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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 7 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
1. vermaden ◴[05 Sep 25 18:15 UTC] No.45141765[source]▶
I ditched Docker and Podman for FreeBSD Jails :)

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2. cheema33 ◴[05 Sep 25 18:25 UTC] No.45141893[source]▶
Can you run MS SQL Server inside a FreeBSD jail? Or any of the thousands of other ready to run docker containers?

Whatever you gain by running FreeBSD comes at a high cost. And that high cost is keeping FreeBSD jails from taking over.

3. udev4096 ◴[05 Sep 25 18:27 UTC] No.45141906[source]▶
How is that any different than running VMs on a linux host?
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4. matrix12 ◴[05 Sep 25 18:27 UTC] No.45141918[source]▶
Very distro specific however.
5. chuckadams ◴[05 Sep 25 18:53 UTC] No.45142232[source]▶
That's ... a lot of setup. Does FreeBSD have anything similar to containerd?
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6. vermaden ◴[08 Sep 25 07:43 UTC] No.45165591[source]▶
Check BastilleBSD https://bastillebsd.org/ along with Rocinante - https://bastillebsd.org/rocinante/rocinante/ from here.
7. vermaden ◴[08 Sep 25 07:44 UTC] No.45165603[source]▶
Because containers are not virtual machines - You can run 1000 FreeBSD Jails on your laprop while you will not be able to run 1000 VMs - Jails are a lot lighter on resources then VMs.