Stakpak is an open-source agent designed to run on your machines 24/7, ensuring your applications are always operational while minimizing the need for human intervention. It combines the benefits of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) without the associated lock-in, allowing developers to maintain control over their infrastructure.
Key Features:
- Autonomous Operation: Stakpak runs continuously, monitoring your applications and automatically resolving issues as they arise.
- Health Checks: The agent performs regular health checks on your applications, identifying and addressing problems before they escalate.
- Cost Management: It scans for idle resources, helping you save on cloud costs by identifying and shutting down unnecessary instances.
- Security: Stakpak ensures that sensitive information, such as API keys and database passwords, are never exposed to external services.
- Audit Logs: Every action taken by the agent is logged, providing a complete history of changes and actions for accountability and traceability.
Use Cases:
- Auto-Healing: Automatically restarts applications when health checks fail, reducing downtime and improving reliability.
- Cost Watchdog: Identifies and reports on idle resources, helping organizations save on cloud expenses.
- Defuse Time Bombs: Automatically renews TLS certificates and manages secrets to prevent service interruptions.
Stakpak is ideal for developers and IT teams looking to streamline their application management processes while maintaining full control over their infrastructure.

