From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab
a day ago
- #FreeBSD
- #Virtualization
- #Infrastructure Management
- The office lab switched from Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve due to infrastructure management feeling heavy and distracting from core tasks.
- FreeBSD offers essential primitives like ZFS, bhyve, jails, and pf, while Sylve provides lightweight management without added complexity.
- The setup excels in routine tasks such as VM provisioning, storage tweaks, hardware passthrough, and snapshot management, making daily work smoother.
- Practical benefits include torrent-based image downloads, on-the-fly VM disk conversion, and a fast web terminal (ghostty-web), enhancing efficiency.
- The move was driven by a need for a stable, direct stack that minimizes mental overhead, rather than seeking a grand new infrastructure model.