Kheeper
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Kheeper, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Kheeper's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Usage-based | $5, paid once | Storage · Bandwidth · Hosts; no tiers or minimums |
The facts
Each one read from Kheeper's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AWS integration
- Kheeper documents AWS EC2 host auto-registration through a linked AWS account and Kheeper AMIs.checked 5 Oct 2026
- AWS region limit
- The AWS guide says instances must currently be launched in us-east-2 because that is the only region with the Kheeper API.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Bare metal
- The documentation includes a guide for booting hosts on bare metal.checked 5 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The kheeper CLI is the primary interface for using the registry.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Configurable images
- Configurable bootable container images use templates rendered per host at deploy time, allowing one image to be configured differently for each machine.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Credential helper
- Kheeper provides docker-credential-kheeper so Podman can authenticate to its registry.checked 5 Oct 2026
- GCP integration
- Kheeper can link a Google Cloud project to an organization so instances launched from its base image automatically register as hosts.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Host DNS
- The GCP guide says each Kheeper host gets a region-scoped DNS record in the form <host>.<org>.us.kheeper.app pointing to its public IP.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Image validation
- An optional JSON Schema can validate configuration values for an image.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Object storage
- Each host has a dedicated namespace in an organization-scoped bucket, and a host can read and write only under its own organization and host prefix.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Product
- Kheeper describes itself as a registry for operating system images and says it is purpose-built for Bootc.checked 5 Oct 2026
- S3 tooling
- Kheeper provides a localhost proxy for S3 clients including wal-g, restic, rclone, and the AWS SDK; its object store itself is not S3 compatible.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support contact
- The site lists [email protected] as its contact email.checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Company location
- The site says Kheeper is built in Evanston.checked 5 Oct 2026
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