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Kleene Documentation

Kleene is a container management tool for FreeBSD, similar to Docker but using FreeBSD jails, ZFS and pf.

  • Get started


    Containerize an application, persist its data, connect containers together — a step-by-step introduction to Kleene.

    Start the tutorial

  • Reference


    Every klee command, the Kleened REST API, and the Dockerfile syntax Kleene implements.

    Read the reference

  • Operate Kleene


    Networking, storage, jail parameters, resource limits and ZFS — running containers in production.

    Running containers

  • Contribute


    Style guide, authoring conventions and how to build the docs locally.

    Contribute to the docs