A few days ago, I shared why I walked away from heavy web panels like aaPanel and Plesk to build Vessel—a local-first desktop control plane that manages your servers over standard SSH with zero server overhead.
The response from this community was incredible (shoutout to Nazar Boyko @nazar_boyko for the suggestion to aggregate multi-container logs—I'm currently mapping out the Rust backend for that!).
Since that post, I've spent the last 72 hours straight overhauling the frontend and hardening the security model. Here is exactly how it works under the hood, how I avoided common security pitfalls in agentless tools, and what the new UI looks like.
The project is 100% open-source (MIT): Vessel
The Tech Stack: Why Tauri + SolidJS?
