Re: Actual status of Docker (ready for production?)

      
Dear John, Bernhard, Mario, Paul, Jochen,
  
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​thank you very much! ​I very much appreciate your detailed and prompt responses!
  
  
​​​Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - I was getting into the materials you generously provided and considering the options, but at the end it seems that it's best to use Linux for the cases when use of unmodified Docker containers from Dockerhub is required.
  
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With this said, let me wish you, @​Jochen, the best luck and to get things implemented as soon as possible in the most convenient and elegant way!
  
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With best regards,
  
​Alex Potemkin.
  
  
  
  
  
On Feb 20 2023, at 9:24 PM, John-Mark Gurney  <jmg@funkthat.com>  wrote:
  
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> alex@potemkin.co wrote this message on Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 08:13 +0000:
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> >  ???I'm trying to understand an actual status of Docker / podman to check if I can pick FreeBSD as a platform for the application servers running pre-packaged apps inside Docker.
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> >  ???I've tried to google things, but I'm getting controversial information here:
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> >  ???- wiki (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker) says things doesn't actually works since around 2019-2022
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> >  ???- ports seems to contain Docker (https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/docker/) and it seems to be regularly updated
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> >  ???- there doesn't seem to be any discussion in this maillist lately, which makes me thing it's either dead or very much alive =)
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> >  ???Any real-life Docker usage feedback would be much appreciated!
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> >  ???I'm considering production servers, would love to make it on FreeBSD as opposed to Linux, but if it will be crashing / throwing errors and/or won't just work out of the box, like it does on (Debian/Ubuntu) Linux, I will be in trouble.
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> Significant progress has been made in the last year or two.
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> I don't have any specific guides, but, runj network is working:
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> https://samuel.karp.dev/blog/2022/12/docker-style-networking-for-freebsd-jails-with-runj/
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> Also, podman is apparently working:
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> https://medium.com/@dfr/oci-containers-for-freebsd-512a6df2bc85
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> which should get you what you need, ask podman is OCI compliant and
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> https://soc.crashed.org/objects/2d51da12-7262-4576-bf53-0ea6a61d0da0
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> The last message is on the dev version of FreeBSD, I'm not sure if it
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> will run on 13 if you need it to run on a RELEASE, but it likely should
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