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CloudCommons
Intelligent Infrastructure, Everywhere.
CloudCommons is an open-source, AI-driven, fully encrypted, zero-trust infrastructure platform designed for individuals, startups, teams, enterprises, and governments.
Built to provide secure, scalable, intelligent, and privacy-first infrastructure across local, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments, CloudCommons combines automation, orchestration, AI, observability, collaboration, low-code/no-code tooling, and multi-cloud deployment into one unified platform.
Core Principles
- Open-source by design
- Zero-trust security architecture
- Full encryption everywhere
- Multi-cloud and hybrid deployments
- User-owned infrastructure and data
- AI-native automation and orchestration
- Developer-first experience
- Low-code/no-code accessibility
- Privacy-first operations
- Self-healing intelligent infrastructure
Full Feature List
Security & Zero-Trust Infrastructure
Encryption
- TLS 1.3 encrypted connections
- Mutual TLS (mTLS) service communication
- AES-256 encrypted storage
- Encrypted backups
- Encrypted snapshots
- End-to-end encrypted synchronization
- Per-service encryption keys
- Automatic key rotation
- Hardware security module (HSM) support
- KMS integration
- Secure WireGuard tunnels
- Zero plaintext internal traffic
Identity & Access
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- OAuth2 support
- OpenID Connect support
- Service identity verification
- Session auditing
- Access logging
- Fine-grained permissions
Compliance & Governance
- HIPAA-ready templates
- GDPR-ready templates
- SOC2-ready templates
- ISO27001-ready templates
- Policy-as-code enforcement
- Audit logs
- Compliance reporting
- Infrastructure governance tools
- Data residency controls
- Retention policy management
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
Supported Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft Azure
- DigitalOcean
- Hybrid deployments
- On-premise deployments
- Edge deployments
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Infrastructure Management
- Kubernetes orchestration
- Terraform integration
- Helm support
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Automated provisioning
- Cluster management
- Multi-region deployments
- Cross-cloud orchestration
- Predictive infrastructure scaling
- Cost-aware deployment optimization
Managed Data Services
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Distributed SQL support
- Replication management
- Automatic failover
- Point-in-time recovery
- Snapshot management
- Schema versioning
- Query optimization tools
Streaming & Messaging
- Apache Kafka
- Redpanda
- Event streaming
- Event replay
- Message persistence
- Distributed messaging pipelines
Caching
- Redis
- Distributed caching
- Edge caching
- Intelligent cache invalidation
Search & Analytics
- OpenSearch
- ClickHouse
- DuckDB clusters
- Full-text search
- Real-time analytics
- Distributed analytics pipelines
Artificial Intelligence & Automation
AI Infrastructure
- Vector database support
- Embeddings pipelines
- Semantic search
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- AI orchestration workflows
- AI-assisted infrastructure recommendations
- AI query optimization
- AI-based security analysis
- AI performance tuning
- AI-driven observability
AI Operations (AIOps)
- Predictive failure detection
- Automatic remediation
- Predictive scaling
- Intelligent resource optimization
- Self-healing infrastructure
- AI anomaly detection
- Cost optimization recommendations
- Intelligent alert prioritization
AI Marketplace
- AI plugin marketplace
- Prebuilt AI workflows
- AI model integrations
- Open-source AI model support
- Community AI templates
Automation & Workflow Orchestration
Workflow Automation
- Visual workflow builder
- Event-driven architecture
- Cross-service automation
- Scheduled workflows
- Real-time event processing
- ETL automation
- API automation pipelines
- Infrastructure automation
- Trigger-based automation
Serverless & Functions
- Serverless functions
- Edge functions
- Scheduled jobs
- Background processing
- Event triggers
- Workflow chaining
Low-Code / No-Code Platform
Visual Development
- Drag-and-drop builder
- Visual infrastructure designer
- Visual API builder
- Workflow simulation tools
- App templates
- UI templates
- Form builders
- Dashboard builders
App Templates
- SaaS starter kits
- Marketplace templates
- CMS/blog templates
- AI application templates
- Internal tooling templates
- Analytics dashboards
- Customer portal templates
Developer Experience
CLI & SDKs
- Unified CLI
- JavaScript SDK
- TypeScript SDK
- Python SDK
- Go SDK
- Rust SDK
- Java SDK
- REST API
- GraphQL API
Local Development
- Local-first development
- Offline development mode
- Local sandbox environments
- Ephemeral development environments
- Environment cloning
- Snapshot environments
Collaboration
- Real-time collaboration
- Shared dashboards
- Live editing
- Multi-user workspaces
- Team comments
- Activity tracking
- Shared workflows
- Shared infrastructure environments
Observability & Monitoring
Monitoring
- Metrics collection
- Distributed tracing
- Log aggregation
- Real-time monitoring
- Alerting system
- Infrastructure health dashboards
- Service health monitoring
- AI-generated insights
Analytics
- Cost analytics
- Usage analytics
- Infrastructure analytics
- Security analytics
- Performance analytics
- Predictive forecasting
- Capacity planning tools
Privacy & User Control
Privacy Features
- No telemetry by default
- User-controlled analytics
- Self-hostable architecture
- Offline-first support
- Data ownership guarantees
- Exportable infrastructure state
- Exportable databases
- Exportable workflows
Data Portability
- Full infrastructure export
- Database export tools
- Backup export tools
- Cross-cloud migration
- One-command migrations
Marketplace & Ecosystem
Plugin Ecosystem
- Authentication plugins
- Analytics plugins
- Monitoring plugins
- AI plugins
- Payment integrations
- Community extensions
- Marketplace publishing
- Revenue-sharing support
Community Features
- Community templates
- Gamification system
- Contribution leaderboards
- Badges & achievements
- Learning hub
- Interactive tutorials
- Certification pathways
Cost Optimization
Intelligent Cost Controls
- Predictive billing forecasts
- Usage optimization
- Resource utilization tracking
- Automatic scaling controls
- Multi-cloud cost arbitrage
- Budget alerts
- Infrastructure efficiency recommendations
Offline & Edge Computing
Edge Features
- Edge deployments
- Local synchronization
- Eventual consistency
- Offline collaboration
- Offline application support
- Edge AI inference
- Distributed edge processing
Self-Healing Infrastructure
Intelligent Recovery
- Automatic failover
- Predictive remediation
- Infrastructure auto-recovery
- Self-healing nodes
- Service redundancy
- Backup restoration automation
- AI-based infrastructure repair
Specification Branding License (SBL)
Standard
- Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
- Copyleft enforced for network deployments
- Required attribution:
- Roxanne Ardary
- roxanneardary.com
Optional
- Specification Branding License (SBL)
- Attribution-free commercial deployment
- Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
- https://roxanneardary.com/cloudcommons/
License & Notice Requirements
CloudCommons is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to this project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.
Please note the following:
- All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
- Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
- CloudCommons specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
- The project’s NOTICE.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments.
- Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update
NOTICE.md. - When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
- Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.
For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s NOTICE.md file.
Notice – CloudCommons
Attribution Requirement:
Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
Contributors
This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.
- Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – March 22, 2026
Created the repository for CloudCommons. Developed the fully encrypted, zero-trust, AI-driven multi-cloud infrastructure platform. - [Add other contributors here] – [Date]
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License – CloudCommons
This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
Key Points:
- You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
- All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
- The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.
For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.