Private by default
Your network map is sensitive. It stays in one SQLite file on your own box — no cloud account, no telemetry, no third party in the loop.
About
Built for the people who run their own racks.
Rackpad is a self-hosted home for everything you'd otherwise try to remember about your infrastructure — the gear, the wiring, the addresses and the day-to-day operations — in one app you own end to end.
Why it exists
A homelab grows one device at a time.
And before long, nobody — including you — can say for certain what's plugged into which port, which IP is still free, or why that VLAN exists. The knowledge ends up scattered across sticky notes, a doc that's three months stale, and memory.
Rackpad was built to give that knowledge one place to live: the physical rack, the logical network, the running services and the operations trail, all wired into a single data model so a change in one place shows up everywhere it matters.
What it stands for
Four principles, baked in.
One coherent app
Inventory, addressing, monitoring, compute and docs share a data model instead of being separate tools stitched together.
Open source
MIT licensed, with a public changelog and stable and beta channels. Read the code, file an issue, send a pull request.
Operator-first
Built for people who actually cable, scan, label and fix things — not a diagram you draw once and never touch again.
Who it's for
Small enough to own. Serious enough to trust.
Homelabs
Track the rack under the stairs as it sprawls into VLANs, VMs, access points and a patch panel you no longer fully remember.
Network rooms
A small office or studio comms room: switches, runs, IP ranges and the documentation auditors and successors will ask for.
Lab environments
Test benches and teaching labs where topology changes constantly and a living, accurate diagram actually matters.
Built in the open
Steady releases, nothing hidden.
Rackpad ships on a stable channel with a beta channel running ahead of it, and every change lands in a public changelog. Run the stable image, or set RACKPAD_TAG=beta to help test what's coming next.
- Semantic versioning, stable & beta tags
- Public changelog & issue tracker
- Security scanning in CI before release
Make it yours
One app for everything in the rack.
Self-host Rackpad in one command and give your infrastructure a single source of truth you control.