Before you start

Apelora Fabric lets you draw an application, then runs it on your own Linux servers. These pages take you from nothing to a running, managed application, one step at a time. Each step links to the page with the details.

Early release. Apelora Fabric is new. Try it on a test cluster or a few spare servers before you rely on it. Seven of the 143 catalog modules deploy today; the others can be designed but not yet deployed.

The parts

Apelora's layers: people, Studio and Fabric Console, the control plane, the Incus cluster with OCI containers, system containers and VMs, the storage pools, OVN, and the physical servers. — Illustration: who talks to whom. Select it to open it full size.

Part	What it is	Where it runs
Apelora Studio	The designer, in your browser	Static files, served by any web server
Fabric Console	Administration: servers, applications, operations, audit	Static files, served the same way
Control plane	The API: plans, roles, audit. Rust, backed by PostgreSQL	One process, next to the database
Deployment worker	Carries out jobs, enforces the network, replaces lost replicas	One or more processes
PostgreSQL	Apelora's own records. Not your applications' data	Anywhere the control plane and worker can reach
Incus cluster	Runs your modules as containers and virtual machines	Your servers: three or more

Apelora owns the application: its design, its connections, its replicas and their health. Incus owns the servers: membership, placement and the instances. Apelora talks to Incus only through its documented REST API.

What you need

To try it: a Mac or Linux workstation, Node.js 22 or newer, and for the full test cluster Rust (the repository pins the toolchain), Docker and Lima. No hardware to buy.
To run it on your servers: three or more Linux servers (kernel 6.12 or newer) with Incus 7.0 LTS clustered; PostgreSQL; a machine for the control plane and worker; and a way to serve two sets of static files over HTTPS.
To deploy something: an Incus project for Apelora to deploy into, and an identity Apelora may use there.

Choose your way in

See the designer in a minute. Try it on your workstation, first step. Mock data, nothing deployed.
Run the whole thing on one machine. The same page, second step: a throwaway Incus cluster in virtual machines.
Set it up on your own servers. Plan the servers and network, install Incus, then install Apelora Fabric.

Then, in order: sign in, design your first application, deploy it, manage it, and keep when something goes wrong at hand.