[2021] Lessons from the CFT Lab - Michael Dexter

The CallForTesting.org web site and accompanying lab are a direct product of EuroBSDcon and will celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2021. The lab has grown from a few second hand ThinkPads to a network of over 25 systems of all sizes that have helped exercise bhyve and various ZFS platforms in preparation for production readiness, tracked down lib.c-level performance issues, proven that binary upgrades are feasible for FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT via up.bsd.lv, and other explorations big and small. This talk will provide a brief history and tour of the CFT Lab, strategies for building a budget-driven home lab, strategies for quickly running tests for other contributors, and hopefully inspiring you to maintain a home lab of your own, regardless of your physical or budgetary constraints. Michael Dexter has a vocal fondness for BSD hypervisors and OpenZFS, and has organized the Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG) since 2009, among other community activities around the world. Michael Dexter