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\ \ <>\ \ 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.\ Outline\ 1. Introduction (5 min)\ \     Why automate?\ \     My FreeBSD lab & laptop setup overview.\ \ 2. Building My FreeBSD Lab with Ansible (15 min)\ \     Bootstrapping a new system.\ \     Automating system installation & package setup.\ \     Adding a second laptop with just SSH access.\ \ 3. Maintaining & Scaling with Salt (15 min)\ \     Managing configs, packages, and updates.\ \     Enforcing system state across multiple machines.\ \     How I maintain consistency between multiple devices.\ \ 4. Lessons Learned & Challenges (5 min)\ \     Why this method works well for FreeBSD.\ \     Troubleshooting automation quirks.\ \ 5. Q&A (5 min)\ What Attendees Will Learn\ \     How to use Ansible to set up FreeBSD machines quickly.\ \     How Salt makes long-term configuration management effortless.\ \     How to automate multiple FreeBSD machines with minimal manual work.\ \ For more information, please visit: \ https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/\ - and -\ https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Automating-My-FreeBSD.html\ \ #runbsd #freebsd #ansible