[OpenIndiana-discuss] Docker

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi,

We do not have docker. On that note I also do not know what from docker 
you actually would like to have. Docker offers a linux native way to 
define images and share them among the community. These images 
themselves are not docker. Docker thus has been transformed into a set 
of Specifications under the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Docker has 
infact become outdated and does not implement all OCI Standards cleanly 
anymore. The main problem is that docker was never intended for 
multi-os/multi arch images which are supported by OCI but are a clutch 
to use in docker. If you ever used docker on a Raspberry PI You know 
what I mean :) Any port of docker will have the same restrictions as 
docker on Arm or FreeBSD does. Meaning you will have to have natively 
compatible images.

The code that Volker posted is my attempt to implement OCI standard 
specifications on top of out Native tooling. Please be aware that it is 
alpha Quality and does only work when releases are made. Master is not 
Guaranteed to build. Contributions are welcome. Also please note that I 
am currently re planning how I want this to work and port this to Rust 
rather than Go as this has been become the future language choice in 
illumos for non gate and also illumos-gate tooling.

If you would like to use something more Production ready, we have zadm 
which while it does not implement the OCI specs offers the same 
workflow. We also have SmartOS from Joyent which is a Distribution 
specifically made for this kind of image based workflow.


Hope this helps
-Till

On 03.04.21 06:36, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>> 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
> 
> You might want to look at this:
> 
>    https://git.wegmueller.it/OpenCloud/opencloud
> 
> 
> Cheers -- Volker
>