Crate

Jul 20, 2023

Containerizer for FreeBSD (alpha-software, expect bugs)

crate is a FreeBSD containerizer utilizing FreeBSD jails.

crate can create the application container based on the description provided by the user, and then runs this container any number of times as a monolithic process, with all dependencies included in the container.

Containers can be useful in these scenarios

  • You can keep any version of your application, and it will always run later the same way, regardless of what packages will be installed on your system.
  • You can run a web browser from the crate container, and every time it will run in the clean environment not allowing any tracking.
  • You can run closed source applications, they will be isolated from the rest of your system, and there will be no chance for them seeing your disks.

crate is in its alpha stage. Things might not work as expected!



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