FreeBSD-Update and ~200 Jails

Initially, when I heard about freebsd-rustdate I was very skeptical. I have a fear of “Written in <new hip language>”. I thought, however, I’ll wait, and when the time comes, I will try and see how it works.

For the last couple of days I’ve been updating hosts and jails for my customers and my company, and one of the best resources I found was the FreeBSD Update page on FreeBSD’s Wiki, specially the “freebsd-update Reverse Proxy Cache” section. It has saved me hours when updating the hosts. For some hosts we even did an NFS mount of /var/db/freebsd-update/files directory.

But when it came to upgrading the jails, I realized that this is going to take a very long time. Each host has at least 15 jails, up to 50. There’s a host which has 100+ jails.

As you have guessed, I went for the last option. Uncle Dave reminded me of freebsd-rustdate again, and I decided to give it a try. Even before starting, my good friend Daniel wrote in our group chat:

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