# Guides Overview

This page lists all available guides for deploying applications and services on Unikraft Cloud, grouped by category.
These guides mimic the [examples](https://github.com/unikraft-cloud/examples) repository, and are constantly updated with new content.

:::note
Unikraft Cloud can run any workload—define it in a Dockerfile and it will run it.
These guides are here to make that journey as fast as possible for you.
:::

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## HTTP Servers

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

### C / C++

- [C HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-gcc13.2)
- [C++ HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-gpp13.2)
- [C++ Boost HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-boost1.74-gpp13.2)
- [SSH and HTTP Server with C and Debugging Tools](/guides/httpserver-c-debug)

### .NET

- [.NET HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-dotnet10.0)

### Elixir / Erlang

- [Elixir HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-elixir1.16)
- [Erlang HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-erlang26.2)

### Go

- [Go HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-go1.21)

### Java

- [Java HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-java21)
- [Spring Boot HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-java17-springboot3.5.x)
- [Spring Petclinic](/guides/httpserver-java17-spring-petclinic)

### JavaScript / TypeScript

- [Node HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-node26)
- [Bun HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-bun)
- [Express HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-expressjs4.18-node21)
- [Puppeteer HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-node-express-puppeteer)
- [Prisma HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-prisma-expressjs4.19-node18)
- [Next.js HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-node21-nextjs)
- [Remix HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-node21-remix)
- [SolidJS HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-node21-solid-start)
- [SvelteKit HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-node21-sveltekit)
- [Vite HTTP Server (Nginx)](/guides/httpserver-nginx-vite-vanilla)
- [Vite HTTP Server (Node)](/guides/httpserver-node-vite-vanilla)
- [Vite SSR HTTP Server (Node)](/guides/httpserver-node-vite-ssr-vanilla)

### Lua

- [Lua HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-lua5.1)

### Perl

- [Perl HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-perl5.42)

### PHP

- [PHP HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-php8.2)

### Python

- [Python HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-python3.12)
- [Django HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-python3.12-django5.0)
- [FastAPI HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-python3.12-fastapi-0.121.3)
- [Flask HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-python3.12-flask3.0)
- [Flask and SQLite HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-python3.12-flask3.0-sqlite)

### Ruby

- [Ruby HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-ruby3.2)

### Rust

- [Rust HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-rust1.91)
- [Rust (Actix Web) HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-rust1.87-actix-web4)
- [Rust (Leptos + Trunk) HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-rust-trunkrs-leptos)
- [Rust (Rocket) HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-rust1.81-rocket0.5)
- [Rust (Tokio) HTTP Server](/guides/httpserver-rust1.75-tokio)

## Web Servers & Reverse Proxies

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

- [Nginx](/guides/nginx)
- [Caddy](/guides/caddy2.7-go1.21)
- [HAProxy](/guides/haproxy)
- [Skipper](/guides/skipper0.18)
- [Traefik](/guides/traefik)

## Databases & Caching

Run databases and caching layers on Unikraft Cloud.

- [DragonflyDB](/guides/dragonflydb)
- [DuckDB with Go](/guides/duckdb-go1.21)
- [MariaDB](/guides/mariadb)
- [Memcached](/guides/memcached1.6)
- [MongoDB](/guides/mongodb)
- [PostgreSQL](/guides/postgres)
- [Redis](/guides/redis7.2)

## Storage & Media

Host object storage and image processing services.

- [MinIO](/guides/minio)
- [Imaginary](/guides/imaginary)

## WebAssembly Runtimes

Run WebAssembly workloads on Unikraft Cloud.

- [Spin](/guides/spin-wagi-http)
- [Wazero](/guides/wazero-import-go)

## AI & MCP Servers

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

- [Simple MCP Server](/guides/mcp-server-simple)
- [ArXiv MCP Server](/guides/mcp-server-arxiv)

## Observability & Monitoring

Collect metrics and visualise them with standard tools.

- [Grafana](/guides/grafana)
- [OpenTelemetry Collector](/guides/opentelemetry-collector)

## Developer Tools & Remote Access

Access remote development environments and file transfer services.

- [Visual Studio Code Server](/guides/visual-studio-code-server)
- [noVNC](/guides/novnc-browser)
- [Debian SSH Server](/guides/debian-ssh)
- [vsftpd](/guides/vsftpd)

## Full-Stack Applications & CMS

Deploy complete web applications and content management systems.

- [WordPress](/guides/wordpress-all-in-one)
- [Ruby on Rails](/guides/ruby3.2-rails)
- [Hugo](/guides/hugo0.122)

## Browser Automation

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

- [Playwright Chromium (Node)](/guides/node-playwright-chromium)
- [Playwright Firefox (Node)](/guides/node-playwright-firefox)
- [Playwright WebKit (Node)](/guides/node-playwright-webkit)
- [Playwright Chromium (Python)](/guides/python-playwright-chromium)

## Real-time & Gaming

Multiplayer and WebSocket-based applications.

- [Node WebSocket Server](/guides/node21-websocket)
- [Agar.io Clone](/guides/node18-agario)
- [Wings.io Clone](/guides/node18-wingsio)
- [Node AllKaraoke](/guides/node24-karaoke)

## Integration & Automation

Examples for webhooks, background jobs, and automation.

- [GitHub Webhook Receiver](/guides/github-webhook-node)

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