TOtosh·Feb 23, 2026Submission
1 points · Open discussionBastilleBSD
bastille
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BastilleBSD / bastille
bastille
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
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What it is
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
I love jails, bastille as a jail manager/builder is really great. https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
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Observed mentions: 2019-05-15 08:14:14 UTC to 2026-02-23 10:56:12 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesIf you don't want to use the base system (which docker is NOT the base system on Linux) then Bastille offers a pretty much identical workflow to docker, but built on FreeBSD jails: https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
> I don’t know why i keep hearing about jails being better
Jails have a significantly better track record in terms of security.
I can delegate a ZFS dataset to a jail to let the jail manage it.
Do Linux containers have an equivalent to VNET jails yet? With VNET jails I can give the jail its own whole networking stack, so they can run their own firewall and dhcp their own address and everything.
In Back to FreeBSD: Part 1Bastille 1.0 – Bastille Day 2025
2 points · Open discussionBastilleBSD has commits from earlier today and is a Docker-esque solution for jails: https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
In Kleene as a Container Management Platform for FreeBSDI use BastilleBSD, it has a simple template system which I really like and decent docs.
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
Bastille also has a sister project 'rocinante' which allows you to use Bastille templates on
the host. I converted my ansible scripts to bastille templates and it works a lot better for *ME*. I found I spend more time updating ansible scripts whenever I needed to use them, it costed more time then just using a setup.sh script, which rocianate basically is.
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/rocinante
Another new kid on the block for jails is AppJail, it has some interesting features. I have not played with it enough to say how stable it is.
https://github.com/DtxdF/AppJail
In Jails on FreeBSDThere are a lot of jail tools these days, it would be nice if we posted more modern FreeBSD guides.
Myself I use BastilleBSD heavily for personal and small business use.
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
In Jails on FreeBSDI love jails, bastille as a jail manager/builder is really great.
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
In The FreeBSD/Firecracker PlatformBastille: FreeBSD jail manager written in go
2 points · Open discussion