# Cloud in a Bottle

Open-source personal-cloud platform that installs on an Ubuntu machine the owner supplies and runs containerized apps from a catalog, with a managed server sold by its maker Imbue.


Source: https://www.findhost.app/cloud-in-a-bottle/
Last reviewed: 2026-09-08
Listed since: 2026-09-08

## Record

### Links

- home: https://cloudinabottle.org
- pricing: https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/
- docs: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/

### Identity

- founded: 2026
- headcount: 11-50
- referringSubnets: unknown
- favorite: unknown
- ownership: unknown
- parent: unknown
- status: unknown
- wikidata: unknown

### Classification

- category: server-management
- whoManagesOs: self-managed
- infraContract: byo-iaas
- runsOn: unknown
- cdnFrom: unknown
- useCases: side-project, web-app, ai-app, game-server
- audience: solo

### Tech stack

- panels: unknown
- runtimes: docker, any
- software: nextcloud, vaultwarden
- specialisation: unknown
- sshAccess: root
- managedDatabases: unknown
- gpuCapacity: unknown
- persistentStorage: unknown
- backupsIncluded: included

### Deployment

- deployMethods: git, control-panel

### Pricing

- pricingModel: unknown
- priceFrom: sm
- entryPrice: unknown
- priceTo: md
- currencies: USD
- billingPeriods: monthly
- billingTiming: unknown
- exitWithin: unknown
- moneyBack: unknown
- renewalMultiple: unknown
- freeTier: trial
- contractMinimum: unknown
- paymentMethods: unknown

### Regions and law

- regions: not applicable
- hqCountry: US
- gdprDpa: unknown

### Other features

- energyClaim: unknown
- certifications: unknown
- greenWebId: unknown
- domainRegistration: unknown
- dnsHosting: unknown
- emailHosting: unknown
- cdnIncluded: unknown
- testDomain: unknown
- collaboration: unknown
- staging: unknown

### Support

- supportChannels: unknown
- supportHours: unknown
- supportTiering: unknown
- sla: unknown

### Automation

- mcpServer: unknown
- cliTool: official
- apiAvailable: public
- iacSupport: unknown

### Sources

- founded: https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post (read 2026-09-08)
- headcount: https://imbue.com/about (read 2026-09-08)
- hqCountry: https://imbue.com/about (read 2026-09-08)
- category: https://cloudinabottle.org/ (read 2026-09-08)
- whoManagesOs: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/setup/cloud_instance.html (read 2026-09-08)
- infraContract: https://cloudinabottle.org/ (read 2026-09-08)
- useCases: https://cloudinabottle.org/ (read 2026-09-08)
- audience: https://cloudinabottle.org/ (read 2026-09-08)
- software: https://cloudinabottle.org/apps (read 2026-09-08)
- runtimes: https://cloudinabottle.org/ (read 2026-09-08)
- deployMethods: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/operation/overview.html (read 2026-09-08)
- sshAccess: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/setup/cloud_instance.html (read 2026-09-08)
- backupsIncluded: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/operation/backups.html (read 2026-09-08)
- priceFrom: https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/ (read 2026-09-08)
- priceTo: https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/ (read 2026-09-08)
- currencies: https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/ (read 2026-09-08)
- billingPeriods: https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/ (read 2026-09-08)
- freeTier: https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/ (read 2026-09-08)
- cliTool: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/operation/cli.html (read 2026-09-08)
- apiAvailable: https://cloudinabottle.org/docs/how_it_works/overview.html (read 2026-09-08)
- built by Imbue: https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post (read 2026-09-08)

## Notes

Cloud in a Bottle is an open-source personal-cloud platform, published under AGPL-3.0 and [built by Imbue](https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post), an AI company in San Francisco. It installs on a freshly set up Ubuntu machine the owner supplies, whether a spare laptop, a home server or a rented VPS, and turns it into a dashboard that routes HTTPS requests to apps running as rootless Podman containers, each seeing only the data directories it asked for. Apps come from a curated catalog installed in one click, or from any git repository carrying a manifest file and a Dockerfile. Every route of every app sits behind the owner's login unless the app declares a path public. A bundled backup app uses restic to send encrypted snapshots to storage the owner chooses, and a command-line tool with API tokens does what the dashboard does, including handing an instance to a coding agent.

Imbue also sells [managed spaces](https://cloudinabottle.imbue.com/): a dedicated server it provisions and keeps running, in three sizes priced by the month and billed only while the space is running, with a starting credit. The space is tied to the owner's SSH key and can be moved to other hardware.

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