# Introduction

Sylve is an open-source control panel built on FreeBSD, bringing virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, firewalls, NAT, WireGuard, TLS, dynamic DNS, monitoring, notifications and system services into one place. The backend is written in **Go**, with a **SvelteKit** frontend.

The goal is simple: manage your infrastructure without relying on a pile of shell scripts. To get started, run `pkg install sylve` on FreeBSD 15 or newer, then open `https://<host>:8181` in your browser. For more information, see the [getting started](/getting-started/) guide.

### What Sylve Delivers

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### Architecture at a Glance

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### Why Sylve? Why not Proxmox, TrueNAS, Cockpit, or others?

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