FreeBSD Mastery: Jails

by Michael W. Lucas

CONFINE YOUR SOFTWARE Jails are FreeBSD’s most legendary known to be powerful, tricky to master, and cloaked in decades of dubious lore. Deploying jails calls upon every sysadmin skill you have, and more—but unleashing lightweight virtualization is so worth it. FreeBSD Jails cuts through the clutter to expose the inner mechanisms of jails and unleash their power in your service. You •Understand how jails achieve lightweight virtualization •Understand the base system’s jail tools and the iocage toolkit •Optimally configure jail hardware •Manage jails from the host and from within the jail •Optimize disk space usage to support hundreds or thousands of jails •Comfortably work within the limits of jails •Implement fine-grained control of jail features •Build virtual networks •Deploy hierarchical jails •Constrain jail resource usage •And more! Strip away the mystery. Read FreeBSD Jails today!“ This is the sequel to Git Commit Murder, right ?” /phk, creator of the jail system

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 22, 2019

About the author

Michael W. Lucas is the author of fifty-odd critically-acclaimed nonfiction books. As Michael Warren Lucas, he's written several novels.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's an okay introduction but unfortunately is only an introduction at best. I tried the examples in the chapter on networking and none of them worked. The chapter is written more as a home-made introduction than an authoritative work on jails.

[Derik · Rating 4 out of 5]

This will be a book to keep close as a reference. I would suggest read it once from cover to cover so you at least know the possibilities and then keep it as a reference. You'l find lots of good sysadmin advice in the lines of all of Michael W. Lucas books.

[Guillermo García Rojas C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to start your journey on Jails. Includes iocage.