Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <0EB517DF-376E-435A-B24D-A4964D0F148F at gmail.com>, Enji 
Cooper writes
:
> On Jan 5, 2019, at 07:07, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:
>
> >>>> A) FreeBSD needs to become a platform that can host current and
> >>>> evolving virtualization technologies.
> >>>> 
> >>>> B) FreeBSD should be able to play in the container space similarly to
> >>>> Linux. Unfortunately I believe that this horse has left the barn and it
> >>>> may be too late. Then again maybe there is something we can redeem.
> >>> 
> >>> C) Make FreeBSD like others. So why making FreeBSD?
> >> 
> >> Because we offer some technologies the others do not. Unfortunately
> >> inferior and incompatible approaches (similarly: VHS vs BETA, Blue Ray
> >> vs HD) have left us on the outside. Try porting Kubernetes to FreeBSD.
> > no need to.
>
> Actually, not having Docker/Kubernetes support makes it more difficult to rid
> e the CI/distributed system wave, requiring FreeBSD to reinvent the wheel to 
> do CI, and force various groups to write their own homegrown distributed syst
> ems infrastructures instead of leveraging existing technologies.

I'm puttering around with Kubernetes and Docker. However there are 
other things on my plate that IMO are more urgent. Multitasking.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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