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Keel Dev is for one person and one repository. Keel Cloud is what you run when a team — or a company and its clients — needs to deploy from a browser, with an audit trail, without anyone installing tools or holding credentials. It is the same engine and the same UI, served from a server you control, backed by PostgreSQL, and extended with:
  • Organizations — a personal one on sign-up, more on demand, each with members, roles, and invite links.
  • Roles and scopes — owners and admins manage; members deploy or configure only with the matching scope; everyone else views.
  • Connected repositories — any git host over HTTPS with an optional read token, or a GitHub App with a repository picker.
  • Push-triggered deploys — targets flagged auto-deploy on push run when their branch receives a push, if their variables are complete.
  • Runs on the server — fresh clone per run, Docker on the host, live logs over SSE, persisted history, secret masking, per-target concurrency.
  • Email notifications — your SMTP server, recipients subscribed to the events they care about: runs starting, succeeding, or failing (with the last log lines), repository, target, and member changes.
  • AI insights — a plain-language explanation of any failed run from the OpenAI-compatible model you configure.

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How it fits together

Repositories belong to organizations. Connecting one clones its branch, reads keel.yaml, and lists the deployments it declares. Targets and values are created against those deployments, exactly as in Keel Dev.

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Getting a Keel Cloud

Self-host

Docker Compose in a minute for evaluation; a binary or container image behind a TLS proxy for production.

Let Keel deploy it

Keel’s own repository ships a deployment that stands up a production Keel Cloud on a single Google Cloud VM for about $35 a month.

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Then

Organizations and permissions

Who can do what, and how to invite people.

Connect repositories

Git URLs, tokens, branches, syncing, and repository status.

GitHub App

The repository picker and push-triggered deploys.

Runs and security

How runs execute on the host and what the trust boundary is.