preferred jail management tool

[Allan Jude]

On 2015-01-23 16:00, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For those who haven't heard, I'm writing a book on jails. Some details
> are at http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2286.
> 
> I want to cover at least one jail management tool. I've done some
> research into jail tools. You can see my results at
> http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2291.
> 
> (No, I'm not trying to drag traffic to my blog. I just don't want to
> cut-and-paste it to a mailing list. ;-)
> 
> I have several choices of jail management tools to write about.  It
> seems that ezjail gets all the press. I'm wondering if this is because
> it's the first tool, or if it's the best of its kind.
> 
> I also hear a lot of whinging about ezjail. I suspect that's because
> it's the most widely deployed tool of it's type, however. The one in
> front gets the most mud slung at it.
> 
> Looking at the documentation, I'm highly intrigued by iocage. It seems
> to do everything that ezjail does and then some.
> 
> CBSD also looks like a really good choice. Based on what I know now,
> I'm inclined to cover iocage and CBSD.
> 
> I want to ask the experts, though. Which is you guys.
> 
> Any recommendations on what I should cover, or not cover? Any big
> screaming red flags in these tools that I should be aware of?
> 
> Thanks,
> ==ml
> 

I use ezjail. Rarely, I manually fiddle with the ezjail.conf files to do
things ezjail doesn't really support out of the box, like multiple
basejails.

-- 
Allan Jude

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