I Built Monolith Engine: A CLI for Deploying Apps to Your Own Server (No Platform Markup)

Yuvraj Bhardwaj — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:37:08 +0000

I built this: Monolith Engine, a CLI tool that deploys apps to your own server — Hetzner, Azure, OVH, anywhere — with automatic blue/green deploys, health checks, and one-command rollback. No vendor lock-in, no platform markup. Still prototype stage, so it's rough — would genuinely love your honest

Hello everyone! 👋

We have been building Monolith Engine — a CLI tool that deploys your app onto your own server (Hetzner, Azure, OVH, wherever) with automatic blue/green deploys, health checks, and one-command rollback. Your infra, no vendor lock-in, no platform markup.

This is genuinely early — prototype stage. TLS and secrets encryption aren't finished yet, so it's a great fit right now for side projects and staging, not production credentials just yet.

What we're hoping to get from sharing this:
1️⃣ Honest validation — tell us if this solves a real problem for you
2️⃣ Help us grow our team — open to connecting with people who want to get involved or advise
3️⃣ Industry perspective — feedback from people who actually run infra matters more to us right now than shipping more features

Try it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/monolith-engine

I'm handling marketing and web design on this — my partner owns the API/backend, so if you've got deeper technical questions, ask away and we'll get you a real answer.

If you know someone — a friend, a colleague, anyone who deals with deployment or infra — we'd really appreciate you sending this their way.

Thank you 🙏

DEV Community: Yuvraj Bhardwaj

I Built Monolith Engine: A CLI for Deploying Apps to Your Own Server (No Platform Markup)