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Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
Containers ran in production on FreeBSD thirteen years before Docker. So why does nobody talk about it?
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Containers ran in production on FreeBSD thirteen years before Docker. So why does nobody talk about it?
Before we explore FreeBSD jails, it is worth refreshing our understanding of how Linux solved the same problem with LXC (Linux Containers).