Jails on FreeBSD

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  • bastille

    Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.

  • https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille

    Bastille also has a sister project 'rocinante' which allows you to use Bastille templates on

  • rocinante

    Rosinante is lightweight configuration management software.

  • https://github.com/BastilleBSD/rocinante

    Another new kid on the block for jails is AppJail, it has some interesting features. I have not played with it enough to say how stable it is.

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  • AppJail

    Simple and easy-to-use tool for creating portable jails.

  • Moby

    The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

  • Docker has to run as root, or use otherwise insecure methods ("rootless" is a sham, it requires suid binaries and CVE ridden unprivileged user namespaces).

    I agree with ports, working[0][1][2] on it.

    [0] https://github.com/moby/moby/discussions/45524

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