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.

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!

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

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.

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).

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:

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

Introduction # Due to the situation with COVID-19 that also lead to people being confined to their homes in South Africa as well, we decided to provide a (freely usable of course) Jitsi Meet instance to the community being hosted in South Africa on our FreeBSD environment.