ECOSYSTEM

The Eight.ly ecosystem

Four products that work together to replace your entire homelab stack. Use one or use all.

Eight.ly OS
The core. Everything in one binary.

Hypervisor (KVM/QEMU VMs + LXC) + NAS (SnapRAID, MergerFS, ZFS) + Docker container manager (3,400+ apps) + Nova AI assistant (41 tools). Installed by booting the image, on bare metal or in a VM.

  • Nova AI
  • KVM/QEMU VMs with noVNC
  • LXC containers
  • Docker with 3,400+ apps
  • SnapRAID + MergerFS + ZFS
  • SMB/NFS file sharing
  • Web terminal with tmux
  • Grafana + Prometheus monitoring
  • GPU detection + passthrough
  • Three deploy modes
Eight.ly OS, $79, buy once
See pricing
Eight.ly Backup Server (EBS)
Deduplicating backup server, built in Go.

Deduplicating backup target. Single binary. Backs up VMs, containers, and configs from Eight.ly OS or any deduplicating source.

  • Content-defined deduplication
  • Buzhash content-defined chunking
  • AES-256-GCM encryption with PBKDF2 600K iterations
  • One small program, nothing else to install
  • Web UI for monitoring backup jobs
  • TLS TOFU cert pinning
Comes free with Eight.ly OS
eightly-agent
v1.0.0
Multi-host Docker management. Open source (Apache 2.0).

Deploy the agent on any Docker host — Linux, macOS, or Windows — and manage all your containers from one Eight.ly dashboard. Single binary, signed releases with SLSA provenance and SBOM.

  • Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows
  • Install via Homebrew, Scoop, .deb, .rpm, or Docker
  • HMAC-SHA256 auth with session key rotation
  • Fail-closed TLS (system trust store default)
  • Prometheus /metrics endpoint
  • Signed binaries, SLSA provenance, SBOM
  • 129+ tests, 6 rounds of security review
Open source — Apache 2.0Included with Eight.ly OS
View on GitHub
Tablet companion app
Your homelab in your hands.

Full Eight.ly dashboard on iOS and Android. API key auth for secure connectivity. Monitor, deploy, and manage from anywhere on your network.

  • iOS submitted to App Store
  • Android AAB built, coming soon
  • API key authentication
  • Full dashboard — containers, NAS, monitoring
Included with Eight.ly OS
Better together
Each product works standalone, but they're designed to work as a system. Eight.ly OS manages your containers, VMs, and storage. EBS backs it all up. The agent extends control to remote hosts. The tablet app puts it all in your pocket.
Eight.ly OSEBS BackupAgent (remote hosts)Tablet app