Tim - Jail Manager

I’ve been tasked with building an in-house web hosting platform at work. Naturally I want to use FreeBSD and Jails since jails were originally developed for web hosting environments.

In short the design would be something like

{node/server}

{data store / FreeNAS or GlusterFS nodes with nfs}

{data store / FreeNAS or GlusterFS nodes with nfs}

{Mysql master} {Mysql slave}

{nginx https proxy}

{Freebsd host for jails each with web apps}

{Freebsd host for jails each with web apps}

I know it’s easy to spin up a jail and migrate it to another box, add an IP, and get it up and running on the network; and placing web apps in front of nginx is a technique we currently use; but what about the ability to disturbed the jail on creation so its replicated across all FreeBSD hosts and auto assign a different IP in each jail?

Ideally I’d like to issue a command to create the jail on one host and have the jails contents synced in next to real time on all the hosts. During my Google-fu I found this Jail management tool CBSD https://www.bsdstore.ru/en/about.html Looking over its features and goals it looks like it may be able to cluster jails but before I start down the wrong path I wanted to check with you guys to see if you had any recommendations for this project.

I am aware of Hybrid web cluster which you have already covered on the show but it looks like they have changed to a Docker management tool https://clusterhq.com/ and I’m also looking for a DIY solution with no license cost.

Thanks great work with the show I look forward to your suggestions and comments.

Tim