Rainbond is 100% open-source, offers a serverless experience, and allows you to easily manage containerized applications without needing to understand Kubernetes. It is an integrated application management platform suitable for private deployment.
🚀 One-line Definition: Rainbond = Heroku-like Experience + Native Kubernetes Support + Self-hosted Capabilities
| Platform Type | Representative Products | Rainbond's Differentiation |
|---|---|---|
| Developer-friendly PaaS | Heroku, Vercel | ▶ Self-hosted Support ▶ Full K8s Compatibility |
| K8s Native Tools | Rancher, Devtron | ▶ Application-level Abstraction ▶ Zero YAML Experience ▶ Complex Application Topology ▶ Offline Environment Support |
| Self-hosted Solutions | CapRover, Coolify | ▶ Enterprise Multi-tenancy ▶ Hybrid Cloud Management |
Developer Perspective
- "I need to deploy a system with 20 microservices, but don't want to study K8s configs for each component"
- "The configuration differences between production and test environments make every deployment risky"
- "How to quickly deliver complex systems in customer's offline environment?"
Ops/Platform Admin Perspective
- "Need to give developers autonomy while ensuring cluster stability"
- "Traditional application cloud-native transformation costs too much"
- "Unified application management across multi/hybrid cloud environments"
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Install Enterprise Software Like Mobile Apps: Through the built-in application marketplace, various published microservice application templates support one-click installation and upgrades, even for systems with 100+ microservices.
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Containerization Without Dockerfile and YAML: The platform automatically recognizes multiple development languages like Java, Python, Golang, NodeJS, PHP, .NetCore, etc., completing build and deployment through a wizard-like process without writing Dockerfile or YAML.
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Full Application Lifecycle Management: Serverless experience where regular developers can manage and maintain applications and components without learning, including start, stop, build, update, auto-scaling, gateway policy management, etc., with non-invasive microservice architecture.
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Microservice Modular Assembly: Business components running on Rainbond support modular dependency orchestration, one-click publishing as reusable application templates, enabling business component accumulation and reuse.
👩💻 Developer Users
- Need URL access within 5 minutes from code
- Want cloud-native capabilities without learning K8s
- Zero configuration differences between dev and prod environments
👨💼 Platform Managers
- Traditional application cloud-native transformation
- Building internal PaaS platforms
- Achieving unified hybrid cloud management
| Dimension | Traditional Approach | Rainbond Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Complexity | Requires K8s experts to write YAML | Visual orchestration, auto-generates K8s resources |
| Environment Consistency | Manual maintenance of multiple configs | Environment config templating, one-click deployment |
| Delivery Form | Docs + scripts + manual deployment | Self-contained app template (code + config) |
| Skill Requirements | Need full container/K8s stack skills | Operation interface based on application model abstraction |
- Linux OS (CentOS 7+/Ubuntu 18.04+)
- 2 CPU cores / 8GB RAM / 50GB disk space
You only need to execute the following command to run a container and quickly experience the full functionality of Rainbond. For more installation options, refer to Installation and Upgrade.
curl -o install.sh https://get.rainbond.com && IMGHUB_MIRROR=rainbond bash ./install.shAfter the command is executed successfully, open a browser and enter http://<IP>:7070 to access the platform and start deploying applications. <IP> is the IP address you selected or entered when running the script.
Please refer to the Quick Start documentation.
If you encounter any issues while using Rainbond and need help, please refer to the Community Support.
Slack: Rainbond Slack Channel
Twitter: Rainbond Twitter
Discord: Rainbond Discord
We welcome contributions and sharing in the Rainbond community in areas such as platform usage experience, standardized applications, and plugin sharing.
If you are a Rainbond user who has a deep understanding of Rainbond and aligns with its technical direction, and you have significant demands within your organization, we welcome you to contribute to Rainbond.
This repository contains the core service implementation code of the Rainbond data center. The project also includes the following sub-projects:
- Rainbond-Console: Rainbond console server project.
- Rainbond-Console-UI: Rainbond console frontend project.
- Rainbond-Operator: Rainbond installation and operation project.
- Rainbond-Cloud-adaptor: Rainbond cluster installation driver service.
- Rainbond-Builder: Rainbond source code build toolset.
- Rainbond-Docs: Rainbond documentation.
Rainbond follow LGPL-3.0 license, Details see LICENSE and Licensing.