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Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:04:43 GMT (envelope-from git) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:04:43 GMT Message-Id: <202304161104.33GB4haw038744@gitrepo.freebsd.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org From: Lorenzo Salvadore Subject: git: b5257137c6 - main - Status/2023Q1: Add cloud-init.adoc List-Id: Commit messages for all branches of the doc repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-doc-all List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Committer: salvadore X-Git-Repository: doc X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/main X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Commit: b5257137c6b1d9cfe060079ddcfaed9c4536d17e Auto-Submitted: auto-generated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=b5257137c6b1d9cfe060079ddcfaed9c4536d17e commit b5257137c6b1d9cfe060079ddcfaed9c4536d17e Author: Mina Galić AuthorDate: 2023-04-14 23:03:11 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore CommitDate: 2023-04-16 11:04:26 +0000 Status/2023Q1: Add cloud-init.adoc Approved by: dbaio (co-mentor) Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/170 --- .../status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..27ba87410f --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +=== FreeBSD as a Tier 1 cloud-init Platform + +Links: + +link:https://cloud-init.io/[cloud-init Website] URL: link:https://cloud-init.io/[] + +link:https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/[cloud-init Documentation] URL: link:https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/[] + +link:https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/WIP-ONGOING-REFACTORIZATION.rst[cloud-init ongoing refactorization] URL: link:https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/WIP-ONGOING-REFACTORIZATION.rst[] + +Contact: Mina Galić + +cloud-init is the standard way of provisioning servers in the cloud. +Unfortunately, cloud-init support for operating systems other than Linux is rather poor, and the lack of cloud-init support on FreeBSD is a hindrance to cloud providers who want to offer FreeBSD as a Tier 1 platform. +To remedy the situation, this project aims to bring FreeBSD cloud-init support on par with Linux support. +The broader plan is to lift support across all BSDs. + +This quarter has been going very, very slowly, for personal reasons — but also for lack of access to right resources. +I have been trying to link:https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/2003[port the Infiniband functions]. +This has proven difficult, because it falsified my thesis that man:ifconfig[8] is all that is needed to figure out network interfaces on FreeBSD. + +A cloud-init colleague who works for Azure managed to give me access to an link:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/topics/high-performance-computing[HPC VM on Azure]. +Unfortunately, it was only for a limited time, and that was not enough to figure out how to get Infiniband up and running on FreeBSD — a task handled by package:sysutils/azure-agent[] by Linux, but Azure Agent's FreeBSD is rather lacking. + +People interested in helping with this project could provide man:ifconfig[8], man:ibstat[8], man:ibv_devinfo[1], etc… link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-infiniband/2023-February/000005.html[pastes from their Infiniband systems]. +I would also be very happy about getting access to hardware with Infiniband NICs, or hearing from people who have successfully used FreeBSD on Azure HPC with Infiniband. + +If there is interest in that platform, I will direct some energy to fixing Azure Agent. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation