Crazy Macer Life

so cbsd was the porridge that was too hot. it’s a neat script but it had a lot of things that i don’t really care about like xen and virtualbox. so this attempt is going to be using bastille which is another script for managing jails. the github seems active so there’s that.

they have some decent documentation here.

before we begin i went ahead and made a new boot environment. the good thing about beadm is when freebsd boots if you hit 8 during the menu period then you can choose which boot environment you jump into. it’s pretty much a snapshot of where you were for the entire system. be careful with this. i tend to reboot every now and then to make sure i’m in an active boot environment.

bastille has a pkg so the install is pretty straightforward.

# pkg install bastille

done. now you can use it. now there are some things you need to do when you start up. this is a little different for each system so it would be kind of difficult to give an example. the quick and easy is to:

# bastille setup

it gives you some instructions on what you need to change to set things up properly. in my case i had to run a couple commands it spat out to set up the platters as the pool for it to use. there are also network things you need to configure that i’ll put in the next post. i ironed out the things i needed though so i have this going on:

# zfs list
NAME                                        USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
platters                                    649M  7.14T    96K  /mnt/platters
platters/bastille                           648M  7.14T   136K  /usr/local/bastille
platters/bastille/backups                    96K  7.14T    96K  /usr/local/bastille/backups
platters/bastille/cache                     197M  7.14T    96K  /usr/local/bastille/cache
platters/bastille/cache/14.2-RELEASE        197M  7.14T   197M  /usr/local/bastille/cache/14.2-RELEASE
platters/bastille/jails                      96K  7.14T    96K  /usr/local/bastille/jails
platters/bastille/logs                       96K  7.14T    96K  /var/log/bastille
platters/bastille/releases                  450M  7.14T    96K  /usr/local/bastille/releases
platters/bastille/releases/14.2-RELEASE     450M  7.14T   450M  /usr/local/bastille/releases/14.2-RELEASE
platters/bastille/templates                  96K  7.14T    96K  /usr/local/bastille/templates
platters/jails                               96K  7.14T    96K  /mnt/platters/jails

bastille set up those zfs datasets.

might want to read the next post on network configuration before doing all this though. i found out the hard way.