diff --git a/lib/App/Perlbrew/Sys.pm b/lib/App/Perlbrew/Sys.pm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3bdb33aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/App/Perlbrew/Sys.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package App::Perlbrew::Sys;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Config;
+
+sub osname {
+    $Config{osname}
+}
+
+sub archname {
+    $Config{archname}
+}
+
+sub os {
+    $Config{osname}
+}
+
+sub arch {
+    (split(/-/, $Config{archname}, 2))[0]
+}
+
+1;
diff --git a/lib/App/perlbrew.pm b/lib/App/perlbrew.pm
index f9ffa4bd..f546af0b 100644
--- a/lib/App/perlbrew.pm
+++ b/lib/App/perlbrew.pm
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use App::Perlbrew::Util qw( files_are_the_same uniq find_similar_tokens looks_li
 use App::Perlbrew::Path ();
 use App::Perlbrew::Path::Root ();
 use App::Perlbrew::HTTP qw( http_download http_get );
+use App::Perlbrew::Sys;
 
 ### global variables
 
@@ -225,6 +226,8 @@ sub parse_cmdline {
     );
 }
 
+sub sys { App::Perlbrew::Sys:: }
+
 sub root {
     my ( $self, $new_root ) = @_;
 
diff --git a/t/sys.t b/t/sys.t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1ad597d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/sys.t
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+use Test2::V0;
+
+use App::perlbrew;
+
+subtest 'sys', sub {
+    my $o = App::perlbrew->new();
+    is $o->can("sys"), T();
+    is $o->sys->os(), D();
+    is $o->sys->arch(), D();
+    is $o->sys->osname(), D();
+    is $o->sys->archname(), D();
+};
+
+done_testing;