Comment by lmm
3 months ago
> Arguably it goes back to chroot-stuff, and LXC predates Docker by some five years or so. I don't remember the details well but Solaris had similar containers, maybe even before LXC arrived.
Solaris and FreeBSD had significantly better implementations of the containerisation/isolation piece from a technical standpoint. But they never caught on. I really think the Dockerfile made the difference.
> Solaris and FreeBSD had significantly better implementations of the containerisation/isolation piece from a technical standpoint.
FreeBSD jails (first) and Solaris zones (later) were 'heavier weight' than containers: folks perhaps did not want to manage a "light VM" to deploy applications.