You can get almost anything running on most hypervisors if you’re OK with mounting an ISO and running through an installation, but VM cloud images are essential for repeat deployments, so I wanted to explore what the support is like on FreeBSD. Turns out, it’s not terrible.

This post is about multiple components involved in deploying FreeBSD to a VMware environment. Since there are many moving parts this may also be interesting in general to anyone doing “infrastructure as code” and cloud deployments, the process is quite similar for Linux.