Re: Docker

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:13:05 +0200
Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm interested to know what you mean for "real needs",

	I mean real problems that are solved by having a FreeBSD
implementation of docker. IOW what would people use it for.

	For example one goal to be able to use the off-the-shelf images
available on docker.io (or other linux images) with docker and/or
kubernetes so as to be able to migrate application stacks to a FreeBSD base.
There's a *lot* of work to be done to achieve this mostly in the Linux
emulation layer. I rather suspect that this is what most people expect of
docker and I can certainly see how it could be used in real world
applications and make FreeBSD an alternative to Linux as a host OS.

	Another goal is to be able to create layered FreeBSD based
container images from Dockerfiles and share (publicly or with a limited
group) them in the same way as Linux container layers are then that should
be rather less work - and ocijail seems to be a starting point. Is this
something people want to do ? Does Docker provide any benefits over
Nomad/iocage/cbsd for this use ? Is there enough interest to create a
critical mass of images ?

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