Thanks for the shout-out! We’re trying to be like an “open-Heroku” - back when I worked on OpenStack it was called “the open cloud” and no one knew what we were on about - open stack was enterprise as enterprise gets!

Our goal is to make a Heroku-ish platform for getting an app online - but one that doesn’t hold you over a barrel later on. You can even host from a spare home server :)

(Disclosure: I’m the CTO)

Do you still expose the k8s bits?

I'm interested in/have previously given up on a product where the control plane is managed for me, I can join the cluster with bare metal nodes, and then it's just Kubernetes.

Yep - we expose the Kubernetes API (and add mutating controllers to help automate some of its actions).

Right now we don't do "hosted control plane", rather - you can either use our hosted clusters where you have namespace-level access (so you still get to use Kubernetes, just not all of the resources, for example, no `Nodes`), or you can attach your own cluster to our UI (with the advantage that we can setup ingress and forward traffic to you, which is perfect for a home-hosting setup).

Hosted control plane is something im watching closely though - I'd really love to offer that as a service, but since we're small, we're trying to focus hard on a core offering. Will be considered in the future though!

kubesail has really nice UI for an hosted option. Another alternative I found is https://kalm.dev/, which is open sourced and geared towards configuring a heroku on top of a k8s cluster.