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Re:FreeBSD 12.1 by kazen44 on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:11PM (#21445933)
to be fair, freebsd had something like docker for decades. Jails have existed for a long time and are easy to use.
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Re:FreeBSD 12.1 by mikece on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:29PM (#21446126)
Jails are “similar” to Docker but they aren’t quite the same: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/
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Re:FreeBSD 12.1 by rhizome on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:00PM (#21446986)
Clear as mud. I know the author is a known person, but that style of writing is pretty bad for this topic.
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Re:FreeBSD 12.1 by paulddraper on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:10PM (#21448628)
That link has near zero substance.

Jails and Docker are different, but they are both used for process isolation.

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Re:FreeBSD 12.1 by MuffinFlavored on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:14PM (#21445963)
This is a great point. I know https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve is massively popular/successful too.
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Re:FreeBSD 12.1 by pm7 on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:35PM (#21447947)
Really? I used bvyhe on FreeNAS and it was awful comparing to KVM or ESXi.
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