Container support is ready since year 2000 on FreeBSD while Linux needed to catch up the game and with Docker finally made it in 2013.

More here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/freebsd-jails-cont...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-secu...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-...

You just don't want to accept that when people say containers, they don't mean jails or LXC...

I agree with every word Pavel put there - and what is most threatening ... we are about to lose it.

Why?

Normies.

They were 'played' in C19 time - and they will be 'played' next time ... and EVERY next time.

There are just too many IGNORANT people out there that trust TV.

Vote with your wallet.

Always works.

Unless customers believe that they have no choice - see Windows 11 for details

Also forked and updated with more info:

- https://codeberg.org/vermaden/freebsd-things/src/branch/main...

Done something similar in 2018:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/syncthing-on-freeb...

You may find that useful in this topic:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/crucial-freebsd-to...

I ditched Docker and Podman for FreeBSD Jails :)

More here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/freebsd-jails-cont...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-secu...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/new-jless-freebsd-...

Can you run MS SQL Server inside a FreeBSD jail? Or any of the thousands of other ready to run docker containers?

Whatever you gain by running FreeBSD comes at a high cost. And that high cost is keeping FreeBSD jails from taking over.

That's ... a lot of setup. Does FreeBSD have anything similar to containerd?

Check BastilleBSD https://bastillebsd.org/ along with Rocinante - https://bastillebsd.org/rocinante/rocinante/ from here.

How is that any different than running VMs on a linux host?

Because containers are not virtual machines - You can run 1000 FreeBSD Jails on your laprop while you will not be able to run 1000 VMs - Jails are a lot lighter on resources then VMs.

Very distro specific however.

Me too.

Especially in ASCIIDOC/HTML/TXT/PDF files - for PDF files also a copy of ODF/ODT for editing where possible.

Then I can search for anything needed with grep(1) or pdfgrep(1) commands.

You can create ZFS pools that are more or less compatible with anything.

Details here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/zfs-compatibility/