Just two weeks ago, I spun up a FreeBSD server on OVH and migrated a service to it from Railway. Playing with jails, pf, ZFS, and some other goodies has been a lot of fun. Since I (massively) over-provisioned, I also spun up Gitea, Woodpecker CI (and agent; blazing fast CICD is so nice), and a personal blog. Been a great learning project.

[] It's not my first time with FreeBSD. I first ran it in ~2004. But it's been over 10 years since I last ran it, and I'd forgotten a decent bit. The last time I ran it, I just set up a couple of jails for NAS and Plex and proceeded to not touch it until I moved.

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dorian-graph 4 days ago | parent [-]

How's the UX for jails these days? I remember trying to use it barebones and also some of the wrappers.

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tiltowait 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Bastille is very nice to use. You can spin up a jail with a simple `doas bastille create myjail 10.0.0.1` or whatever. Bastillefiles stand in as Dockerfile analogs, if you want to go that route (you have to create the jail, then apply the template, rather than doing it in a single command).

One nice thing is cloning a jail (which can be done live if using ZFS) to spin up a dev/test environment on a different IP. Or setting up a jail to try some different configurations and not having to worry about resetting things on your main host.

I've set up a storage jail with no network access, then a couple of service jails that dip into it at various mount points/permissions. It's total overkill for what I'm doing, but the point is to learn, tinker, and have fun.

	▲	dorian-graph 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Appreciated, thank you!

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dddddaviddddd 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I've started using Bastille recently, it allows using Dockerfile-like 'templates' to provision jails. I like this because I can destroy and recreate the jails easily, particularly to move to a new release (without having to do in-place upgrades synced to the host version, which is how I used to do it).