This was a great outline of how to work with OCI containers on FreeBSD 14.2. I mentioned this the other day as an interesting new feature and this write-up covers how it all works. Podman has to run as root which seems risky, but FreeBSD takes security seriously and I’m sure that will change over time.

I’ve not used Podman and want to give this a shot on BSD. I’ve used Docker quite a bit, but Podman seems to have some architectural differences that make it interesting. All I need to do is get my server back online…

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