by Alexander Sharp | May 19, 2023
Managing jails in FreeBSD is easy, which is why I find them so appealing. So far everything I’ve written about jail management here has involved Bastille. For my home projects I like Bastille because its small and easy to use. For this webserver I use iocage,...
by Alexander Sharp | Dec 24, 2022
In this guide I show how to install virtual machines using Bhyve on FreeBSD. Byhve is the virtualization technology built into FreeBSD. It allows you to run virtual machines, much like KVM on Linux, to turn your FreeBSD machine into a hypervisor. Easy virtualization...
by Alexander Sharp | May 25, 2022
Raspberry Pi + FreeBSD Series This series of guides about creating a home server with Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD is written by a novice for novices. If you’re pretty experienced with FreeBSD and are just looking for a specific answer to a question, unfortunately...
by Alexander Sharp | May 25, 2022
Continuing my series on creating a Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD for a small home server, I’ve decided to take the plunge and utilize jails managed by Bastille. Initially, I wasn’t going to go this route because the Pi isn’t going to do all that much,...
by Alexander Sharp | Apr 9, 2022
Verbose (article contains many explanations and tangential information) Succinct In this tutorial I explain how to make a home NAS using a Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, and a couple of 2.5″ SSDs. As the type of nerd who writes essays and publishes them on the internet,...
