[jensenbox]

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]

Hi! 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

[Gud]

FreeBSD has supported containers since the 90s.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

It 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]

Agree

[leansensei]

And it has 5-6 different ways for managing jails, some of them abandoned, others peculiar, and some recently degrading in quality.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

As opposed to, say, Linux, which only has LXC, docker, podman, singularity, openvz, and the others I've forgotten.

[Gud]

There 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/