shell-freebsd

Get a free shell for FreeBSD in GitHub Actions

Note

If you need a FreeBSD VM shell, you can use this repo.

Instruction

First fork this repo
Click the Actions menu on your Repo, and then enable GitHub Action on your fork
Then Select All Workflows ➡️ Shell on the left
Then click the Run Workflow dropdown menu on the right side
Then click the Run Workflow button

Wait a few seconds, the GitHub Action will run in your repo.

Click Shell ➡️ Start a FreeBSD shell, to open the log window, you will see a FreeBSD vm is booting there.

Wait about 5-8 minutes, the FreeBSD vm will be ready.

And you will see the SSH address like below:

Setting up tmate...

Running tmate...

To connect to this session copy-n-paste the following into a terminal:

$ ssh 3R7dS7j45xk4CGzkz52psXpqr@nyc1.tmate.io

After connecting you can run:

$ touch /tmp/keepalive

to disable the 15m timeout.

Good. Use the address to connect:

$ ssh 3R7dS7j45xk4CGzkz52psXpqr@nyc1.tmate.io

You will get a shell like:

Mac-1606142911434:shell-freebsd runner $

Then you can ssh to the FreeBSD VM:

$ ssh freebsd