For the past several years, I’ve been running the majority of my lab services out of FreeBSD jails. I don’t have but a handful of services to run and some underpowered hardware to put them on, but jails have grown to become a staple in how I deploy my private infrastructure. One such service that I run is LDAP. I got a wild hare yesterday and though I’d glue the two of them together with a bit of Puppet. ...
I’ve recently discovered FreeBSD’s new package manager and it looks poised to become the default package manager soon in FreeBSD 10. After watching the video from BSDCAN I realized that there was some pretty serious effort going into the project, but still a bit rough around the edges. Some wiki reading later, I was ready to dive in. More sources of information seem to be springing up about this new package manager, and though it does not solve all of the issues surrounding package management in FreeBSD such as custom options on your ports, it sure is a vast improvement from previous tools that are available for FreeBSD for my use cases. ...