nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server, reverse proxy and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It is a lightweight web server, licensed under a BSD-like license. It the fastest growing and one of the most popular web server. Installing from FreeBSD ports tree Type the following command to update FreeBSD tree, enter: # […]
As previously mentioned here I migrated from a UFS/Ezjail FreeBSD Digital Ocean droplet to a ZFS/IOCage droplet for easier backup and recovery. As part of making my life easier going forwards I decided to implement a floating IP for future migrations. If you’re unfamiliar with floating IPs its a secondary IPv4 public address that sits […]
I recently decided it was time to migrate my UFS ezjails based Digital Ocean droplet to the new and sparkly FreeBSD 10.3 ZFS droplet whilst transitioning to iocage. To make my life harder I thought it was a prime opportunity to build everything from scratch rather than tar the jails as per these instructions. Everything […]
Its an exiting day, one of the core missing features of the Bhyve hypervisor has finally landed in a project branch of FreeBSD, graphical console support by way of VNC. No longer do you need serial access or more importantly, require the need for an AutoUnattend.xml file to facilitate the installation of Microsoft Windows. What […]
Recently I’ve had a few cases whereby I needed a particular physical MAC address presented to the Bhyve guest Virtual Machine Network Interface. Having originally tried accomplishing this within the guest operating system with various degrees of success, I search around and stumbled on a thread on the iohyve github issues page. To set a […]
Monitoring SSL certificate expiry both internally and on the public Internet for web services is important, not only for availability of services, but also to save face. The following shell script will do exactly that from the command line with the following syntax. Note that if your web server hosts multiple websites with SSL support […]
Before embarking its worth reviewing the requirements as running Windows on Bhyve does require a bit of work and not for the faint hearted. It also requires some pretty specific hardware requirements/features as Bhyve has been built from the ground up with modern hardware accelerated virtualisation features at the forefront leave all the legacy cruff […]