FreeBSD Mastery: Jails

Michael W. Lucas
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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



Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tilted Windmill Press
Published: 03/25/2019
ISBN: 9781642350241
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d