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Running Potluck Images with runj

3 mins

Oci Runj Potluck Containerd Freebsd Oss

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.

FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code - Part III

7 mins

Oss Minio Virtual Data Centre Infrastructure as Code Devops Microservice Orchestration Nomad Consul Traefik Pot Potluck Object Storage Freebsd

Nginx Example Service (via Traefik) # Overview # As written earlier, you can place the nginx job via the nomad dashboard.

FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code - Part II

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Oss Minio Virtual Data Centre Infrastructure as Code Devops Microservice Orchestration Nomad Consul Traefik Pot Potluck Object Storage Freebsd

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.

FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code - Part I

5 mins

Oss Minio Virtual Data Centre Infrastructure as Code Devops Microservice Orchestration Nomad Consul Traefik Pot Potluck Object Storage Freebsd

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.

FreeBSD 64bit Assembler (amd64)

17 mins

Oss X64 Amd64 Nasm Svgalib Freebsd

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!

ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD

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Oss Minio S3 Object Storage Distributed File System ZFS FFS Freebsd

Introduction # minio is a well-known S3 compatible object storage platform that supports high availability and scalability features and is very easy to configure.

minio Distributed Mode on FreeBSD

3 mins

Oss Minio S3 Object Storage Freebsd

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.

Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With "pot" Within 5 Minutes

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Oss Pot Jails Firefox Browser Freebsd

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).

FreeBSD Linux Compat GLIBCXX & GLIBC API Versions

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Oss Compat Linux_base Freebsd

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 on your system:

Grafana Dashboard for Jitsi-Meet

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Oss Jitsi Jitsi-Meet Freebsd Grafana Influxdb Telegraf

Introduction # To complement our Jitsi installation, we add a grafana dashboard to it so we can control usage, system load, traffic spikes etc.