[sfRattan]

Another proxmox-esque project I've been watching is Sylve, a control plane for FreeBSD that provides a web interface to jails, bhyve VMs, and containers [1]. It's new-ish, but it looks like a possible sweet spot replacement for both proxmox and TrueNAS (which was originally also built on FreeBSD before they switched to Linux IIRC), at least for my homelab-ing use case. Potentially eventually for environments at greater scale also. The company behind it is a software consultancy and Sylve is built with their actual business needs in mind, and is BSD-licensed like the OS it runs atop.

One of the developers building Sylve gave a talk last year [2].

[1]: https://sylve.io/

[2]: https://youtu.be/wo4oD5UON30

[itchingsphynx]

How does Sylve compare to Webmin [1]?

[1]: https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-install-webmin-on-freebsd-14-0

[sfRattan]

Sylve, proxmox, and TrueNAS are all tools focused on: virtualization, containers, storage, and clusters. I've not used webmin, but it looks like a broader focus. Something like a kitchen sink of administering anything Unix-like via a web browser.

I wouldn't be surprised, glancing at webmin's site and docs, if it can do most/all of what more focused management tools like Sylve or proxmox can, but it seems to have so many other dials and knobs that IDK if I'd reach for webmin unless I were already familiar with it.

So Sylve is sort of the opposite of webmin in certain ways: highly focused, very new, built on a specific OS. It just looks interesting to me because FreeBSD has been great to work with already at my network gateway (running opnsense for firewall and routing), and I like the idea it replacing TrueNAS on a box I already own and use both for storage and running various self-hosted services (e.g. Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, Home Assistant, and the like) in containers and/or VMs as appropriate.