PostgresqlWhat they did
Yeddula had websites and apps spread across AWS and Google Cloud and wanted the managed feel without the bill. With AI help they built OpenCloud, a small open source layer on one VPS: Caddy as the single public entry, a deploy service that builds and rolls back Docker containers, per-app Postgres on private networks, an S3-style store on SeaweedFS, mounted secrets, a log and alarm service and a shared AI gateway in front of OpenRouter. A Grok agent the author calls Devvy acts as the DevOps engineer. It maintains the server, ships deploys, fixes bugs and runs checks, and the author approves each change in chat. OS patches come from unattended upgrades rather than the agent.
How it went
All nine apps now run on the one box for $6 a month, against an estimated $100 to $200 before. After the move, Devvy and the author compared the live setup with the intended design and found drift: a database app on a superuser role, apps that had lost read-only roots and health checks, the console on the shared app network, a builder that could reach the agent API and a stale gateway still holding a provider key. The author says all of it was fixed. The last full test run on October 17 passed 192 of 192 checks.
Worth knowing
It is still one server, so one point of failure, with monitoring on the same machine and backups not yet off-site. Apps share one internal network, and the builder is only meant for trusted code. The post says little about how Devvy is set up beyond calling it a Grok agent with chat approvals, so the exact Grok product is an inference.