Introduction
What is Stellaris Cloud?
A free and open source (AGPL 3.0), self-hostable storage and compute solution, built for individuals, families and other cooperative communities.
What Can You Do With Stellaris Cloud?
1) Deploy Your Own Cloud Storage Service
Out of the box you can use Stellaris Cloud to deploy a low cost, and totally sovereign, cloud storage solution capable of replacing the common big-tech equivalents in your personal and professional workflows.
2) Manage Any S3 (compatible) Object Storage
If you're a software developer, and especially a web or cloud engineer, you probably use S3 buckets regularly. Stellaris Cloud is a convenient way to manage and interact with all of your buckets using your myriad of access keys.
3) Build Content/Data Pipelines
Again if you're a software developer who uses S3 buckets regularly you probably often find yourself needing to perform arbitrary operations with the data in those buckets, either in response to a user's input or an event, and often in a pipeline fashion.
Stellaris Cloud makes that kind of pipeline building trivial via the App Protocol and also with the help of the Events & Tasks feature which models arbitrary async operations and their execution, allowing you to build sophisticated workflows with only configuration and event handler scripts.
4) Build Complete Applications With Custom UIs
The Stellaris Cloud App Protocol also makes it possible for an app developer to provide UI elements that are iframed into the UI in certain locations. These include custom sidebar panels for folder and object views, full custom content takeover in folder and object views and top level UIs accessible through dedicated sidebar menu links. For something completely custom, an app is also free to have its own frontend deployed completely separately.
The Vision
The pendulum is changing direction and the shiny promises of the over-funded tech giants are being revealed as hollow. Subscriptions instead of purchases. Replace instead of repair. Kafka-esque customer support. The general enshitification of the internet and online services. The time is right to explore new economic and ownership models when it comes to producing this software that we all need.
Stellaris Cloud is one of a handful of recent open source applications which are attempting to show that an alternative is possible. A small team of the right people can produce powerful software that rivals the beauty and usability of the incumbents. We're going to do that, and we're going to create a platform and community dedicated to helping others do the same.
Licensing
We chose AGPL 3.0 for obvious reasons, and while we are committed to developing a suite of high value first-party apps that are also AGPL 3.0, we designed the app system to make a path for third-party integrations with differently licensed systems.