A curated list of high quality examples, starter kits and production ready open source software. Each recipes includes example for the whole development lifecycle, from local / remote developement, through stage to production, as well as detailed knowledge base how to best integrate your existing stack with Zerops, and advanced topics like seeding, migrations, backups and scaling.

"Hello World" Examples Frameworks Examples Analog

Analog SSR Better Auth
View Analog SSR Better Auth (Small Production) details

This Analog SSR app uses Better Auth for email/password authentication on Postgres, with all the essentials for a real deployment — Valkey-cached profile reads, a NATS-driven activity feed that indexes into Meilisearch, and presigned object-storage avatar uploads.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

0.125 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

cache:6379,:6380
Valkey

Container

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

broker:4222,:8222
NATS

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

storage
Object storage

External

1 GBSize

search:7700
Meilisearch

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

5Shared Cores

2.125 GBRAM

5 GBDisk (SSD)

1 GBObject storage

$9.89

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"Hello World" Examples Bun

Bun Hello World
View Bun Hello World (Small Production) details

A Bun application connected to PostgreSQL, running on Zerops with six ready-made environment configurations — from AI agent and remote development to stage and highly-available production.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Bun

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples .NET

.NET Hello world
View .NET Hello world (Small Production) details

.NET 9 recipe for Zerops demonstrating a minimal web service with automatic PostgreSQL migrations and a health check endpoint that verifies live database connectivity. Includes ready-made configurations for every stage of the development lifecycle — from AI agent environments to highly-available production.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:8080
.NET

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$17.70

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"Hello World" Examples Angular

Angular SSR Hello World
View Angular SSR Hello World (Small Production) details

A server-side rendered Angular application connected to a PostgreSQL database, running on Zerops. Demonstrates Angular's built-in SSR support via @angular/ssr and Express, idempotent database migrations, and the full Zerops build and deploy pipeline across six ready-made environment configurations.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:4000
Node.js

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

3Shared Cores

0.75 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$4.35

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"Hello World" Examples PHP Laravel

Laravel showcase
View Laravel showcase (Small Production) details

A Laravel application connected to PostgreSQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), S3-compatible object storage, and Meilisearch, running on Zerops with six ready-made environment configurations — from AI agent and remote development to stage and highly-available production.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
PHP+Nginx

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
worker
PHP+Nginx

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

redis:6379,:6380
Valkey

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

storage
Object storage

External

1 GBSize

search:7700
Meilisearch

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

8Shared Cores

6.5 GBRAM

7 GBDisk (SSD)

1 GBObject storage

$25.1

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"Hello World" Examples Vue

Vue (Vite) Static Hello World
View Vue (Vite) Static Hello World (Small Production) details

A ready-to-deploy Vue 3 + Vite hello world app running as a static site on Zerops, with environment configurations covering every stage of the development lifecycle — from AI agent workspaces to highly-available production.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
Static

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

2Shared Cores

0.5 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$2.90

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Analytics Node.js Next.js

Umami
View Umami (Production) details

One-click deployment of Umami - modern analytics platform that makes it easy to collect, analyze and understand your website data.

Serious project core
Highly-available dedicated balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
db:5432,:6432 +1
PostgreSQL

Container

2Dedicated Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

umami:3000
Node.js

Containers

1Shared Core

0.125 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

4Shared Cores

4.25 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$15.45

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"Hello World" Examples React

React (Vite) Static Hello World
View React (Vite) Static Hello World (Small Production) details

A complete React + Vite hello world recipe for Zerops, demonstrating static site deployment with build-time environment variable injection — compiled by Node.js, served by Nginx, ready-made for every stage of the development lifecycle.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
Static

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

2Shared Cores

0.5 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$2.90

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AI / ML CMS Frameworks Examples Medusa

Medusa Business-to-Business (B2B)
View Medusa Business-to-Business (B2B) (Small Production) details

