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Guides

Guides Overview

This page lists all available guides for Unikraft Cloud. The guides are in two groups:

• Tutorials explain a platform topic that applies to any app. Two examples are root filesystem formats and environment variables.
• Example apps show how to deploy one specific app or service. They mimic the examples repository, and are constantly updated with new content.

Tutorials

• Docker To Unikraft Cloud
• KraftKit To Unikraft
• Environment Variables
• Rootfs Formats
• Rootfs Compression
• Rootfses, Volumes and ROMs
• Scale To Zero Triggers

The sections below list the example apps, grouped by category.

HTTP Servers

Deploy HTTP servers written in your language of choice on Unikraft Cloud.

C / C++

• C HTTP Server
• C++ HTTP Server
• C++ Boost HTTP Server
• SSH and HTTP Server with C and Debugging Tools

.NET

• .NET HTTP Server

Elixir / Erlang

• Elixir HTTP Server
• Erlang HTTP Server

Go

• Go HTTP Server
• Go and Redis HTTP Server

Java

• Java HTTP Server
• Spring Boot HTTP Server
• Spring Petclinic

JavaScript / TypeScript

• Node HTTP Server
• Bun HTTP Server
• Express HTTP Server
• Puppeteer HTTP Server
• Prisma HTTP Server
• Next.js HTTP Server
• React Router HTTP Server
• SolidJS HTTP Server
• SvelteKit HTTP Server
• Vite HTTP Server (Nginx)
• Vite HTTP Server (Node)
• Vite SSR HTTP Server (Node)

Lua

• Lua HTTP Server

Perl

• Perl HTTP Server

PHP

• PHP HTTP Server

Python

• Python HTTP Server
• Django HTTP Server
• FastAPI HTTP Server
• Flask HTTP Server
• Flask and SQLite HTTP Server
• Flask + Redis HTTP Server

Ruby

• Ruby HTTP Server

Rust

• Rust HTTP Server
• Rust (Actix Web) HTTP Server
• Rust (Leptos + Trunk) HTTP Server
• Rust (Rocket) HTTP Server
• Rust (Tokio) HTTP Server

Web Servers & Reverse Proxies

Serve static content or route traffic with popular web server and proxy tools.

• Nginx
• Caddy
• HAProxy
• Skipper
• Traefik
• Tyk

Databases & Caching

Run databases and caching layers on Unikraft Cloud.

• DragonflyDB
• DuckDB with Go
• MariaDB
• Memcached
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Neo4j
• PostgreSQL
• Redis

Storage & Media

Host object storage and image processing services.

• MinIO
• Imaginary

WebAssembly Runtimes

Run WebAssembly workloads on Unikraft Cloud.

• Spin
• Wazero

Code Execution & Build Environments

Package user code as auxiliary ROMs and run it on a generic base image.

• Build/Test Environments with ROMs
• Node.js Code Execution with ROMs

AI & MCP Servers

Deploy Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI-enabled services.

• Simple MCP Server
• ArXiv MCP Server
• OpenClaw

Observability & Monitoring

Collect metrics and visualise them with standard tools.

• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry Collector
• Prometheus and Grafana

Developer Tools & Remote Access

Access remote development environments and file transfer services.

• Visual Studio Code Server
• noVNC
• Debian SSH Server
• vsftpd

Full-Stack Applications & CMS

Deploy complete web applications and content management systems.

• WordPress (All-in-One)
• WordPress with Nginx and MariaDB
• Ruby on Rails
• Phoenix with PostgreSQL
• Flask with MongoDB
• Hugo

Browser Automation

Run browser automation and end-to-end testing workloads on Unikraft Cloud.

• Chromium CDP
• Chromium CDP with Token Authentication
• Playwright Chromium (Node)
• Playwright Firefox (Node)
• Playwright WebKit (Node)
• Playwright Chromium (Python)

Real-time & Gaming

Multiplayer and WebSocket-based applications.

• Node WebSocket Server
• Agar.io Clone
• Wings.io Clone
• Node AllKaraoke
• Minecraft

Integration & Automation

Examples for webhooks, background jobs, and automation.

• GitHub Webhook Receiver