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"The Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include support for producing virtual machine disk images for various cloud hosting providers. [r27745
by themartorana 10y ago
"The Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include support for producing virtual machine disk images for various cloud hosting providers. [r277458] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)"
We're running FreeBSD in AWS rather successfully. 11 seems to add a few things that are aimed directly at first-class support for building and running VMs and AMIs. Good to know continued support is being focused in this direction.
- ereli1 10y agowhat's the advantage for running FreeBSD over linux for your application?
- themartorana 10y agoMostly ease of use. It's a rock. I have a special place in my heart for BSD, but that aside, when the SystemD battles started and I was on Ubuntu, I was interested in using ZFS for a few things. So the choices were ZFS on Linux, or go back to BSD. After about an hour of playing around, I ended up back on FreeBSD. So, it's partly personal, as all things are. But it's mostly how easy it is to use, especially for someone that wouldn't describe themselves as a server admin of any special level of skill. There are a few core tenets of design in BSD/FreeBSD that are both beautiful and very easy to understand. So I can ignore the OS a lot of the time and just get to work on the app side.
- atmosx 10y agoI use openRC with Gentoo and ZFS in my a file server. The simplicity is close to FreeBSD's rc system.