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Often gets lost in the release notes - deploying on Google cloud is super easy: % gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE --image freebsd-11-0-release-p1-

• eb0la 10y ago
  That's really cool. They also provide official AMI imagex es and how to deploy on VAGRANT! vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-p1
• oskarth 10y ago
  Wow, nice. Do you know how straightforward it is to get it with ZFS?
  • __jal 10y ago
    ZFS is native in FreeBSD, so it is exactly as straightforward as the above.
  • djsumdog 10y ago
    Even the last release supports full ZFS+encryption with the default installer.
    • floatboth 10y ago
      But you don't use the installer with "cloud" / VPS providers. It's usually more like cloning a VM image where the system is already installed.
    • RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 10y ago
      This is still geli+zfs, and not native zfs encryption that was recently presented in OpenZFS Developer Summit [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frnLiXclAMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frnLiXclAMo
      • mioelnir 10y ago
        Correct, it is full disk encryption instead of dataset encryption. But on the other hand, if you install 11.0 from installer and chose Auto(ZFS) with EncryptedZFS and MBR(GPT) then you will get a GeliBoot installation. There is no boot pool anymore, instead the early boot stages decrypt the root zpool to load the rest of the boatloader, which then decrypts the pool to load the kernel. With bootloader-selectable boot environments.
        • mioelnir 10y ago
          ...and I meant BIOS(GPT). Hmpf.