Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:24:43 GMT From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: ce9e8d1f18 - main - status: Minor tweaks to 2023q1 cloud-init report Message-ID: <202304161324.33GDOhWq069600@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by jrm: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=ce9e8d1f187789e780a1dd7cc70c0022b58ca701 commit ce9e8d1f187789e780a1dd7cc70c0022b58ca701 Author: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-04-16 12:12:26 +0000 Commit: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-16 13:24:38 +0000 status: Minor tweaks to 2023q1 cloud-init report Approved by: freebsd@igalic.co, status (salvadore) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39597 --- website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 index 27ba87410f..34f5719412 100644 --- 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 @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ Unfortunately, cloud-init support for operating systems other than Linux is rath 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. +This quarter has been going very, very slowly, for personal reasons — but also for lack of access to the 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. +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 link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/[Azure Agent] on Linux, but FreeBSD's package:sysutils/azure-agent[] 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.
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