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Container orchestration
for the rest of us

80% of Kubernetes use-cases with 20% of the complexity

One daemon, one CLI. Deploy, scale, route, and observe your services without an afternoon of YAML and a control plane to babysit.

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Quickstart
# Install both binaries (daemon + CLI)
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helyos-labs/helyos/main/install.sh | sh

# Deploy a service from a simple YAML spec
helyos deploy app.yaml
helyos status
Why Helyos

Orchestration without the operations tax

Everything you need to run containers in production — and nothing you have to assemble yourself.

Deploy in seconds

Describe your service in a small YAML spec and ship it with a single command. No Helm, no Kustomize, no templating engine.

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Secure by default

An HTTPS API with a self-signed certificate out of the box, multi-user bearer tokens, and a hard guardrail against exposing the control plane in the clear.

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kubectl-style remote control

helyos login pins the daemon's CA and stores a named context, so you can manage one cluster or many from your terminal.

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Batteries included

Built-in service discovery (DNS), a reverse proxy, and automatic Let's Encrypt TLS for your public routes — no extra components to install.

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Multi-node clustering

Join workers with a single token. The scheduler spreads or bin-packs pods and automatically reschedules them when a node fails.

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Docker & containerd

Both runtimes are auto-detected at startup. State lives in an embedded SQLite database — there is no external datastore to operate.

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How it works

From zero to running in three steps

  1. 01

    Install

    One script drops the helyosd daemon and the helyos CLI onto any Linux host. No cluster bootstrap.

  2. 02

    Deploy

    Write a short YAML spec and run helyos deploy app.yaml. The daemon pulls images, places pods, and wires up DNS.

  3. 03

    Operate

    Scale, inspect, and route from your terminal — locally, or over a pinned remote with helyos login.

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