> it's a shame that docker is built around linux
There is some interesting work happening to get an OCI-compatible runtime working
There is some interesting work happening to get an OCI-compatible runtime working
smartOS and proxmox both fill that niche for "hyperv, but it's application containers" niche perfectly. Or full VMs if you want too!
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/817-1592/gepea/index.ht...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment
but for both the "making docker work with BSD" and "making BSD work with docker" approaches, the question is how much time a company will spend on an alternative, upstart tech for something as foundational as their container deployments, without a really compelling reason. the answer is likely "zero" and justifiably so. it doesn't matter that you can run a linux vm, it won't matter that zones work with docker or that docker can use OCI. nobody wants to discover a whole new set of bugs and footguns with a niche technology stack.
netflix really ran with it, but even they did not put application servers/containers on BSD, they just used it as a NAS store. which is fine, and that's something that can be encapsulated without letting BSD escape into the rest of your ecosystem. but even though the linux ecosystem is in a state of constant meltdown and rebirth, it's at least the enemy you know.
I wonder if that will change now that redhat has slammed the door on non-commercial users. like where do you even go after that? ubuntu is clownshoes (and the snapd stuff has offended a lot of users). Debian I guess, or OpenSUSE. But SUSE is quite niche as well. Debian is probably the "sufficiently boring" answer, but freebsd could be a good alternative too if places gave it a chance.
as I said it's very impressive how boring freebsd is. Most likely the thing you are trying to do will be either building/loading some module in /etc/rc.conf, or editing some config file in /etc/, or copying some template from /usr/local. And you just do it, there's no surprises, and you move on.