iocage
A FreeBSD jail manager written in Python 3 (by iocage)
bastille
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD. (by BastilleBSD)
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| iocage | bastille | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 26 | |
| 575 | 760 | |
| - | 2.1% | |
| 4.4 | 7.7 | |
| 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
iocage
Posts with mentions or reviews of iocage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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Intel Hardware Transcoding Removed for Plex in FreeBSD
Pains me immensely to say this, but that's the direction things have been moving in for a while now. The list of services I run on FreeBSD versus Linux hosts is steadily growing smaller. iocage hasn't had any changes in a year and a half and I'm not convinced iXsystems will still be developing CORE in the five-to-ten year timeframe.
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Is iocage abandoned/no longer developed?
I am was considering writing a PR for iocage but looking through the github (https://github.com/iocage/iocage) I see there have been no commits in a year and A PR for a decent features has sat waiting for review for over a year and a half. There are also open multiple PR's for bug fixes which are failing CI, with multiple contributors saying it's the CI tests that are broken, not their code.
- FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails With ZFS and VNET
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chroot into jail?
Install https://github.com/iocage/iocage, it will make your life a lot easier
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Running the latest (unreleased) iocage
While trying to move jails between servers using iocage export and import, I found that iocage 1.2 (the currently packaged version) was reading the entire imported file into RAM. For a large jail, this is a clear problem. I found that there was a bug filed for it - and even a fix! - but a version containing the fix had not been released.
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Anyone using Traefik on OPNsense?
That looks like a solid guide. I use iocage to manage my jails. It takes care of a lot of details. Certainly more user-friendly for the first time getting jails set up.
- nzbtomedia not working. Alternatives?
- Does iocage get updated automatically when upgrading from 11.3 to 12?
bastille
Posts with mentions or reviews of bastille.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-15.
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3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System
> FreeBSD jails don't have a one-command way to install a preconfigured jail for a specific service
FreeBSD does have that tool, its BastilleBSD: https://bastillebsd.org/
For example, this is the Bastillefile for running consul: https://gitlab.com/bastillebsd-templates/consul/-/blob/maste...
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FreeBSD Jails Containers
A couple of tools which are both working on jail management & packaging
- bastille https://bastillebsd.org
- BastilleBSD
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Jails on FreeBSD
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
Bastille also has a sister project 'rocinante' which allows you to use Bastille templates on
- Bastille – System for automating deployment and management of FreeBSD containers
- Bastille – Open-source system for automating management of containers on FreeBSD
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Are there some sort of "jails images" one can pull to quickly setup popular software stacks?
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but https://bastillebsd.org is maybe a step towards it?
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pf/opn sense best LINUX alternative
Obviously, not as popular - but having used both - I much prefer jails myself. It seems that they can run on opnsense too: https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/building-a-bsd-home-router-pt-8-zfs-and-jails/ - though instead of iocage referenced here - I'd suggest using: https://bastillebsd.org/
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Using Bastille for managing FreeBSD Jails
Want to get deeper into Jails using Bastille enhancement? You can follow this latest Udemy learning platform course: FreeBSD 13.x — Mastering JAILS. You are welcome to take this adventure.
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Just brings a smile
Take a look at Bastille, it’s a nice way to package/deploy jails somewhat like docker and I’m migrating my older iocage jails to this setup
What are some alternatives?
When comparing iocage and bastille you can also consider the following projects:
freenas-iocage-nextcloud - Script to create an iocage jail on FreeNAS for the latest Nextcloud 28 release, including Caddy, MariaDB or PostgreSQL, and Let's Encrypt
ipfw-rules - Ruleset for protecting a single FreeBSD host using IPFW