FreeNAS 11 and Beyond Plugins Support

[kevanbrown]

Does anyone have a link to official (not speculation) guidance from the FreeNAS team regarding the future of plugins support for FreeNAS 11 and beyond?

Before I embark on creating a plugin to expedite installation of a piece of software and its dependencies in a jail, I want to know whether this effort would be wasted by near term deprecation of plugins. There seems to be very little in the way of any documentation on this process and what little I can find, while not prescriptive, seems to refer more to FreeBSD 9.3 and using an older portsnap due to lack of support for newer package format.

While I do like the isolation and platform flexibility provided by bhyve, I don't like the additional overhead of running another full OS on top of my FreeNAS server resources.

Thanks!

Kevan

 

[nightshade00013]

https://github.com/freenas/iocage-ix-plugins

Plugins will continue on but will change a little. The following link should give you an idea on exactly how those changes will affect any work.

https://github.com/freenas/iocage-ix-plugins/tree/master/template

 

[kevanbrown]

https://github.com/freenas/iocage-ix-plugins

Plugins will continue on but will change a little. The following link should give you an idea on exactly how those changes will affect any work.

https://github.com/freenas/iocage-ix-plugins/tree/master/template

Interesting, and thank you very much. Is this currently implemented in the latest FreeNAS 11 stable build or are existing plugins still built on FreeNAS 9.3 using the older portsnap method? Just trying to figure out what's best for my VMware Workstation plugin build environment.

 

[dlavigne]

I recently added this note for the upcoming BETA1 Guide: https://github.com/freenas/freenas-docs/commit/74641e946e0fd4a2bd0a9ecd391a648e3f3a21b4.

 

[nightshade00013]

The pkg and port system should still function the same as it always has. Those are FreeBSD features and I don't see FreeNAS not continuing with something different that works well.

To be clear the plugin system is different from pkg and ports where you create an empty jail and then build it out how you need.