Re: Docker

Reply: Pat Maddox: "Re: Docker"
Reply: Gerard E. Seibert: "Re: Docker"
In reply to: Gerard E. Seibert: "Re: Docker"
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From: Pat Maddox <pat_at_patmaddox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:25:49 UTC

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023, at 1:01 PM, Gerard E. Seibert wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:38:47 +0200, Mario Marietto stated:
>> ---> Docker will NEVER run on FreeBSD, because Docker is built on
>> technologies which only exist in the Linux kernel.
>
> I have read several articles that state Docker can run on MS Windows. If
> that is true, and I have not seen anything that disproves it, then it
> can run on technologies other than those found in the Linux kernel.

Docker for Windows and Mac both operate by running a Linux VM, and running Docker within the VM.

An equivalent approach in FreeBSD would be to implement docker commands to spin up a Linux VM in bhyve and run the container inside it. That has been brought up several times (and summarily rejected by some people here), and is a different thing from FreeBSD kernel supporting Docker containers.

Pat