Canoe Cloud is a community of engineers. We learn by building, research what we don't understand, and share what we find. So we built a lab across clouds and our own metal, started a blog for ideas worth passing on, and opened the door to anyone who wants to grow with us.

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Shared infrastructure

Lab

Two public clouds, a rack in Prague and a sandbox that resets itself. See what is running, what we are building and what we still need.

  • BuildFrom idea to deploy
  • ExperimentTry new tools and stacks
  • CollaborateWith friends and team
  • LearnReal-world experience

Hybrid cloud, plus our own rack

Flexible, shared and open to members. Two public clouds and a rack in Prague, working as one lab.

RunningBeing builtWanted

Public cloud A

  • Kubernetes cluster
  • CI runners
  • Observability stack

Public cloud B

  • Object storage copy
  • Managed database lab
  • Service mesh pilot

Bare metal, Prague

  • Proxmox cluster
  • Edge runner, arm64
  • Ceph storage pool

The platform

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CI runners
  • Argo CD
  • Observability
  • Service mesh

Your sandboxSafe to breakEasy to reset

  • Web appsBuild and deploy
  • ExperimentsTry new tech
  • Team projectsBuilt together, in the open
  • Shared resourcesCompute, storage, databases

Learner namespaces are being built.The five-minute reset is still wanted.

From idea to running, in minutes

Pick something to try, ship it to your own sandbox and watch it run on real infrastructure. Then break it on purpose.

Open the lab
  1. 1. Create

    Start from a template or an idea of your own.

  2. 2. Deploy

    CI and GitOps ship it to your sandbox.

  3. 3. Run

    It runs on a cloud or on the rack, for real.

  4. 4. Explore

    Break it, fix it and write it down.

Repeat. Improve. Build what’s next.
The community

People

Meet the volunteers who build the lab, write the notes and answer in the chat. Everyone decides how much to show.

Meet the people
How it works

Learn. Share. Build. Grow. Together.

How the community works, in five steps. Start anywhere along the way.

Join the community waitlist
  1. Community

    Join and say hello. Bring the question you have been saving.

  2. Learn

    Pick a hands-on lab at your level and run it on real infrastructure.

  3. Share

    Write down what you found, mistakes included. It goes on the blog.

  4. Build

    Ship a project in the lab with other members, in the open.

  5. Grow

    Show the work, then help the next person get started.