Larvitz 
@Larvitz@burningboard.net
IT Consultant from Germany, Linux enthusiast, BSD fanboy and firmly convinced that Ancient Domains of Mystery is the greatest video game of all time (and always will be). You'll find me here talking about Open Source, self-hosting, advanced networking (proud operator of AS201379), smart home shenanigans, and anything you can torment with a terminal. Cat pictures also welcome. Left, antifascist, vegan. The trifecta your uncle warned you about.
burningboard.net
Larvitz
@Larvitz@burningboard.net
IT Consultant from Germany, Linux enthusiast, BSD fanboy and firmly convinced that Ancient Domains of Mystery is the greatest video game of all time (and always will be). You'll find me here talking about Open Source, self-hosting, advanced networking (proud operator of AS201379), smart home shenanigans, and anything you can torment with a terminal. Cat pictures also welcome. Left, antifascist, vegan. The trifecta your uncle warned you about.
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@Larvitz@burningboard.net
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Apr 12, 2026
A FreeBSD jail should be small. Installing Python into every jail just so your config management can run is the tail wagging the dog.
I wrote two tiny wrappers to plug cdist directly into jexec on the host.
The result? Full configuration management that asks for nothing but POSIX sh inside the jail itself. Zero daemons. Zero agents.
https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/
My cdist-jexec connection plugin scripts: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/jexec-cdist
#FreeBSD #Jails #Unix #SysAdmin #cdist #DevOps
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