farmOS
farmOS is the open-source farm management platform — planning, records, maps and sensor data for real agricultural operations, built on Drupal and led by an active community that genuinely encourages self-hosting.
What ships on BOA
The FOS platform is built from the latest upstream farmOS release as BOA
releases ship — the build resolves whatever version the farmOS project has
most recently published (the 4.x line on Drupal 11 at the time of writing)
and completes it with Composer. Standard web/ docroot, farm install
profile.
The one thing to know first
A freshly installed farmOS site answers its front page with Access denied
for anonymous visitors. That is farmOS working as designed — farm records
are private by default, so the site is locked until you log in. Don't mistake
it for a broken install: go to /user/login on your new site's address and
sign in. Everything from there on is the farmOS you expect.
Good to know
- Farm data is exactly the kind of thing you want backed up without thinking about it — every farmOS site here rides the same automatic nightly backups and one-task Backup/Restore as any other site (Backups and restores).
- farmOS talks to field hardware and mobile apps over its API; that all works through the same HTTPS the panel provisions for you (HTTPS and certificates).
- If you're monitoring your site yourself, point your check at
/user/login(which serves normally), not the locked front page.
Where to go next
- Choosing and managing platforms
— getting
FOSinto your platform list.