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by thehigherlife 1113 days ago
Since this is gaining some traction. I'm curious if you are using jails and a jail manager, what are you're using now? I'm still using IOCAGE (Version 1.2) on freeBSD 13, but it seems like its not the best way to do it anymore? Documentation is all over the place on what is the best way to manage jails now.
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Still on ezjail myself. Set my NAS/home server up several years ago with a blog post tutorial centered around ezjail and have just carried that forward. Eventually will need to do a fresh reinstall though and would be interested to know what's considered best practice these days.
I use BastilleBSD, it has a simple template system which I really like and decent docs. https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille

Bastille also has a sister project 'rocinante' which allows you to use Bastille templates on the host. I converted my ansible scripts to bastille templates and it works a lot better for *ME*. I found I spend more time updating ansible scripts whenever I needed to use them, it costed more time then just using a setup.sh script, which rocianate basically is. 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. https://github.com/DtxdF/AppJail

iocage as well... I've been trying to sucker someone into writing a new jail manager in flua, since we have that in base. It hasn't worked yet.
I'm in the same boat.

Started with ezjail, switched to iocage, now thinking about bastille or roll-my-own.