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How To Build and Deploy Packages for Your FreeBSD Servers Using Buildbot and Poudriere — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build and Deploy Packages for Your FreeBSD Servers Using Buildbot and Poudriere

Poudriere is the standard tool on FreeBSD to build, test, and audit packages as well as maintain the package repositories. In this tutorial you’ll configure Poudriere, build a set of desired packages, set up HTTP-base package hosting, and automate the build using Buildbot as a continuous integration platform. Next, you will access the packages from a client machine. Finally, if you want to integrate your own software builds with this process, you’ll step through building an example application.

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How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0

A FAMP stack, which is similar to a LAMP stack on Linux, is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a FreeBSD server to host dynamic websites and web apps. FAMP is an acronym that stands for FreeBSD (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database server), and PHP (to process dynamic PHP content).

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How To Configure and Connect to a Private OpenVPN Server on FreeBSD 10.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure and Connect to a Private OpenVPN Server on FreeBSD 10.1

OpenVPN is an open-source virtual private network (VPN) server/client application which allows you to join a virtual network (similar to a LAN) securely. This tutorial will explain how to install and configure an OpenVPN server on a FreeBSD 10.1 machine with IPv4 NAT and routing. By the end, you’ll be running your own OpenVPN server, and have a client configuration file ready to download to connect to this network.

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How To Install and Configure OpenNTPd on FreeBSD 10.2 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OpenNTPd on FreeBSD 10.2

NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is a standardized protocol providing ways to synchronize time on various operating systems. OpenNTPd is a free and easy-to-use implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), originally developed as part of the OpenBSD project. It provides the ability to sync the local clock from remote NTP servers and can also act as server itself.

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