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2026-10-24
Show HN: Ployz – a Rust imperative orchestrator and cloud-like UX
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GitHub getployz/ployz ★6 · Deploy Apps with style · Hi HN, I'm Nick. Ployz ( https://ployz.dev) gives you Railway's UX on Linux servers you rent - start with a single server and grow from there. The code is at https://github.com/getployz/ployz. I've always wanted a self-hosting solution that can deliver a top-tier experience rivalling or beating what cloud platforms offer. By being opinionated, I believe it delivers on this: - A single flat mesh (any service can contact any other service, simply) - Start with a single server, scale from there - ZFS volumes (instant snapshots, host-to-host syncing, instant branching soon) - No separate management servers to run. You tell Ployz what to do, it does it, and it's done. Basically, it's my dream orchestrator with Railway's UX on top. It's also a bet that AI will be much better at managing a system of simple imperative primitives than a declarative system like Kubernetes. I tagged the 0.3 beta today. I'd love for you to try it. It's fully drivable from the CLI, MCP, or sidebar. Nick
2026-10-23
Show HN: Stackdome – An open source self-hostable Railway alternative on K8s
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Since Railway getting pwned is getting all the attention right now, I thought now is a good time to showcase what we've been building. Stackdome is a self hosted platform as a service. The idea is to have simplicity of platforms like Railway and Render, but with the ability to run everything on infrastructure you control. With Stackdome, you can deploy an application from GitHub, connect multiple services visually, add a managed database, create preview environments, and roll back the entire application if a release breaks. Features: - First class support for multi-service applications, shown on a canvas in the UI (inspired by Railway). You can edit, wire up, and create resources from the canvas. - First class support for multiple clusters. Stackdome acts as the hub and places workloads across clusters (hub and spoke). - Self hostable, from a small VPS to a large k8s cluster. - Managed Postgres with WAL archiving, HA, backups, and PITR (CNPG underneath). - A release system for the whole stack. A release targets everything, and you can roll it back if something breaks. - Source to image, with an in cluster registry (Zot). - Disposable preview environments, which can also be multi-service. - Declarative apps via a Stackfile, deployed with the CLI. Basically, the idea is to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a without being an expert in Kubernetes or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape. Docs: https://docs.stackdome.com