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Folks,
Over the past week I’ve been asked by many of you (some on the forums, some through other means) what our intentions at iXsystems are around the existing FreeNAS product. We did have language in our initial Corral press release around this, but I wanted to take a moment to dispel any concerns and clarify what the plan is going forward. We’ve recently updated our FAQ to address this concern.
For those who are running Corral and loving it, rock-on! But for those who are die-hard 9.10 fans we want to re-iterate that FreeNAS isn’t going away. To the contrary, we already have planned updates in the works for 9.10.3 and 9.10.4 which will bring some exciting new changes. Some of the notable ones in development include:
I’ll try to keep you posted about these enhancements as they land in the nightlies and release. In the meantime, you can follow along on the bug tracker or GitHub repos. Thanks again and we at iX appreciate your continued usage of FreeNAS and the new FreeNAS Corral.
Over the past week I’ve been asked by many of you (some on the forums, some through other means) what our intentions at iXsystems are around the existing FreeNAS product. We did have language in our initial Corral press release around this, but I wanted to take a moment to dispel any concerns and clarify what the plan is going forward. We’ve recently updated our FAQ to address this concern.
For those who are running Corral and loving it, rock-on! But for those who are die-hard 9.10 fans we want to re-iterate that FreeNAS isn’t going away. To the contrary, we already have planned updates in the works for 9.10.3 and 9.10.4 which will bring some exciting new changes. Some of the notable ones in development include:
- Support for Minio S3 Buckets: Host your own S3 compatible instance locally.
- Enhanced reporting service support: As part of our longer-term strategy of integrating Consul, Nomad, and others we’ve added initial support for consul-alerts for UI notifications. This allows you to get notifications via Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and a variety of other platforms.
- VM support with Bhyve: Recently merged into the nightlies in time for 9.10.3 is support for running vms via the UI. This will replace the legacy VirtualBox plugin with a “native” solution, suitable for running Windows, Linux, and more.
- Replacing legacy Warden backed jails/plugins with iocage: While jails are one of the coolest things of 9.x, we know they can be difficult to create and maintain. Part of this effort is to standardize on the well-supported iocage jail management system, which also includes a much improved method of creating plugins.
- A revamped UI based upon Angular: The UI of FreeNAS is a tad aged and work has already begun to replace it with a snazzy new Angular-based UI. Another UI you may say? Well, no worries. It is being developed alongside the existing UI, meaning you can choose to log into the new or old UI with just a click. You can demo the early PoC of this UI in the nightlies today.
I’ll try to keep you posted about these enhancements as they land in the nightlies and release. In the meantime, you can follow along on the bug tracker or GitHub repos. Thanks again and we at iX appreciate your continued usage of FreeNAS and the new FreeNAS Corral.
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