Medusa v2.21 B2B backend and admin (zerops-recipe-apps/medusa-b2b) with optional Next.js storefront (medusa-b2b-frontend) on Zerops. PostgreSQL, Valkey, Meilisearch, MinIO, and Mailpit (dev envs). Omit nextstore services for a backend-only project.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

redis:6379,:6380
Valkey

Container

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

search:7700
Meilisearch

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

storage
Object storage

External

2 GBSize

medusa:9000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
nextstore:8000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

5Shared Cores

3.25 GBRAM

5 GBDisk (SSD)

2 GBObject storage

$13.27

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"Hello World" Examples Solid

SolidStart SSR Hello World
View SolidStart SSR Hello World (Small Production) details

A server-rendered SolidStart application running on Zerops, backed by a PostgreSQL database. The app demonstrates SolidStart's Nitro-powered SSR pipeline — self-contained server bundle with idempotent database migrations on every deploy.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples Frameworks Examples Analog

Analog + Spartan
View Analog + Spartan (Small Production) details

This Analog SSR app combines Better Auth with spartan/ui — accessible Angular components on Postgres, with Valkey-cached profile reads, a NATS-driven activity feed indexed into Meilisearch, and presigned object-storage avatar uploads.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

0.125 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

cache:6379,:6380
Valkey

Container

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

broker:4222,:8222
NATS

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

storage
Object storage

External

1 GBSize

search:7700
Meilisearch

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

5Shared Cores

2.125 GBRAM

5 GBDisk (SSD)

1 GBObject storage

$9.89

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"Hello World" Examples Analog

Analog SSR Hello World
View Analog SSR Hello World (Small Production) details

A server-side rendered Analog application — Angular's full-stack meta-framework powered by Vite and Nitro — connected to a PostgreSQL database on Zerops. Includes idempotent migrations and six ready-made environment configurations for the complete development lifecycle.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

0.125 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

2Shared Cores

1.125 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$4.78

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"Hello World" Examples PHP Laravel

Laravel minimal
View Laravel minimal (Small Production) details

A Laravel application connected to PostgreSQL, running on Zerops with six ready-made environment configurations — from AI agent and remote development to stage and highly-available production.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
PHP+Nginx

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$17.70

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CMS Payload

Payload CMS + Next.js Showcase
View Payload CMS + Next.js Showcase (Small Production) details

Payload CMS (zerops-recipe-apps/payload) with a Vite + React frontend (payload-next-frontend) on Zerops. PostgreSQL ships with the project. Default Site Info content seeds in Payload and displays in React. Omit frontend* services for CMS-only — use the payload recipe instead.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

payload:3000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
frontend:3000
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

0.125 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

3Shared Cores

2.125 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$8.48

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CMS Strapi Node.js

Strapi CMS
View Strapi CMS (Small Production) details

Strapi v5 headless CMS (zerops-recipe-apps/strapi) on Zerops with PostgreSQL. Site Info and sample blog content seed on bootstrap; use the admin at /admin. Pair with strapi-react-frontend or any client via API_URL.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

strapi:1337
Node.js

Container

1Shared Core

1 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

2Shared Cores

2 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$7.40

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"Hello World" Examples Qwik

Qwik City SSR Hello World
View Qwik City SSR Hello World (Small Production) details

A minimal Qwik City SSR application running on Zerops with Node.js, connecting to a PostgreSQL database. Ships with six ready-made environment configurations — from AI agent workspaces to highly-available production — covering the full development lifecycle.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples Node.js

Node.js Hello World
View Node.js Hello World (Small Production) details

A Node.js application with Express and TypeScript connected to a PostgreSQL database on Zerops, demonstrating idempotent migrations and a health endpoint that proves both connectivity and data integrity.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples Bun Python

