Comparing

Most jail managers have a table showing what they and their competitors are capable of. While this is a good idea, the maintainers and developers of each jail manger do not regulary visit each others projects to update these tables.

Below is a table of what we feel is most important for a jail manager, as well as a list of popular managers and their status on each option.

Feature	BastilleBSD	Appjail	pot	ezjail	iocage
OCI Compliant	No	Yes	No	No	No
Writen In	Bourne Shell	Bourne Shell, C	Bourne Shell, Rust	Bourne Shell	Bourne Shell, Python
Dep endencies	None	C	Rust	None	Python
Jail Types	vnet, bridged vnet, thin, thick, empty, clone, Linux	clone, copy, tiny, thin, thick, empty, linux+de bootstrap	thick	basejail	clone, basejail, template, empty, thick
Jail Dependency	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Impo rt/Export	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Boot Order Priorities	Yes	Yes	No	Yes using ‘rcorder’	Yes
Linux c ontainers	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Automation	Templates	Makejail, Initscripts, Images	Flavours, Images	Flavours	Plugins
Cloning	Yes	No	No	No	No
Package Management	Yes	No	No	No	No
ZFS Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Volume Management	Basic	Yes	Basic	No	Basic
VNET Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
IPv6 Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dual Network Stack	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Netgraph	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Dynamic Firewall	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Dynamic DEVFS Ruleset Management	No	Yes	No	No	No
Resource Control	Yes	Yes	CPU and Memory	No	Legacy Only
CPU Sets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Parallel Startup	Yes	Yes (Health checkers, jails & NAT)	No	No	No
Multi-target Commands	Yes	No	No	No	No
Log Management	Basic (console logs)	Yes	No	No	No
Copy Files Between Jails	Yes	No	No	No	No
Automated Jail Migration Between Servers	Yes	No	No	No	No
Top/Htop Support	Yes	No	No	No	No

We do our best to stay true and honest as to what other jail managers do and don’t do. If you see an error, you can open a PR on the BastillBSD github repo.

We also realize that each jail manger does certain things better than other, and perhaps certain things worse. Some do this, others do that. They are all different, and each user should choose the one they want to use based on their needs.

Thanks for using BastilleBSD!