Cloudoku

We exist to make the gap between writing code and running it disappear.

Cloud infrastructure has never been more powerful. It's also never been more complicated. We think that's a problem worth fixing — not with abstraction layers and config files, but by rethinking what deployment software should actually feel like.

The problem

Deploying a Node.js app in 2026 still requires stitching together container registries, load balancers, TLS certificates, DNS records, and CI pipelines — each with its own learning curve, its own pricing surprises, and its own failure modes.

The irony is that the code itself is the easy part. A developer can build a production-grade API in an afternoon. But getting it to reliably serve traffic, auto-scale, auto-recover, and auto-deploy on every commit? That's a week of configuration, three StackOverflow threads, and a bill that doesn't make sense until your third invoice.

We started Cloudoku because we were the developers staying late wrestling with deployment configs instead of shipping features. We knew the problem wasn't the cloud — it was the tooling. So we built the platform we always wished existed.

“The best deployment is the one you forgot happened.”

— Founding principle at Cloudoku

Today Cloudoku handles the full lifecycle — containers, CI/CD, TLS, domains, secrets, and observability — so that when you push to main, your users see the update. That's it. That's the whole job.

99.9%

uptime SLA

<45s

median deploy time

5

global regions

24/7

human support

What we believe

Six ideas that shaped everything we built

01

Infrastructure should be invisible

The best infrastructure is the kind you never think about. We obsess over the plumbing so you can obsess over your product.

02

Complexity is a choice

YAML files, IAM roles, VPCs, load balancers — these are not inherent to deploying software. They're choices the industry made. We made different ones.

03

Shipping is a competitive advantage

The teams that ship faster win. Iteration speed compounds. Every hour spent on deployment configuration is an hour not spent on a feature your users asked for.

04

Developers deserve better defaults

HTTPS, health checks, zero-downtime deploys, rollbacks, encrypted secrets — these shouldn't require expertise to set up. They should just be on.

05

Pricing should be honest

No free tiers with brutal upgrade cliffs. No per-seat traps. No bandwidth gotchas buried in fine print. You pick a container size. That's your price.

06

The best ops team is no ops team

We built the platform so you can run a production Node.js app with zero infrastructure knowledge. You shouldn't need a DevOps hire to ship to the internet.

How we work

Small team. Strong opinions. No filler.

We're a small, focused team that moves fast. We don't have a marketing-to-engineering ratio that makes you wince. Everyone who works at Cloudoku has been a developer frustrated by deployment tooling — which is why we build with a taste for simplicity that most platforms lack.

We ship fast. We talk to customers. We reverse decisions when evidence changes our minds. We don't add features to hit a product roadmap — we add them when they solve a real problem for someone building something real.

Bias toward simplicity

If a feature needs a tutorial, we redesign the feature.

Default to transparency

Pricing, incidents, roadmap — we say what's true.

Customer zero

We run our own infrastructure on Cloudoku.

Async by default

Good work happens in deep focus, not back-to-back meetings.

Ready to stop thinking about deployment?

Connect GitHub, pick an instance size, and ship. Your first deploy takes under a minute — and every one after that is automatic.