Zerops showcase
View Zerops showcase (Small Production) details

Production-ready image processing pipeline showcasing distributed architecture on Zerops — a Bun + React frontend with real-time WebSocket updates and live architecture visualization, a Python worker for async image processing via NATS, backed by PostgreSQL, Valkey, and S3-compatible object storage.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Bun

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
worker
Python

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

redis:6379,:6380
Valkey

Container

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

queue:4222,:8222
NATS

Container

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

storage
Object storage

External

5 GBSize

8Shared Cores

6.75 GBRAM

7 GBDisk (SSD)

5 GBObject storage

$25.80

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"Hello World" Examples Rust

Rust Hello World
View Rust Hello World (Small Production) details

Basic example of running Rust applications on Zerops. Simple Actix Web API with single endpoint that reads from and writes to a PostgreSQL database.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:8080
Rust

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples PHP

PHP Hello world
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A minimal PHP application paired with PostgreSQL on Zerops, demonstrating database connectivity, idempotent migrations, and six ready-made environment configurations spanning the full development lifecycle.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
PHP+Apache

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples Kubernetes

Zerops k8s showcase
View Zerops k8s showcase (Production) details

Run upstream Kubernetes inside a single Zerops project — nested kubeadm cluster, Calico CNI, Gateway API ingress, and profile-specific add-ons (Istio/Longhorn/Headlamp on Full, Traefik/Longhorn on Production, Traefik-only on Staging). Cluster lifecycle is driven by zerops-recipe-apps/zerops-k8s GitHub Actions after the project import.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
k8scp1
Docker

Container

4Dedicated Cores

8 GBRAM

20 GBDisk (SSD)

k8sworker1
Docker

Container

4Dedicated Cores

8 GBRAM

50 GBDisk (SSD)

k8sworker2
Docker

Container

4Dedicated Cores

8 GBRAM

50 GBDisk (SSD)

k8sedge
Golang

Containers

1Shared Core

0.5 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

k8sbackups
Object storage

External

25 GBSize

14Shared Cores

25 GBRAM

122 GBDisk (SSD)

25 GBObject storage

$95.85

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"Hello World" Examples Frameworks Examples React

TanStack Start Hello World
View TanStack Start Hello World (Small Production) details

A server-rendered TanStack Start application with Nitro Node output, deployed on Zerops. Includes ready-made environment configurations for the full development lifecycle.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:3000
Node.js

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

2Shared Cores

0.5 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$2.90

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"Hello World" Examples Golang

Go Hello World
View Go Hello World (Small Production) details

Go recipe for Zerops — a minimal HTTP server backed by PostgreSQL, showcasing idempotent database migrations, environment-variable-driven configuration, and the complete set of Zerops infrastructure patterns across six ready-to-deploy environment configurations.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app:8080
Golang

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo
db:5432,:6432
PostgreSQL

Container

2Shared Cores

4 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

4Shared Cores

4.5 GBRAM

3 GBDisk (SSD)

$16.20

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"Hello World" Examples Solid

Solidstart Static Hello World
View Solidstart Static Hello World (Small Production) details

A minimal SolidStart application deployed as a static site on Zerops — Vinxi compiles routes into pre-rendered HTML/CSS/JS served by Nginx, with build-time environment variable injection using the VITE_* prefix. Includes ready-made configurations for every stage of the development lifecycle.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
Static

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

2Shared Cores

0.5 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$2.90

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"Hello World" Examples React

React Router Static Hello World
View React Router Static Hello World (Small Production) details

A complete React Router v7 hello world recipe for Zerops — deploying a React Router v7 SPA (static mode, no SSR) as a static site built by Node.js and served by Nginx, with ready-made environment configurations demonstrating build-time environment variable injection via Vite.

Lightweight project core
Single dedicated container with balancers (L3/L7), logger and statistics services
app
Static

Containers

1Shared Core

0.25 GBRAM

1 GBDisk (SSD)

 GitHub repo

2Shared Cores

0.5 GBRAM

2 GBDisk (SSD)

$2.90

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