xpipe

About

XPipe is a connection hub that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. It works on top of your installed command-line programs like SSH, docker, or others, and does not require any setup on your remote systems. It integrates with your favourite text editors, terminals, shells, VNC/RDP clients, password managers, and command-line tools. The platform is designed to be extensible, allowing anyone to add easily support for more tools or to implement custom functionality through a modular extension system.

It currently supports:

• SSH connections, config files, and tunnels
• Docker + compose, Podman, LXD, and incus containers
• Proxmox PVE, Hyper-V, KVM, and VMware Player/Workstation/Fusion virtual machines
• Tailscale, Netbird, and Teleport connections
• AWS and Hetzner Cloud servers
• RDP + gateways and VNC connections
• Windows Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin, and MSYS2 environments
• Kubernetes clusters, pods, and containers
• Powershell Remote Sessions

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Connection hub

• Easily establish and manage connections to remote systems from a central hub interface
• Organize all your connections in hierarchical categories to maintain an overview over hundreds of connections.
• Create custom shell login environments to instantly jump into a properly set up shell for every use case
• Quickly perform various commonly used actions like starting/stopping systems, establishing tunnels, and more
• Create desktop shortcuts and macros that automatically open remote connections in your terminal without having to open any GUI

File browser

• Interact with the file system of any remote system using a workflow optimized for professionals
• Utilize your entire arsenal of locally installed programs to open and edit remote files
• Dynamically elevate sessions with sudo when required without having to restart the session
• Seamlessly transfer files from and to your system desktop environment
• Work and perform transfers on multiple systems at the same time with the built-in tabbed multitasking
• Quickly open a terminal session into any directory in your favourite terminal emulator
• Customize every action through the scripting system

Terminal launcher

• Launches you into a shell session in your favourite terminal with one click. Automatically fills password prompts and more
• Comes with support for all commonly used terminal emulators across all operating systems
• Supports opening custom terminal emulators as well via a custom command-line spec
• Works with all command shells such as bash, zsh, fish, cmd, PowerShell, and more, locally and remote
• Integrates with multiplexers like tmux and zellij, plus prompts like starship and oh-my-zsh
• Supports opening multiple sessions in split terminal pane views
• Connects to a system while the terminal is still starting up, allowing for faster connections than otherwise possible

Versatile scripting system

• Create reusable simple shell scripts, templates, and groups to run on connected remote systems
• Automatically make your scripts available in the PATH on any remote system without any setup
• Setup shell init environments for connections to fully customize your work environment for every purpose
• Open custom shells and custom remote connections by providing your own commands
• Use custom scripts in the file browser

And much more

• You can synchronize your vault across multiple systems and share it with other team members via your own self-hosted git repository
• All data is stored exclusively on your systems in a cryptographically secure vault. You can also choose to increase security by using a custom master passphrase for further encryption
• XPipe is able to retrieve secrets automatically from your installed password manager and doesn't have store secrets itself
• There are no servers involved, all your information stays on your systems. The XPipe application does not send any personal or sensitive information to outside services
• XPipe has an integrated MCP server that you can enable. This allows you to easily use all of XPipe's features from an AI agent
• Run coherent desktop applications remotely via the uniform desktop application system in XPipe for RDP, VNC, and X11 forwards
• Securely tunnel and automatically open remote services with one click with the services integration

Downloads

Note that this is a desktop application that should be run on your local desktop workstation, not on any server or containers. It will be able to connect to your server infrastructure from there.

For a full reference and instructions, see the installation docs and managed installation docs.

Windows

Installers are the easiest way to get started and come with an optional automatic update functionality:

• Windows .msi Installer (x86-64)
• Windows .msi Installer (ARM 64)

If you don't like installers, you can also use a portable version that is packaged as an archive:

• Windows .zip Portable (x86-64)
• Windows .zip Portable (ARM 64)

Alternatively, you can also use the following package managers:

• choco to install it with choco install xpipe.
• winget to install it with winget install xpipe-io.xpipe --source winget.
• scoop to install it with scoop install extras/xpipe.

macOS

Installers are the easiest way to get started and come with an optional automatic update functionality:

• MacOS .pkg Installer (x86-64)
• MacOS .pkg Installer (ARM 64)

If you don't like installers, you can also use a portable version that is packaged as an archive:

• MacOS .dmg Portable (x86-64)
• MacOS .dmg Portable (ARM 64)

Alternatively, you can also use Homebrew to install XPipe with brew install --cask xpipe-io/tap/xpipe.

Linux

You can install XPipe the fastest by pasting the installation command into your terminal. This will perform the setup automatically. The script supports installation via apt, dnf, yum, zypper, rpm, and pacman on Linux:

bash <(curl -sL https://github.com/xpipe-io/xpipe/raw/master/get-xpipe.sh)

Of course, there are also other installation methods available.

Debian-based distros

The following debian installers are available:

• Linux .deb Installer (x86-64)
• Linux .deb Installer (ARM 64)

Note that you should use apt to install the package with sudo apt install <file> as other package managers, for example dpkg, are not able to resolve and install any dependency packages.

RHEL-based distros

The rpm releases are signed with the GPG key https://xpipe.io/signatures/0xDD3E0AD0.asc. You can import it via rpm --import https://xpipe.io/signatures/0xDD3E0AD0.asc to allow your rpm-based package manager to verify the release signature.

The following rpm installers are available:

• Linux .rpm Installer (x86-64)
• Linux .rpm Installer (ARM 64)

Arch

There is an official AUR package available that you can either install manually or via an AUR helper such as with yay -S xpipe.

AppImages

Alternatively, there are also AppImages available. These can be useful if you are using an immutable distro.

• Linux .AppImage Portable (x86-64)
• Linux .AppImage Portable (ARM 64)

NixOS

There's an official xpipe nixpkg available that you can install with nix-env -iA nixos.xpipe on x86_64 Linux systems. This package is however usually not up to date.

There is also a custom repository that contains the latest up-to-date release flakes for Linux and macOS systems: https://github.com/xpipe-io/nixpkg.

Tarball

In case you prefer to use an archive version that you can extract anywhere, you can use these:

• Linux .tar.gz Portable (x86-64)
• Linux .tar.gz Portable (ARM 64)

Docker container

XPipe is a desktop application first and foremost. It requires a full desktop environment to function with various installed applications such as terminals, editors, shells, CLI tools, and more. So there is no true web-based interface for XPipe.

Since it might make sense however to access your XPipe environment from the web, there is also a so-called webtop docker container image for XPipe. XPipe Webtop is a web-based desktop environment that can be run in a container and accessed from a browser via KasmVNC. The desktop environment comes with XPipe and various terminals and editors preinstalled and configured. This image is also available for Kasm Workspaces in the XPipe Kasm Registry.

Further information

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Open source model

XPipe follows an open core model, which essentially means that the main application is open source while certain other components are not. This mainly concerns the features only available in the homelab/professional plan and the shell handling library implementation. Furthermore, some CI pipelines and tests that run on private servers are also not included in the open repository.

The distributed XPipe application consists out of two parts:

• The open-source core that you can find this repository. It is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
• The closed-source extensions, mostly for homelab/professional plan features, which are not included in this repository

Additional features are available in the homelab/professional plan. For more details see https://xpipe.io/pricing. If your enterprise puts great emphasis on having access to the full source code, there are also full source-available enterprise options available.

Documentation

You can find the documentation at https://docs.xpipe.io.

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