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Take back your infrastructure!

OpenSDDC (Open Software Defined Data Center) is an open-source datacenter ecosystem focused on infrastructure freedom.

OpenSDDC · OpenDIMA · dc(e)OS · SLTV · gIMI
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Break free from (vendor lock-in)!

With our free and open-source platform, escape vendor dependency cycles—your infrastructure should belong to you.

Vendor lock-in creates serious risks for modern infrastructure.

01

Platform lock-in

Your app may be open source; if the platform it runs on is not portable, operational dependency remains.

02

Storage lock-in

Vendor-specific storage APIs and data formats compound the cost of moving to another platform over time.

03

Operational lock-in

When day-to-day operations are shaped around one platform, migration becomes a cultural problem—not only a technical one.

04

License and support risk

When license, support, update, and access policies change, the future of your infrastructure can slip out of your control.

OpenSDDC's vision: infrastructure freedom.

Without throwing away existing investments—we lower the cost of changing platforms through portable storage models, open observability, and automation practices.

Futuristic datacenter illustration — GNU motif and open infrastructure theme

OpenSDDC: open source ecosystem

Five integrated projects across virtualization, storage, observability, and automation.

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SLTV

Shared Logical Thin Volume

A portable volume approach for KVM on SAN and, later, Kubernetes.

  • check_circleKVM/QEMU volume model on shared LUN
  • check_circleQEMU-aware LVM approach
  • check_circleThin provisioning behavior
Details →GitHub
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gIMI

gRPC Infrastructure Management Interface

Open telemetry and management interface for hypervisor, VM, and Kubernetes layers.

  • check_circlegRPC-based infrastructure management API
  • check_circleShared API surface for management, metrics, and telemetry
  • check_circleeBPF support
Details →GitHub
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dc(e)OS

Data Center Operating System

Opinionated, immutable Linux-based OS for bare-metal servers.

  • check_circleRHEL / Rocky / Alma-aligned baseline approach
  • check_circleImmutable host OS
  • check_circleKVM / QEMU / libvirt-ready profile
Details →GitHub
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OpenDIMA

Discover · Ingest · Monitor · Automate

Infrastructure inventory, event context, observability, and automation.

  • check_circleDiscovery and inventory
  • check_circleService map
  • check_circleTelemetry support via gIMI
Details →GitHub
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OpenSDDC Manager

Unified control and visibility layer

Upper management layer that brings OpenSDDC components and existing platforms together.

  • check_circleMulti-hypervisor: dc(e)OS, Proxmox, ESXi
  • check_circleUnified inventory and view
  • check_circlePod ↔ VM ↔ host event chain
Details →GitHub

Join us

OpenSDDC is an open ecosystem spanning every critical layer of datacenter infrastructure, shaped by real-world experience. You can take part by providing lab environments, writing docs, sharing migration stories, or joining discussions.

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Code & integration

KVM, QEMU, libvirt, LVM, CSI driver, Kubernetes / OpenShift, gRPC, Go / Python SDK, OVS / OVN, non-KVM hypervisors.

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Storage & lab

SAN / iSCSI / FC test beds, shared LUN scenarios, migration tests, failure scenarios, performance benchmarks.

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Observability

OpenTelemetry integrations, eBPF research, host/VM/pod telemetry correlation, metric and log modeling.

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Security & packaging

SELinux hardening, secure defaults, container image security, RPM packaging, CI/CD pipelines.

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Documentation

Turkish and English documentation, lab guides, migration stories.

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Hardware & PoC

Temporary hardware for labs, SAN / iSCSI / FC test infrastructure, server / disk / HBA / switch / storage donations.

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If you want to take back your infrastructure, contribute to OpenSDDC.

Be at the center of the open infrastructure movement! Read the roadmap, open issues on GitHub, join Slack, share a test result from your homelab.

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