AppContainers [FreeBSD WIKI]

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===== App Containers =====

Application containers were a way of packaging and executing processes on a computer system that isolates applications from the underlying host operating system, using [[OSLevelVirtualization|Operating-system level virtualization]].

There were implemented using the [[https://github.com/appc/spec|App Container Specification and Tooling]], a project that is no longer active.

===== Jetpack =====

Jetpack was a [[https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack|FreeBSD Jail/ZFS based implementation of the Application Container Specification]]. It uses [[Jails|jails]] as isolation mechanism, and [[ZFS]] for layered storage.

It was [[https://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/574.en.html|presented at BSDCan 2015]] ([[https://speakerdeck.com/mpasternacki/jetpack-container-runtime-for-freebsd|slides]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8phbsAhJ-9w|video part 1]] / [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ74mgkzLxc|part 2]])

===== Compatibility =====

Jetpack was developed and tested on %%FreeBSD%% 10.x, and compiled with Go 1.4. Earlier %%FreeBSD%% releases were not supported.

===== See Also =====

  * [[OSLevelVirtualization|Operating-system level virtualization]]
  * [[Jails]]

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