FreeBSD
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opisthenar
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Hi all, I’m pleased to confirm (as indicated in Sherry’s post) that in response to increase user feedback asking for this, we are now publishing FreeBSD images for GCE. Thanks everyone!
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Nicholas de Jong
commented
Posting to save time for others, pardon the at-a-tangent Terraform topic here
When attempting to address a FreeBSD image through Terraform, you must prefix the name with the project name - for example:-
```
boot_disk {
initialize_params {
image = "freebsd-org-cloud-dev/freebsd-11-2-stable-amd64-v20180628"
}
}
``` -
Rob
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Wonderful! Now please fix Chrome/chromium so it works on FreeBSD for the vast majority who want to use it!!
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Sherry Li
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We are happy to share that FreeBSD is available in Cloud Launcher:
https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-10
https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-11Please check it out and let us know if you have any feedback.
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Marcus
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We have been using FreeBSD on GCE platform since FreeBSD 10, yes, we may create the FreeBSD instance by using the official way provided by FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html , but it is more convenience to have the ready FreeBSD image provided on GCE platform, especially for those are new to GCE
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Shawn Bakhtiar
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+1 on this topic. I agree that one of the reasons for low adoption may very well be the fact that it's not part of the standard offering. If it were, you may very well see a much higher adoption rate. (Linux has gone rogue) I am currently looking at a project I would like to deploy on FreeBSD and hesitant to do so as it is not part of the standard offering.
I'm going to check out the latest 11.1R release, as suggested by @Helen Koike, to see how it fares. But my first attempt using a different image was a bit buggy; had issues with ssh (public key issue), and at some point lost all http traffic from the outside, though it had been working a few days ago.
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Helen Koike
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FreeBSD images for GCE platform are officially supported by the FreeBSD community as announced in the Release statement https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html
Instructions to instantiate an image is described in the above page -
Jeff
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Ok Google, try this. Publish the latest versions of FreeBSD and OpenBSD then observe the usage. If the image usage is actually very low as you posit then remove them. I don't think a few hours investment of labor will be an issue to test the market for these images.
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Anonymous
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I believe that there are lots of FreeBSD developers in Google willing to help about this. It's probably worthy also to talk to them.
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Shanmugam Kulandaivel
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Community built FreeBSD images are available from the reebsd-org-cloud-dev project. Please follow instructions at https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/56664/
For eg. "gcloud compute instances create freebsdtest --image freebsd-10-3-stable-amd64-2017-03-10 --image-project freebsd-org-cloud-dev"
Please note that these images are not built by Google, hence the level of integration with the platform is not the same as other images.