president_zippy 7 days ago

Color me confused, but what do containers add to FreeBSD beyond jails? Jails have their own IP addresses and root filesystem, plus they use the host OS's version of libc and OpenSSL/LibreSSL and all the other core utils.

Is it the convenience utilities for building and running container images?

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  • dang 7 days ago

    I was joking. There is no container. (We don't use jails either.)

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    • president_zippy 6 days ago

      But alas, FreeBSD does support OCI container images! It supports Podman and has an OCI-compliant runtime:

      https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd...

      However, I still can't pinpoint what the value proposition is compared to using jails. Is there anybody around here able and willing to shed some light? I know I didn't use Cunningham's Law to start the conversation like a clever netizen but maybe, just this once, a good faith response to a good faith question is possible.

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