ZeroFS: S3-backed ZPOOL Via NBD Service on FreeBSD (Proof of Concept, Part 2) # Introduction # ZeroFS turns S3 storage into a high-performance, always-encrypted, globally accessible, and scalable file system—no FUSE drivers required. There’s also an official ZeroFS github repo.| Honeyguide
ZeroFS: S3-backed NFS Service on FreeBSD (Proof of Concept, Part 1) # Introduction # Please note that we found out while operating the PoC that Garage ignores the conditions in conditional writes. As this feature is required by ZeroFS, this means that ZeroFS is actually not reliably working with Garage at the moment.| Honeyguide
Build and Run Your Own FreeBSD-native Containers with Buildah, Containerfiles and Podman # This is an updated version of an earlier blog post. There is now an official FreeBSD container image and the approach of a base image with clones is no longer supported| Honeyguide
Micropod-sampler: A minimal viable FreeBSD-based container virtual data center # The Micropod-sampler ansible playbook is a minimal viable OCI container-based virtual data center.| Honeyguide
Build and run your own FreeBSD-native containers with Buildah, Containerfiles and Podman # This is a deprecated version of the blog post. There is now an official FreeBSD container image and the approach of a base image with clones is no longer supported| Honeyguide
Introduction # Have you heard of Mastodon? Mastodon is a self-hosted social networking service, where independently run servers federate content to each other using ActivityPub.| Honeyguide
Introduction # Lets walk through the steps of installing FreeBSD 14.0 on a dedicated server from Xneelo. Xneelo is a South African hosting provider with dedicated servers and a rescue system, similar to Hetzner.| Honeyguide
Introduction # Lets say you want to test a fresh batch of pot images on a local cluster of virtualbox hosts, because FreeBSD 13.2 is out and you just upgraded.| Honeyguide
Introduction # Back in 2020, a three-part blog series was published on building your own Virtual Datacenter (vDC).| Honeyguide
Introduction # This is a post about running your own Matrix-Synapse instance using Pot jails. You will see that once the initial (and also not very complicated) configuration is complete, it takes only 6 commands to e.g. run a complete openldap server if you are using the Potluck container images.| Honeyguide
Introduction # Let’s build a two-server minio storage system, complete with alerting and monitoring. Then to illustrate application, we’ll include a nextcloud pot image using minio S3 as file storage.| Honeyguide
This post is a continuation of the small PoC that describes how to manually run a Potluck image directly with runj and describes how Potluck images can be run via containerd.| Honeyguide
A quite new project called runj has been created which offers an interface between FreeBSD Jails and containerd. runj is already in the Ports tree or it can be found at https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj.| Honeyguide
Nginx Example Service (via Traefik) # Overview # As written earlier, you can place the nginx job via the nomad dashboard.| Honeyguide
Step 3 - Nomad, Consul & Traefik Servers # Note 1: If you do not want to use the prebuilt images as shown below for whatever reason, you can easily recreate the jails from the flavour configuration files yourself by following the instructions on the page of each of the images at Potluck.| Honeyguide
Introduction # Yes, FreeBSD Lacks Kubernetes - But It Does Not Really Matter… # One of the main complaints about FreeBSD is the lack of Docker and Kubernetes, which in turn is seen as inability to use FreeBSD as a platform for bleeding edge concepts like micro services and scale-out container orchestration.| Honeyguide
For FreeBSD, there are not many 64bit assembler (amd64) examples available on the web and virtually none that are a little bit more complex. To change this, I ported a DOS Tetris game to 64bit FreeBSD, using SVGALIB to max VGA out with 320x200 and 256 colours - it is 2020 after all!| Honeyguide
Introduction # minio is a well-known S3 compatible object storage platform that supports high availability and scalability features and is very easy to configure.| Honeyguide
Introduction # minio is a well-known S3 compatible object storage platform that supports high availability features. For FreeBSD a port is available that has already been described in 2018 on the vermaden blog.| Honeyguide
Overview # pot is a great and relatively new jail management tool. It offers DevOps style provisioning and can even be used to provide Docker-like, scalable cloud services together with nomad and consul (more about this in Orchestrating jails with nomad and pot).| Honeyguide
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The FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer linux_base-c7 comes from CentOS 7. When trying to run a Linux application, you might run into the following error: $ ./linuxexecutable loolwsd: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by loolwsd) loolwsd: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by loolwsd) loolwsd: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by loolwsd) There is an easy way to find out the API versions available...| Honeyguide
Overview # We are an impact enterprise and digital advisory that has been operating in Europe and Southern Africa since 2004.| Honeyguide
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Introduction # To complement our Jitsi installation, we add a grafana dashboard to it so we can control usage, system load, traffic spikes etc.| Honeyguide
Introduction # Due to the situation with COVID-19 that also lead to people being confined to their homes in South Africa as well, we decided to provide a (freely usable of course) Jitsi Meet instance to the community being hosted in South Africa on our FreeBSD environment.| Honeyguide
The experience of the Honeyguide® team regarding design, implementation and management of digital workplaces in mid and large cap companies goes back even before the founding of Honeyguide GmbH in 2004. This covers program scoping and management, design and development of digital processes, applications and user experience improvements across global companies (e.g. via Persona surveys) but also ITIL and DevOps based end-to-end IT operations streamlining and agilisation. While we have provide...| Honeyguide
