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AlchemillaHQ/Sylve

Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD observed · 2026-09-01

github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve · homepage · Go · BSD-2-Clause (permissive) observed · 2026-09-01

Health v2 · maintenance only

87/100

  • Activity 100
  • Release rhythm 99
  • Longevity 38
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 1.5
  • age_days: 542
  • days_rel: 9
  • days_push: 2
  • n_releases_24m: 7

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1084 stars · 70 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Sylve is an open-source web-based management platform for FreeBSD that unifies Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, ZFS storage, networking, firewalling, backups, and multi-node clustering into a single control plane. It is written in Go with a SvelteKit frontend, exposes a REST API and web UI, and installs via pkg on FreeBSD 15+.

Use cases

  • manage bhyve virtual machines on freebsd through a web interface
  • create and administer freebsd jails without shell scripts
  • manage zfs pools, snapshots, and replication from a gui
  • configure pf firewall, nat, and wireguard on a freebsd host
  • cluster multiple freebsd hosts and migrate vms between them
  • serve zfs datasets over samba or iscsi
  • self-hosted alternative to proxmox for freebsd

When to choose

  • you run FreeBSD 15+ servers and want one interface for VMs, jails, ZFS, and networking
  • you want a FreeBSD-native alternative to Proxmox or manual shell-script administration
  • you need multi-host clustering with guest migration and replicated backups on FreeBSD
  • you prefer managing firewall, DHCP, and WireGuard alongside workloads in one tool

When to avoid

  • your infrastructure runs on Linux rather than FreeBSD
  • you need to manage only a single non-ZFS host without virtualization features
  • you require a very long track record of production hardening, as the project is young and evolving
  • you need support for hypervisors other than Bhyve or container runtimes other than Jails

Facets

application · maturity active

gui web-framework container-orchestration file-system networking backup monitoring auth configuration-management deployment api-framework self-hosted infrastructure-as-code networking operating-systems cloud-computing bsd self-hosted go cli bhyve freebsd-jails zfs control-panel firewall wireguard clustering samba iscsi pf hypervisor-management web-ui virtualization storage devops web-server

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Member repositories

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