Re: OCI image compatibility spec - FYI

A while ago I drafted https://github.com/dfr/opencontainers-tob/tree/freebsd
but neither I nor Samuel Karp had enough time to take this forward. Since
then, we have resolved one of the trickier differences between the
podman/buildah port and containerd/nerdctl around network configuration and
I think this would be a good time to revive this proposal.

Doug.


On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 at 16:26, Greg Wallace <greg@freebsdfoundation.org>
wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> I have followed your work with great interest, though I have to admit
> that, because I am not a developer or DevOps practitioner, my understanding
> is incomplete.
>
> I am in 100% agreement with you that the PR I shared is less important
> than the runtime spec. I just wanted to bring it to the list's attention
> since the author has said he would welcome FreeBSD involvement and they
> plan a vote tomorrow.
>
> Several others, representing developers and end users, are also interested
> in helping with the runtime spec. I would love to connect them with you and
> see how we may be able to work together.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 11:19 AM Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 at 13:51, Greg Wallace <greg@freebsdfoundation.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have been trying to stay tuned in to all the efforts to get a native
>>> OCI runtime on FreeBSD. There are a lot of people interested in this and
>>> several efforts underway.
>>>
>>> In the course of listening in on some of the OCI community developer
>>> calls, I learned about this effort to create image compatibility
>>> specification
>>>
>>> https://github.com/opencontainers/tob/pull/128
>>>
>>> I asked if they planned to include FreeBSD as a supported platform and
>>> they have been very open to the idea but they need FreeBSD developers to
>>> express interest and get involved.
>>>
>>> If this interests you, you can jump into the PR or ping me and I'd be
>>> happy to connect with the engineers heading this up.
>>>
>>
>> I am very interested in the area of adding FreeBSD extensions to the OCI
>> specification(s). Your PR covers the image spec - I actually think that it
>> might be better to start trying to define a FreeBSD extension for the
>> runtime spec.
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
>>>
>
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