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Author:     Mina Galić <freebsd@igalic.co>
AuthorDate: 2023-07-12 14:45:36 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-07-12 14:58:59 +0000

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    Approved by:    dbaio (mentor, implicit)
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/218
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+=== 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 <freebsd@igalic.co>
+
+cloud-init is the standard way of provisioning servers in the cloud.
+Unfortunately, cloud-init support for operating systems other than Linux has been 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 quite slowly, but I have managed to deliver a new milestone:
+
+- Ephemeral Networking classes have been rewritten and made platform independent.
+These are used by several cloud providers to initialize a temporary network before retrieving the actual configuration.
+
+- cloud-init has been successfully tested on Vultr.
+I hope that with the next release I can convince Vultr to switch their FreeBSD images to cloud-init.
+
+In addition to that, I have expanded rsyslog support for BSD.
+I've also added an rc script for cloud-init's ds-identify, which should make zero-configuration setups orders of magnitude faster:
+ds-identify runs first and very quickly guesses the cloud provider the machine is running on.
+cloud-init then uses only that guess, instead of iterating and failing through a full list of all possible cloud providers.
+People building custom images can easily disable this (by removing ``/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dsidentify``), and providing a specific listing themselves, shave off a few more milliseconds from their boot.
+
+The next steps will be to keep hacking away at the network refactoring tasks, and to add LXD support for FreeBSD, so it can be included in CI tests.
+The latter will include work on link:https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/11761[LXD], as well as work on the link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271793[FreeBSD virtio subsystem].
+
+As always, I highly welcome early testers to checkout package:net/cloud-init-devel[], and report bugs.
+Since the last report, cloud-init's bug tracker has moved from Launchpad to GitHub, so this might reduce some friction.
+
+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation