I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

Damn, that was a long, drawn out title….

Basics:

• As of this writing, I’m running TrueNAS 12.2

• While I really like TrueNAS, TrueNAS/FreeNAS doesn't support Docker containers.

• The TrueNAS team is working on TrueNAS SCALE, which is Linux-based, and support Docker containers, but it’s still in alpha.

• Once TrueNAS …

While testing out TrueNAS SCALE, I wanted to do some Docker-ing, and following best-practices, I tried to configure non-root access to the Docker daemon.

Fail !

I had added my username to the existing docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

But I was still unable to use Docker, unless I was root:

docker ps
Got …

Steps:

Create the jail

1. Name Jail and Choose FreeBSD Release Name: calibre-web Jail Type: Default (Clone Jail) Release: 12.2-RELEASE …

Generally not a good idea from a security standpoint, but if you have a lot of CLI work to do in a FreeNAS jail, it can make life easier.

If nothing else, seeing a lot more data on the screen, and being able to copy/paste commands has it's advantages.

Steps:

1. Enable sshd:

   sysrc sshd_enable="YES"
   sshd_enable: …

I was running Transmission on a virtual machine, but that VM decided to stop working, so I decided it was time to move to something a little more isolated, and easier to rebuild if/when the time comes.

Doing some research, aka, poking around the internet using The Google, I found a decent guide, which I modified a bit, …