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I read Netflix uses Linux on the frontend due to lack of OpenJDK support on FreeBSD? No? FreeBSD still does all of the heavy lifting on the internet, however.

Moving the goalpost now huh? They switched to Linux for its driver support. This was explicitly stated on their forums. Besides, Ansibles replaces Docker/Kubernetes for orchestration related tasks. We don't have to switch to an entirely different tool. With Jail Native Computing, companies...

If you want secure containment of applications or in-house services for your customers in production; you should be using FreeBSD. It's one differentiating and practical reason to switch to it. I have yet to see Docker used in production at scale for any web facing service. "On my laptop" simply...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnYWfVPT5aI A masterpiece, if you will. Song always gets me amped.

You can't make this s**t up. Cross-platform in the Linux community means, between Ubuntu, RHEL, Oracle Linux, SLES, etc. It's all the same s**t. It's hilariously stupid. Ugh. lol

Again, this is all about compliance due to the fact that Linux has more market share and influence in the enterprise. I'm talking about the technology itself. Someone can replace all of this (which is really just a management layer) with bastilleBSD and Ansible. Docker is not (or at least a...

You misunderstand. Jails is Unix Containers. The very concept came from FreeBSD. It is the de facto model for secure process isolation -> this is the design constraint. This isn't something you can just tack on afterwards. cgroups and namespaces are not containers. It's resource...

it's 🔨 time

There is no argument for a viral, commie license.

Once FreeBSD gets performant WiFi and word gets out a lot of this will change IMO.

Because it is SMF with which Docker borrowed it's ideas from. Before Docker, Solaris had SMF service instances and dependencies that define how applications are constructed. SMF also included a configuration repository (ie. Docker Registry, i'm looking at you); where SMF manifests are stored...

Well, someone did manage to port ZFS to FreeBSD in under a week. Which is a pretty difficult and sensitive task since we're talking storage. With enough dedication and will, it can be done.

This mailing list post here outlines a list of things needed to get a working implementation. Seems like a fun challenge. If I had the C chops; I'd do it myself. Converting rc scripts in the ports tree would probably be a long process too.

It's a unified model for managing services in Solaris. It's really ahead of its time. Unfortunately it relies of a lot of kernel functionality only found in Solaris so it's nearly impossible to port. SMF and some functions would have to be implemented in FreeBSD separately.

You can sort of do this with SMF. You can specify a service instance (a configuration of a service), and all of it's dependencies using an SMF manifest, then boot a Jail/Zone from that manifest. This is all optional though; instead of it being a terrible mish-mash of functions like Docker. SMF...

You can call pkg to install packages into a Jail. This can be done automatically with templates using a jail management tool. You don't ship applications with containers; that's a vector for compromise. Certainly not with an unvetted registry also. FreeBSD has a community vetted repository of...

It's a BS governance model to tame the inherent fragmentation issue with Linux. OCI exists because GNU/Linux has no concept of a base system. It's an attempt for companies to sell compliance. OCI, like Flatpak/AppImages, etc. is more of the same bandaid nonsense. Outside of the mess that is...

There's no such thing as "OCI style containers". Much like "Cloud Native", or "Serverless". It's marketing rubbish.

Considering Jails predates Docker by about 14 years. We’ve been a happy camp. 😉

I think the iSCSI stuff works good now. It's in kernel now and it's fully integrated into the CAM Target Layer. Haven't tried it though. I'd just use NFS to keep it simple.