BlueForge
BlueForge offers Forge Control, a self-hosted deployment and infrastructure platform that automates the path from source code to live URL. The platform handles builds, deploys, secrets, DNS, and a self-populating service catalog, and currently runs 98 production products across 167 hosts. It is the same system BlueForge uses to operate its own products.
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Developers face significant operational overhead when deploying applications, juggling build pipelines, container orchestration, secret management, DNS configuration, and service discovery across multiple environments. This complexity slows release cycles and requires specialized infrastructure knowledge, making it difficult for small teams to ship and maintain production-grade services.
Solution
Forge Control is a self-hosted deployment and infrastructure platform that automates the entire path from source code to live URL. A developer declares the app in a single `blueforge.config.json` file at the repository root, specifying build command, port, resources, and domain. Pushing to the federation's own Gitea server triggers CI on self-hosted runners, then `forge app-deploy` builds the repo, rolls the container, writes the Caddy route and DNS record, stores secrets in its vault, and registers the app in a service catalog that fills itself from repositories. The platform currently runs 98 production products across 167 hosts, with over 2,300 deploys in a single week, and is the same system the company uses to run its own products.
Target Audience
Primary users are software development teams and platform engineers who need a self-hosted, automated deployment pipeline for multiple applications, particularly those running product portfolios or internal tooling on their own infrastructure.
Features
- Single-file configuration (`blueforge.config.json`) declaring build command, port, resources, and domain
- Integrated CI on self-hosted Gitea runners, eliminating dependence on third-party build infrastructure
- Automated container builds, rolling deploys, Caddy route generation, and DNS record management
- Centralized secrets vault for secure storage and injection of credentials
- Self-populating service catalog that registers each app automatically upon deployment
- Smoke verification after each deploy to confirm application health
- Managed Postgres, S3, and Redis for every deployed app
- Read-only database inspection for projects without requiring host access