Jails
Run Your Own Mastodon Server on FreeBSD in a Potluck Container
6 mins
Mastodon
Postgresql
Redis
Social Media
Fediverse
Ansible
Potluck
Freebsd
Jails
Introduction # Have you heard of Mastodon?
Mastodon is a self-hosted social networking service, where independently run servers federate content to each other using ActivityPub.
A Beginner's Guide to Building a Virtual Datacenter on FreeBSD with Ansible, Pot and More
10 mins
Wireguard
Mesh
Ansible
Pot
Consul
VDC
Potluck
Freebsd
Jails
Traefik
Nomad
Prometheus
Grafana
Alertmanager
Loki
Openldap
Mariadb
Nginx
Haproxy
Syslog-Ng
Introduction # Back in 2020, a three-part blog series was published on building your own Virtual Datacenter (vDC).
How To Easily Set Up OpenLDAP and Matrix Synapse with Potluck Images
7 mins
Matrix
Matrix-Synapse
Pot
Consul
Openldap
Potluck
Freebsd
Jails
Introduction # This is a post about running your own Matrix-Synapse instance using Pot jails.
You will see that once the initial (and also not very complicated) configuration is complete, it takes only 6 commands to e.g. run a complete openldap server if you are using the Potluck container images.
How To Set Up a Minio Cluster From Potluck, Complete With Nextcloud, Monitoring And Alerting
16 mins
Nextcloud
Pot
Jails
Monitoring
Minio
Prometheus
Syslog-Ng
Alertmanager
Consul
Nomad
Traefik
Grafana
Beast-of-Argh
Potluck
Freebsd
Introduction # Let’s build a two-server minio storage system, complete with alerting and monitoring.
Then to illustrate application, we’ll include a nextcloud pot image using minio S3 as file storage.
Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With "pot" Within 5 Minutes
3 mins
Oss
Pot
Jails
Firefox
Browser
Freebsd
Overview # pot is a great and relatively new jail management tool. It offers DevOps style provisioning and can even be used to provide Docker-like, scalable cloud services together with nomad and consul (more about this in Orchestrating jails with nomad and pot).