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Stop Paying the Cloud Tax

Production-grade Kubernetes on Hetzner. One command. 90% cheaper than AWS. Fully yours.

Join Wolves who escaped the corporate cloud

The Cloud is Eating Your Runway

Every month on AWS/GKE, you're burning money that could fund 6 more months of development. The math doesn't lie.

AWS / GKE from
$8,464
/year
Hetzner Raw from
$300
/year
ZipOps Stack from
$300
/year + one-time license
THE ESCAPE HATCH

One Binary. Production Infrastructure. Minutes.

ZipOps - https://zipops.wows.dev
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│                       Your web-site: https://kubegen.dev                       │
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│                                   Authentik                                    │
│                                   ─────────                                    │
│                      Authentik: https://auth.kubegen.dev                       │
│                               username: akadmin                                │
│                             password: ************                             │
│                                                                                │
│                                    Longhorn                                    │
│                                    ────────                                    │
│                     Longhorn: https://longhorn.kubegen.dev                     │
│                                                                                │
│                                 Grafana Stack                                  │
│                                 ─────────────                                  │
│                      Grafana: https://grafana.kubegen.dev                      │
│                                username: admin                                 │
│                             password: ************                             │
│                                                                                │
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kubeconfig: ZipOps/secrets/kubeconfig
ssh keys: ZipOps/secrets/ssh_key
terraform folder: ZipOps/terraform/context
Your Kubernetes cluster is fully deployed and ready for use.
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ZipOps is a self-contained Golang binary that provisions a battle-tested Kubernetes stack on Hetzner Cloud. No PhD in DevOps required. No vendor lock-in. Standard K8s manifests you can take anywhere.

WHAT YOU GET

Enterprise-grade infrastructure. Indie-hacker price.

🦍

Kong + Cilium

North-South & East-West Networking

Enterprise API gateway with eBPF-powered service mesh. Handle millions of requests. Block bad actors at kernel level.

💾

Longhorn

Distributed Block Storage

Replicated, self-healing storage across nodes. Your data survives node failures. No single point of failure.

🔐

Authentik

Identity & SSO

Single Sign-On for all your apps. OAuth2, SAML, LDAP out of the box. Stop managing passwords.

📊

Grafana + Prometheus + Loki

Full Observability Stack

Metrics, logs, and dashboards pre-configured. Debug production issues instantly. No DataDog bills.

🐘

CloudNativePG

PostgreSQL for Kubernetes

Production PostgreSQL with automatic failover, backups, and connection pooling. Database that scales with you.

🏗️

Harbor

Private Container Registry

Your own Docker registry with vulnerability scanning. Keep your images private and secure.

FROM ZERO TO PRODUCTION

Three Steps to Freedom

01

Buy & Download

One-time purchase. Download the binary for your OS. No subscription. No SaaS dependency.

02

Run One Command

Point ZipOps at your Hetzner API key. Watch Terraform do its magic. ~30 minutes.

./zipops
03

Deploy Forever

Push your apps to standard Kubernetes. Scale infinitely. Sleep soundly. You own it.

COMING SOON
PRICING

One-time purchase. Lifetime ownership. No recurring rent.

THE TESTER

FREE

  • Perfect for tire-kicking
  • Empty K3s cluster
  • Kong broad ingress
  • No TLS
  • No support

THE LEARNER

$99$49one-time

  • Production-grade K3s cluster
  • Authentik SSO
  • Longhorn storage
  • Auto TLS via Hetzner DNS
  • 1 week priority support
★ MOST POPULAR

THE INDIE-DEV

$199$129one-time

  • Everything in Learner
  • Grafana + Prometheus + Loki stack
  • Harbor private registry
  • CNPG database
  • 1 month priority support
🐺 FULL PACK

THE WOLF CEO

$399$199one-time

  • Everything in Indie-Dev
  • Vault
  • Mailu
  • N8N
  • Jenkins
  • Redis
  • MinIO
  • More has to come...
  • 3 months priority support
  • Early access to new features

All prices in USD. VAT may apply in EU. Hetzner costs (~€4-20/mo) paid directly to Hetzner.

Giovanni - Wolf of Wall Script

Giovanni

Wolf of Wall Script

Why I Built This

I chose the way of the Wolf. 5+ years living in a van, coding from mountains and beaches. 20+ years shipping software. I built my own production cloud because I refused to pay the rent-seekers. Now, I've packaged that architecture into a single binary.

"The corporate zoo is safe, but real value is created in the wild."
20+
Years Dev
5+
Years Van Life
~$70/mo
Infra Cost
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Stop Renting. Start Owning.

The cloud giants have extracted enough value from indie developers. Take back control of your infrastructure today.

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