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hnlmorg • yesterday at 10:35 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

What’s FreeBSDs story like for Docker these days?

I love FreeBSD. But I reluctantly had to migrate one of my home servers to Ubuntu Server because I needed Docker support as well as ZFS. Ubuntu Server, compared to FreeBSD, is a complete clusterfuck of an OS. And I regret the effort I spent migrating.

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warpflyght • today at 12:01 AM

There's experimental support for Podman and OCI containers on FreeBSD 14.3 and later, with some additional system configuration required [0], [1]. I've been playing with it off and on with FreeBSD 15.0 and 15.1, but I'm not using it for anything I depend on.

[0]: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/containers/

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

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TacticalCoder • yesterday at 11:36 PM

> What’s FreeBSDs story like for Docker these days?

My current setup for Docker (Podman really in my case):

    Proxmox -> Linux VMs -> Podman containers inside Linux VMs
My plan:

    FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor -> Linux VMs -> Podman containers inside Linux VMs
So basically just ditching Proxmox for FreeBSD/bhyve. Then at long last I'll be, again, systemd-free.
johng • yesterday at 11:00 PM

I used to use Ubuntu a lot about 7 years ago. I saw the writing on the wall. Once they started forcing snap down people’s throats, especially. I’ve been on Debian ever since and have been very happy. I also have run many other OS’s and I feel that Debian is still a good blend of polished and still friendly to the hacker.

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