Show HN: Shepherd – open-source tools to manage self-hosted software deployments

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a year ago

Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on. My startup previously built B2B SaaS, and large enterprises sometimes wanted to self-host it for data residency reasons - but this was a nightmare to build and support. I chatted to other builders/founders and it seems this pain is pretty common. But people tolerate it because the biggest customers often require self-hosting.

So we’ve built and open-sourced Shepherd to make it easier to manage these self-hosted deployments. It’s MIT licensed, and provides:

1 - Simplified deployment with a UI to create and manage Helm charts, for easy deployment to customer Kubernetes clusters

2 - Automated deployment upgrades to improve version consistency and provide rollbacks

3 - Deployment health monitoring

Try it and please share any feedback:

Github repo - https://github.com/contextco/shepherd

Demo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelVQx_zHJc

Website - https://trustshepherd.com/