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Spinifex — A sovereign AWS-compatible cloud platform bringing EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and more to bare metal and edge sites

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Stars
177
Primary language
Go
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026

Overview

Spinifex is an AWS-compatible infrastructure platform designed to move AWS-oriented workloads onto bare metal, on-premises systems, and edge sites without rewriting the application stack. It implements EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, plus EKS, ECR, ECS, RDS, and related service surfaces for AWS CLI, SDK, and Terraform workflows. The latest release checked on September 17, 2026 is v1.20.0.

Features and best fit

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Keep AWS tooling while moving core cloud services onto your infrastructure

The README lists EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, EKS, ECR, ECS, and RDS as available surfaces. Applications and tooling point at Spinifex endpoints instead of AWS while retaining familiar API semantics.

Sources: [2]

Build a cloud control plane on Linux with KVM/QEMU and OVN/OVS for offline and edge environments

The installer bootstraps the Spinifex binary together with QEMU, OVN/OVS, AWS CLI, and related dependencies. The design targets edge, air-gapped, and on-premises operation without relying on an external control plane.

Sources: [2][4]

For edge, air-gapped, and private-datacenter deployments that want to preserve AWS-oriented tooling

It fits low-connectivity sites, sovereign/private cloud environments, GPU edge deployments, and on-premises teams trying to keep existing AWS workflows.

Sources: [2]

Treat compatibility as service- and API-specific, and plan to operate the underlying infrastructure yourself

Spinifex does not imply complete AWS parity; compatibility expands release by release. Version 1.20.0 includes many Terraform-facing fixes across EC2, EKS, ECR, ECS, IAM, load balancing, and networking. Production adoption requires testing the exact modules and owning KVM/QEMU, OVN/OVS, storage, routing, certificates, backups, and HA.

Sources: [3][2]

Official sources

  1. [1]mulgadc/spinifex — GitHub repository metadata(2026-09-17)
  2. [2]Spinifex — README(2026-09-17)
  3. [3]Spinifex v1.20.0 release(2026-09-17)
  4. [4]Spinifex — installation documentation(2026-09-17)
Supplemental curator note

Compatibility is treated as service-specific rather than universal, with the infrastructure operations burden made explicit.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd spinifex
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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GitHub Topics

  • aws
  • ebs
  • ec2
  • private-cloud
  • s3
  • edge-ai
  • edge-computing
  • aws-compatible
  • bare-metal
  • baremetal
  • cloud-infrastructure
  • iam
Stars
177
Forks
10
Watchers
3
Open issues
0
Primary language
Go
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026
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