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by sofixa 1083 days ago
Not necessarily, Kubernetes also needs a ton of other things which are Linux kernel specific, like cgroups.

If you're just looking for an orchestrator capable of running FreeBSD jails, take a look at Nomad (Disclaimer: I work at HashiCorp, opinions my own, etc.)
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pjmlp 1083 days ago
cgroups are mapped into Jobs on Windows.

There could be a similar kind of mapping on FreeBSD.

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plagiarist 1083 days ago
Thank you for the suggestion, I'm interested in checking it out.

How does Nomad handle scaling? I'm thinking of a new project, I'd like to have the equivalent of HPA that easily scales to zero on custom metrics and a cluster autoscaler that can easily add heterogenous nodes as necessary. Even better if it can work with MacOS VMs.

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sofixa 1083 days ago
Nomad supports all sorts of architectures and OSes, including M-series CPUs and MacOS. It can also scale to a lot, 2 million containers being tested. [0]

In terms of autoscaling there's the Nomad Autoscaler[1][2] that is super flexible, can get metrics from a bunch of sources, do custom queries, and perform actions (everything is via plugins, so even if your current stack isn't already supported, it's easy to add) like add extra nodes or add more instances of jobs.

0 - https://www.hashicorp.com/c2m

1 - https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/tools/autoscaling

2 - https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler

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plagiarist 1083 days ago
That sounds a lot like what I am looking for. Thank you for the links to reading material!
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