Awesome. With #FreeBSD if I needed Solr 8 (which is end of life), I just built the package for arm64 and stuck it in the hosts #bastille directory where it could install the package in seconds.

In contrast, Ansible on Linux is set to download the official Solr tarball and run the installation script. It took 16 minutes just to download from Apache's excruciatingly slow distribution web servers. (the tarball is less than 200 MB!)

FreeBSD and it's ports/packages are miles ahead here.

(And before you ask: Ubuntu doesn't have Apache Solr in its official packages)

Awesome. With #FreeBSD if I needed Solr 8 (which is end of life), I just built the package for arm64 and stuck it in the hosts #bastille directory where it could install the package in seconds.

In contrast, Ansible on Linux is set to download the official Solr tarball and run the installation script. It took 16 minutes just to download from Apache's excruciatingly slow distribution web servers. (the tarball is less than 200 MB!)

FreeBSD and it's ports/packages are miles ahead here.

(And before you ask: Ubuntu doesn't have Apache Solr in its official packages)

Started building my entire infrastructure monitoring solution from scratch!

- Powered by FreeBSD!
- Using Jails and seperation of duty:
- One Jail running Grafana and Prometheus
- One Jail running Netbird Wireguard to connect my infra securely
- One Jail running Nginx and Certbot

All ZFS based for backup / snapshots and rollback options.

Routed and NAT'ed via a seperate dedicated pf jail.

All working fine, I get first metrics and can start slowly improve from here.

Todo:
- Alerts via AlertManager
- Log-Ingestion via promtail
- Log analysis with Grafana Loki
- Adding remaining servers via WireGuard Mesh VPN
- Adding another Jail for Uptime-Kuma

#monitoring #freebsd #grafana #loki #linux #devops #jails #bastille #zfs

Started building my entire infrastructure monitoring solution from scratch!

- Powered by FreeBSD!
- Using Jails and seperation of duty:
- One Jail running Grafana and Prometheus
- One Jail running Netbird Wireguard to connect my infra securely
- One Jail running Nginx and Certbot

All ZFS based for backup / snapshots and rollback options.

Routed and NAT'ed via a seperate dedicated pf jail.

All working fine, I get first metrics and can start slowly improve from here.

Todo:
- Alerts via AlertManager
- Log-Ingestion via promtail
- Log analysis with Grafana Loki
- Adding remaining servers via WireGuard Mesh VPN
- Adding another Jail for Uptime-Kuma

#monitoring #freebsd #grafana #loki #linux #devops #jails #bastille #zfs

Need a test environment?
Spin up a jail.

Need to roll back?
Snapshot.

Need to deploy?
Automate.

That’s Bastille.

#Bastille#FreeBSD#DevTools

Need a test environment?
Spin up a jail.

Need to roll back?
Snapshot.

Need to deploy?
Automate.

That’s Bastille.

#Bastille#FreeBSD#DevTools

Serving a simple website from a Jail with Bastille

A great article by @jhx for the BSD Cafe Journal!

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/08/13/serving-a-simple-website-from-a-jail-with-bastille/

#FreeBSD#RunBSD#BastilleBSD#Bastille#IT#SysAdmin#BSDCafeJournal

Bastille turns "works on my machine" into "works in my jail" securely and repeatably.

It’s container automation, the FreeBSD way.

#Bastille#FreeBSD#DevOps

Bastille turns "works on my machine" into "works in my jail" securely and repeatably.

It’s container automation, the FreeBSD way.

#Bastille#FreeBSD#DevOps

Running untrusted apps?

Jail them.

Testing configs?

Snapshot, revert, repeat.

Bastille makes isolation part of your workflow.

#Bastille#FreeBSD#DevOps

Bastille was born in frustration:

Too many broken tools.
Too much bloat.
FreeBSD deserved better.

So I built it.

Now it powers projects I never imagined.

#ThrowbackThursday#FreeBSD#Bastille#OpenSource

Bastille was born in frustration:

Too many broken tools.
Too much bloat.
FreeBSD deserved better.

So I built it.

Now it powers projects I never imagined.

#ThrowbackThursday#FreeBSD#Bastille#OpenSource

Running untrusted apps?

Jail them.

Testing configs?

Snapshot, revert, repeat.

Bastille makes isolation part of your workflow.

#Bastille#FreeBSD#DevOps

Bastille, like so many other projects, was built from a place of frustration:

✅ I wanted automation.
✅ I wanted control.
✅ I wanted to leverage in FreeBSD.

I'm glad so many of you tend to agree.

#BastilleBSD#FreeBSD#Bastille

Bastille, like so many other projects, was built from a place of frustration:

✅ I wanted automation.
✅ I wanted control.
✅ I wanted to leverage in FreeBSD.

I'm glad so many of you tend to agree.

#BastilleBSD#FreeBSD#Bastille

You survived another week of patching, provisioning, and panicking.
Breathe deep, you've earned some quiet logs.

#SysAdminLife#Bastille#FreeBSD

You survived another week of patching, provisioning, and panicking.
Breathe deep, you've earned some quiet logs.

#SysAdminLife#Bastille#FreeBSD

Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #french #Revolution #bastille #haiti #prison #torture