Automating My FreeBSD Lab: From Setup to Daily Use with Ansible & Salt

Friday 13:15 - 14:05

Roller Angel

Automating My FreeBSD Lab: From Setup to Daily Use with Ansible & Salt

Abstract

Managing multiple FreeBSD machines can be time-consuming, but automation makes it effortless. In this talk, I will demonstrate how I use Ansible to set up my FreeBSD lab and Salt to maintain and scale it across multiple machines—including how I configured a second FreeBSD laptop with just SSH access.

Attendees will see how automation enables:

By the end of the talk, attendees will understand how to leverage Ansible and Salt to build a reproducible and maintainable FreeBSD infrastructure.


Intended Audience

Attendees should have basic FreeBSD knowledge, but no prior experience with automation tools is required.


Outline

1. Introduction (5 min)

2. Building My FreeBSD Lab with Ansible (15 min)

3. Maintaining & Scaling with Salt (15 min)

4. Lessons Learned & Challenges (5 min)

5. Q&A (5 min)


What Attendees Will Learn