Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:30:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46207 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201501151630.t0FGUFMO063560@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Thu Jan 15 16:30:14 2015 New Revision: 46207 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46207 Log: Add gcloud report Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 15 14:50:20 2015 (r46206) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 15 16:30:14 2015 (r46207) @@ -2604,4 +2604,153 @@ newsletter</a>.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>&os; on Google Cloud</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Steve</given> + <common>Wills</common> + </name> + <email>swills@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://github.com/swills/FreeBSD-gcloud">The script + used to create gcloud images</url> + <url + href="https://plus.google.com/112202779615695172291/posts/eYajb8JKerY">More + detail on how to create and use a gcloud image</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Google Cloud is a cloud computing platform that allows users to + run hosted services and servers in a cloud maintained by + Google. The goal of this project is to provide an easy way to + create and manage &os; installations running on Google + Cloud.</p> + + <p>The good news:</p> + + <p>FreeBSD 10.1 runs fine. You can create an image and start it + up and login via standard ssh, via the <tt>gcloud</tt> command + or via the web console (ssh in a web browser window). More + details on how to do all this can be found in the links. + Basically, you should be able to <tt>gcutil addimage + freebsd-101-release-amd64-20150101032704 + gs://swills-test-bucket/FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-20150101032704.tar.gz</tt></p> + + <p>Then spin up an image using <tt>gcloud compute instances + create --zone us-central1-b --image + freebsd-101-release-amd64-20150101032704 --boot-disk-size 20GB + gtest1</tt></p> + + <p>These commands are part of the google-cloud-sdk port, which + contains all the commands to interact with Google Cloud. There + is also a google-daemon port which is used in running instances to + create users and set them up and a google-startup-scripts port which + handles running startup/shutdown scripts as specified in node + metadata.</p> + + <p>Additionally, the firstboot-growfs port has been brought back so + that new instances will grow their root filesystem. (Thanks to Colin + Percival for having created that port initially.)</p> + + <p>There is also a firstboot-freebsd-update port which can be used + to update a system on first boot but is currently disabled. See + below. Similarly, the firstboot-pkgs port/scripts will install + specified packages on first boot.</p> + + <p>Overall, Google Cloud Compute is quite nice; instances spin up + in about 60 seconds and it is very reasonably priced with + automatic discounts for longer term usage. There is a $300 credit + for first time users that also makes it free to try out. That + credit covers quite a lot of time, and the instances are pretty + fast, as well, even the ones without SSDs.</p> + + <p>The bad news:</p> + + <p>Google does not make sharing non-official images as easy as + AWS, so you have to create your own using my public tar file. The + tar was created using the script in the links section. That + script can be used to produce customized images, even though there + are no official image (nor will there be any time soon).</p> + + <p>There are some issues running FreeBSD on Google Cloud, + listed in the tasks section.</p> + </body> + + + <help> + <task> + <p>The 8 and 16 cpu instances seem to reboot randomly.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Repeated UFS panics that Google folks have reported, but + I do not think those are particular to Google Cloud. The panic + message is "ffs_valloc dup alloc".</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Running freebsd-update causes the system to become + unbootable, so updates do not work. (Reboots work fine + otherwise.)</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>There is no <tt>gcimagebundle</tt> command in the Ports + Collectiong so you cannot easily create an image from a running + machine.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>There are a few minor issue with the startup script + that is supposed to regenerate ssh keys (for when you + create an image from an existing system).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>10.1 works, but 10.0 does not boot; other versions remain + untested.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>The kern.vm_guest sysctl node does not detect that it is in a + guest.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>The vtnet driver needs wq disabled on 16 cpu boxes, but + is just disabled everywhere for now since that is easier.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>There is a work needed for the Google + <tt>safe_format_and_mount</tt> command which formats and + mounts newly attached disks, but this is just a nicety really.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>I need to look into irq affinity for vtnet.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>We need to support virtualized clocks; bryanv@ is + working on this. In fact, all his ongoing work in the virt area + would probably make things work better.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>It would be nice if there as the ability to disable the + spinner before the loader, which clutters up the console log. The + ability to disable it is in HEAD; hopefully it will be MFCd to + 10-STABLE before 10.2.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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