To add VNET support, I'm looking for some examples of VNET jail configs, in the standard jail.conf format.

I'm particularly interested in netgraph & other less common configs, and whether the ansible-jails role should also handle deploying & configuring the epair interfaces or not.

If you have some, please gist me a URL via DM, or email dch@ the obvious email address, also works.

#ansible #FreeBSD #jails

v2.4.0 of my ansible-jails module is now available:

https://git.sr.ht/~dch/ansible-jails

In particular, it supports base system packaged jail templates, and will use them by default on FreeBSD 15+ systems, and improved corner cases for 14.x and 16.0-CURRENT, as well.

Thanks to @beni I fixed a number of IPv6 related bugs, and no-IP jails bugs too.

It has a significant improvement in test coverage thanks to Ansible Molecule, and https://sourcehut.org/ CI, so we know that both post-jail templates & ZFS usage works as expected!

v3.0.0 might come out this week, with VNET jail support. I don't expect this to be a significant change, it's just that I personally never tested it, and it seems like a good milestone.

#FreeBSD #PortsLife #ansible #jails

This morning after reading the #FreeBSD Handbook chapter on Jails I had a massive realization. Look, I've dabbled in jails over the years but it was really just scratching the surface. But after reading about VNET Jails....this is some deep, mind-expanding awesomeness. One can run entire workloads completely segregated by a complex virtual network with VLAN tagging, independent network stacks, routing, and switching internally on one OS on a single kernel. Not that I have a use for it (yet) but this is truly exponentially mind blowing.

It's clear FreeBSD is *the* infrastructure operating system.

#BSD #RunBSD #tech #homelab #vnet #Jails #FreeBSDJails #infrastructure #networking