What is compartment?

Compartment is a self-hosted deployment system for software teams who want to run their own web apps and internal tools on their own servers, without paying for a managed cloud platform or building a custom deployment setup from scratch. It sits between your code repository and your running application, handling the steps that normally require custom plumbing: building the app, giving it a stable URL, managing who can access it, and keeping a history of each deployment. The core workflow is file-first. You add a small configuration file called compartment.yml to a project, then run a command to deploy it. If the app can be packaged as a container using Docker or a compatible build tool, Compartment can usually deploy it. You can also connect a Git repository so that pushing to a branch automatically triggers a new deployment without running commands manually. Access control is a first-class part of the system. Teams can use single sign-on, define roles and permissions for different team members, and keep an audit log of who deployed what and when. This is aimed at teams that have sensitive internal tools or data, where informal permission sharing through links or credentials is not acceptable. The project is organized as a set of packages: a command-line tool, a browser-based control panel for viewing and managing deployments, a background worker that carries out the deployment work, and an edge layer that handles incoming traffic and enforces access rules. The whole system runs on infrastructure you control, so you are not sending application traffic or data through a third-party service. Compartment is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.