FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/05/31/freebsd-tips-and-tricks-native-ro-rootfs/

#FreeBSD #ITNotes

Goodness, how do I adore the look&feel of @gyptazy 's blog at https://gyptazy.ch/howtos/howto-monitor-ssl-certificates-expiration-in-grafana/

I just bought #FreeBSD from Indonesia VPS Provider with the following specs:

• 1 GB of RAM
• 1 vcpu
• 10 GB NVMe SSD

If you have similar VPS, how can you tune performance and harden the server?

https://gyptazy.ch/howtos/howto-monitor-ssl-certificates-expiration-in-grafana/

This is precisely why my own cadence has drastically slowed when working on #HardenedBSD. Things take time. Can be really hard to juggle.

Friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,

The second presentation from #BSDPub, hosted by @gyptazy, is now available on our BSD Cafe YouTube channel.

Join me as I delve into the infrastructure of BSD Cafe and share techniques on managing its backups. This talk was part of the BSD Pub Meeting held on 23/05/2024.

Watch the presentation here: https://youtu.be/GcaylXGt2j8

🔗 Learn more about setting up and backing up the BSD Cafe: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/bsdcafe-technical-details
🔗 Discover more about the BSD Pub Weekly Meetings: https://bsdpub.bsd.cafe
🔗 More about the BSD Cafe: https://bsd.cafe

Stay tuned for more insightful talks and presentations!

#OpenSource #TechCommunity #FreeBSD #BSDCafeTV #BSDPub #ServerManagement

Anyone got shell accounts to an OpenBSD server I can get an invite to? (Not privileged or anything/teensy quota is fine)

Just wanted to have a shell account I can learn on. I do have an OpenBSD machine at home, but my PineBook is realistically Linux-only. OpenBSD *will* run, but the framebuffer doesn't work (yet?), so I think it's just "hope xenodm works, otherwise debug with a serial cable" ;)

P.S. I think I was looking in the wrong place. There is a list here: https://tildeverse.org/members/

#coffeebreak
How many Italians use #BSD ?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD ?

Friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse, some of the presentations at #BSDPub, hosted by @gyptazy are noteworthy and many of you who couldn't attend might be interested in watching them.

We have therefore decided to create a channel for BSD Cafe (currently on YouTube, but I have other ideas more aligned with the OpenSource spirit of the Fediverse) where the most requested and interesting talks will be published.

The first video is the presentation of Freedive, a mobile-first web interface to run FreeBSD as a personal/public server. Developed and presented by Harshad - @harshad - it allows you to manage FreeBSD server or jail services directly from a mobile device—a dream come true for all of us who often find ourselves typing commands on the tiny keyboards of today's smartphones.

I highly recommend everyone to watch Harshad's presentation here: https://youtu.be/YhKQsPVM8sQ

In the coming days, I will also publish my presentation on the basic infrastructure of BSD Cafe and the management of its backups.

Stay tuned!

#OpenSource #TechCommunity #FreeBSD #Freedive #ServerManagement #BSDCafeTV #BSDPub

It’s been an epic yak shave of a day. A crash on macOS 11/x86-64 was reported. OK, I usually use my old MBP 2015 for testing/debugging with that platform.
Got the MBP out for the first time after returning from travel. Uh oh, bottom case felt kind of bulge-y. Unscrewing the cover confirmed my fears: the batteries had expanded.
OK, that MBP is considered obsolete by Apple and service providers, check iFixit: yup, they have a guide and sell you the replacement too.

Heh race day tomorrow and I'm nervous as always. 1.5km swim, 40km bike and a 10k run really isn't all that easy 😅✌🏻
Well everything I could do is done, nothing is left to do, so we'll either see each other tomorrow evening or in heaven 🤓🙏🏻
#SwimBikeRun #Triathlon #DeathBeforeDNF

Fiddling with #FreeBSD jails(examples) part-I.

Key message of the day. A client, a few months back, whom I convinced to try FreeBSD on one of their servers.
They have a new project to launch and just messaged me: "The Dev has been working with Docker. Help him migrate out of Docker and set everything up on FreeBSD jails for production."
Moments of fulfillment.

