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Spawning a linux container is much simpler and faster than spawning a freebsd jail.
I don’t know why i keep hearing about jails being better, they clearly aren’t.
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Gud • today at 3:51 PM
Sorry what? It's a 5 line configuration file to create a FreeBSD jail.
If you don't want to use the base system (which docker is NOT the base system on Linux) then Bastille offers a pretty much identical workflow to docker, but built on FreeBSD jails: https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
> I don’t know why i keep hearing about jails being better
Jails have a significantly better track record in terms of security.
I can delegate a ZFS dataset to a jail to let the jail manage it.
Do Linux containers have an equivalent to VNET jails yet? With VNET jails I can give the jail its own whole networking stack, so they can run their own firewall and dhcp their own address and everything.