Jail management

2016-02-21 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
I've been using FreeBSD jails (with ezjail) for many years and they work very well. However I'm now reaching a critical mass (30+ jails) where I want to be able to manage them in bulk more easily. In this environment, each jail runs just a single application, installed from a package built usin

Re: Jail management

2016-02-21 Thread Steven Hartland
Checkout qjail from your description I think it will do what you want. On 22/02/2016 01:13, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: I've been using FreeBSD jails (with ezjail) for many years and they work very well. However I'm now reaching a critical mass (30+ jails) where I want to be able to manage them

Re: Jail management

2016-02-21 Thread erdgeist
> On 22 Feb 2016, at 14:13, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > Thoughts? What seems like a more robust long term approach to jail management? Take a look at bsdploy https://github.com/ployground/bsdploy or just come and ask ezjails author. ;) Also unionfs does not work very stable. erdgeist s

Re: Jail management

2016-02-21 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 22/02/2016 12:57pm, erdgeist wrote: > >> On 22 Feb 2016, at 14:13, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> >> Thoughts? What seems like a more robust long term approach to jail >> management? > > Take a look at bsdploy https://github.com/ployground/bsdploy or just come and > ask ezjails author. ;) H

Re: Jail management

2016-02-21 Thread markham breitbach
One of the solutions I have found to the version issue is to build my own package repo. I build the packages the way I want, and then upload them to my own package repo (which is just another jail running thttpd). I also keep a jail running with the ports tree frozen at the versions I am using fo