freebsd-jailed

This role just creates a jail. Nothing more. Is used by other roles to create jailed services.

Requirements

This role is intent to be used with a fresh FreeBSD installation. There is a Vagrant Box (https://app.vagrantup.com/JoergFiedler) for your convenience with providers for VirtualBox and EC2 you may use.

Role Variables

jail_name

The name for the jail. Local part of the hostname. Default: '{{ jail_net_ip }}'.

jail_domain

Domain part of the hostname. Default: 'darkcity'.

jail_backup_old_files

Set to yes if you want to create backup file for file modifications done by Ansible. Default: no.

jail_freebsd_release

The FreeBSD distribution to use for this jail, e.g. 12.1-RELEASE. If not set, it will hosts release version. Default: {{ ansible_distribution_version }}-RELEASE

jail_net_if

The interface to which the jail's ip address is added. Default: 'lo0'.

jail_net_ip

The jail's ip address. No default value.

jail_net_resolver

The DNS server that will be used as a resolver. If set to none resolver config from jail host apply to the jails. Default: none.

Set this as specified in man 8 iocage, e.g. nameserver 1.1.1.1. The setting will be used to create the jail's /etc/resolv.conf.

If the value contains the ip of the jail, unbound resolver will be installed.

jail_use_syslogd_server

jail_syslogd_server

The syslogd server to which all syslog messages are going to be forwarded. If not set messages stay with local syslog. No default value.

This feature is only active if the variable jail_use_syslogd_server is set.

jail_build_server_enabled

Use own build server repository to install customized build ports. Default: no

If enable the FreeBSD repo /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf will be disabled. So, please make sure all packages you want to install are present in jail_build_server_url.

jail_build_server_url

The build server repo http url. Default: ''

jail_build_server_pubkey

The public key to use to verify signatures. Default: 'poudriere.pub'

Dependencies

• JoergFiedler.freebsd-jail-host

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  become: true

  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: 'JoergFiedler.freebsd-jail-host'
    - include_role:
        name: 'JoergFiedler.freebsd-jailed'
      vars:
        jail_net_ip: '10.1.0.10'
        jail_name: 'jailed'

License

BSD

Author Information

If you like it or do have ideas to improve this project, please open an issue on Github. Thanks.