[2023] The FreeBSD Appliance - Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter: The FreeBSD Appliance The FreeBSD Operating System has traditionally been viewed as both a complete server and desktop solution, and a collection of core components for commercial appliance development. It has benefited from decades of academic, volunteer, and vendor contribution of core components including its TCP/IP stack, multiple packet filters, Jail containers, the CAM/CTL storage infrastructure, VNET and Netgraph virtual network stacks, the OpenZFS file system and volume manager, and the bhyve hypervisor, all within a unified source tree and build environment. Many of these components have enabled high-profile storage and networking product ecosystems but less-obvious developments are occurring: FreeBSD is experiencing extensive refinement in addition to major feature development, making for an unprecedented "out of the box" user experience. The FreeBSD 14.0 Release will include subtle but powerful features including: nullfs file mounts Jailed NFSd CTL/virtio-s