Kheeper

Spec sheet

Product

Kheeper describes itself as a registry for operating system images and says it is purpose-built for Bootc.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

AWS integration

Kheeper documents AWS EC2 host auto-registration through a linked AWS account and Kheeper AMIs.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

Bare metal

The documentation includes a guide for booting hosts on bare metal.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

CLI

The kheeper CLI is the primary interface for using the registry.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

Company location

The site says Kheeper is built in Evanston.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

Configurable images

Configurable bootable container images use templates rendered per host at deploy time, allowing one image to be configured differently for each machine.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

Credential helper

Kheeper provides docker-credential-kheeper so Podman can authenticate to its registry.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

GCP integration

Kheeper can link a Google Cloud project to an organization so instances launched from its base image automatically register as hosts.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

Image validation

An optional JSON Schema can validate configuration values for an image.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

Support contact

The site lists [email protected] as its contact email.Read 5 Oct 2026 · kheeper.com

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