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Introducing Vesta

We’re excited to introduce Vesta — a self-hosted, open-source Platform-as-a-Service that turns your Kubernetes cluster into a deployment platform.

The Problem

Kubernetes is powerful, but deploying a simple application requires writing Deployments, Services, Ingress rules, HPA configs, and more. For teams that want to ship fast, this manifest overhead creates friction.

Existing solutions either lock you into a cloud provider (Heroku, Render) or lack critical features like secrets management and multi-environment support (Coolify).

What Vesta Does

Vesta sits on top of your Kubernetes cluster and provides:

  • Zero-manifest deploys — Push an image, run a CLI command, or call an API. Vesta generates all the Kubernetes resources.
  • Projects & environments — Organize apps into projects with staging, production, and custom environments.
  • Secrets management — Opaque, Docker registry, and TLS secrets with per-app bindings.
  • Autoscaling — CPU, memory, and custom metric-based HPA out of the box.
  • Notifications — Get alerted on Slack, Discord, email, or webhooks when deploys succeed or fail.

How It Works

Install Vesta with a single Helm command:

helm install vesta oci://ghcr.io/vesta-infra/charts/vesta \
  -n vesta-system --create-namespace

Then deploy your first app:

vesta deploy my-app --tag v1.2.3 --env production

That’s it. No Deployments, no Services, no Ingress YAML. Vesta handles everything.

Architecture

Vesta consists of four components:

  • Operator (Go/Kubebuilder) — Watches CRDs and reconciles Kubernetes resources
  • API Server (Go/Gin) — REST API for all platform operations
  • Web UI (React/TypeScript) — Dashboard for visual management
  • CLI (Go/Cobra) — Command-line tool for automation

Get Started

Vesta is available now on GitHub. Read the Quick Start guide to get up and running in under 5 minutes.

We’d love your feedback — open an issue, submit a PR, or just give us a star.