I hope OCI images for FreeBSD really take off. There too many tools which do jail management.
When I was investigating jails it seemed like the building blocks were there but any project to make a Docker-esque solution got abandoned after some time.
I believe it is necessary for FreeBSD to get OCI and Dockerfile compatibility to stay in the game and attract curious users.
BUT I personally started using Jails because I really got tired of the "Docker" workflow and ergonomics.
After 25 years Jails are almost perfectly integrated in the OS. You will find an '-j' option in most command and of course ZFS make everything better.
It is actually so good that you might not even need a management tool like Bastille or iocage in many cases...
Syntax like Dockerfiles means a lot. Does it manage compositions and the intermediate states towards the final outcome and is there Docker2Kleene conversion tooling?
I hope OCI images for FreeBSD really take off. There too many tools which do jail management.
When I was investigating jails it seemed like the building blocks were there but any project to make a Docker-esque solution got abandoned after some time.
Podman is in an experimental state for FreeBSD 14, and can even run Linux containers using the Linux binary emulation. https://podman.io/docs/installation#installing-on-freebsd-14...
(I'm personally using it now to run the ArchiveTeam Warrior docker container on FreeBSD, albeit with a few hiccups)
> albeit with a few hiccups
Can you talk about where the current pain points are?
Probably the biggest problem is for now everything still needs to run as root.
When I was trying to replace Docker with rootless Podman on Linux I had enough hiccups there I just scrapped it.
BastilleBSD has commits from earlier today and is a Docker-esque solution for jails: https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
I believe it is necessary for FreeBSD to get OCI and Dockerfile compatibility to stay in the game and attract curious users.
BUT I personally started using Jails because I really got tired of the "Docker" workflow and ergonomics.
After 25 years Jails are almost perfectly integrated in the OS. You will find an '-j' option in most command and of course ZFS make everything better. It is actually so good that you might not even need a management tool like Bastille or iocage in many cases...
Syntax like Dockerfiles means a lot. Does it manage compositions and the intermediate states towards the final outcome and is there Docker2Kleene conversion tooling?