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I’m itching to replace my home server’s FreeBSD with Linux and Kubernetes. I use it (& build dev tools for others) at work plenty so for me, the learning curve is in the past. I’m not sure if I would recommend this journey for others, but I also wouldn’t recommend FreeBSD to anyone, either. In both cases, you know what you’re getting in to - something complex, opinionated, powerful, and industrial strength.

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You'll know this already but I'd say when you're coming from FreeBSD you'll be disappointed with Docker in particular, because it serves no purpose in the (usually) well-organized BSD world where the good stuff is built from source, and developed to POSIX guidelines most of the time anyway. Docker is just a workaround for the perceived mess of shared libraries in the Linux world of multiple O/S vendors (by not using shared libs in the first place which could be solved by statically linking everything), and FreeBSD's jails is IMHO superior as sandbox technology anyway.

I found the jails ecosystem as old and creaky as FreeBSD itself; the technology is good, and everything makes sense, but after using Docker on Mac and Linux for a while, I've started to prefer the lighter-weight and more user-friendly abstractions.

If there was a Jailfile equivalent for FreeBSD and a command-line tool with the same interfaces as docker, namely `docker run --rm -it ...`, I might be staying on FreeBSD.

Try Unraid on your home server: boots from USB and runs in memory, no raid risks but have network share span several HDDs, parity HDDs, use SSD for cache.

No kubernetes involved - just a webinterface to run containers, install dockers as "apps" on your server. And Unraid is linux, you can but dont need to tinker.

Unraid is how i started using Dockers and became happy friends with my home server again. (tm)

I think you misunderstand me: my objective is to tinker. Before, I was tinkering with FreeBSD, now I will be tinkering with Kubernetes. Thanks for the recommendation though.

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