Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:09:09 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Application Certification Support via freebsd-cloud" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "small" flavour Message-ID: <66e66b9b-084b-47e4-862e-98141c47a856@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f5b8dfa6-071c-41e4-8696-feb1495884ab@freebsd.org> References: <f5b8dfa6-071c-41e4-8696-feb1495884ab@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi cloudy people, > > I'm planning on adding a new flavour of FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "Small" AMIs, > which are the standard FreeBSD "base" images minus some bits which are > optional or generally less likely to be useful for production systems: > > * They don't have kernel or world debug symbols, > * They don't have FreeBSD tests, > * They don't have 32-bit libraries, > * They don't have LLDB, > * They don't have the Amazon SSM Agent pre-installed, > * They don't default to installing the awscli at first boot. > > Phabricator review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D46509 > > I'm planning on committing this in a few days (aka before this week's > snapshot builds); if you have any feedback on the "smallification" I > did above, please let me know. I=E2=80=99m going to guess the main benefit is lower memory usage. Which= means smaller instances can be used.=20 --=20 Dan Langille dan@langille.org
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