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About UIS

Urbalurba Infrastructure Stack (UIS) is a zero-friction developer platform that gives you production-grade cloud services running on your own machine. Databases, monitoring, AI, authentication, analytics — all deployed with a single command, no cloud account required.

Why Local-First Infrastructure?

Organizations need control over their data and infrastructure. UIS provides:

  • Data sovereignty — Your data stays on your hardware, under your control
  • Offline capability — Full development and testing without internet dependency
  • No vendor lock-in — Open-source services with standard APIs, portable across any Kubernetes cluster
  • Cost efficiency — No cloud bills for development and testing environments

Part of the SovereignSky Initiative

UIS is developed as part of the SovereignSky initiative, which builds open-source tools for digital sovereignty and community resilience. The project is supported by helpers.no, connecting technology with organizations that need it.

What UIS Provides

UIS packages 26+ open-source services into deployable categories:

CategoryWhat you get
ObservabilityPrometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry
AI & MLOpenWebUI, LiteLLM, Ollama, Qdrant
AnalyticsSpark, JupyterHub, Unity Catalog
IdentityAuthentik SSO with blueprint automation
DatabasesPostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
ManagementArgoCD, pgAdmin, RedisInsight
NetworkingTailscale and Cloudflare tunnel integration
IntegrationRabbitMQ, Gravitee API Gateway

Get Started

Install the UIS CLI and deploy your first service in minutes:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helpers-no/urbalurba-infrastructure/main/uis -o uis
chmod +x uis
./uis start
./uis deploy postgresql

See the Getting Started guide for full instructions.

Connect With Us

Contributions are welcome — see the Contributors guide to get involved.