2026-08-04 20:24 UTC
A bug in my Ansible connection plugin needed a real FreeBSD jail to reproduce. So I put three of them on an idle 512 MB free-tier VPS.
With pkgbase, the base userland is just 33 MB. And persistent jails use zero idle processes. Here’s the build, the regression test, and the two sharp edges that cost me twenty minutes:
https://blog.hofstede.it/three-test-jails-on-a-512-mb-free-tier-vps/
#FreeBSD #Ansible #pkgbase #SysAdmin #Devops
Replies (2)
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@WillFlux@mastodon.social 2026-08-04 21:00
@Larvitz@burningboard.net Nice! I’m excited to try pkgbase on production servers when they move to FreeBSD 15.
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@logorrr@mastodon.social 2026-08-05 12:36
A tiny reproducible environment pays for itself the first time an integration bug refuses to show up on the main distro. The 33 MB base userland is the detail that makes this practical, not just clever.