faaleoleo · June 2026 · Open Source
We are opening our internal toolchain to the public. Starting today, the software we have built and relied on for years is available at git.faaleoleo.io — free to use, free to fork, and open for contributions from anyone.
We have always believed that good infrastructure tooling should not be locked away. Over the years we have built a number of tools to solve specific, recurring problems in enterprise backup operations — automation scripts, configuration validators, deployment frameworks, monitoring integrations. These tools did not exist in the forms we needed, so we built them ourselves.
For a long time, these lived internally. They were well-tested, actively maintained, and quietly doing their job across customer environments. But keeping them private served no one beyond our own operations.
Opening them up is the right thing to do — both as a contribution to the community that has given us so much, and as a commitment to transparency about how we work.
The repositories on git.faaleoleo.io contain software we have developed and run in real production environments, in some cases for several years. This is not prototype code or weekend experiments. These are tools that have gone through the same quality pipeline we apply to everything we ship to customers.
You will find:
More projects will be added over time. We publish when a tool is stable, documented, and something we would be comfortable supporting.
Some of the software published here is also part of our commercial managed service offering. In those cases, the open source version is the same codebase — not a stripped-down edition. The difference with our enterprise offering is support: SLAs, guaranteed response times, and the involvement of the team that built it.
We think this is a sustainable model. The community gets real, production-quality software. Organisations that need accountability and professional backing can engage with us commercially. Neither side subsidises the other — they coexist.
If you are running one of these tools and find a bug, or want a feature, the right place is the issue tracker on git.faaleoleo.io. If you need a guaranteed fix timeline and someone to own the problem, that is what our commercial support is for.
We chose Forgejo as the platform for our public repositories because it aligns with how we approach software. Forgejo is a fully self-hosted, community-governed Git service — a fork of Gitea created in 2022 when the community needed a project governed transparently and independently of commercial interests.
It is lightweight, fast, and straightforward to operate. It supports everything a development team needs: issues, pull requests, CI/CD via Forgejo Actions, package registries, and fine-grained access control. We have been running it internally for some time and are comfortable recommending it to anyone evaluating self-hosted Git solutions.
Choosing Forgejo means our open source home is itself open source, maintained by a community that takes governance seriously. That matters to us.
We genuinely want people to use this software and tell us what is wrong with it. If you find a bug, open an issue. If you have a fix, open a pull request. If you are building something related and want to collaborate, get in touch.
Where to find everything: all public repositories are at git.faaleoleo.io. Each project has its own issue tracker. You can also find more background on what we are building and why on our project page — or reach us directly at info@faaleoleo.io.
We have been careful with what we use for years. We intend to be just as careful with what we share.
The Backup Factory
We are happy to walk you through exactly what the pipeline does and what the output looks like. No commitment required.
Talk to us info@faaleoleo.io