libre #smartos

24 Apr 2023

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• 23:03
  zmoment
  hi, first time using SmartOS or any Solaris type OS.
• 23:03
  zmoment
  I have a couple of questions.
• 23:04
  zmoment
  Regarding 'imgadm avail', the images are old. Is there any other source of newer images for BSDs and Linuxes?
• 23:04
  zmoment
  Another question: I cannot add a user to the global zone.
• 23:05
  zmoment
  I've read docs.smartos.org/persistent-users-and-rbac-in-the-global-zone, but the second command doesn't work 'svcadm disable svc:/site/persist-syscfg:default'
• 23:05
  zmoment
  How to do it?
• 23:05
  zmoment
  And a third question :-)
• 23:06
  bahamat
  zmoment: We provide an array of image versions. FreeBSD and ubuntu are out of date for different reasons, but other images we provide are up to date.
• 23:06
  zmoment
  The zfs pool where the system is installed is unencrypted. Is it possible to encrypt it now after installation? Or can I choose to encrypt it during installation?
• 23:07
  bahamat
  FreeBSD is out of date because there's very little demand for it, and our volunteer vanished.
• 23:07
  bahamat
  Ubuntu is out of date because they used to be built by Canonical, but when Joyent shut down the public cloud the contract with them was ended.
• 23:07
  zmoment
  bahamat: ok. But OpenBSD is at version 6, image from 2017
• 23:07
  bahamat
  MNX is now working on producing new HVM ubuntu images, but we have up to date LX images now.
• 23:08
  bahamat
  Same as FreeBSD, there's extremely little demand for it and it requires too much effort for us to keep up with it. Our resources are much better utilized in other directions.
• 23:09
  bahamat
  But, we'd gladly accept help in keeping those images up to date.
• 23:09
  bahamat
  If you're knowledgable about those OS's, I can go over the build process with you, and you can make any improvements and open pull requests.
• 23:11
  zmoment
  If you have some resource that I can read, I can try to understand it.
• 23:12
  bahamat
  This is the FreeBSD image builder: github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder
• 23:12
  bahamat
  Here's OpenBSD: github.com/TritonDataCenter/openbsd-kvm-image-builder
• 23:13
  zmoment
  So, they are only for kvm not bhyve?
• 23:13
  bahamat
  Well, with Linux we use cloud-init to configure the image.
• 23:13
  bahamat
  KVM provides a mini dhcp service for configuring the network.
• 23:14
  bahamat
  For Free and OpenBSD, we don't have an agent to pull the network information from the metadata service and configure networking.
• 23:14
  bahamat
  The mdata-* tools are available, and they work. But we need something that will actually do the network configuration.
• 23:14
  bahamat
  The data is in JSON format.
• 23:20
  zmoment
  So, lookup what is the name of the network interfaces, do a ifconfig interface xxxxx xxx?