A free desktop app for your cloud infrastructure
Deploy real infrastructure to your own cloud — without writing Terraform.
Planton is a free desktop app you download and open. It finds the cloud you’re already signed into — pick a stack, fill a short form, and watch it deploy, with clean, auditable infrastructure-as-code running underneath. No account. No connections. No ceremony.
Runs on macOS · Linux · Windows
aws · us-east-1
vpc · 10.0.0.0/16
ecs · fargate
rds · provisioning…
600+ components·17 providers·dozens of ready-made stacks·backed by Terraform and Pulumi
- Free forever
- Your own cloud
- No account
- Open-source building blocks
Every way of running cloud infrastructure has asked you to give something up.
You
The cloud console is easy — I just fill a form and go.
Planton
Right? Consoles are the best — nothing beats filling in a form and watching it appear. The one catch: nothing’s written down. No history, no diff, nothing to reproduce it from.
You
Exactly why I moved to Terraform — now every change is a diff I can review.
Planton
And Terraform is the one thing that gives you that — a source of truth you can trust. The catch: a one-line change becomes a pull request, a plan, and a prayer. You lose the console’s just-fill-a-form ease.
You
The closest it ever felt right was Kubernetes — write a manifest, kubectl apply -f, done, saved to disk. Helm even does a whole stack in one file.
Planton
Kubernetes nailed the gesture — the best infrastructure has ever felt. The catch: it stops at Kubernetes. No UI, and no real cloud state or history behind it.
Console, Terraform, Kubernetes — each one brilliant, each one asking you to pick, and live without the rest. Picking was the problem.
Planton
For years the easy way and the right way were different things. We couldn’t accept that. So we made the easy thing the right thing — and built Planton.
Create like a console: pick a stack, fill a short form. Planton provisions it as real Terraform or Pulumi you own — with state and history. And you manage your whole cloud the way you manage Kubernetes: planton apply -f for a single manifest, planton chart install for a whole environment. For AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes — with the UI Kubernetes never had.
The desktop app
See it before you ship it.
Open the app — the dashboard Kubernetes never had. See your whole architecture before you deploy, then watch each piece light up as it comes online.
No blind applies, no guessing what a change will touch.
aws · us-east-1
vpc · 10.0.0.0/16
ecs · fargate
rds · provisioning…
The CLI, a companion
Prefer the terminal? It’s right there.
The same deploys, from your shell. The CLI drives the very engine the app brings online — managed state, ready-made charts, and history all included — so there’s nothing extra to wire up.
Run planton chart install and watch a whole environment come up live, every resource as it happens.
Why you can trust it
You’re never starting from a blank file. Every module is already written — and vetted for secure, well-architected, cost-efficient infrastructure. Claude can write you Terraform in minutes; writing it was never the hard part. Trusting it is.
Whichever way you deploy, it’s real infrastructure-as-code the whole way down — stored, versioned, every change a diff. On your own cloud. Nothing to lock you in.
Deploys to
Where Planton fits
A few good ways to run what you ship — all of them fine, mostly down to preference. Here’s the map.
Fully managed platforms
Heroku, Render, Fly, Railway. Push your code and they run it — the fastest way to get live when you’d rather not think about infrastructure at all.
Your own cloud, managed for you
A hosted service connects to your cloud account and gives you a console for standing up environments. Your cloud, with someone else’s control plane in front of it — an account, a plan, and a connection to wire up first.
Your own cloud, by hand
Click through your cloud provider’s console, or write the Terraform yourself (or have an AI write it) and ship it from your laptop or CI. Total control — and it’s all yours to get right, secure, and keep running.
Planton is for the last two — your own cloud and real control, without the ceremony. Especially for solo developers and indie hackers.
Soon: point Planton at a cloud you already use, and it brings what’s already there under management. Describe what you want, and watch it assemble.
You
Okay — so what’s the catch?
Planton
Honestly? We’d rather you ship than reach for your credit card. Planton is free forever for solo developers and indie hackers — commercial use included. We make our money from teams and companies, not from you.
“Make the easy thing the right thing.”
So we built Planton.
The ease of a console, the rigor of code — no trade-off. Download it and deploy to your own cloud in minutes.
Runs on macOS · Linux · Windows