It's a TrueNAS world (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrueNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS starting from its origins as a FreeBSD project, TrueNAS Core being in maintenance mode, the momentum and innovation happening in TrueNAS Scale, the evolution of the TrueNAS user interface, managing ZFS compatibility in TrueNAS, the business model of iXsystems and their commitment to the open-source community, and of course what’s to come in the upcoming Dragonfish release of TrueNAS Scale.

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Featuring:

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Show Notes:

• TrueNAS
• Tailscale on TrueNAS SCALE
• Changelog Interviews – #574: Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:01:39)

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3. Start the show! (00:03:58)

4. Kris's background (00:04:39)

5. Adam's Proxmox (00:07:43)

6. Backing up your TrueNAS config (00:10:13)

7. Let's talk TrueNAS! (00:11:24)

8. TrueNAS Core in "maintainence mode" (00:15:11)

9. Adam uses TrueNAS Scale (00:21:01)

10. Pushing buttons vs CLI'ing (00:23:57)

11. Getting started with ZFS (00:25:58)

12. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:28:09)

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13. Adam's TrueNAS issue (00:30:37)

14. Amazing forums (00:34:32)

15. OK, one more issue (00:36:49)

16. Amazing UI (00:42:29)

17. TrueNAS and ZFS compatibility (00:47:09)

18. iXsystems' business model? (00:54:14)

19. Sponsor: imgproxy (01:00:20)

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20. Making money (01:03:48)

21. Making hardware (01:06:25)

22. What Kris manages (01:09:16)

23. What's your happy place? (01:11:51)

24. Try before you buy (01:14:18)

25. Money in Homelab? (01:17:01)

26. Teasing the future (01:21:52)

27. I'm on Bluefin?! (01:25:58)

28. The Cobia release (01:27:15)

29. Wrapping up and upgrading (01:31:02)

30. Closing thoughts (01:33:36)