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Impact Enterprise & Digital Avisory, operating since 2004 in Europe and Southern Africa.

We are a team of engineers and researchers working together to solve difficult problems for ourselves and our clients.

We provide independent Digitalisation Advisory Services and Enterprise Architecture concepts that are off the beaten track.

Instead of force-feeding you with the usual large-cap tech company products, you might end up with a tailor-made solution incorporating open-source software which is exactly what your business needs.

And we know what we are talking about: Our business runs on open-source software, too.

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ZeroFS: S3-backed ZPOOL via NBD Service on FreeBSD (Proof of Concept, Part 2)
7 mins
FreeBSD ZeroFS S3 Minio NBD Scalable Storage
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.
ZeroFS: S3-backed NFS Service on FreeBSD (Proof of Concept, Part 1)
6 mins
FreeBSD ZeroFS S3 Garage NFS Scalable Storage
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.
Build and run your own FreeBSD-native containers with Buildah, Containerfiles and Podman (updated!)
3 mins
Buildah Podman Freebsd Containers
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