TrueNAS CORE 13.3 Plans

[Stux]

@adrianwi

Jails are just brilliant though, and I can’t see me moving to Scale unless there’s something that works in a similar way.

That something is “Sandboxes” aka “Linux Jails”

Linux Jails (sandboxes / containers) with Jailmaker

TrueNAS SCALE can create persistent Linux ‘jails’ with systemd-nspawn. These containers are very similar to Jails from TrueNAS CORE or LXC, LXD and Incus containers on Linux. Jailmaker helps with the following: Setting up the jail so it won’t be lost when you update SCALE Choosing a distro (Debian 12 strongly recommended, but Ubuntu, Arch Linux or Rocky Linux seem good choices too) Optional: configuring the jail so you can run Docker inside it Optional: GPU passthrough (including nvidia GPU wi…

And here is the official IX documentation

Sandboxes (Jail-like Containers)

And here is the latest commentary from @kris

Add nodes to truenas scale kubernetes cluster and another doubt

Jailmaker is a nice tool. We figure its only time before we do a proper UI-based “sandboxes/jails” system in SCALE and when we do that we’d expect it to carry forward any current jailmaker managed environments fairly easily.