Hakopod for solo builders.
Ship the side project or the small business on one server you already pay for. One command installs the platform; after that it's a dashboard, not a runbook.
Your own cloud,
built for small teams.
Hakopod is an open-source platform that gives solo builders and small teams their own cloud on servers they own. You get Kubernetes power without the Kubernetes work: deploy from Git, a Docker Compose file or a template, or let your AI agent do it.
Your apps.
Your rules.
Independent pieces. A shared home.
01 / THE REASONA VPS bill. A platform workflow.
Why does
Hakopod exist?
Hakopod exists so a small team can run its own cloud without hiring a platform team. Managed platforms are easy until the bill grows with every app. A bare VPS is cheap until you're the one writing Kubernetes manifests, wiring up TLS and working out backups.
So we put the platform on the server. Hakopod runs K3s for you and writes every manifest, which gives you Git deploys, HTTPS, private networking, eight managed database engines, encrypted backups and searchable logs on hardware you control. Every change shows up as a plan before it applies, and services stay private until you make them public. No YAML, no kubectl.
Hakopod for small teams.
Get reviewable plans, rollback to any earlier release, private networks and team roles without hiring someone to run Kubernetes. Outgrow one server by joining another as a worker.
Hakopod for AI builders.
Give your agent a scoped, expiring key and hakopod mcp instead of cluster credentials. It reads logs, plans and deploy events, and it deploys only when you allow it.
03 / BUILT IN THE OPENRead it. Run it. Check our work.
How is
Hakopod built?
In the open. The code is Apache-2.0 on GitHub, every release is public, and the release notes say what was tested and what wasn't. The template catalog and the Hatch interface library are public projects too.
We build Hakopod with help from AI coding agents, and their instructions sit in the repository for anyone to read. Every release runs the installer on fresh AMD64 and ARM64 machines before it's published, and a public milestones file records what's been verified on real clusters and what hasn't.
Under the hood it's a Go API and reconciler, PostgreSQL for durable state and a TanStack Start dashboard, running on K3s and HAProxy. Self-hosted releases are evaluation alphas, and Hakopod Cloud is in beta with signup open. We label what's available, what's beta and what's planned, because you'll find out the moment you install it.
Explore the sourceRead the release notes