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runj		boot2docker
	Project
24	Mentions	3
585	Stars	8,403
-	Growth	-
5.9	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 4 years ago
Go	Language	Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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runj

Posts with mentions or reviews of runj. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.

HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023

a couple projects underway for containers, still wip but promising.
https://hackmd.io/7BIT_khIRQyPAe4EdiigHg
https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj
FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023

> it's a shame that docker is built around linux
There is some interesting work happening to get an OCI-compatible runtime working
https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj
What is the current status of Docker and how far is it from getting ported?
2 projects | /r/freebsd | 28 Jun 2023

So somebody else created runj (runj is an experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails.) https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj
FreeBSD Jails Containers
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023

Shout out to https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj which aims to provide OCI compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails. We are working on a Jails based sandbox implementation for running OCaml builds on FreeBSD, https://github.com/ocurrent/obuilder. If runj gets more support then it would be a good alternative to the various iocage/ezjail/etc solutions or the raw Jails implementation we have right now.
Just brings a smile
3 projects | /r/freebsd | 26 Nov 2022

If you want to get a little more bleeding edge, follow along with samuelkarp/runj project which attempts to get docker images running via runj/containerd
Docker on OpenBSD?
2 projects | /r/openbsd | 23 Oct 2022

containerd only runs on FreeBSD with the help of a shim to use [runj](https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj) as a backend for running the actual jails containers.
Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest – Running in Production with Scissors
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2022

> VM's disk is a zfs filesystem on the host, it makes snapshotting (edit- ok maybe not, see below) and managing it super easy!
I think you mean that it's a ZFS volume? Although it should be possible to export a filesystem to a guest over NFS (or I guess 9p), but I haven't run into a lot of discussion or gotten around to testing it myself...
> It would be really cool if there were tools that brought them in line with docker, in terms of easy deployment and provisioning of new jails/vms. If I didn't have so many damn project ideas already...
My dream would be to see https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj polished and docker+containerd+runj made to work as the way to run the docker frontend with jails as the backend.
Friday question: hostings & clouds dropping FreeBSD more and more
1 project | /r/freebsd | 13 Sep 2022

https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj is a proof of concept.
"We don't need docker we have jails" doesn't scale to a team of developers
1 project | /r/BSD | 19 Aug 2022

Pull up your sleeves and start committing
Hetzner has silently dropped support for FreeBSD
3 projects | /r/freebsd | 5 Aug 2022

Experimental FreeBSD on FreeBSD OCI containers with runj

boot2docker

Posts with mentions or reviews of boot2docker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-06.

Some considerations on Linuxulator / Docker / bhyve under FreeBSD...
3 projects | /r/freebsd | 6 Feb 2022
Older versions of Docker over Docker Machine
1 project | dev.to | 20 Dec 2021

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-boot2docker-url https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/releases/download/v18.09.8/boot2docker.iso ics2
Docker Desktop - should I pay?
3 projects | dev.to | 13 Sep 2021

My own involvement started 2014 when a group of people outside docker created a micro Linux distribution boot2docker to provide a better integration of docker on MacOS.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing runj and boot2docker you can also consider the following projects:

uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

boot2docker-cli - boot2docker management utility

bastille - Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.

moby - Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

s6-overlay - s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init)

vm-bhyve - Shell based, minimal dependency bhyve manager

hyperkit - A toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application

runc - CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

exodus - Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.

libc6-shim - Cheap glibc knockoff

obuilder - Experimental "docker build" alternative using btrfs/zfs snapshots

pyroscope - Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code [Moved to: https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope]