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How to support FreeBSD on your cloud

Colin Percival · 8 Nov 2025

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Automation is a lie: every automated thing needs a human on top of it making sure it is working.

That's great, but I don't think it can replace a human poking at virtual machines; my experience with EC2 is that images break in all sorts of wild ways, and nothing beats a human for saying "huh, I have no idea what's going on here but something seems weird".

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  1. That's great, but I don't think it can replace a human poking at virtual machines; my experience with EC2 is that images break in all sorts of wild ways, and nothing beats a human for saying "huh, I have no idea what's going on here but something seems weird".

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