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Apiary offers transparent FreeBSD host control plane

Apiary is a new control plane for managing FreeBSD hosts, designed to be transparent and explainable. It handles bhyve VMs and jails, utilizing Raft consensus for reconciliation, ZFS for storage, and PF for networking. The project aims to provide a clear alternative to black-box virtualization solutions like libvirt. AI

RANK_REASON Announcement of a new infrastructure management tool.

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Apiary offers transparent FreeBSD host control plane

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Apiary – a FreeBSD control plane you can actually explain https:// apiary.work/ ― Apiary runs a small Colony of FreeBSD hosts as one thing: bhyve VMs and jails,

    Apiary – a FreeBSD control plane you can actually explain https:// apiary.work/ ― Apiary runs a small Colony of FreeBSD hosts as one thing: bhyve VMs and jails, placed and reconciled over Raft consensus, with ZFS storage, PF networking, and a web control plane that shows its work…