# No Kubernetes. No exceptions.

The identical product is one Go binary against your Postgres and your bucket. The files never leave your network.

Source: https://publidock.com/blog/no-kubernetes-no-exceptions

Published: 2026-09-11
Topic: Self-hosted

A host that cannot run in the customer’s cloud is a non-starter for the teams that need this most — finance, health, anything with a perimeter. Marketplace appliances and Helm charts assume a platform team. The people who want Publidock inside the VPC often do not have one.

## The same artifact

One static Go binary. Embedded UI, auth gate, upload API, file serving. Postgres or SQLite. Any S3-compatible bucket. TLS can terminate in the binary or behind the proxy you already run.

`docker compose up -d` is a working install: Postgres, MinIO, the product. Ten minutes, start to finish. Bare metal, AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, air-gapped. Nothing phones home for licence checks that cannot run offline.

Kubernetes is a non-goal. If a paying customer’s platform team later requires a chart, that is a later conversation. It is not how v1 is sold.

## Standard or Enterprise

Both are the whole product, licensed per instance, with no limits on sites, members, or storage. Enterprise adds governance — org-wide sharing policy, audit log — plus contracted support and managed updates through a portal. [The install](/self-hosted) is the same either way.