FreeBSD Mastery: Jails (IT Mastery, Band 15)

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