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[-] Michal@programming.dev 60 points 17 hours ago

Docker is more than a cop out for than one use case. It's a way for quickly deploy an app irrespective of an environment, so you can scale and rebuild quickly. It fixes a problem that used to be solved by VMs, so in that way it's more efficient.

[+] pfm@scribe.disroot.org -14 points 16 hours ago

Well, nope. For example, FreeBSD doesn't support Docker -- I can't run dockerized software "irrespective of environment". It has to be run on one of supported platforms, which I don't use unfortunately.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

A lack of niche OS compatibility isn't much of a downside. Working on 99.9% of all active OS's is excellent coverage for a skftware suite.

Besides, freebsd has podman support, which is something like 95% cross compatible with docker. You basically do have docker support on freebsd, just harder.

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 6 hours ago

How is POSIX a niche? 🤨

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

Just POSIX and no other compatibility? Pretty niche, man.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 15 points 15 hours ago

To deploy a docker container to a Windows host you first need to install a Linux virtual machine (via WSL which is using Hyper-V under the hood).

It's basically the same process for FreeBSD (minus the optimizations), right?

Containers still need to match the host OS/architecture they are just sandboxed and layer in their own dependencies separate from the host.

But yeah you can't run them directly. Same for Windows except I guess there are actual windows docker containers that don't require WSL but if people actually use those it'd be news to me.