Articles with tag container
A practical guide to boosting Mastodon performance by self-hosting your media with SeaweedFS. Configure a fast, S3-compatible storage backend to efficiently handle your instance's files and take full control of your data.
A new article on running WordPress on FreeBSD with BastilleBSD has been published on the BSD Cafe Journal, plus a small update on future technical content.
Monitor your services efficiently by installing Uptime-Kuma in a FreeBSD Jail.
As a systems administrator, I am deeply concerned about the consequences of the current widespread adoption of technologies like Docker. Having been...
I recently faced the task of moving an Alpine Linux-based VPS onto a FreeBSD host. I decided to use a jail.
How to Create a FreeBSD Jail Hosting XRDP and XFCE for Remote Desktop Access Introduction This tutorial guides you through the process of setting up...
A detailed walkthrough of migrating from FreeBSD VMs to a hierarchical jail setup using BastilleBSD, optimizing resource usage and simplifying management without sacrificing isolation.
Explore the seamless migration of an old Linux server (1690 days uptime!) to a new FreeBSD machine, detailing the use of mfsBSD, BastilleBSD, Borg Backup, and bhyve for improved efficiency and manageability
A retrospective on a NetBSD server set up in 2010 under tight deadlines, running almost untouched for over a decade on consumer-grade hardware-proof of the OS's remarkable stability.
In the world of FreeBSD, jails are a renowned feature that allows for system-level virtualization. As I was setting up the jails for BSDCafe, I...
Part 3 of our migration series details the complex process of moving servers from Proxmox to FreeBSD, including overcoming challenges with old hardware, problematic LXC containers, and fine-tuning virtual machines for optimal performance on bhyve.
A comprehensive guide to installing Mastodon on a FreeBSD jail using BastilleBSD
Some details on how we're performing backups and disaster recovery of the migrated servers.
After my post on why we’re migrating (many of) our servers to FreeBSD , I’ve received a lot of feedback. Many questions, many comments. Many e-mails...
More about this in the article I wrote to accompany my talk at EuroBSDCon 2024 . Please note: This article was (unexpectedly) quite popular and many...
I've already written about some of my backup strategies in Proxmox. Proxmox Backup Server is an option, but it's not always the best option,...
OVH (and Soyoustart, of course) network seem to be configured in a "strange" way and setting failover IPs isn’t always as straightforward as you...
Last update: 01 November 2022 - Alpine 3.16 has lxd packages in contrib Lxc is a great technology. I’ve been using it since 2012 and I’ve always...
Sometimes an lxc container can be a better alternative than a KVM virtual machine. It has a smaller overhead, easier and more efficient resource...
Sometimes containers log a lot of things, and the logfile can become huge. This happens because containers aren't supposed to run for a long time but...