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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.
Running Potluck Images with containerd
2 mins
Oci Runj Potluck Containerd Freebsd Oss
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.
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
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.