Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup

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by todsacerdoti • 8 months ago

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zimpenfish• 8 months ago

I was going to say "the FediMeteo people probably have some good ideas there because it's what they do" except it's already right there in the acknowledgements (Stefano Marinelli => FediMeteo).

A good read - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-...

jmclnx• 8 months ago

Very nice, to me FreeBSD Jails is still the best of the breed.

wink• 8 months ago

I was very confused because this does not seem related to WoltLab Burning Board and it's a Fedi server and not a forum.

rokkamokka• 8 months ago

If I set this up i would just run every service on the same machine sans jails. Are there any practical benefits to doing it like this? The extra complexity buys some slight measure of security in case one service is exploited, I guess?

t_tsonev• 8 months ago

Isolation is certainly one big reason to use jails. You also get independent management of dependencies, and can optionally share the base system.

They're somewhat similar to how you'd use Docker containers on Linux, but have different approach to security and networking.

Nikkau• 8 months ago

If you use *BSD, you have to use jails, it's just law

Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup

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