Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework
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Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 2: Setup
Let’s continue right were we left off last time. CBSD has been installed on a FreeBSD 13.1 test system that uses ZFS and has been upgraded to version 1.13.21 in the meantime. I will go with /cbsd as the path for the workdir.
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[Old] Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 0: Virtualizationoverview
While this is nothing new (FreeBSD introduced jails to the general public in the late 1990’s and they were conceived a while before that), mainstream has largely ignored it until the mid 2010’s when it rose to a real hype as everybody and their cat embraced Docker. Today Linux has the most mature tooling around containers with programs like Kubernetes being used basically everywhere. It has the most fragile implementation, too: Linux containers are a security nightmare. To be fair – they were never meant as a tool for security. Jails and zones on the other hand (still) don’t receive as much attention but are much more solid and an interesting option for people who dare look left and right.