Uncloud – Uncomplicated container orchestration without control plane
Hey HN, I'm building Uncloud — a lightweight clustering and container orchestration tool that lets you deploy and manage web apps across cloud VMs and bare metal with minimal cluster management overhead. After several years of managing and extending Kubernetes at a unicorn, I realised that I desperately needed a change. All those abstraction layers, unnecessary complexity, boilerplate… I wanted container orchestration to bring me joy again, the way Ansible did when I first tried it a decade ago, or Docker after that. That’s when I decided to start an experiment that is now called Uncloud.…
Uncloud – Uncomplicated container orchestration without control plane launched on March 6, 2025 with 30 votes, #655 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Uncloud is a lightweight container orchestration tool for deploying and managing web applications across cloud VMs and bare metal servers. It eliminates the control plane architecture found in traditional orchestrators, instead using peer-to-peer state synchronization across equal nodes. Designed for developers who find Kubernetes overly complex, Uncloud emphasizes imperative operations and minimal cluster management overhead, aiming to restore simplicity to container orchestration.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨ - psviderski/uncloud
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I'm building Uncloud — a lightweight clustering and container orchestration tool that lets you deploy and manage web apps across cloud VMs and bare metal with minimal cluster management overhead. After several years of managing and extending Kubernetes at a unicorn, I realised that I desperately needed a…
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