Creating a stretched Layer 2 network for VMs on bhyve and FreeBSD
(2025-09-04):In today's globalized IT landscape the term "cloud" dominates conversations about infrastructure, applications, and deployment strategies. Public cloud providers promise scalability, flexibility, and resilience but yet many organizations still operate their own infrastructure for reasons of control, cost, and compliance... In these environments, FreeBSD continues to play an important role as a robust, secure, and versatile operating system. One of the powerful tools in the FreeBSD ecosystem is CBSD ( github ). CBSD acts as a management layer that simplifies the handling of FreeBSD jails, bhyve virtual machines, and other system resources. Instead of manually working through complex configuration steps, administrators can rely on CBSD’s unified command-line and TUI interfaces to create, configure, and maintain VMs and containers with ease. In particular, CBSD makes bhyve—the native FreeBSD hypervisor—far more accessible, allowing administrators to spin up virtual machines quickly and efficiently. While virtualization is an essential building block, networking remains equally .... [read more]