Back to FreeBSD – Part 2 – Jails
by vermaden on 3/27/2026, 6:55:02 PM
https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-2
Comments
by: ggm
I think they understate the importance of accepting OCI and Dockerfile semantics as a path to an external "run one of these" and having it actually emerge as a jail based outcome.<p>I get saying "we don't need these additional layers/abstractions" but what it ignores is me saying "I want to run this code, and what I have is a suite of Docker based behaviour and I want a low friction path to use that Docker compose method, to get where I want"<p>They also haven't yet addressed how things re-scale sideways. Pods, and scaling is why people wind up behind traefik or caddy, fronting a service. It's not because the service lies in RFC1918 (how I wish they had written kubernetes to V6 native) it's because the service is being delivered by multiple discrete runtime states "inside" and scales horizontally.
3/31/2026, 11:56:56 PM
by: davidcollantes
The main drawback I saw on jails is that they are FreeBSD. The owner doesn’t mention, and I have not researched it, but can you run any Linux distribution in a FreeBSD jail?
3/31/2026, 11:18:11 PM
by: evanjrowley
I would like to explore the interoperability/compatibility limits of LXC and OCI support in FreeBSD 15. Both with FreeBSD as an OCI container and Linux OCI containers within FreeBSD.
3/27/2026, 7:07:09 PM