FreeBSD

Part of the SSH-based OS identification family — see that page for the shared mechanism, credentials, and host key verification.

targets:
  - id: freebsd-host
    product: freebsd
    address: host.example.com
    credentials: linux-host-ssh

The one product in this family reading a different path

Every other product in this family reads /etc/os-release; FreeBSD is the exception. FreeBSD generates /var/run/os-release itself, dynamically, at boot (/etc/rc.d/os-release) — in the exact same KEY=VALUE shape Linux distributions ship statically at /etc/os-release. Verified live via QEMU (FreeBSD’s own official cloud qcow2 — no Docker image exists for FreeBSD): ID=freebsd, VERSION_ID="15.1".

Lifecycle resolver

endoflife:freebsd.