SwiftWave is a self-hosted, lightweight platform-as-a-service solution for deploying and managing applications on your own server.
It can run on bare metal, Raspberry Pi hardware, or VPS providers, and offers an open source alternative to hosted deployment platforms such as Heroku, Netlify, Render, and Vercel.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Deploy and manage applications on your own infrastructure.
- Runs on AMD64, ARM64, and ARMv7 systems.
- Supports Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian, Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and similar distributions.
- Uses Docker and swarm mode for application deployment.
- Includes tooling for container management, Git integration, HAProxy, SSL, and UDP proxy handling.
Website: github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave
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Developer: SwiftWave
License: Apache License 2.0
SwiftWave is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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