Life & fun · November 28, 2019
Piku, a Micro-PaaS for ARM and x86
The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers. - piku/piku
Piku, a Micro-PaaS for ARM and x86 launched on November 28, 2019 with 19 votes, #752 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Piku is a lightweight platform-as-a-service designed for deploying applications on ARM and x86 servers. It enables developers to run and manage applications on their own hardware without relying on major cloud providers. The tool is hosted on GitHub and is aimed at users who want simple deployment infrastructure on various processor architectures. Piku offers a minimal alternative to traditional PaaS solutions for self-hosted environments.
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