What’s one bastille sub-command you use daily — and one you’ve never touched?
We’re curious about usage patterns.
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Use `bastille zfs` to get/set ZFS properties on jails.
Easily tune compression, quotas, and more from the Bastille CLI.
When's the last time you ran 'pkg clean' on your host or your jails? Quick way to free up disk space.
bastille pkg ALL clean
> pkg clean is used to cleanup the local cache of packages downloaded from remote repositories. It removes packages that have been superseded by newer versions, and any packages that are no longer provided.
Run a security audit across all jails with one command:
bastille pkg ALL audit -F
Keep your containers secure 
This question is for anyone that manages their own servers and monitors the health of services.
What is your preferred method of receiving alerts?
If you could teach a new FreeBSD user one lesson, what would it be?
Let’s build a tips thread for beginners.
Need another jail like that one?
see: bastille clone help
This lets you duplicate containers in seconds. Fast, efficient, exact.
Did you see the news?
New version of Bastille now available! So many new improvements we think you're going to really enjoy!
We know you're curious, so here are some of the highlights we've included in the BastilleBSD distro:
1) Bastille and Rocinante come pre-installed!
2) pkg-base by default and all repositories set to latest.
3) vim-tiny, git-tiny, htop, cpu-microcode, openntpd, smartd, zsh/fish/bash and doas pre-installed.
4) `bastille setup` run automatically on firstboot, configuring networking, firewall and storage.
5) Host version auto-bootstrapped and updated.
Happy Bastille Day!
In keeping with tradition, we have a new release ready for you. Check out the Bastille 1.0.1.20250714 release notes at:
You're invited to join us in the Bastille Discord channel to celebrate Bastille Day with us.
Meet other Bastille users from around the globe and talk with the core developers about features, fixes and upgrades.
We'd love if you'd drop in and say hello.
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Brewing up the final touches of another Bastille Day surprise. Can't wait to share this with you all!
We'll continue posting updates and announcements here all day.
Today is a big day! Bastille Day!
Bastille 1.0 series is now available!
Seven years of development and community contribution have resulted in our best release yet. We think you're going to appreciate the improvements and fixes in this release.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this release. Bastille wouldn't be what it is without you.
To continue our Bastille Day release extravaganza we're also announcing Rocinante 1.0 series is now available!
This release brings most of the Rocinante commands up to par with Bastille functionality and now includes a `bastilletesting` directory which has been designed to validate code changes in both projects.
Bastille and Rocinante can now be combined to build simple CI/CD pipelines to validate deployments!
Required action after update:
Restart all jails to trigger automatic VNET/bridge epair conversion.
Bastille will auto-convert jail.conf and rc.conf files when jails are stopped.
Manual intervention required: If you previously used the network sub-command to add interfaces, manually edit jail.conf and rc.conf files to update epair names (increment numbers for additional interfaces).
Auto-conversion handles most cases, please report bugs if issues occur during the transition.
**Notice: Potentially breaking changes in 1.0 series**
Network: Bastille now handles all epairs dynamically, allowing both -V and -B VNET jails to coexist. Previous versions only supported one type per system. New naming scheme for network interfaces is e0a_jailname (host side) and e0b_jailname (jail side).
Additional interfaces: e1a_jailname, e1b_jailname, etc (incrementing numbers).
Long jail names are truncated with xx placeholder due to interface name limitations
FYI: changes since 0.14.20250420
The `rcorder` has been deprecated, and new `boot` and `priority` options have been added to the jails. A boot file will be created with default values of `boot=on` and `priority=99` on jail creation. To change these values, use `bastille config TARGET set boot on|off` or `bastille config TARGET set priority 10` (lower priority boots first).
Did you know Bastille has now been around for more than seven years?!
Time flies when you're having fun!
Join us today in celebrating our newest release, version 1.0.1.20250714
Happy Bastille Day!
We're celebrating by publishing the Bastille 1.0 series (now in ports and pkg latest)
Happy upgrading and we hope you enjoy the improvements!
Watch this space today for upgrade notes and some additional surprises. 
Curious to know the rough distribution of BastilleBSD and FreeBSD users around the globe. If you don't mind sharing...
Which region do you call home? 