Apiary is a distributed virtualisation control plane for FreeBSD.

It manages a colony of "Combs" - FreeBSD hosts - and on each of them
runs the bhyve virtual machines, jails, ZFS datasets, HAST-replicated
disks and firewall rules that make up the colony's workload. The
control plane is split across four daemons plus two operator tools:

  raftd       the Raft consensus voter; one per Comb, a quorum of them
              decides every cluster-wide state change
  managerd    the colony's API server; owns the desired state and
              reconciles it onto each Comb
  frontend    the web UI and the session-based login surface
  restshimd   a REST translation of managerd's RPC API, for external
              tooling
  apiaryctl   the operator command line
  apiaryinstall  host preparation: packages, kernel modules and the
              network configuration a Comb needs before it can join

An MCP connector (apiary-mcp) is installed alongside them, providing a
read-only Model Context Protocol view of a Comb for external AI
clients. It is disabled by default.
