Replace Linux by NetBSD on any remote server SSH only

naguam

Hi,

The reason I was tinkering with Caddy is because I came up with a project.

Replace a remote Linux by NetBSD (or any OS) on a remote server only by using the initial SSH access we have on the remote Linux server.
This is basically an in-place OS replacement.

After some research, I found a way to do that, and decided to write an article about it.
I thought it would made sense to host that article on a NetBSD server installed this way.
(My server might be one of the rare if not sole NetBSD server in the provider's data-center).

This is way I learned a lot about NetBSD system administration, for init scripts, npf firewall + blocklistd, user chroot service isolation the NetBSD way, Caddy setup to ease certificate management, and so on.

Here is my article.
https://cloudbsd.xyz/

I made the demo video in a local VM though.

I'm sharing because I think this might interest people here.

Hope you will like it,

Cheers,

Jay

naguam also check NetBSD vps provider https://panix.com/

Jay

naguam https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@winterschon/112835864896190540

Some words of appreciation 🙂

naguam

Thanks for the reminder,

I know about this provider, but as an European, for latency and price reasons a local option made more sense.

Of course I know I can find specialised providers, I also did that for the challenge (this is why I made the article), to broaden the possibilities.

Anyway for a static website, I could just host it on a github.io or anything like that for free.

Jay

naguam btw for some reason I am unable to open your blog .

Edit : by using vpn i could access it 🙂

naguam

Awesome !

Thanks for sharing it there, as well as on hackernews and lobster as well.