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Work · October 7, 2023

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We built a Cloud-Managed Hypervisor to fix running on-prem servers

We’ve been building a Cloud-Managed Hypervisor that makes running applications on your own servers as effortless as the public cloud. Over my career I’ve watched the transition from on-prem to public cloud. The cloud paradigm shift is as much about empowering engineers as it is about elastic infrastructure, but the tooling for on-prem and private clouds is at best heavyweight and at worst stuck in the last century. We've tackled some interesting problems in the process of building this, such as providing a cloud-style metadata service from our platform. We’d love for you to read our story…

We built a Cloud-Managed Hypervisor to fix running on-prem servers launched on October 7, 2023 with 10 votes, #1,476 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

In plain words

This cloud-managed hypervisor enables organizations to run applications on their own servers with the simplicity and ease of public cloud platforms. It is designed for engineers and infrastructure teams managing on-premises or private cloud environments who want modern tooling instead of legacy solutions. The platform includes features like cloud-style metadata services to bridge the gap between traditional on-premises infrastructure and public cloud operational models.

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In the maker’s words, at launch

We’ve been building a Cloud-Managed Hypervisor that makes running applications on your own servers as effortless as the public cloud. Over my career I’ve watched the transition from on-prem to public cloud. The cloud paradigm shift is as much about empowering engineers as it is about elastic infrastructure, but the…

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