Month: June 2018

  • Using iSCSI block storage and ZFS on FreeBSD with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

    Use cloud block storage on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) with FreeBSD, just like it’s done on Linux and Windows compute instances, and optionally leverage ZFS for simple management, cloning, encryption, redundancy, and more. Disclaimer: at the time of writing, I work for Oracle. I wrote this article for fun on my free time. FreeBSD isn’t…

  • Simple pf configuration for jails in FreeBSD

    This is just an example configuration for pf on FreeBSD with two or more jails. We require private jail networking using NAT and RDR (redirect). Some of the lines below wrap on smaller screens so I’ve included extra spaces between the rdr entries to make them easier to read: ext_if=”em0″ sshd_port=”45678″ web=”192.168.0.1″ db=”192.168.0.2″ scrub in…