Fairly recently, I came across a project that got my interest. It's called sylve, and it is a FreeBSD-based web UI that manages both containers and virtual machines. It developing in a similar direction as Proxmox VE. I first heard about it on Vermaden's Vaulable News. Vermaden linked a post from a guy named Gyptazy. His latest post gives a great rundown on
- Where we are now,
- How to install it,
- A roadmap of where the project is heading.
I was able to use this post to not only set up sylve, but also set up a three-node cluster for it. I even went and wrote an ansible role to do the installation, installing prerequisites, pulling from git, and compiling. The next thing is to try to get my pre-existing jails and vms imported into sylve. The downside is that it is very much a moving target, so there is a dearth of docs.
Thanks to Vermaden for his weekly news posts, and to Gyptazy for his post. I even emailed him to thank him personally for his blog post, as well as publicly thanking both of them in this post, since I have learned a lot from both in my BSD journey.