Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:59:41 +0000 From: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Cc: hayzamjs <hayzam@alchemilla.io> Subject: git: 952e9a205e - main - Status/2025Q4/sylve.adoc: Add report Message-ID: <6967a14d.46675.575dab4a@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=952e9a205ed04be42e756d839f0054076853aed4 commit 952e9a205ed04be42e756d839f0054076853aed4 Author: hayzamjs <hayzam@alchemilla.io> AuthorDate: 2025-12-30 18:45:33 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-01-14 13:59:19 +0000 Status/2025Q4/sylve.adoc: Add report Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/591 --- .../en/status/report-2025-10-2025-12/sylve.adoc | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-10-2025-12/sylve.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-10-2025-12/sylve.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..176f33482d --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-10-2025-12/sylve.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +=== Sylve -- A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve[GitHub] URL: link:https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve[] + +link:https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io[CI] URL: link:https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io[] + +link:https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK[Discord] URL: link:https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK[] + +Contact: Hayzam Sherif <hayzam@alchemilla.io> + +Sylve is a modern, unified system management platform for FreeBSD, inspired by Proxmox. +It provides an integrated web interface for managing virtual machines (via Bhyve), Jails, ZFS storage, networking, and firewalling. + +The backend is implemented in Go, while the frontend is built with SvelteKit, Tailwind CSS, and ShadCN UI components. + +The project emphasizes a minimal system footprint. +By default, it only requires the following packages: + +- package:sysutils/smartmontools[] +- package:sysutils/tmux[] + +Optional runtime dependencies, required only when their respective features are used, include: + +- package:devel/libvirt[] for virtualization +- package:devel/qemu[devel/qemu-tools] for disk image management +- package:net/samba419[] for SMB file sharing +- package:sysutils/swtpm[] for TPM emulation support +- package:idns/dnsmasq[] for DHCP and DNS services + +==== Q4 Progress Highlights + +===== Storage + +* ZFS Management: we now use link:https://github.com/alchemillahq/gzfs[GitHub - gzfs] that is a go wrapper around zfs/zpool/zdb CLI to provide full support for creating and managing ZFS pools and datasets. + This has improved performance and reliability compared to our previous implementation. + +* VM and Jail storage management: During the initialization user can pick the pool(s) where VM (disks/zvols) and Jail (datasets) will be created, and all the disk/dataset creation will be done under the hood automatically. + +===== Jails + +* Support for Linux Jails using the FreeBSD Linuxulator has been added. + Users can create, manage, and monitor Linux Jails via the web interface. + It is still considered experimental but we have tested extensively with Rocky Linux and Alpine. + +* A bunch of improvements to jails has been added where in people can now supply a lot more options when creating/editing/viewing thick jails. + +===== Virtual Machines + +* Cloud-Init Support: Sylve now supports Cloud-Init for automated VM provisioning. + Users can provide Cloud-Init configuration during VM creation/editing. + +* Serial Console: A web-based serial console for VMs has been implemented, allowing users to access the VM console directly from the Sylve UI. + +===== Networking + +* DHCP Server: A web UI around package:dns/dnsmasq[] has been added, we allow creation of Ranges, Reservations, and Options. + +===== Utilities + +The downloader now supports automatic extraction of various archive formats including .tar.gz, .zip, .xz, and .bz2 and also supports automatic conversion of disk images to raw format. + +===== General + +Sylve now requires FreeBSD 15.0 or later, as we now depend on features like Jail metadata, and ZFS v2.4.0+ which includes JSON output for many commands that we rely on. + +We also have made numerous improvements to the UI/UX, performance optimizations, and bug fixes across the platform, some of them include: + +* Improved graphing with the link:https://echarts.apache.org[ECharts] library for better performance and interactivity. +* Enhanced accessibility features to ensure compliance with WCAG standards. +* Internationalization (i18n) support with the help of link:https://wuchale.dev/[Wuchale], starting with Hindi (hi) translations for the UI. +* Backend optimizations for faster data retrieval and reduced load times. +* Removed several frontend dependencies (notably tanstack), opting for lighter alternatives to reduce overall bundle size and improve load times. + +==== Roadmap Update + +Some clustering work is still ongoing. +Once completed, we will release full project documentation and begin packaging Sylve for easy installation via pkg. + +We are also developing a new, tightly integrated backup system within the Sylve monorepo, enabling simple backup and restore of VMs, jails, and configurations.home | help
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