tracking issue so community can keep up to date.
Would this potentially include RootOnZFS similar to the AWS AMIs?
+1 :-) I have registered to OCI will test FreeBSD on ARM64 (AlwaysFree) option.. waiting for recent releases with ZFS support. Thanks!! :-)
I have built UFS2 and ZFS images & are available privately for testing, just drop me an email to request image access, as these are in my private bucket. You'll need to copy the object into your own bucket, & convert it to an image. There's scripting available for this. We're still processing Oracle Paperwork (tm) to publish official images, but these ones are built using the same `make release ...` steps. Feedback welcomed, so we can have these in for 14.1-RELEASE.
I've made these initial images available here til end April: https://axvxsnomswgi.objectstorage.eu-amsterdam-1.oci.customer-oci.com/p/IxubTj8cFA3VnVsDiEYUoY_nHJ_EAlC4cpyJV06Zo_nEP7U0v8XQlcmkVqUdVxVe/n/axvxsnomswgi/b/img/o/ You should be able to fetch these directly into your own storage bucket, and then import them as OCI images. The metadata for shape compatibility should be included in the .OCI format images, but not in the QCOW2 ones, they are useful for local testing with qemu etc. Let me know if this doesn't work. $ curl -s https://axvxsnomswgi.objectstorage.eu-amsterdam-1.oci.customer-oci.com/p/IxubTj8cFA3VnVsDiEYUoY_nHJ_EAlC4cpyJV06Zo_nEP7U0v8XQlcmkVqUdVxVe/n/axvxsnomswgi/b/img/o/ \ | jq -r '.objects[].name' FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-amd64-amd64-20240403-9bb1715-ufs.oci FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-amd64-amd64-20240403-9bb1715-ufs.qcow2 FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-amd64-amd64-20240403-9bb1715-zfs.oci FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-amd64-amd64-20240403-9bb1715-zfs.qcow2 FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-arm64-aarch64-20240403-9bb1715-ufs.oci FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-arm64-aarch64-20240403-9bb1715-ufs.qcow2 FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-arm64-aarch64-20240403-9bb1715-zfs.oci FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-p5-arm64-aarch64-20240403-9bb1715-zfs.qcow2 mfsBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.oci mfsBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2 On smaller OCI shapes, the first boot is a bit slow, as it does the usual full freebsd-update which involves sha256 and gzip of many files. You can see it in progress by connecting to the OCI "serial" console of a VM.
Wish there were more Always-Free instances available.. I tried several times but gave up after few days :-(
terraform decided to amend the url, it's now https://axvxsnomswgi.objectstorage.eu-amsterdam-1.oci.customer-oci.com/p/w82W51VDxq8KqL2N7KaQkTV204W5Gh4dQsymBMs5yRuhmdcQE0BPDCVj5qQjiUA4/n/axvxsnomswgi/b/img/o/ Tomas the capacity varies by Availability Domain / Fault Domain. Try any one except the 1st / default one and you should be fine. I've had no issues in Frankfurt nor Amsterdam.
Thanks Dave, I selected Switzerland / Zurich, but I have asked support to move my account to Amsterdam or Frankfurt, maybe that will help :-)
No problems in Paris, a free instance is created instantly.
I see 14.1-BETA has been released, but the notification doesn’t indicate any Oracle Cloud/OCI images. Is this on track for 14.1 still?
I'll keep it updated here, but yes that's my plan. No new news yet.