Re: Docker

From: Alejandro Imass <aimass_at_yabarana.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 08:16:27 UTC
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:26 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> For sure there are users / developers that are in the middle,like it
> happens in the political area. I like this kind of person. I'm one of those
> people. My criticism is against those users and developers that show an
> exaggerated "love" and fidelity towards a system, whether by ideology,
> whether by habit, or by commercial reasons. I'm a frequent visitor to
> various freebsd forums and I often read opinions radicalized on linux
> technologies that should not enter the freebsd world, simply because in
> Freebsd there are already excellent tools that do their job well. Yes,they
> work well,but why not add more and different tools that which would allow
> the creation of bridges between different operating systems ?
>
>
>
The thing is that FreeBSD is actually better. By 2006 I was doing with
EzJail what many people consider today cutting edge. We ventured out on
"boutique web hosting" for a while and I single-handedly administered about
12 bare metal FBSD servers with anywhere between a dozen to 20+ jails each.
Today there's Bastille and much better tooling and I don't think that FBSD
necessarily needs to " fit in" with the container and AWS crowd. FreeBSD
invented containers as jails long before they were reinvented by Linux and
Docker. I think the best path is to continue to do what it is good at,
which is producing the most stable and high performance OS on the planet.

I'm not saying that change and evolution are not good, I'm just saying that
I don't see FBSD as a " me too" player. If you look at any company or
organization who abandons their core values to pursue the latest FAD or
whatever usually just dissolves into oblivion. There are tons of example
but RadioShack comes to mind, when in the 1990s they decided to almost do
everything contrary to the core values... I had worked there as a teen in
the 80s and I could not believe what I saw when I visited the States in
90s.

Getting Kubernetes to work over bare metal FBSD --AND-- adding a
compatibility layer to pull in existing Docker images could make it very
attractive for companies and organizations wanting to move away from AWS or
Azure back into their own stacks.. what VMWare failed to do. Initially it
could target just development teams and startups wanting to save on AWS but
eventually I think a lot of companies would want to move away from Amazon
or Azure but they just don't have a viable alternative.

anyway just my $0.02

Best,

-- 
Alex