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Open source softwares

Send marketing and transactional emails with Listmonk

Looking for a free and powerful tool to manage your email marketing campaigns and transactional emails? Say hello to Listmonk! In our latest video, we showcase how Listmonk can help you achieve your email goals without the high price tag of other popular services like Mailchimp, Sendinblue, or Sendgrid. What

Softwares

Flarum: The Modern, Open-Source Forum Platform for Building Engaging Communities

If you're looking for a modern, open-source platform to build your own online forum or Q&A site, Flarum is a great option. This innovative forum software is designed to be easy to use and highly customizable, making it perfect for everyone from small business owners to

Open source softwares

Build & engage your community with Discourse

Building a community around your product or brand can have a significant positive impact on your business. A thriving community can help you grow your customer base, drive engagement, and foster brand loyalty. But building and managing a community is no easy feat. That's where Discourse comes in.

Backend As a Service

Appwrite: The Easy Way to Create a Custom Backend for Your Web or Mobile App

Appwrite is a powerful open-source backend as a service (BaaS) platform that allows developers to create web and mobile applications quickly and easily. What makes Appwrite stand out from other BaaS providers is that it includes a variety of key features right out of the box, such as a built-in

Cloud Deployment

Bring Your Own AWS Account

You can now use your own AWS Account to deploy services or your own project with our CICD Pipelines. The main benefits are the following: * Simple Open Source software installation * Create CICD pipelines easily with GitHub/GitLab * Automatic backups & updates * Elestio Tools & Monitoring * Keeping instances' ownership Discover

Open source softwares

LanguageTool: The Free Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

Do you struggle with writing in a non-native language? Introducing LanguageTool, an open-source proofreading and grammar-checking software that can improve your writing accuracy and clarity. If you prefer, the video version is available here: Gone are the days of relying on manual proofreading or expensive grammar checkers, as LanguageTool can

Open source softwares

How to connect your MySQL database with N8N

n8n is a popular open-source workflow automation tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks and create custom workflows. The installation process automatically includes a Database for you but if you want to have more control over it (like backups/sharing it with other projects/scalability) you can connect it

Open source softwares

NextCloud: The Free Open-Source Alternative to Google Drive

Are you tired of relying on cloud storage platforms that charge you an arm and a leg for additional storage space or are limited in their features? Are you concerned about the privacy and security of your data on these platforms? If so, then it's time to switch

N8N

How to install additional libraries on N8N

n8n is a popular open-source workflow automation tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks and create custom workflows. However, sometimes you may need to install additional libraries to enhance its functionality. In this article, we'll walk you through the steps of how to install additional libraries for

N8N

Getting Started with n8n: Integrating Typeform and Slack for Dynamic Messaging

If you're looking for a simple and flexible way to automate your workflows, you should check out n8n. It's an open-source tool that allows you to connect various services and automate tasks. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to integrate Typeform and Slack

Open source softwares

How to Create an Online Documentation for Free with Bookstack

Creating a comprehensive online documentation for your project, website, or business can be a daunting task. It requires time, effort, and resources, especially if you want to create something that is user-friendly, organized, and easy to navigate. Fortunately, there is an open-source solution that can help you achieve this goal:

CICD Deployment

Deploy examples & apps on Elestio using the "Import Third-Party Git Repository" feature

This tutorial will walk you through the process of deploying GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket public repositories in CI/CD using our Import Third-Party Git Repository feature. In our example, we'll use a Simple JavaScript web application public repository, but you can deploy it, in the same way, using

Clone template

Deploy examples & apps on Elestio using the "clone template" feature

This tutorial will show you how to use our clone template feature in CI/CD. We're going to use a Simple Javascript web application, but you can use any template and deploy it in the same way. 🚀 The clone template feature was similar to forking our examples from

Nodejs

How to Deploy NodeJs-express app with a static front-end in a pug on Elestio

So you made a static full stack frontend pug with nodejs backend application and want to deploy it to the cloud 🚀 You probably heard about Kubernetes (and all its complexity) or various options to deploy your apps like Heroku, Render Fly, or Railways. They all have something in common, those

Reactjs

How to Deploy React App on Elestio

So you made a React web application and want to deploy it to the cloud 🚀 You probably heard about Kubernetes (and all its complexity) or various options to deploy your apps like Heroku, Render Fly, or Railways. They all have something in common, those products are building your own source

Open source softwares

Mastodon an Open Source Alternative to Twitter

Mastodon is an open source alternative to Twitter that allows you to create private networks and forums. How to create your own Mastodon instance and start using it to communicate with your friends, coworkers or community ? Discover it in our YouTubeVideo. Mastodon is a great alternative to Twitter if you&

Open source softwares

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

Announcements

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

Softwares

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

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

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

Softwares

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

Softwares

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

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