A free Desktop App and CLI for your cloud infrastructure
Deploy real infrastructure to your own cloud — without writing Terraform.
Planton is a free Desktop App and CLI you download and open. It finds the cloud you’re already signed into; pick a stack and fill a short form, or planton apply -f a manifest — and watch it deploy, with clean, auditable infrastructure-as-code running underneath. No account. No connections. No ceremony.
Runs on macOS · Linux · Windows
400+ components·17 providers·dozens of ready-made stacks·backed by Terraform and Pulumi
Every way of running cloud infrastructure has asked you to give something up.
You
The cloud console is easy — I just fill a form and go.
Planton
But nothing’s written down. No history. No review. No source of truth.
You
So I moved it all to Terraform. Now every change is a diff I can review.
Planton
And now a one-line change is a pull request, a plan, and a prayer. It works — it’s just not how you want to spend your day.
You
Then Kubernetes showed me something better. Write a manifest, kubectl apply -f, done — and it’s saved to disk. Helm charts go further: a whole stack in one file. It’s the best infrastructure has ever felt.
Planton
But all of it only works for Kubernetes. No UI. And it was never really managing your cloud — no real state, no history.
Planton
We loved all of it too — the apply, the charts. We just couldn’t accept that the best experience in infrastructure stopped at Kubernetes. So we brought it to your whole cloud.
That’s Planton. planton apply -f for a single manifest. planton chart install for a whole environment. The gestures you already know — for AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes. With the UI Kubernetes never had, and real infrastructure-as-code underneath.
The CLI
Run it from your terminal and watch the whole environment come up, live — every resource, as it happens. Not fire-and-forget like kubectl apply.
You
…and when I’d rather click?
Planton
Open the app — the dashboard Kubernetes never had. See the architecture before you deploy, then watch each piece light up as it comes online.
aws · us-east-1
vpc · 10.0.0.0/16
ecs · fargate
rds · provisioning…
Planton
And you’re never starting from a blank file. Every module is already written — and vetted for secure, well-architected, cost-efficient infrastructure. Sure, Claude can write you Terraform in minutes. But writing it was never the hard part. Trusting it is.
Planton
Either way, it’s real infrastructure-as-code the whole way down — stored, versioned, every change a diff. On your own cloud. Nothing to lock you in.
Deploys to
Soon: point Planton at a cloud you already use, and it brings what’s already there under management. Describe what you want, and watch it assemble.
You
Okay — so what’s the catch?
Planton
Honestly? We’d rather you ship than reach for your credit card. Planton is free forever for solo developers and indie hackers — commercial use included. We make our money from teams and companies, not from you.
Prefer the terminal? Install the CLI.
The planton CLI is open source (Apache-2.0). Install it and planton apply -f from anywhere.
$brew install plantonhq/tap/plantonmacOS and Linux
Stop choosing between easy and accountable.
Download Planton, open it, and deploy to your own cloud in minutes.
Runs on macOS · Linux · Windows