Consul
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.
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
4 mins
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.