preferred jail management tool

[Peter Toth]

I need to update the docs for iocage, it runs on 9,10 and 11. In the latest
version (1.4.6) the tag name can be used to identify the jail when
executing any of the sub-commands in addition to UUIDs - basically tags and
UUIDs are interchangeable (skarekrow's great idea). I would love to add/see
docker support in the future - if time will allow and 64bit linuxulator
catches up.

Jails and VIMAGE should be a top priority for FreeBSD, there is a lot of
emerging technologies and hype around containerization lately and
unfortunately Linux crowd gets all the attention even if their
implementations are very much behind what FreeBSD can offer today.

Cheers
P

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Michael W. Lucas <
mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> 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
>
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