Cloud images

[Greg G]

Has an progress been made for cloud ready images?  I the thread below in an old release, but can't find anything related in the current releases.

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=18

Thanks,
Greg

[franco]

Hi there,

It's the case of a lot of time vs. resources. I think the build system is now able to accommodate builds for such cloud images with little to no resources, but it's impractical to publish all of those potential images, let alone maintain them.

What we really need is a on-demand build system that can provide images build from the latest components, tailored for a specific VM instance. Problem here is who do you trust with your images.

We know that e.g. AWS takes a lot of time to get bootstrapped correctly with their internal network setup. Ike was working on such things in the past, but I do not know if that work was in a state that could be integrated.

There is also the route of using opnsense-bootstrap to turn a FreeBSD-ish deployment into OPNsense as FreeBSD images are available and sometimes even provider-provided.

The question is where do we start, where do we end. What can we provide, what should be left to others?


Cheers,
Franco

[skydiablo]

so, 4 years later? some new ideas?

[franco]

See https://github.com/opnsense/tools/issues/9 / https://github.com/opnsense/tools/blob/master/build/vm.sh -- was added May 20, 2016. But you will need to run the script yourself.


Cheers,
Franco

[binaryanomaly]

Just as an input that might be interesting to consider:

Other OS network software projects started providing turnkey ready cloud images for professionals who wanted this and were willing to pay for it. This in return provided them funding for further opensource development.

Maybe an interesting business model / approach for OPNsense as well?

[franco]

I don't like advertising on this forum so much...

https://wiki.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/installaws.html
https://wiki.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/installova.html
https://wiki.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/installazure.html

So we provide the build tools for free, or you can acquire ready-to-use images. I know some providers patch their images to work with cloud-init and such and provide them also.


Cheers,
Franco

[binaryanomaly]

It was just a monetization idea. No advertising intended, removed link and name.

[franco]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't like mentioning the support offerings of OPNsense here as a "solution" to questions, including these images. The people who are looking for these offerings know where to find them.

Your link was fine.


Cheers,
Franco

[binaryanomaly]

Ah ok. Like your attitude 👍🏻

[skydiablo]

okay, i build the image by my own... thx for all!