What to expect from Herd
A solid Fedora base, hardened and production-ready.
Fedora 44 base
Built with the official Fedora ecosystem (osbuild and lorax), on a stable, well-maintained base — the same family as the desktop spins.
Headless by design
No graphical environment: the stage is the terminal. Light, lean and focused on what a server actually needs — no bloat.
Hardened by default
SELinux enforcing, hardened SSH (keys only, no root), a restrictive firewall and system auditing on — out of the box, nothing to configure.
Cockpit included
The web admin console is built in: manage services, network, storage and updates from the browser whenever you want.
Installer ISO + cloud image
Install from scratch on a physical server or VM with the ISO, or spin up quickly on cloud/virtualization with the qcow2 image and cloud-init.
Community, free, production-ready
The Community edition is free and usable in production. Security and the operating system are never behind a paywall.
Integrity verification
Always download from the official source and check the SHA-256.
Images are published with a SHA256SUMS file in the same download
folder. After downloading, verify with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.
Download only from this site and our
official SourceForge —
be wary of any CapivaraOS-named image from another source.
Stand up your server with Herd
Herd Community 1.0.1 is available to download now, with full documentation in Portuguese and English. If you run into problems or want to contribute, get in touch.
Download Herd 1.0.1 Read the docs