FreeBSD The Power to Serve

Containers and FreeBSD: Pot, Potluck and Potman

Contact: Luca Pizzamiglio (Pot) <pizzamig@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Bretton Vine (Potluck) <bv@honeyguide.eu>
Contact: Michael Gmelin (Potman) <grembo@FreeBSD.org>

Pot is a jail management tool that also supports orchestration through Nomad.

During this quarter, Pot 0.16.0 was released containing a number of features and fixes, including a new setting to prevent direct traffic between VNET pots and new attributes to configure pot stop behavior. There were also maintenance/stability releases to potnet (0.5.0) and a nomad-pot-driver (0.10.0).

Potluck aims to be to FreeBSD and Pot what Dockerhub is to Linux and Docker: a repository of Pot flavours and complete container images for usage with Pot and in many cases Nomad.

One of the new container images that have been added during the last quarter is Zincsearch, a more light-weight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go.

The Mastodon container is meanwhile powering the public mastodon.africa instance.

Also, we got some more publicity: BSD Now Episode 536 is titled "Pot-flavored Jails".

As always, feedback and patches are welcome.

Sponsors: Nikulipe UAB, Honeyguide Group


Last modified on: February 15, 2024 by Lorenzo Salvadore