CanineHQ/canine
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A developer friendly PaaS for your Kubernetes
13 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2024-11-24 · latest 2026-09-14
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I've been slowly working on https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine for about 2 years now. Basically a self hosted, FOSS that turns a Kubernetes cluster into something as easy to use as Heroku. Its grown to about 2000 active developers using it…
comment by czhu12 · 2026-09-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) -
I've been slowly working on https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine for about 2 years now. Basically a self hosted, FOSS that turns a Kubernetes cluster into something as easy to use as Heroku. It was a pain point from a start up I cofounded…
comment by czhu12 · 2026-09-06 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? -
I found the exact same when I started vibe coding new features in https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine Claude is super good as making it seem like it’s an expert in kubernetes, but then undercovering certain decisions, it’s basically…
comment by czhu12 · 2026-05-11 · in I'm going back to writing code by hand -
The code for the MCP implementation is here: https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine/blob/main/app/controllers... for anyone curious. Sticking with standard Kubernetes API patterns, the model has a pretty good intuition about how to traverse…
comment by czhu12 · 2026-04-02 · in Show HN: An MCP server for Devops automation -
…heads-up: The footer of https://canine.sh/ says the project is MIT licensed, but the GitHub site at https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine says the project is Apache 2.0 licensed. I'm not sure how to reconcile that, but the project seems…
comment by aspenmayer · 2025-12-21 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell -
…to allow me to dedicate way more time to this project, so hugely grateful to them for that. Code: https://github.com/czhu12/canine
comment by czhu12 · 2025-10-13 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) -
…also supports deployments of any helm package (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts. https://github.com/czhu12/canine https://canine.sh
comment by czhu12 · 2025-09-29 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) -
…of your own apps as well as 15k+ other packages (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts. https://github.com/czhu12/canine https://canine.sh Reason? Got sick of paying for the massive markups on PaaS but missed the simplicity and…
comment by czhu12 · 2025-07-27 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) -
> they did not gain any traction. Energy on this project: https://github.com/czhu12/canine/graphs/code-frequency
comment by Terretta · 2025-06-17 · in Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes -
…to create an open source version of this, in case it would be useful to anyone else in the future https://github.com/czhu12/canine
comment by czhu12 · 2024-12-03 · in .NET Support on Heroku -
…price increases we faced for hosted versions of these products. Shameless plug: I’ve been building https://github.com/czhu12/canine to try to make Kubernetes easier to use for solo developers. Would love any feedback from anyone looking to…
comment by czhu12 · 2024-11-24 · in Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes -
…We ended up migrating from Heroku to Kubernetes. I tried to take some of the learnings to build https://github.com/czhu12/canine It basically wraps Kubernetes and tries to hide as much complexity from Kubernetes as possible, and only…
comment by czhu12 · 2024-11-24 · in Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes