The primary purpose of a server is of course to provide all kinds of services permanently and to look after important data. FreeBSD is ideally suited for this. Even without a convenient website such as TrueNAS, the administration of such a server is no problem, very lean and in many situations even advantageous. Purists who absolutely understand their system and want to retain absolute control are in the right place here.

The aim of this series is a kind of ‘replacement’ for a TrueNAS CORE or TrueNAS SCALE, which is purely console-based. Without the dependence on a provider who could discontinue entire product guidelines from today to tomorrow ... This series of articles is a collection of new and existing articles and tips that have been put in a sensible order to achieve our goal: A FreeBSD server that provides jails, virtual machines, docker and file shares. Supplemented with backup and monitoring .

I have chosen a Thomas Krenn MI1004-CHXE Microserver exactly for this Setup.

The first part has been completed so far, which makes the basic settings for the system and explains the creation of the necessary ZFS pools and sends system messages by e-mail.