Infrastructure control should be open
FreeSDN exists to unify best-of-breed systems under a single pane of glass (switches, firewalls, cameras, VoIP, compute, and storage) without lock-in. Self-hosted, vendor-neutral, and AGPL-3.0. Your infrastructure, your data, your terms.
One pane of glass for the gear you already run
Modern infrastructure is best-of-breed by necessity (the right switch, the right firewall, the right NVR, the right hypervisor), and every one of them ships its own portal, its own account, and its own way of doing things. The result is a dozen tabs and no single place to see, or safely change, what you actually own.
FreeSDN is the glue. It unifies switches, firewalls, cameras, VoIP, access control, compute, and storage under one dashboard and one typed API, across vendors, without ripping anything out. You keep the hardware you already paid for; FreeSDN just makes it speak with one voice.
And it does it on your terms. FreeSDN is self-hosted and AGPL-3.0: no cloud you have to trust, no telemetry you can't turn off, and no per-device fees that punish you for growing. Infrastructure control this fundamental should be open, and it should be yours.
Four principles, no asterisks
Every decision in FreeSDN traces back to a small set of commitments. They are the reason the project exists, and the line we won't cross to grow it.
Open source
AGPL-3.0, end to end. Read the code, fork it, run it forever. You own it.
Self-hosted & private
No cloud, no telemetry requirement, air-gappable. By default, your data stays on your own network.
Vendor-neutral
Keep the hardware you already own. One pane across every vendor, with no lock-in.
Honest by default
We state our posture plainly (including the gaps) so you can make an informed call.
An honest word on how FreeSDN is made
FreeSDN is independently developed and built in the open. It is also built with AI-assisted tooling. We use it heavily, and we'd rather say so directly than pretend otherwise. The code is public, the design decisions are documented, and you can read every line for yourself.
Community-funded, not VC-funded
The project sustains itself through community support, not venture capital or paywalls. Contributions quite literally fuel the build (they go toward the Claude and Codex subscriptions that power day-to-day development) so the platform can keep shipping without a feature locked behind a sales call. No editions are paywalled; every tier is free and AGPL-3.0.
Support the project on GitHub →A pre-production release, stated plainly
FreeSDN is a pre-production / testing release, intended today for evaluation, testing, and homelab use. It is not yet recommended for production or business-critical deployments. Production readiness will be announced in a future release. Validate thoroughly before relying on it.
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