Technological advantages over Linux

[George Hartzell]

Steve O'Hara-Smith writes:
 > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:38:18 +0700
 > Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
 >
 > > But jails lack a repository of ready-made containers with applications.
 >
 > 	True - but there's never been anything to prevent setting one up,
 > iocage has export, import, rename and snapshot which should provide the
 > necessary core.
 >

They're not quite the same as Docker images, but the iocage jail
manager supports "plugins",
https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html.  They're canned
instructions for building an image for a particular application, not
ready-made images, but they work similarly.

FreeNAS/ixSystem supports a set of about 30 and there's a repository
for community plugins:
https://github.com/ix-plugin-hub/iocage-plugin-index

There's a nice, recent tutorial that covers creating plugins over on
the FreeNAS blog site:

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/plugins-development/

g.