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Potluck & Potman

Contact: Stephan Lichtenauer (Potluck) <sl@honeyguide.eu>
Contact: Michael Gmelin (Potman) <grembo@FreeBSD.org>

Pot is a jail management tool that also supports orchestration through Nomad.

Potluck aims to be to FreeBSD and Pot what Dockerhub is to Linux and Docker: A repository of Pot flavours and complete images for usage with Pot and in many cases Nomad.

The new Potman project aims to simplify building Pot images with Vagrant and VirtualBox based on the Potluck approach, e.g. as part of a DevOps workflow for software development and testing. That way, Pot images can more easily be created as part of a Jenkins workflow to be deployed with Nomad and Consul.

In the last two quarters, FreeBSD 12.2 Potluck images have been built and the 11.4 images have been upgraded with the new packages. Furthermore, new images like Wordpress and an improved flavour script (which squashes a nasty network problem) have been created.

Future plans include further Potman workflow features, new and improved Potluck images and publishing FreeBSD 13-based images.

As always, feedback and patches are welcome.


Last modified on: May 1, 2021 by Daniel Ebdrup Jensen