One small step for man, one giant leap toward a PFSense VM in the DigitalOcean cloud.
what will you do with a pfSense VM on DO?
You could connect all of your VMs to it via ipsec or openvpn and have your own little private network.
DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
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Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
#22BOOM - time for me to spin up more of these!
Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
#23I'm wondering what the chances of any other BSD being supported are...? Dragonfly? Open? ...Net? :) edit: after actually reading TFA, it seems unlikely. Well, it seems like Dragonfly is most likely, if any others.
Depending on demand, adding other BSD variants is certainly a possibility. We had to start somewhere, and the FreeBSD community has been very vocal about wanting to see this happen. This is the first non-Linux OS we've decided to support, so we're excited to get feedback on it.
Thanks! I'm a long time FreeBSD vps user. It'd be great to check if DO droplets can support CARP failover within the same datacentre, and then expand to be able to do this across datacentres.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/carp.html
My use cases so far haven't involved CARP but I'd like to start experimenting with that!
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#25While this is great news, BSD support is currently the second most widely requested enhancement to the Digital Ocean service.[1] I wonder if we'll now see additional storage addressed soon? [1] https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... Edit: I've had this theme bookmarked for ages, now might be the time to build it! http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/example
I want that too. Now I'm using Backupsy[1] when I need a VM with more disk space.
Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
#26In case someone missed it: The header graphic in this article is a great homage to Beastie, the (original?) FreeBSD mascot, analogous to the Tux Linux penguin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
#27While this is great news, BSD support is currently the second most widely requested enhancement to the Digital Ocean service.[1] I wonder if we'll now see additional storage addressed soon? [1] https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... Edit: I've had this theme bookmarked for ages, now might be the time to build it! http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/example
It's the highest voted request and there was no response for over 2 years. The first response after that time didn't even address the request but tried to distract with an unrelated feature request. This is pretty frustrating and the reason I will move my VPS from DO to another hoster. If you think I'm bitching around that's because I am. The way DO handles this is ridiculous.
Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
#28As a web developer who knows enough Linux to do minimum dev-ops, could anyone recommend some things worth playing around with in FreeBSD? Like "do this and see how easy it is vs Ubuntu!". Or are the gains more long term like better stability?
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#29Nice, but I wish they didn't deprecate Archlinux though :/
Couldn't you do a bootstrapped install if you really wanted it? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_L...
Someone wrote a script to do just that: https://github.com/gh2o/digitalocean-debian-to-arch
Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
#30Great news! I'm personally looking forward to OpenBSD, but now that this is done I bet that will be a cinch.
You might want to check out vultr.com.
They don't directly support OpenBSD, but allow you to install an OS an a VM instance with an ISO image, either by you supplying it or they'll pull it for you through an ftp or http link. Their pricing is similar to DO.
I managed to get an instance running without too much trouble.
(I do not work for vultr, or affiliated in any way).