CONFINE YOUR SOFTWARE
Jails are FreeBSD's most legendary feature: 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 Mastery: Jails cuts through the clutter to expose the inner mechanisms of jails and unleash their power in your service. You will:
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 Mastery: Jails
today!
"This is the sequel to Git Commit Murder, right ?"
/phk, creator of the jail system