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What is Zerops?

Zerops is a developer-first Platform-as-a-Service built entirely from scratch on bare metal infrastructure. It delivers the perfect balance of developer experience, flexibility, scalability, and affordability—making it an ideal choice for applications of any size, complexity, and traffic level. Unlike traditional cloud platforms that force you to choose between ease-of-use and power, Zerops gives you both. Deploy production-ready applications in minutes while maintaining full control over your infrastructure configuration.

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Why Developers Choose Zerops

Deploy in Minutes

Import your repository, add a zerops.yaml file, and deploy. No complex configuration or DevOps expertise required.

True Autoscaling

Horizontal and vertical autoscaling with granular steps as small as 0.125 GB RAM and 1 CPU core. Scale from tiny to massive in minutes.

Production-Ready Infrastructure

Each project includes dedicated L3/L7 load balancers, automatic SSL certificates, firewall, logging, and statistics—all managed automatically.

Honest Pricing

Pay only for hardware resources used. No hidden fees, no seat charges, no feature tiers. 3-5x cheaper than popular alternatives.

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Core Features

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Dedicated Infrastructure Per Project

Zerops deploys custom dedicated infrastructure for each project, including:
  • L3 balancer with firewall and unique IP addresses
  • Logger and Statistics containers for comprehensive monitoring
  • L7 load balancer handling HTTP traffic, SSL termination, and certificate management
  • Private network created with VXLAN for secure service communication
Services within your project communicate securely using internal hostnames and can reference each other’s environment variables—no complex networking setup required.

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Explore the complete project infrastructure architecture

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Flexible Build & Deploy Pipeline

Zerops uses full Linux OS containers (via Incus) providing the perfect middle ground between Docker containers and full VMs. You get:
  • Pre-prepared build and runtime images for popular technologies
  • Powerful, flexible pipeline to customize both build and runtime environments
  • Automatic builds via GitHub/GitLab integration or manual triggers via CLI
  • No Docker registries needed—built-in artifact management
  • Zero-downtime deployments with automatic rollback capabilities

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Discover how the build and deploy pipeline works

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Intelligent Autoscaling

Zerops provides fully automatic horizontal and vertical scaling:
  • Vertical scaling: Resources adjust from 0.25 GB RAM / 1 CPU core to 32 GB RAM / 10 CPU cores per container
  • Horizontal scaling: Add or remove containers automatically based on load (1-10 containers)
  • Database HA modes: Choose between single-container or highly-available multi-container setups
  • Smart optimization: Performance tuning happens automatically as services scale
You’ll never overprovision or underprovision resources again. Your services always have exactly what they need.

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Learn about automatic scaling and high availability

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Supported Technologies

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Runtimes & Web Servers

Zerops provides pre-configured build and runtime images for:

Node.js

PHP

Python

Go

.NET

Rust

Java

Deno

Bun

Elixir

Gleam

Nginx

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Databases & Services

Fully managed databases, search engines, and message brokers in both single-container and highly-available modes:

PostgreSQL

MariaDB

Valkey (Redis)

Elasticsearch

KeyDB

Kafka

NATS

ClickHouse

Qdrant

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Containers & Storage

  • Linux Containers: Ubuntu, Alpine, and Docker support
  • Object Storage: S3-compatible storage on separate infrastructure
  • Shared Storage: Persistent disk mountable across multiple services

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Pricing That Makes Sense

Zerops charges only for hardware resources—CPU, RAM, and disk. That’s it.
  • No feature tiers: All features unlocked for everyone
  • No seat fees: Add unlimited team members
  • No surprises: Simple, transparent pricing 3-5x cheaper than alternatives
  • Fair usage: Pay for what you actually use with granular resource billing
Create unlimited development environments, give each developer their own stack, or spin up testing environments—all without worrying about hidden costs.

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Quickstart Guide

Deploy your first app in under 5 minutes

zerops.yaml Reference

Complete configuration file documentation

CLI Documentation

Command-line interface for advanced workflows

Import YAML

Create projects and services from templates

GitHub Recipes

Ready-to-deploy example applications

Discord Community

Get help from the Zerops team and community

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Ready to Get Started?

The fastest way to experience Zerops is to deploy a real application. Our quickstart guide walks you through creating an account, importing a project, and deploying a Node.js app with PostgreSQL—all in under 5 minutes.

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Or explore our GitHub recipes to find template applications in your preferred technology stack, ready to import and deploy with a single click.

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