Ubicloud
An open-source cloud platform that turns bare-metal Linux servers into an AWS-style cloud with compute, storage, networking, managed Postgres, Kubernetes and AI inference.
- GitHub stars
- 12k
- Last commit
- today
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Hosted version
- Available
Ubicloud is an open-source cloud platform designed to run on any infrastructure, described by its authors as an open alternative to cloud providers in the way Linux is to proprietary operating systems. It delivers infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities on top of bare-metal hosts, for example Hetzner, Leaseweb and AWS Bare Metal.
Its services include elastic compute, non-replicated block storage, firewalls and load balancers, managed Postgres, Kubernetes, AI inference and IAM. A control plane takes leased bare-metal Linux machines, prepares them for cloud use, and then lets you provision and manage resources through a cloud console. The project is written in Ruby and topics also mention GitHub Actions runners.
You can use the managed platform at console.ubicloud.com without installing anything, where the underlying provider's price and location benefits are passed on to you, or build your own cloud by leasing servers and running the control plane yourself. Ubicloud is licensed under AGPL-3.0. The quick-start flow is currently described for Hetzner machines running Ubuntu 24.04.
Key features
- Elastic compute on bare-metal servers
- Block storage, firewalls and load balancers
- Managed PostgreSQL databases
- Managed Kubernetes clusters
- AI inference services
- IAM and cloud console
Pricing: Pay-as-you-go, billed per minute: runners from $0.00125 a minute, burstable VMs from $10.47 a month, managed PostgreSQL from $19.54 and Kubernetes from $71.82 a month. You can also self-host.
