summit

summit is a portable and self-contained server management web dashboard for Linux and BSD that fits in 3MB.

Important

A lot of features (storage, networking, containers, updates, etc.) are missing currently.

Features

• All of summit is distributed as one file
• As of July 29th, 2025, the entire final executable is ~3.0 MB
• Portability (Tested with Debian, Alpine, and FreeBSD so far)
• Fast page loads
• PAM-based login system
• xterm.js-based terminal
• HTTP/2 & HTTPS

Screenshots

Building

All of these commands assume you're running as root. summit will likely build & run on other systems, but I have not tested.

The final compiled output is simply ./summit. By default, summit installs to /usr/local/bin.

Alpine

Note

Make sure you have the community repo enabled

apk add go make clang binutils libarchive-dev linux-pam-dev git openssl minify xz \
    && git clone https://github.com/winksplorer/summit \
    && cd summit \
    && make all install

Debian

apt install golang-go make clang binutils libarchive-dev libpam0g-dev git openssl minify \
    && git clone https://github.com/winksplorer/summit \
    && cd summit \
    && make all install

FreeBSD

pkg install go gmake binutils libarchive git openssl minify gsed \
    && git clone https://github.com/winksplorer/summit \
    && cd summit \
    && gmake all install LD=ld.gold SED=gsed \
    && mkdir -p /etc/ssl/private

Code structure

backend

The backend server code. It serves the frontend, and provides a simple API using WebSockets + MessagePack. Written in Go.

frontend

The frontend web UI code. Written in HTML, vanilla CSS, and vanilla JS.

sea.c

The self-extracting archive code so that the entire server is distributed as one file. Written in C.

TODO

• SEA
• HTTP/2
• TLS
• Login
  • PAM
  • Login page
  • Cookies
  • Admin system
  • Slight refactoring (use my other login impl instead)
• Stats
  • Basic numerical stats
  • Implement Odometer
  • Make stat values persist across pages
• WebSocket terminal
  • Switch to xterm.js
  • Firefox compatibility
  • Fix the fucking thing
  • Fix doas
• UI Notifications
• Implement templates
• Use a WebSocket connection instead of HTTP endpoints
  • Proof of concept (Stats test)
  • Fully switch to WebSockets
• Simplify entire frontend
  • Simplify HTML using templates
  • Simplify JS
    • Use window._
    • Bundling
    • Minification
  • Simplify CSS
• Settings
  • Settings page
  • Backend settings system
  • Frontend settings system
  • Default config
• Complete frontend redesign
  • Independent pages
    • Login prototype
    • Responsiveness
    • Admin page
    • Cleanup
  • Main UI
    • Colors
    • Sidebar
    • Main page content
  • Messages
  • Input elements
  • Light mode
  • User choosable accent color
  • Sync with system dark/light theme
• Global config
• 404 page
• Logging
  • Backend
    • Application-specific logs?
    • Init system logs
    • Kernel logs
  • Logging page
• Storage page
• Networking page
• Containers
  • Backend
    • Podman support
    • Docker support
  • Container page
• Services
  • Backend
    • OpenRC support
    • systemd support
    • other init systems
  • Services page
• Updates
  • Backend
    • apt support
    • apk support
    • pkg support
    • other package managers
  • Updates page
• Service files
• Installer shell script