Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
Hello HN! I've been working on Canine for about a year now. It started when I was sick of paying the overhead of using stuff like Heroku, Render, Fly, etc to host some web apps that I've built. At one point I was paying over $400 a month for hosting these in the cloud. Last year I moved all my stuff to Hetzner. For a 4GB machine, the cost of various providers: Heroku = $260 Fly.io = $65 Render = $85 Hetzner = $4 (This problem gets a lot worse when you need > 4GB) The only downside of using Hetzner is that there isn’t a super straightforward way to do stuff like: - DNS management / SSL…
Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes launched on June 16, 2025 with 320 votes, #80 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Canine is a Kubernetes-based platform that provides Heroku-like deployment features for bare metal servers, significantly reducing hosting costs. It handles DNS management, SSL certificates, team access, and GitHub integration on affordable infrastructure like Hetzner, where a 4GB machine costs $4 monthly compared to $260 on Heroku. The tool is designed for developers who want simplified application hosting without the premium overhead of traditional platform-as-a-service providers.
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From the sources
A developer friendly PaaS for your Kubernetes. Contribute to CanineHQ/canine development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello HN! I've been working on Canine for about a year now. It started when I was sick of paying the overhead of using stuff like Heroku, Render, Fly, etc to host some web apps that I've built. At one point I was paying over $400 a month for hosting these in the cloud. Last year I moved all my stuff to Hetzner. For a…
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