#FreeBSD #DevOps #ServerMigration #OpenSource

Example: Coming from .de and using a French IP is ok for you?

It’s excactly this:

In the meantime it's back to HE I'm afraid. I have also had some success with a cheap VPS with a /64 and routing it over Wireguard. But that was because my local HE server were completely overloaded.

So Harshad just wrote me that he wants to remove the tailwind does, so I’m not sure if it’s worth to put any efforts into building it for ARM64 anymore - especially when even you are already saying that it is a totally mess to deal with it. :)

CC: @harshad@sharma.io @maikel@vmst.io @dch@bsd.network

I love #FreeBSD, have used it since early 2000s and see myself relying on its Power to Serve for the next two decades.

However, I've been itching to have a mobile/web GUI to manage my several FreeBSD servers as running servers is no longer my day job.

I also want to showcase and share all the good things, with anyone curious about this OS, that make me choose it over alternatives. Especially beginners who have no prior exposure to the Unix environment and cli.

Hence: https://brew.bsd.cafe/hiway/freedive/

Something for @gyptazy xD
#NetBSD #BSD #Pine64 #ARM #SBC

A recording of this part will also be provided soon!

https://gyptazy.ch/howtos/howto-build-freedive-a-freebsd-gui-management-tool/

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSDCafe #Community #Mastodon #BSD #RUNBSD

Big companies can't go down.
Big company services will never stop.
Big companies have THE CLOUD!

#Cloud #Bing #BingIsDown #Microsoft #Down #BigTech #IT #SysAdmin #CloudComputing

I use WireGuard to tunnel everything right now

As planned last week, in tomorrow's weekly #BSDPub meetup, we'll delve into backup strategies and showcase some behind-the-scenes of the BSD Cafe setup and its backups. More details on the event's website: https://bsdpub.bsd.cafe

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #RunBSD #BackupStrategy #Backup

CC: @rena2019@social.tchncs.de

Oke, oke - I know, you just thought “oh noez, not he again” 🤣

I listen to everyone, respect everyone,
but I make my own decisions
and take the responsibility.

#tdose2024 #froscon2024 #froscon24 #tdose24

Thanks @stefano@bsd.cafe!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSDPub #Community #FOSS #OpenSource @stefano@bsd.cafe

$> ./update
$> Successfully updated. You might want to cleanup files. Old files are located in backup subfolder in /var/lib/important_app
$> *AI: Going to clean up: Delete /var/lib/important_app
$> rm -rf /var/lib/important_app

If you’re coming around, feel free to reach out to me! I’ll also share some stickers of #gyptazy and #BoxyBSD :)

#opensource #event #BSDCafe #community #foss #conference #freebsd #linux

What is happening here...?

#BoxyBSD #ARM64 #AARCH64 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #hosting #vm #virtualmachine #free #opensource @gyptazy

* Plutono: Fix roleAttributionPath
* Plutono: Fix null pointer references
* Plutono: Security - Update crewjam/saml to 0.4.14
[...]

https://gyptazy.ch/notes/plutono-7-5-30-and-vali-valitail-2-2-15-release-a-grafana-fork/

#opensource #foss

Switching domains or whole software products is still a mess on the Fediverse - unfortunately

So (but it's still guessed), it is fixed to the 5V for the fan.

CC: @DesRoin@geekdom.social

But maybe @DesRoin@geekdom.social can tell us more here.

#BoxyBSD is testing the the public #UNIX shell service where you can get your own unix user login on different systems w/o further limitations.

Closed beta currently: boxybsd.com/shell/

This could also lead into solutions for #RISCV but still not sure how useful it might be nowadays in general.

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #hosting #SelfHosting #homelab

Tonight's BSDPub meeting was really interesting, and next week we already have the first major topic: backups and their strategies.
It will be really fascinating.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

#BSDPub #BackupStrategies #TechCommunity #WeeklyMeetup

Thanks for joining and sharing all your insights! But there's one more thing - should the call keep time boxed of 60 minutes or open end? I think today we would have needed more time but I can clearly understand when the call takes too long in the evening and people start to drop. People can of course stay in the room even after the official meeting.

