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Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?

I believe its not the first time – that when I post some article and it contains FreeBSD Jails and Containers in one sentence – it sparks vigorous discussions about it. They were these …

Only IBM within its AIX system named their OS Level Virtualization solution as WPAR – a Workload Partition – not a Container – maybe because of potential lawsuits … I personally do not accept that Linux originated/oriented people can ‘steal’ the Container terminology that was used for decades in UNIX systems as alias for OS Level Virtualization technology. They depend on an isolation technology (of which there are many options, including Kata Containers on Linux that create very lightweight Firecracker VMs that share a filesystem with the host OS), but that is an implementation detail.

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