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Bastille 0.9.20211225 “Happy Holidays”

Happy Holidays! Bastille development continues with five months of new features and fixes! These release notes outline the changes you can expect to find in our latest version.

More Linux Improvements

This release adds additional experimental support for Debian 11 “Bullseye”, Debian 10 “Buster”, Debian 9 “Stretch”, Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic” and Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal”. Linux support is maturing thanks to feedback and contributions from the community!

What’s more, the CMD and PKG sub-commands support these Linux releases!

These changes open up initial support for using templates with Linux containers. Currently limited to CMD and PKG only.

Note: this release updates the bastille.conf. If you are upgrading please merge config changes.

Debian releases

Bullseye

bastille bootstrap bullseye
bastille create -L debian11 bullseye 10.17.89.11

Buster

bastille bootstrap buster
bastille create -L debian10 buster 10.17.89.10

Stretch

bastille bootstrap stretch
bastille create -L debian9 stretch 10.17.89.9

Ubuntu releases

Bionic

bastille bootstrap bionic
bastille create -L ubuntu18 bionic 10.17.89.18

Focal

bastille bootstrap focal
bastille create -L ubuntu20 focal 10.17.89.20

Improvements have also been made to simplify future Linux additions to the codebase.

Linux support for PKG

The pkg sub-command now supports Ubuntu & Debian containers by using apt transparently inside the container.

bastille pkg debian11 upgrade

Linux support for CMD

The cmd sub-command now supports Ubuntu & Debian containers.

bastille cmd debian11 ps -ef

New PKG option

The pkg sub-command now optionally supports using the hosts package manager instead of the container pkg binary.

bastille pkg -H alcatraz upgrade
bastille pkg --host alcatraz install htop

Exit Codes

CMD now returns exit code for individual jails and ALL jails.

If CMD is executed against ALL jails and any return an error the command will return exit code 1. All jails need to return 0 for the command to return 0.

Timezone settings

Bastille will now use the timezone configured on the host unless otherwise defined in the bastille.conf.

VNET Improvements

This release adds more options to VNET containers including descriptions and usage of existing bridge interfaces.

VNET Bridge

The create command now supports a -B option to attach a VNET container to an existing bridge.

bastille create -B alcatraz 13.0-RELEASE 192.168.1.5/24 bridge0

VNET descriptions

VNET interfaces will now be given an interface description including the container name. This will help map containers with interfaces in VNET configurations.

Template Improvements

recursive verify

When using bastille verify against a template that contains an INCLUDE statement Bastille will now recursively verify every template in the chain.

bastille update supports templates

You can now easily update templates using bastille update .... The syntax supports multiple options as described here:

Update all templates (using git)

bastille update TEMPLATES

Update the bastillebsd-templates/nginx template only

bastille update bastillebsd-templates/nginx

What’s Changed

• Fix creation of Linux jails by @cynix in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/422
• Fix minor typo in README by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/425
• Refactor: Creates Linux jails bootstrap functions by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/426
• Adds: Debian 9 (Stretch) as a release for linux jails by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/427
• Added logic for setting ipv6_defaultrouter for vnet template by @FloGatt in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/429
• Adds: Debian 10 (Buster) as a release for linux jails by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/430
• bastille cmd exit code not respected #272 by @yerrysherry in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/303
• improve NO_COLOR detection by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/431
• fix overloaded variable in mount command by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/432
• basic PKG support for ubuntu/debian containers by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/433
• Sets require NETWORKING in the rc script by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/436
• Zfs support to docs by @Bennykillua in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/453
• fix image path for zfs support screenshot by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/454
• add zfs-support doc to toctree by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/455
• minor fix for docs path by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/456
• fixing issue with docs (conflict with docutils v0.18) by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/457
• Added code and -B option to “create” to allow creating/managing jails attached to external bridge by @draga79 in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/465
• Use the devfs_ruleset number from imported iocage jails by @robarnold in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/461
• add recursive verify for includes in Bastillefile by @w4andy in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/452
• Fix for issue #403 by @zilti in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/442
• Fixed to update_fstab() in clone.sh by @frikilax in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/446
• update vagrant to FreeBSD-13.0 and install git by @w4andy in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/451
• [REF] bootsrap: Removes code duplication to prevent future errors by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/466
• Add a description to the host vnet interface by @robarnold in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/459
• TEMPLATE.SH::ADDED:: ability to apply templates using a custom directory path by @frikilax in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/445
• Use host’s time zone by default for jails by @yaazkal in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/467
• use full path when calling jls binary by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/469
• hotfix for the VNET interface description patch by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/471
• easy way to update templates by @w4andy in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/450
• Extra validation for Linux jails, small changes by @JRGTH in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/420
• add Debian 11 ‘bullseye’ to Linux supported list by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/473
• jls path fix + support using host package manager by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/474
• change new PKG option from -P to -H by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/475
• accidentally the jail name in run test by @cedwards in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/476

New Contributors

• @FloGatt made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/429
• @yerrysherry made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/303
• @Bennykillua made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/453
• @draga79 made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/465
• @robarnold made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/461
• @w4andy made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/452
• @frikilax made their first contribution in https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/pull/446

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/compare/0.9.20210714...0.9.20211225