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Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by mikece on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:05PM (#39400684)
I can't help but think that Podman for FreeBSD [1] reaching stability will cause the popularity of FreeBSD to rebound quickly. The flexibility of container orchestration on the stability and power of FreeBSD is too good of a combination to ignore.

[1] https://podman.io/docs/installation#installing-on-freebsd-14...

Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by slekker on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:08PM (#39400727)
How does it work without cgroups? And what are the differences from the Linux containers?
Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by kstrauser on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:28PM (#39401031)
I heard someone describe FreeBSD jails as what cgroups want to be when they grow up. I don't think that's fair, but would imagine that just about anything you could do with cgroups you can also do with jails.
Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by slekker on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:47PM (#39401272)
Sounds exciting, any resources you'd recommend for reading more about jails?
Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by kstrauser on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:58PM (#39401450)
The FreeBSD handbook is wonderful, as always: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/
Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by Mister_Snuggles on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:29PM (#39401039)
The FreeBSD answer to containers is jails, but I'm not sure how the capabilities of jails maps to the functionality provided by cgroups.
Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by vermaden on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:02PM (#39402919)
Actually its the other way around.

FreeBSD Jails are here since year 2000 - 24 years ago.

The Linux answer to FreeBSD Jails is Docker - from 2014 - and later Podman.

Hope that helps.

Regards, vermaden

Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by mekster on Saturday February 17, 2024 @12:09AM (#39406584)
If the docker ecosystem can't be used, it's not even an answer.
Re:FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 by CoolCold on Sunday February 18, 2024 @10:04PM (#39425858)
Sounds huge and big deal!