BSD

BSD Working Group

The BSD Working Group collaborates on BSD and BSD-related technologies (incl. DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrueOS, FreeNAS, OPNSense, pfSense) in Ansible.

News

• BSD works out of the box with most of the standard Unix modules.
• We formed a Working Group to improve the BSD-specific support in Ansible.
• We have a BSD pinboard, subscribe to it to stay informed!

Community

Name	GitHub (+ IRC)	Flavours	Role	Affiliation
Antonio Huete	tuxillo	DragonFly BSD	Reviewer	Independent
Brian Coca	bcoca		Reviewer	Red Hat/Ansible
Goran Mekić	mekanix / meka	FreeBSD, HardenedBSD	Reviewer	Independent
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse	jasperla	OpenBSD	Reviewer	Independent
Orion Poplawski	opoplawski / orionp	pfSense	Reviewer	Independent
Ross Williams	overhacked	FreeBSD, pfSense, FreeNAS	Reviewer	Independent
MacLemon	MacLemon	FreeBSD	Reviewer	Independent
Dag Wieers	dagwieers / dag	pfSense, OPNsense	Supporting	Independent

Add yourself to this list as a Reviewer (help review PRs) or as a Member (discuss issues/roadmap).

Ideas

• TBD What can be improved?

Action plan

v2.8 release

• New BSD modules:
  • freebsd_update -- @loqutus #41976
  • ezjail -- @hc42 #35111
  • freebsdport -- @basarevych #32727
  • rc_service -- @thnee #26251
• Update the BSD documentation:
  • Add information about specific BSD-flavors
  • Tips and tricks section
  • Mention BSD Working Group
• Add See Also sections to BSD modules referring related modules and websites
• Add missing integration tests to existing modules:
  • pkgng, portinstall
• Review open pull-requests -- open PRs
• Review open issues -- open issues

future

• DragonFly BSD
  • Fix mount module (missing mount(8) -T option)
  • hammer_facts / hammer2_facts (similar to community zpool_facts)
  • hammer / hammer2 module (similar to community zfs)
• TBD

Links

• TBD