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Life & fun · November 1, 2022

Unfurl Cloud – A free and open cloud

Building a free and open cloud

Unfurl Cloud – A free and open cloud launched on November 1, 2022 with 7 votes, #1,350 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

Package your code into an application that runs on any cloud provider. Integrate, deploy, and share cloud services and infrastructure. Replace tedious and fragile configuration with reusable, adaptable blueprints. Use your own infrastructure and accounts. Open-source, standards-base. Your data stored in git. Easily self-host free open-source services. Avoid cloud provider lock-in. Developer-centric project management. Simple secrets and access control. Share blueprints and live services. Build cloud blueprints for your applications that declares your code and the services (like databases) that it depends on. Deploy onto your own accounts on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or Digital Ocean —…from unfurl.cloud

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