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@@ -14,33 +14,41 @@ Uncloud covers all the essentials for operating apps in production without overw
traditional container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Swarm:
* Initial machine and network setup
* Building images and pushing them directly to your machines without a registry
* Zero-downtime rolling deployments
* Health checks and automatic restarts
* Automatic HTTPS and reverse proxy configuration
* Scaling services across multiple machines
* Cross-machine service communication without exposing ports to the internet
* DNS-based service discovery
* Automatic HTTPS and reverse proxy configuration
* Load balancing
* Persistent storage
## Use cases
Some of the common use cases Uncloud is a great fit for:
Uncloud is a great fit for anything from production workloads to a single-server homelab:
- **Self-hosting and Homelabs**: Run your self-hosted apps on your own hardware. Start with a single machine and add
more as your needs grow.
- **Production web apps and SaaS**: Run your product on VMs from any cloud provider or your own servers with
zero-downtime rolling deployments, health checks, and automatic HTTPS. Spread replicas across multiple machines to
keep your app available even when a machine goes down.
- **Outgrowing Docker Compose**: Level up your Docker Compose setup with zero-downtime deployments, replicas across
multiple machines for improved reliability, cross-machine service communication, automated reverse proxy management,
and more using the same Compose file.
- **Small to medium web applications**: Deploy your SaaS product, websites, or personal projects with redundancy across
multiple machines for better reliability and your peace of mind.
- **Hybrid setups (cloud + on-prem)**: Combine cloud VMs with on-premise for cost savings and data sovereignty — all
managed through the same interface.
- **Moving off a cloud PaaS or Kubernetes**: Get a Heroku-like deployment workflow on your own servers, without the high
PaaS costs or the complexity of Kubernetes.
- **Migrating from Docker Swarm**: Swarm has been in maintenance mode for years. Uncloud offers an actively developed
alternative that keeps the familiar Compose format and drops the manager quorum. You also get secure WireGuard
networking across machines, image push without a registry, and automatic reverse proxy management out of the box.
- **Hybrid setups (cloud + on-prem)**: Combine cloud VMs with on-premise servers and distribute workloads for cost
savings and data sovereignty. For example, keep your database on your own hardware and scale web replicas out to cloud
VMs. Manage everything together through the same interface.
- **Agencies and freelancers**: Host multiple client projects with proper isolation on shared infrastructure, optimising
costs and resources.
- **Edge computing**: Deploy applications closer to your users for lower latency and better performance.
- **Dev/staging environments**: Spin up additional environments for development and testing that mirror production
reusing the same Compose configuration.
- **Self-hosting and homelabs**: Run your self-hosted apps on your own hardware. Start with a single machine and add
more as your needs grow.
- **Dev/staging environments**: Spin up additional environments for development and testing that mirror production,
using the same Compose configuration.
## What makes Uncloud special
@@ -69,10 +77,10 @@ Talos [KubeSpan](https://www.talos.dev/v1.10/talos-guides/network/kubespan/).
### Managed DNS service (optional)
Uncloud can provide **managed DNS records** like `<service-name>.<cluster-id>.uncld.dev` for your public
services through free [Uncloud DNS](https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud-dns) service. You can deploy a service and
instantly access it from anywhere with a proper DNS name and HTTPS without any manual DNS configuration. This makes
self-hosting much more accessible and simplifies the process of adding your own domain later.
Uncloud can provide **managed DNS records** like `<service-name>.<cluster-id>.uncld.dev` for your public services
through free [Uncloud DNS](https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud-dns) service. You can deploy a service and instantly
access it from anywhere with a proper DNS name and HTTPS without any manual DNS configuration. This makes self-hosting
much more accessible and simplifies the process of adding your own domain later.
### No complex orchestration