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> There are lots of different ways to configure jails, which unfortunately means there are lots of places to get stuck.

This is something that annoys me too, do you have any recommandations? Should I learn to setup jails from scratch? Or settle on a single tool like ezjails?

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As someone who has just gone through this, I would say from scratch.

ezjails and some of the others really do seem like the definition of leaky abstractions if you expect a nice layer on top. They're more like handy reusable shell functions.

If you learn from scratch (which again, isn't far removed from those helper packages), you'll have a better understanding for when you get stuck.

The base system utilities have gotten better with the years. I recommend using them.

https://www.skyforge.at/posts/an-introduction-to-jails-and-j...

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