Developer tools: your tools, your control
Run Git servers, container registries, issue trackers and wikis yourself – sovereignly on German infrastructure instead of in third-party SaaS silos. Optimal cloud solutions for your development environment: powerful, developer-friendly hosting for software development, testing and CI/CD – ideal for collaborative coding, continuous deployment and automated testing in a secure environment.
- Predictable cloud costs – transparent pricing structures and full control over your budget.
- One cloud for the entire development journey – from domains to virtual machines, from the first line of code to the production-ready application.
- Reliable backups – back up ccloud³ VMs daily, fully automated, GDPR-compliant, with plannable restores.
- Cloud API and infrastructure as code – provision development resources programmatically, ideal for CI/CD pipelines.
Self-hosted, but without the hassle of running it
Having your own development tools means data sovereignty and independence – centron provides the foundation on which they run reliably.
Tools deployed in minutes
GitLab, Gitea, Harbor or Jira: a VM with root access, and your tool is up and running – template snapshots speed up every subsequent setup.
The code stays in-house
Source code and artefacts are stored on your servers in Germany – which is important for contract work involving strict confidentiality clauses.
Storage for artefacts
Volumes for repositories, S3 for build artefacts and container images – the storage layer grows as the team grows.
Automatic backups
cBacks backs up tool VMs up to once an hour – if an upgrade goes wrong, it’s simply rolled back, with no data loss.
Use cases for developer tools in the centron cloud
Develop efficiently with proven DevOps technologies and benefit from a stable, flexible environment for your development and deployment processes – with powerful VMs, a DevOps-optimised Kubernetes cluster and S3-compatible object storage.
Docker-based development environments
Containerised development environments with Docker make applications portable, scalable and reproducible. With Docker hosting you get a high-performance platform that supports continuous integration & continuous deployment – ideal for agile dev teams.
Kubernetes for scalable microservices
With Kubernetes at centron you orchestrate complex microservice architectures stably and automatically. Perfect for projects with growing resource needs or distributed developer teams looking for a highly available DevOps platform.
Version control & deployment with Git integration
Integrate Git into CI/CD pipelines and trigger automated builds and deployments after every commit. Combine CI/CD hosting with the ccloud³ ecosystem for smooth releases.
Developing data-driven tools with S3 Object Storage
Develop data-intensive applications that use S3-compatible object storage – for log analysis, machine learning or large media files, for instance. High access speed and API compatibility with AWS S3.
Your in-house developer platform
Combine Git, the registry, the CI runner and the wiki within a single VPC to form an internal platform – accessible to the team, but invisible to the internet. As the team grows, the tools are migrated to Kubernetes.
- Git & Registry – GitLab, Gitea, Harbor and others
- Internal accessibility – VPC instead of Public Exposure
- Artefact Store – Volumes & S3
- Hedging – hourly backups
The right centron products
Customers typically implement this use case using these building blocks – which can be combined and expanded at any time.
- Deployment in seconds
- Linux & Windows
- Billed by the hour
- Can be expanded whilst in operation
- Snapshot-compatible
- Independent of the VM
- S3-compatible API
- Free traffic
- Unlimited scalability
Which cloud infrastructure is best suited for hosting developer tools?
Host your own developer tools: Git, container registry and team tools on your own servers – full control instead of SaaS dependency. The cornerstone is ccloud³ VMs from €3.11 per month – billed by the hour, with no minimum contract term. This is supplemented, as required, by volumes and S3 object storage. All data remains in Germany: in our own data centres in Hallstadt near Bamberg, certified to ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz and BSI C5:2020 Type 1. New accounts receive a €200 starting credit.
| Building block | Price |
|---|---|
| ccloud³ VMs | from €3.11 per month |
| Volumes | from €0.05 per GB per month |
| S3 Object Storage | from €5.00 per month |
Frequently asked questions
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