Would be a free public shell account service based on #FreeBSD/#OpenBSD systems interesting for you? If yes, what would you run on it?

Please provide feedback, so @gyptazy can check if it makes sense to provide such a service (this is already available in a limited beta).

What to expect:
A free user login to a FreeBSD or #OpenBSD based system where multiple users can access it at the same time. You can do everything in your own home directory, run processes, open sockets, compile stuff etc. System is managed in general for you.

What you cannot do:
Make changes to the system in general, use low ports, install or modify things system wide.

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #helloSystem #BastilleBSD #cbsd #ezjail #jails #zfs

Don't take it too serious :)

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #helloSystem #DragonflyBSD

QuickStart:
pkg install cbsd
service cbsdd start
env workdir="/usr/jails" /usr/local/cbsd/sudoexec/initenv
cbsd jconstruct-tui
cbsd jstart 1

Use the tui to get familiar and afterwards you may use it without (if needed).

Have a nice weekend #FreeBSD fans (and of course also everyone else).

Let's start weekend with #FreeBSD wallpapers

25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.

Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.

In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'

Please boost and share your experience!

#Linux #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #TechJourney #GoogleAnniversary #Debian #MacOS #BSD #WindowsJourney #Mastodon #TechLife #GeekLife #Google #Windows

Unless this is clarified and discussed with you all, we will not publish any recordings. If the outcome should still be that it should be published, I can still upload them afterwards.

But the question is more if we want to do this on a weekly base at the beginning, or a checkbox where a user must confirm to enter in general. I think, we need to improve this in general.

In the meantime it worked out, that it might be more valuable to record these calls because they shifted more into background stories, technical guides and solutions instead of a typical pub chat with ranting and regretting afterwards.

Yesterday, there was a discussion about bhyve and #ZFS where VMs might get killed by the kernel when initially starting all the VMs after a “hypervisor” reboot due to memory pressure and @meka@bsd.network and @stefano@bsd.cafe talked about approaches by running #bhyve in #jails and make use of the dependency handling.

I think this is a valuable information to share, like all the other ones.

But I can also fully understand your point of view, because I was on the same page. It was also a choice to take pressure away and make people more comfortable to involve themselves into discussions but no one was against a recording. So, currently it looks like I was wrong and a recording might be worth.

The other thing is how to provide the recording, I can see benefits by placing them on YouTube (to share valuable information to a as many as possible) and to get more awareness for BSD in general. But I can also see the benefits of just keeping it in a non public PeerTube instance. So, this is still open…

I’m happy to get more input regarding recordings in general and also where to publish.

The #BSDPub meeting, organized and managed by @gyptazy has concluded and it was definitely interesting.

This meeting was recorded and will be published.

See you next time!

We do not want to make any pressure to anyone. As soon as you feel comfortable enough, go ahead :)
No one will judge you, everyone starts at some point :) Happy to see you next week again!

If you like join our weekly #BSDPub meeting you can find more information at https://bsdpub.bsd.cafe

#BSDCafe #BSDPub #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Community #Fediverse

Currently looking into something like 3x geekhome with ryzon and 64gb ram. But they’re limited at 64G for each device. I’m looking for something that can hold up to 128gb memory

Therefore, I just created a PR (https://brew.bsd.cafe/BSDCafe/checkmyip/pulls/1) which will return just the raw IP by requesting the context path /raw. So you can directly use it in shell scripts like:

ipv4=$(curl -4 myip.bsd.cafe/raw)
ipv6=$(curl -6 myip.bsd.cafe/raw)

When: 7PM (GMT +2)
Where: https://meet.gyptazy.ch/BSDPub
iCal: https://cdn.gyptazy.ch/files/misc/bsdcafe/bsdpub/bsdpub_weekly.ics

More infos: https://bsdpub.bsd.cafe/
Feel free to jump in :)

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #helloSystem #DragonflyBSD

Can't attend #BSDCan in person?

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