Bastille
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
1warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Apr 7, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use bastille, and it seems to "just work"”
“I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails”
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“Bastille offers a pretty much identical workflow to docker, but built on FreeBSD jails”
“Bastille has “templates”: https://bastillebsd.org/templates/”
“I highly reccomend installing Bastille FreeBSD instead”
Caveats and dissent
“They're still considered experimental so I wouldn't run it for production”
Often compared with
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All comments 8
“I use bastille, and it seems to "just work"”
“I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails”
“Bastille offers a pretty much identical workflow to docker, but built on FreeBSD jails”
I would guess they run well. I use the Linuxulator for a few different tasks.
“They're still considered experimental so I wouldn't run it for production”
“Bastille has “templates”: https://bastillebsd.org/templates/”
“I highly reccomend installing Bastille FreeBSD instead”
“I like this because I can destroy and recreate the jails easily”