Adventures in Freebernetes, tracing kernel functions, The better way of building FreeBSD networks, New beginnings: CDBUG virtual meetings, LibreSSL update in DragonFly, Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD, and more.
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Headlines
Adventures in Freebernetes: bhyve My Guest (https://productionwithscissors.run/2020/10/29/adventures-in-freebernetes-bhyve-my-guest/)
Part 2 of experiments in FreeBSD and Kubernetes: Creating your first guest
Tracing Kernel Functions: FBT stack() and arg (https://zinascii.com/2020/fbt-args-and-stack.html?s=03)
In my previous post I described how FBT intercepts function calls and vectors them into the DTrace framework. That laid the foundation for what I want to discuss in this post: the implementation of the stack() action and built-in arg variables. These features rely on the precise layout of the stack, the details of which I touched on previously. In this post I hope to illuminate those details a bit more with the help of some visuals, and then guide you through the implementation of these two DTrace features as they relate to the FBT provider.
News Roundup
Dummynet: The Better Way of Building FreeBSD Networks (https://klarasystems.com/articles/dummynet-the-better-way-of-building-freebsd-networks/)
Dummynet is the FreeBSD traffic shaper, packet scheduler, and network emulator. Dummynet allows you to emulate a whole set of network environments in a straight-forward way. It has the ability to model delay, packet loss, and can act as a traffic shaper and policer. Dummynet is roughly equivalent to netem in Linux, but we have found that dummynet is easier to integrate and provides much more consistent results.
New beginnings: CDBUG virtual meetings (http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/cdbug-talk/2020-October/000901.html)
I had overwhelmingly positive responses from the broader *BSD community about restarting CDBUG meetings as virtual, at least for now. Hopefully this works well and even when we're back to in-person meetings we can still find a way to bring in virtual attendees.
LibreSSL update in DragonFly (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/11/10/25143.html)
DragonFly has a new version of libressl, noting cause it has a newer TLS1.3 implementation – something that may be necessary for you.
Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD (https://antranigv.am/weblog_en/posts/freebsd-signal-cli-scli/)
So couple of days ago I migrated from macOS on Macbook Pro to FreeBSD on ThinkPad T480s.
Beastie Bits
Firefox is not paxctl safe for NetBSD (https://anonhg.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/rev/9386adbd052e)
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE on Microsoft Azure Marketplace (https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-12_2?tab=Overview)
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