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kvasdopil / docker

docker

FreeBSD port of docker, take a look at PORTING-FREEBSD.md in freebsd-compat branch

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What it is

FreeBSD port of docker, take a look at PORTING-FREEBSD.md in freebsd-compat branch

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Observed mentions: 2015-06-04 10:48:45 UTC to 2018-02-21 11:27:16 UTC.

012342015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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tony·May 30, 2017
Want to see a "real" effort to get Docker / Containers in (Free)BSD? https://github.com/kvasdopil/docker https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack Unfortunately, they haven't been updated in a while. But this is what we mean when we want docker on other hosts. use FreeBSD's native jail and linux subsystems. In other words, "OS-level virtualization" [1] Rather than treating other platforms like second class citizens and relying on ad-hoc workarounds that require virtualbox, a middleman linux distribution running in the background; not to mention the error-prone networking redirection the aforementioned introduces. Two points: 1. The whole point of docker is to not have to haul in a linux distribution and a fire up a vm just to deploy something for development or production. If they're using Docker w/ a VM, they're better off just using Vagrant.
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2. FreeBSD jails work fantastic. What's keeping docker from abstracting upon that and supporting it officially, especially seeing these two implementations in the wild? I look forward to seeing more of kvasdopil's docker fork (https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/docker-freebsd/) and jetpack. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtual...
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