Another bit of progress (didn't have much time to work on this today): The "gitjail" is now being provisioned. It has SSH configured and enabled (and I tested it manually: If I create a user within the jail I can ssh into the jail from the host). It also has some packages installed, group ...

Finally some good progress last night: The "template config file poblem" seems to be limited to rc.conf (which is probably just created by iocage for each new jail), everything else works as expected. I was able to create a saltmaster jail from the template and modify it so that the master...

Hi ward! Sorry for not answering; I actually meant to reply to your artwork post, but I got distracted and then the post was not shown as unread anymore and I forgot... You've uploaded some cool wallpapers (I particularly like the "fishBowlNew" one as well as the "oilKeysBlue"). ...

Took a "little" detour... *sigh* So far well over 90% of the time I'm not fighting with SaltStack but in fact with FreeBSD and iocage. I found out that there were two newer iocage versions out after the one that I used and decided to give the newest one a try. A port for that was only rele...

Didn't have too much time to work on this but the next version is ready nevertheless; in addition to the previous states, this will install the package "py27-salt" in the running basejail, stop it again and then convert it to a template. I've also added more conditions to some of the previ...

Wonder if this tread should be on the public side of the forum ... look like an interesting discussion. That's true, maybe somebody else cares as well. For the posts that don't contain code, I wouldn't mind to make them public. Haven't tried moderation utils in this forum, though, but I'd give it a...

You must be looking for a career as book's author. :) How in the world were you able to guess that? :shock: No, seriously, I used to write fantasy stuff but I haven't found the time to do so for about 2 years now. However I like to explain things and to argue about them now and then. ;) Actually I ...

Honestly I'm not a lover of "wrapper tools" in general, I guess I would prefer to use the plain jails commands instead of ezjail, iocage and similar, however I'm not an expert on the matter. Understand that. They offer convenience by hiding complexity but you're of course trading control ...

Used the first day of my vacation to tinker a bit more with SaltStack and jails. The progress does not look too encouraging but that's because I ran into a problem right when I picked up where I left last time: Jail creation works well but when starting a jail, things go sideways. The jail actually ...

This is just to document the work that I have done with SaltStack so far. I want to use it on the VM server to build up some support infrastructure first and eventually manage every server using Salt. First task is being able to use Salt to deal with jails. There's a Salt formula for it out there bu...