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Re:Running containers without Docker by indexerror on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:12PM (#12802656)
Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead.

Edit: My viewpoint was focused more on the composability aspect of containers. But I stand corrected otherwise.

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Re:Running containers without Docker by 2trill2spill on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:52PM (#12802783)
> Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead.

Thats incorrect both jails and "containers" are examples of OS level virtualization[1]. Instead of virtualizing the hardware you virtualize the operating system, ie system call table.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtual...

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Re:Running containers without Docker by empthought on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:26PM (#12802707)
No, jails are basically containers. Docker on FreeBSD uses jails for isolation -- see the wiki page at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
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