git: 4c946db305 - main - Add Azure 2023Q2 status report

From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:14:04 UTC
The branch main has been updated by lwhsu:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=4c946db3054255c3a008bbe01723f8bd89855dc8

commit 4c946db3054255c3a008bbe01723f8bd89855dc8
Author:     Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-07-21 19:13:52 +0000
Commit:     Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-07-21 19:13:52 +0000

    Add Azure 2023Q2 status report
    
    Reviewed by:    salvadore, Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com>
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41126
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+=== FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure
+
+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure[Microsoft Azure article on FreeBSD wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure[] +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV[Microsoft HyperV article on FreeBSD wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV[]
+
+Contact: Microsoft FreeBSD Integration Services Team <bsdic@microsoft.com> +
+Contact: link:https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud[freebsd-cloud Mailing List] +
+Contact: The FreeBSD Azure Release Engineering Team <releng-azure@FreeBSD.org> +
+Contact: Wei Hu <whu@FreeBSD.org> +
+Contact: Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com> +
+Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org> +
+
+In this quarter, we have worked mainly on ARM64 architecture support and building and publishing images to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery].
+There are some testing images available in the project's testing public gallery, named `FreeBSDCGTest-d8a43fa5-745a-4910-9f71-0c9da2ac22bf`:
+* FreeBSD-CURRENT-testing
+* FreeBSD-CURRENT-gen2-testing
+* FreeBSD-CURRENT-arm64-testing
+
+To use them, when creating a virtual machine:
+. In `Select an Image` step, choose `Community Images (PREVIEW)` in `Other items`
+. Search `FreeBSD`
+
+Work in progress tasks:
+
+* Automating the image building and publishing process and merge to src/release/.
+* Building and publishing ZFS-based images to Azure Marketplace
+** All the required codes are merged to main branch, and can create ZFS-based images by specifying `VMFS=zfs`.
+** Need to make the build process more automatic and collaborating with release engineering to start generating snapshots.
+* Building and publishing Hyper-V gen2 VM images to Azure Marketplace
+* Building and publishing snapshot builds to Azure community gallery
+
+The above tasks are sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, with resources provided by Microsoft.
+
+Wei Hu and Souradeep Chakrabarti in Microsoft are working on several tasks sponsored by Microsoft:
+
+* Porting Hyper-V guest support to aarch64
+** https://bugs.freebsd.org/267654
+** https://bugs.freebsd.org/272461
+
+Open tasks:
+
+* Update FreeBSD related doc at link:https://learn.microsoft.com[Microsoft Learn]
+* Support FreeBSD in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/products/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines]
+* Update link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/azure-agent[Azure agent port] to the latest version
+* Upstream link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/pull/1892[local modifications of Azure agent]
+
+Sponsor: Microsoft for people in Microsoft, and for resources for the rest +
+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else