[OpenIndiana-discuss] Docker

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Austin Kim wrote:
>
> I’m trying to decide between running OpenIndiana and running FreeBSD as the OS whereon to build a WWW and application server; I prefer Illumos’s UNIX System V Release 4 provenance via OpenSolaris to FreeBSD’s 4.4BSD-Lite2 origins via 386BSD (I considered Linux but am really turned off by systemd), but I would also like to be able to run Docker containers.
>
> Can anyone point me to some documentation for running Docker on 
> Illumos/OpenIndiana?  A quick DuckDuckGo search turned up nothing 
> (or maybe I just didn’t know where to look).  ’preciate it

Some Illumos-based systems provide a Linux emulation environment (LX 
Zone) which allows to execute a Linux installation footprint similar 
to using LXC or Docker (emulated at normal performance using the 
Illumos kernel), but you would not be able to run "Docker" itself 
except for under Linux running in a VM running under Illumos.

Docker itself is not available for Illumos.

See https://illumos.org/docs/about/features/ for information on LX 
Zones and the two available VMs.  It does not seem that OpenIndiana 
provides LX Zone support.

Bob
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