A new BSDCan video has been posted:
Automating My FreeBSD Lab: From Setup to Daily Use with Ansible & Salt by Roller Angel
Automating My FreeBSD Lab: From Setup to Daily Use with Ansible & Salt
Abstract

https://youtu.be/yX0p_M8eykc

Managing multiple FreeBSD machines can be time-consuming, but automation makes it effortless. In this talk, I will demonstrate how I use Ansible to set up my FreeBSD lab and Salt to maintain and scale it across multiple machines—including how I configured a second FreeBSD laptop with just SSH access.

Attendees will see how automation enables:

Seamless FreeBSD system setup using Ansible.

Automated configuration management with Salt.

Effortless scaling to new machines, reducing manual setup to a few commands.

By the end of the talk, attendees will understand how to leverage Ansible and Salt to build a reproducible and maintainable FreeBSD infrastructure.
Intended Audience

FreeBSD users interested in automating system setup and maintenance.

System administrators managing multiple FreeBSD machines.

Anyone curious about Ansible and Salt for FreeBSD automation.

Attendees should have basic FreeBSD knowledge, but no prior experience with automation tools is required.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
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https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Automating-My-FreeBSD.html

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