Unfurl Cloud is a open-source platform for collaboratively developing cloud applications – from code to deployment.

We’ve tightly integrated the best open source development tools into our platform, including GitLab, Terraform, and Ansible as well as Unfurl, our own unique deployment technology.

Unfurl Cloud is our first step toward building a free and open cloud. Join a Testbed project and let’s build an open cloud together!

Our idea of a free and open cloud is one that embodies the principles of free and open-source software.

In a free and open cloud:

• All components are open-source
• Services and infrastructure are available to all
• You can clone any service in the cloud and run it wherever you’d like.

Our vision is that basic compute resources should be a ubiquitous commodity like electricity and the software infrastructure that runs on it should be open source. You can read more about our vision here.

Yes, indeed! Unfurl Cloud has some unique benefits for anyone developing or deploying cloud applications.

Accelerate development and minimize tedious setup

Quickly setup up development environments with instant access to live services running in our testbed cloud. Jump-start your production environment using our low-code UI to deploy our cloud blueprints.

Collaborate with teammates

The same collaborative technology we are using to build a free and open cloud can be used privately as a great development platform for your team. Use our cloud blueprints to maximize reusability and flexibility and create private testbed projects for your development team to make managing development environments a breeze.

Infrastructure-as-Code without writing code

Your deployment history and all the configuration changes you make in our UI are stored in Git as re-usable Infrastructure-as-Code.

Avoid lock-in

• From cloud providers: Our cloud blueprints are cloud provider independent.
• From SaaS services: With Unfurl Cloud you can easily migrate between self-hosted instances and commerical SaaS services, for example between a self-hosted Redis and their commercial service.
• From us!
  • We store all your configuration and settings in git using open standards where possible.
  • Deploy using your own cloud accounts.
  • Our architecture is loosely coupled and follows our open cloud vision. For example, you can run our command-line tool locally without any dependencies on our service.
  • Our entire stack is open source.

Unfurl Cloud is currently free to all users.

But the bigger question is what does the “free” mean in a “free and open cloud”? We mean “free as in freedom, not as in free beer”, as open-source enthusiasts like to say. Any cloud computing service consumes resources and energy, so fundamentally it can’t be cost-free. But in a free and open cloud, that cost is associated with basic compute resources that are treated like a ubiquitious commodity like electricity while the software infrastructure that runs on it is free and open source.

We currently support Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean and generic Kubernetes clusters. But cloud independence is one of the basic principles of a free and open cloud and we have built our technology to be cloud agnostic and easily adaptable to different cloud providers.

There are several ways you can use Unfurl Cloud to deploy onto your local laptop or your own on-premise servers.

If you want to deploy to existing servers we support deploying with Ansible. Or you can run Unfurl, our command-line tool, on your local machines and it will deploy from Unfurl Cloud.

If you provisioning your own machines our application blueprint can generate cloud-init scripts.