Orchestrating jails with nomad and pot

Luca Pizzamiglio <pizzamig@FreeBSD.org>

A container-based cloud computing platform for FreeBSD

Docker and Kubernetes are changing the way to deploy services and applications in the Linux world. What about FreeBSD? 2 years ago we presented pot, another jail abstraction framework. In time, the pot framework has developed to provide features containers-alike. The plugin interface provided by nomad (a container orchestrator), allowed us to develop a driver for pot, enabling nomad to orchestrate pot jails. In this talk, we’d like to present this FreeBSD-based ambitious alternative to Docker-Kubernetes