There is something quite satisfying about "orchestrating" virtual machines and upgrading several of them at once in less than 3 minutes of downtime with just #OpenBSD base tooling.

Such as: vmd/vmctl, qcow2 with base images, make, autoinstall, ssh, scp, tap interfaces, pf, softraid crypto(-raid1), cron, and a few small hacks.

Fully automated and tracked in version control. No complicated enterprise frameworks in sight :flan_thumbs:​

@holsta favicon added, thanks for the tip

We have started our first round of sign-up for #Git repository hosting.

Our first server for Git hosting is expected to be installed next week. Additional servers will be added as needed based on demand.

See https://gothub.org for an introduction to our project.

See https://gothub.org/features.html to get an idea about which features are already working and what is planned for the future.

See https://gothub.org/tiers.html for the initial service tier configurations and prices.

See https://gothub.org/signup.html for details about the sign-up process.

Drafts of our terms of service and privacy policy are online:

https://gothub.org/terms.html

https://gothub.org/privacy.html

Not linked from the main page yet.

And they have not been vetted by lawyers. Finding an EU-based lawyer to get them vetted would be nice. If someone has a tip, please let us know.

If you are curious about the context of what we are doing and why, watch the talk @stsp presented at the BSD NL user group meeting in November 2024: https://exquisite.tube/w/p/83fsrxjAQweqK38iTyMJBy

Slides are available at https://bsdnl.nl/slides/bsdnl202402-Stefan_Sperling-The_Game_of_Trees_Hub.pdf

We have started racking servers for the Game of Trees Hub.

Our first set of servers is located in #Berlin. These servers are spares we had lying around. They aren't very fast but good enough to host our web site (https://gothub.org), monitor service health, store backups, etc.

#git repositories will be hosted on fast root servers which we plan to rent at various hosting providers soon.

We are currently finishing our deployment scripts and some minor #gameoftrees features which we must have available at launch because, these days, running a public Git hosting site is unreasonable without shutting out relentless web crawling effectively :flan_heck:

You can support us on the Open Collective platform at https://opencollective.com/gothub and eventually rent Git repository space by making monthly contributions to this collective. More details will be announced once we are ready.