Tech Blog

ZeroFS: S3-backed NFS service on FreeBSD (proof of concept, part 1)

6 mins

ZeroFS S3 NFS Scalable Storage

ZeroFS: S3-backed NFS service on FreeBSD (proof of concept, part 1) # 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.

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

Micropod-sampler: A minimal viable FreeBSD-based container virtual data center

3 mins

Micropod Ansible Buildah Podman Freebsd Containers

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.

Build and run your own FreeBSD-native containers with Buildah, Containerfiles and Podman

3 mins

Buildah Podman Freebsd Containers

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

Run Your Own Mastodon Server on FreeBSD in a Potluck Container

6 mins

Mastodon Postgresql Redis Social Media Fediverse Ansible Potluck Freebsd Jails

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.

FreeBSD 14.0 Installation on Xneelo Dedicated Server

6 mins

Freebsd Dedicated Server System Administration Xneelo

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.

Optimal VirtualBox on FreeBSD 13.2

11 mins

Freebsd Virtualbox Ports Ansible Testing

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.

A Beginner's Guide to Building a Virtual Datacenter on FreeBSD with Ansible, Pot and More

10 mins

Wireguard Mesh Ansible Pot Consul VDC Potluck Freebsd Jails Traefik Nomad Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager Loki Openldap Mariadb Nginx Haproxy Syslog-Ng

Introduction # Back in 2020, a three-part blog series was published on building your own Virtual Datacenter (vDC).

How To Easily Set Up OpenLDAP and Matrix Synapse with Potluck Images

7 mins

Matrix Matrix-Synapse Pot Consul Openldap Potluck Freebsd Jails

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.

How To Set Up a Minio Cluster From Potluck, Complete With Nextcloud, Monitoring And Alerting

16 mins

Nextcloud Pot Jails Monitoring Minio Prometheus Syslog-Ng Alertmanager Consul Nomad Traefik Grafana Beast-of-Argh Potluck Freebsd

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.