New 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀? (Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?) on the blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-containers/

Seems that most important part of Minecraft server article was first sentence about FreeBSD Jails security.

After lots of questions on Hacker News/Lobsters I decided to add 'UPDATE 1' about it.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/minecraft-server-freebsd-jails-container/#jails-versus-podman

New 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 [Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/minecraft-server-freebsd-jails-container/

From the photographs and the hashtags it must be obvious what I'm doing. Creating a virtual machine with which I will go into simulation mode to ride beautiful machines of absolute maximum Torque and Power

Question:

#mysql and #ZFS snapshots... Do I need to stop the MySQL jail or service before I take the ZFS snapshot? Or do I need to lock all tables? Or will it just take a proper snapshot of MySQL at that moment in time without issues?

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 [UPDATE 1] to 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗷𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲(𝟴) 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁/𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 [New jmore(8) FreeBSD Jails List/Manage Tool] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/new-jless-freebsd-jails-list-manage-tool/

New video out

Using Templates with #bastilleBSD on #FreeBSD (#Jails)

Enjoy

On #youtube
https://youtu.be/t1nhPU43Bng

On #Odysee
https://odysee.com/@YetanotherSysAdmin:0/Using-Templates-in-Bastille-on-FreeBSD:1

New video out

Using Templates with #bastilleBSD on #FreeBSD (#Jails)

Enjoy

On #youtube
https://youtu.be/t1nhPU43Bng

On #Odysee
https://odysee.com/@YetanotherSysAdmin:0/Using-Templates-in-Bastille-on-FreeBSD:1

#Docker alike container management on #FreeBSD? Let's have a look at #Kleene - which works very similar to Docker and makes the shift for Linux users even easier to #Jails without having deeper knowledge but by benefiting of all the features on Jails.

#klee #kleened #bsd #runbsd #linux #container #howto #devops #community #jails #freebsdjail #container #containerization #jailmanager #manager #jls

https://gyptazy.com/howto-kleene-as-a-container-management-platform-for-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #jails Poll:

How should I structure my Web PHP app in jail(s)?

Components: 1. Nginx, 2. PHP-fpm, 3. Redis, 4. Solr, 5. MySQL

Tried setting up a Solr Prometheus exporter service in /usr/local/etc/rc.d in a jail but it would just hang which meant starting that jail would just hang the system.

So I detached the jail ZFS zpool disk from the EC2 system so I could start the host to actually SSH into it and had to disable Bastille in /etc/rc.d, reattach the jail ZFS pool and disable the flawed script...

Not sure why I can't view the instance console of a FreeBSD EC2 instance. Am I missing a kernel module?

Back to the drawing board.

BastilleBSD can now create jails with static MAC addresses, and finally got rid of that pfctl call when NAT wasn't use

https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/0.12.20250111

My main webserver is running FreeBSD and I've been running my services (nginx, postgresql, exim, etc) in individual jails. Each one with a ZFS dataset for it's data.

So far, I've been using traditional jails, but now, I did successfully implement VNET jails, to give each Jail it's own ip address and make them communicate via a private network, that I've been securing with pf firewall. Very smooth experience

Christmas project for this year: Updating my server and jails to FreeBSD 14.2

FreeBSD 14.2 Cloud Infra @ ClonOS

It's a great day for a new release of ClonOS, the preeminent private cloud architecture toolkit for FreeBSD, offered by the developers of CBSD.

This version contains the following tech stack:

**ClonOS 24xx highlights**

- FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE
- PHP 8.4
- Switched to base-in-packages distribution
- New simplified installer
- Added 'ClonOS console' -- text-based CLI menu
- ClI/ClonOS console shell accessibility via WEB browser
- Support for Linux jails (rocky, debian, ubuntu)
- Kubernetes clusters

ClonOS is a turnkey Open Source platform based on FreeBSD and the CBSD framework. ClonOS offers a complete web UI for easily controlling, deploying and managing FreeBSD jails containers and Bhyve/Xen/QEMU hypervisor virtual environments.

ClonOS is currently the only platform available which allow both Xen and Bhyve hypervisor to coexist on the same host. Being a FreeBSD base platform, ClonOS ability to create and manage jails allows you to run FreeBSD applications without losing performance.

Check out the site for downloads and additional information:

- https://clonos.convectix.com/index.html
- https://clonos.convectix.com/download.html

I just published a followup to my last post about #bhyve VMs. This one is about me learning #FreeBSD #jails using #bastille and #selfhosting #weechat and #nginx in my #homelab. Let me know what you think!

https://abnml.com/blog/2024/12/04/running-weechat-in-a-freebsd-jail/