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Penpot, the best open-source alternative to Figma & Adobe XD

Penpot, the best open-source alternative to Figma & Adobe XD

We’re blown away by the team at Kaleidos. Committed open-sourcers like us, they’ve developed the very popular open-source project management tool Taiga. But today we want to tell you about Penpot (16K stars on github), a phenomenal collaborative design tool. Penpot, an open-source alternative to Figma, is a

Deploy your own code from GitHub, GitLab and Registries with CI/CD on Elestio

Deploy your own code from GitHub, GitLab and Registries with CI/CD on Elestio

Elestio is the simplest and fastest way to deploy your source code from github/gitlab/docker registries to production. In 3 steps you can deploy any kind of project, frontend, backend, api, db, you name it. 1. Select your source code in Github / Gitlab or from a Docker registry (private

immudb & Minio: immutable ledger database instead connected to an object storage. A fast and safe alternative to blockchains.

immudb & Minio: immutable ledger database instead connected to an object storage. A fast and safe alternative to blockchains.

Traditional database transactions and logs are mutable, and therefore there is no way to know for sure if your data has been compromised. immudb is immutable. You can add new versions of existing records, but never change or delete records. This lets you store critical data without fear of it

Open source softwares

Minio: high-performance multi-Cloud Object Storage

With industry-leading performance and scalability, MinIO can deliver a range of use cases from AI/ML, analytics, backup/restore, and modern web and mobile apps. It's packed with powerful features. Update: since June 2022, MinIO supports all the advanced features like Quota / Versioning / Object locking / Retention in all

Elestio API now GA

Elestio API now GA

We have just published our REST API, it's covering 100% of what you can do through our dashboard (because this is what we use internally) Elestio API Documentation: https://api-doc.elest.io/ It's available as an OpenAPI / Swagger format

Choose your preferred major version on all open-source managed software!

Getting Started

Choose your preferred major version on all open-source managed software!

Security patches, new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements are all goods reason to always stay up-to-date. But, it can be really time-consuming for the DevOps team. This is why we have developed an automated update system on Elestio. When creating a new service, choose your preferred version, and it

Gitlab SaaS Free tier is now limited to 5 users. What can you do?

Gitlab SaaS Free tier is now limited to 5 users. What can you do?

Gitlab announced recently that they are limiting the number of users per namespace to 5. If you have more than 5 users in a group or subgroup you will be impacted by this change. What can you do? 1. Upgrade to Gitlab paid offering, if you have a relatively small

Metabase, the best open-source and no-code Business Intelligence tool

Metabase, the best open-source and no-code Business Intelligence tool

Metabase is one of the simplest and most powerful business intelligence tools I have tried in the last few years. It's the kind of tool you can't wait to start using barely 5 minutes after you start to see the demo! I tried it for the

We're going live!

We're going live!

We help companies to deploy, secure, backup and update open source softwares on scalable cloud infrastructure.

BookStack, create public or internal documentation easily

BookStack, create public or internal documentation easily

BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information We used BookStack to create the public Elestio documentation, it allowed us to write the whole documentation in a week thanks to its intuitive UI. The content is sorted in a hierarchy with Shelves > Books > Chapters

Uptime-Kuma, a great open-source alternative to uptime robot

Uptime-Kuma, a great open-source alternative to uptime robot

Uptime-Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool similar to "Uptime Robot".

Why open source?

Why open source?

From our perspective, open-source software is a revolution in decentralized, distributed and collective research, engineering, decision-making, governance, and economics, directly connecting developers and users. We weren't always this way We’ll admit it right here, right now, up front. Our co-founder and CTO, Joseph Benguira, was a devout