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Is there a Docker equivalent for FreeBSD? Jails are only part of the equation. I can orchestrate networking/volumes all while accessing a breadth of remote images through Docker/docker-compose

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I suspect there is but I dont know about it (I use SmartOS / Triton). There is a small list of jail management tools [1]. If it doesnt exist it should be really easy to make since FreeBSD jails (usually) sit on ZFS you can easily use "ZFS send" to create a image of the ZFS dataset. All that one would need to add is some (minor) tooling.

On the more "heavy side" I know that for example Project Fifo has experimental FreeBSD support [2] in case you want to host multiple FreeBSD machines with jails on them.

[1] https://mwl.io/archives/2291 [2] https://docs.project-fifo.net/docs/freebsd

I can guarantee none of these tools come even remotely close to the features of Dockerfiles, docker-compsoe.yml, docker-machine, etc.

Maybe combining jails with something like Ansible for building images and automating configuration would be close to good enough? Though more boilerplate? I wonder

https://github.com/swills/docker-machine-driver-bhyve

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