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Brief Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD

8 pointsby vermaden6 months ago

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sunshine-o6 months ago
From what I understand this is a way to have all the OCI standards in front of the simple, battle-tested Jail and ZFS mechanics.<p>I personally find the ergonomics of jails to be natural and almost frictionless. Actually once you use jails a bit you realize how awkward are Dockerfiles. My intuition is the success of Docker was due to a lot of devs and newcomers were onboarded through it. And so it became &quot;the standard and obvious way to work&quot;.<p>But when you look back 5 minutes you realize the modern container stack doesn&#x27;t fit that well in the Unix way to do things.<p>Anyway FreeBSD probably needs to make a step toward it to stay relevant so I guess this is a good thing.<p>At the same time there is also a great opportunity to do things better. For example Nix can define containers in a superior way. I would love to see something like this come to FreeBSD one day.