Show HN: Alien – Ship to your customer's cloud

Category: infrastructure

Tags: multi-cloud, enterprise-deployment, infrastructure-as-code, remote-management, security

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Alien is a platform for deploying and managing applications inside enterprise customers' cloud accounts (AWS, GCP, Azure) while retaining full operational control. It's interesting because it solves the enterprise 'data residency' problem with a novel push/pull architecture, allowing vendors to ship updates, collect telemetry, and run remote commands without requiring inbound network access or exposing customer data.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, platform engineers, SaaS vendors

Repository: https://github.com/alienplatform/alien · Rust · NOASSERTION · 9 stars

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