Dev tools missing from Jenkins

I can’t believe there’s nothing mentioned about this on the interwebs???
But Jenkins cannot build c/c++ projects with make/cmake/ninja as there’s no way of installing build-essential in the app’s shell as apt has been disabled. And there’s no plugin that provides this. A vm cannot access the host’s network or any of it’s apps running, so no access to gitea?

Prove me wrong, but TrueNAS scale is no longer a viable option as a developer’s home lab, leading me to think the way forward is scrapping TrueNAS and instead configure a Linux box or something similar?

Yes it can, if you set up a bridge. By default vms use macvlans and are isolated from the host.

Ok, I’ll give that a go!