svn commit: r46207 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Thu Jan 15 16:30:14 2015
New Revision: 46207
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46207
Log:
Add gcloud report
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 15 14:50:20 2015 (r46206)
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newsletter</a>.</p>
</body>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='proj'>
+ <title>&os; on Google Cloud</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Steve</given>
+ <common>Wills</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://github.com/swills/FreeBSD-gcloud">The script
+ used to create gcloud images</url>
+ <url
+ href="https://plus.google.com/112202779615695172291/posts/eYajb8JKerY">More
+ detail on how to create and use a gcloud image</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>Google Cloud is a cloud computing platform that allows users to
+ run hosted services and servers in a cloud maintained by
+ Google. The goal of this project is to provide an easy way to
+ create and manage &os; installations running on Google
+ Cloud.</p>
+
+ <p>The good news:</p>
+
+ <p>FreeBSD 10.1 runs fine. You can create an image and start it
+ up and login via standard ssh, via the <tt>gcloud</tt> command
+ or via the web console (ssh in a web browser window). More
+ details on how to do all this can be found in the links.
+ Basically, you should be able to <tt>gcutil addimage
+ freebsd-101-release-amd64-20150101032704
+ gs://swills-test-bucket/FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-20150101032704.tar.gz</tt></p>
+
+ <p>Then spin up an image using <tt>gcloud compute instances
+ create --zone us-central1-b --image
+ freebsd-101-release-amd64-20150101032704 --boot-disk-size 20GB
+ gtest1</tt></p>
+
+ <p>These commands are part of the google-cloud-sdk port, which
+ contains all the commands to interact with Google Cloud. There
+ is also a google-daemon port which is used in running instances to
+ create users and set them up and a google-startup-scripts port which
+ handles running startup/shutdown scripts as specified in node
+ metadata.</p>
+
+ <p>Additionally, the firstboot-growfs port has been brought back so
+ that new instances will grow their root filesystem. (Thanks to Colin
+ Percival for having created that port initially.)</p>
+
+ <p>There is also a firstboot-freebsd-update port which can be used
+ to update a system on first boot but is currently disabled. See
+ below. Similarly, the firstboot-pkgs port/scripts will install
+ specified packages on first boot.</p>
+
+ <p>Overall, Google Cloud Compute is quite nice; instances spin up
+ in about 60 seconds and it is very reasonably priced with
+ automatic discounts for longer term usage. There is a $300 credit
+ for first time users that also makes it free to try out. That
+ credit covers quite a lot of time, and the instances are pretty
+ fast, as well, even the ones without SSDs.</p>
+
+ <p>The bad news:</p>
+
+ <p>Google does not make sharing non-official images as easy as
+ AWS, so you have to create your own using my public tar file. The
+ tar was created using the script in the links section. That
+ script can be used to produce customized images, even though there
+ are no official image (nor will there be any time soon).</p>
+
+ <p>There are some issues running FreeBSD on Google Cloud,
+ listed in the tasks section.</p>
+ </body>
+
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>The 8 and 16 cpu instances seem to reboot randomly.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Repeated UFS panics that Google folks have reported, but
+ I do not think those are particular to Google Cloud. The panic
+ message is "ffs_valloc dup alloc".</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Running freebsd-update causes the system to become
+ unbootable, so updates do not work. (Reboots work fine
+ otherwise.)</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>There is no <tt>gcimagebundle</tt> command in the Ports
+ Collectiong so you cannot easily create an image from a running
+ machine.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>There are a few minor issue with the startup script
+ that is supposed to regenerate ssh keys (for when you
+ create an image from an existing system).</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>10.1 works, but 10.0 does not boot; other versions remain
+ untested.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>The kern.vm_guest sysctl node does not detect that it is in a
+ guest.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>The vtnet driver needs wq disabled on 16 cpu boxes, but
+ is just disabled everywhere for now since that is easier.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>There is a work needed for the Google
+ <tt>safe_format_and_mount</tt> command which formats and
+ mounts newly attached disks, but this is just a nicety really.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>I need to look into irq affinity for vtnet.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>We need to support virtualized clocks; bryanv@ is
+ working on this. In fact, all his ongoing work in the virt area
+ would probably make things work better.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>It would be nice if there as the ability to disable the
+ spinner before the loader, which clutters up the console log. The
+ ability to disable it is in HEAD; hopefully it will be MFCd to
+ 10-STABLE before 10.2.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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