Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 05:57:02 +0000 From: Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom base jails for ZFS replication Message-ID: <20161221055702.GA78314@cavicorn.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20161221055923.GA24599@gmail.com> References: <20161221055923.GA24599@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:59:23AM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: > Is there a jail management tool that lets you install packages in a base > jail, and share that with multiple thin jails? I know ezjail does this, as far as it goes. > > I want to deploy many thin jails across multiple servers, and be able to > update both the base system and ports in a base jail and then ZFS > replicate that to the base jails on the production servers. I'd like > the thin jails to only contain my customer-specific application data, so > I don't have to manually update all of them. I'm not sure what it would take to use a base jail across separate servers. It is not something I have tried to do, or even thought of a reason I'd need it. > > I don't see any way to do this with ezjail or iocage. Does anyone else > have a deployment like this? It sounds distinctly out of the ordinary, so I would not be surprised if there is little or no tool support for it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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