Posted on November 23, 2022
| 4 minutes
| 728 words
| Stefano Marinelli
This time I decided to install Mastodon on a FreeBSD jail, managed by BastilleBSD. I’ll describe a simple, one jail installation, with the related rc files.
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Posted on November 1, 2022
| 1 minutes
| 212 words
| Stefano Marinelli
bhyve on FreeBSD is great and Alpine Linux can be a great VM for docker or lxc/lxd container deployment, especially if using ZFS for rootfs.
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Posted on July 18, 2022
| 2 minutes
| 275 words
| Stefano Marinelli
FreeBSD and Caddy play very well together for static websites/reverse proxies but we often need to serve dynamic websites. Adding PHP is quite easy.
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Posted on May 30, 2022
| 6 minutes
| 1247 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Backup is not a tool. Backup is not a software you can buy. Backup is a strategy you need to study and implement to be able to solve your specific problems.
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Posted on February 5, 2022
| 7 minutes
| 1281 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Many Linux users are asking how we’re migrating to FreeBSD, how jails can replace lxc or (in part) Docker, and how we’re monitoring and performing backups/restores.
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Posted on January 14, 2022
| 3 minutes
| 512 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Sometimes you want (or need) to assign a public OVH failover IP address to a FreeBSD jail but there’s not much documentation on how to do it inside a jail.
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Posted on November 3, 2021
| 5 minutes
| 933 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Alpine Linux and lxd are perfect together, especially if combined with a good file system. Let’s see how to install them on a btrfs file system.
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Posted on August 31, 2020
| 2 minutes
| 378 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Docker has been a fundamental part of my setup for more than three years now. Day after day I tried to move as many services as possible to Docker and this was a very good move.
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