Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:51:19 +1000 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: opendaddy@hushmail.com Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Jason Cox <cscoman@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Docker Message-ID: <CAKYr3zwkLXicGHdqpOmaFR0Dxyv95TekwFdccFsTYDj=yWq3_g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150610234743.6A722C0487@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20150610111135.C81EE2319B@smtp.hushmail.com> <CAC4WUHrcH6FAUBoTnQWcfy%2Bj=HAGDBvzq8U%2B88maUAmB0kuOkg@mail.gmail.com> <20150610165244.0c6f2ed7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150610234743.6A722C0487@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:47 AM, <opendaddy@hushmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Thanks a lot for your input. > > Any chance I could use something like overlayfs / zfs like the author > claims? > > > https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-install-discourse-without-docker/16977 > > Do sign up and give your feedback. There used to be a FreeBSD thread @ > meta.discourse.org but it just got deleted. > > Many thanks! > > You might want to look at iocage, or jetpack https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack https://github.com/iocage/iocage https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve > O.D. > > On 10. juni 2015 at 2:52 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > >On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 07:29:09 -0700, Jason Cox wrote: > >> What are you doing wrong? You are trying to run docker on > >FreeBSD. Docker > >> is a containerization technology built for Linux. It uses LXC > >(which is > >> Linux Containers) for older Kernels or docker specific bits > >which are now > >> part of the modern Linux kernel 3.10+. > > > >It requires too many Linuxisms which aren't part of FreeBSD's > >Linux ABI, so expecting Docker to work on FreeBSD is somehow > >wrong. > > > > > > > >> Docker is basically FreeBSD Jails, > >> with a few more features and a lot more security issues. > > > >It's surely possible to run a "jail equivalent" of the Docker > >application package in question (here: Discourse). > > > > > > > >> I have not looked into Discourse, but any application that > >requires Docker > >> is not worth using at this point. > > > >Discourse is not exactly _requiring_ Docker - there has been > >a prepackaged Docker "instance" of all the components you need > >to run Discourse, not more, not less. It should be possible to > >run Discourse the "traditional" way - using native FreeBSD > >technology. > > > > > > > >> If > >> you just cannot get Discourse working on FreeBSD, then by all > >means switch > >> to a Linux install instead. Make sure it is not centos as it > >will not have > >> the update Kernel drivers for better Docker support. > > > >That is the final advice. :-) > > > >Docker is for Linux, Jails is for FreeBSD. It's somewhat comparable > >to a "pre-packaged VM image", more or less (probably less). > > > >Oh, and doing things like > > > > # wget http://getsomething.example.com | sudo bash > > > >is definitely _not_ the way you want to install software on > >FreeBSD. > >It rather seems to be a new Linuxism that has emerged during the > >recent years. :-) > > > > > > > >-- > >Polytropon > >Magdeburg, Germany > >Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > >Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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