Bex

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A Render-style platform that builds and deploys apps from Git to HTTPS on Kubernetes you own, with an API and MCP access aimed at coding agents as well as people.

Adopt it when

You want a self-hosted Render alternative on Hetzner or your own Kubernetes and accept early-stage software.

Watch out

The maintainers state it is not ready for production and APIs can change.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server and command line

Built with

Go, TypeScript and Kubernetes

How established

Established: started 2 years ago, latest release bex-cli/v0.3.3.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Bex → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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