBSD, you can find out more here https://github.com/oci-playground/freebsd-podman-testing https://github.com/oci-playground/freebsd-podman-testing
- Gud 2y agoFreeBSD has supported containers since the 90s.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIt would, however, be immensely useful to complete the work to run containerd with OCI images on top of jails, to the point that it's just a `pkg install`.
- Gud 2y agoAgree
- leansensei 2y agoAnd it has 5-6 different ways for managing jails, some of them abandoned, others peculiar, and some recently degrading in quality.
- Gud 2y agoThere are 100s of ways of managing anything, what’s your point here? I find using FreeBSD jails to be extremely straightforward. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoAs opposed to, say, Linux, which only has LXC, docker, podman, singularity, openvz, and the others I've forgotten.