In recent customer projects I had less to do with PostgreSQL but more with reviewing infrastructures and give recommendations about what and how to improve. In all of those projects GitLab is used in one way or the other. Some only use it for managing their code in Git and work on issues, others use pipelines to build their stuff,…
When people talk about containers in FreeBSD, they usually talk about Jails. We’ve already seen how this works in general here and here. An additional option you have, is to install Podman on FreeBSD. Podman is well known in the Linux world and can be used to build and run containers. With the release of FreeBSD 14.2, the FreeBSD project…
Now that we know how to work with the ports collection let’s have a look another option you have in FreeBSD: Sometimes it might be required to run unmodified Linux binaries on FreeBSD and to achieve this, FreeBSD comes with a Linux compatibility layer. This is optional and not enabled by default, but pretty easy to setup and use. Before…
If you followed the previous introduction posts about FreeBSD (here, here, here, here and here) you should already know how to install binary packages. On FreeBSD this is done using pkg, and if you are familiar with apt, dnf, or zypper (or any other package manager on Linux) this should not be a big deal. There is, however, another official…
This post builds on top of the previous post in which we’ve created a simple thin Jail. The goal of this post is, to put a bit of automation around this and to provide a simple PostgreSQL as a service platform. We want to do this by creating one PostgreSQL instance per Jail (without any restrictions on resource usage for…
Now that we know how to get started with FreeBSD, how to manage users and groups, and how to work with services, we’ll look a bit into Jails today. But before we do this, let’s look at what we have in Linux today when it comes to containerization and virtual machines. Obviously we can manage virtual machines, with either KVM…
This is the third post in the series about getting started with FreeBSD. We’ve looked at the first steps here, and users and groups here. Today we’re looking at how FreeBSD handles services. For those who still don’t like systemd the good news is: There is nothing like systemd in FreeBSD. For those who do like systemd the maybe bad…
In the last post, we’ve initially configured FreeBSD so that networking is up and running, additional packages can be installed, and the system was patched to the latest release. In this post we’ll look at how users and groups are managed in FreeBSD and what FreeBSD provides when it comes to additional security mechanisms. On Linux systems users are usually…
In case you follow the blogs here, you might have noticed that I got interested in FreeBSD over the last months (or even year(s)). The reasons for this are multiple: FreeBSD development is organized in very much the same way as it is with PostgreSQL. The license is very much the same. The history is really interesting as it goes…
This is the next post in this little series about PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. You can find the previous one here: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from packages The downside with installing from packages on FreeBSD is, that you can only run one version of PostgreSQL. If you want to run…
In the last two posts we installed FreeBSD, configured networking, updated the system, installed bash and had a quick look at kernel parameters. In this post we’ll install PostgreSQL from packages. Of course you can also install PostgreSQL from source code, but this will be the topic for the next post. We already used the “pkg” command in the last…
In the last post we installed FreeBSD, configured the keyboard, time zone and the first network interface, which gets it’s IP address via DHCP. In this post we’ll look at how we can configure the second interface, which gets a static IP address in the host only network. Once we’ve done that, we’ll update the system to the latest packages,…
