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Bring your own cloud. Leave with your data.

Provider costs are estimates. Storage has its own lifecycle.

Operations manual

Get your bearings. Then get to work.

A practical guide to Compose environments, CI jobs, and remote GPU inference. Start with a preview and build from there.

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23 versioned guides•Bun only•Private services over SSH

Recommended path

Build confidence before creating resources.

The reading path follows a safe operation: inference, local controls, scoped secrets, and release readiness.

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Validate without touching the cloud

Create chalupa.yml and inspect the complete redacted inference.

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Inspect and operate locally

Use the CLI or terminal UI without bypassing Taskfile safety.

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03

Deliver secrets per process

Use tvault allowlists; never copy values to files or logs.

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Start here

Reach a safe first preview, learn the controls, and scope secrets.

QuickstartFrom a local Compose file to a connected environment.Remote GPU inferenceExperimental host Ollama through a local SSH tunnel.Agent harnessesSupported coding agents, endpoint configuration, and adding a harness.Local CLI and operator UIInspect and operate a Chalupa from an offline-first terminal.Secrets with tvault
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Prepare private operations

Verify readiness, migrations, rollback, and known boundaries.

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Least-privilege injection without files or values in logs.

Operating model

Understand what is ephemeral, what persists, and how access works.

ConceptsThe mental model: inference, compute, and data.ProvidersSupported providers, billing units, and planned GPU adapters.Managed GPUPrepaid GPU balance, rates, and beta availability.chalupa.yml referenceDeclarative fields and a complete example.LifecyclePrepare, launch, observe, and sink.Declarative CIDeclare test commands and run them in a disposable environment.Tunnels and securityPrivate services, local access, and secrets.Data and seedsSeparate persistence and repeatable restores.

Control plane

Interpret signals, costs, suites, and artifacts.

Control plane and agentHow heartbeats reach the control plane.Performance telemetryDurable Monitor windows, privacy boundaries, and charts.Private log artifactsBounded direct uploads, commit verification, and retention.Suites and artifactsResults, comparisons, and evidence references.Costs and idle observationEstimates and the informational inactivity window.Plans, billing, and managed hoursHosted plans, Stripe lifecycle, credits, and provider-cost boundaries.

Reference

Operate, diagnose, and consult exact contracts.

Private operationsReadiness, deployment, rollback, and staging boundaries.Email deliveryDomain sending, signed inbound forwarding, and privacy boundaries.TroubleshootingSafe diagnosis for the most common failures.API and schemaPublic ingestion and read contracts.