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Notes from the edge.

Release notes, engineering deep dives, partner announcements, and field reports from the team building Spinifex.

Using Terraform to manage on-premise infrastructure with Spinifex
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Using Terraform to Manage On-Premise Infrastructure

Redirecting Terraform from AWS to Spinifex is a provider override plus four skip flags. Here's the complete setup, including the two-endpoint architecture, AMI lookups, and the workbooks in the Spinifex repo.

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Proxmox vs Spinifex: hypervisor management versus AWS-compatible cloud
Engineering ·

Proxmox vs Spinifex: Hypervisor Management vs AWS-Compatible Cloud

Proxmox and Spinifex are both open source and both run VMs on hardware you own. The difference is which API you use to operate them, and that depends entirely on what your team already knows.

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LocalStack alternatives: Floci, MiniStack and production-ready bare metal
Engineering ·

LocalStack Went Paid: What the Free Alternatives Get Right

LocalStack archived its Community Edition in March 2026. Several capable free alternatives appeared quickly. Here's what each one gets right, and where the emulator model hits its limits.

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Running the AWS CLI against your own hardware in air-gapped environments
Engineering ·

Running the AWS CLI Against Your Own Hardware

What changes when you point the AWS CLI at your own hardware instead of AWS? Not much, and that's the point. Here's how Spinifex makes AWS-compatible tooling work without internet.

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EC2-compatible compute on bare metal — a private cloud that behaves like AWS
Engineering ·

EC2-Compatible Compute on Bare Metal

"EC2-compatible" is an overloaded term. Here's what it means when the API surface is production-grade and running on hardware you own, and how your existing Terraform and AWS tooling transfers directly.

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Spinifex as AWS Local Twin — sovereignty and air-gapped deployments
Engineering ·

Spinifex as AWS "Local Twin"

We explore the spectrum from neo-cloud to full hardware ownership, and how Spinifex lets you run AWS-compatible services in a fully air-gapped 'Local Twin' of your cloud deployment.

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Baremetal AI using Cloud-like Tools — Spinifex as the bridge to scalable local AI
Engineering ·

Mulga x Supermicro: Baremetal AI using Cloud-like tools

As token economics tighten and open weight models improve, Spinifex provides the bridge: deploy AI workloads with the same Terraform configs you use in the cloud, on hardware you own.

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Mulga Defense Corporation x Critical Shift partnership artwork
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Mulga × Critical Shift: Bringing the Cloud to the Tactical Edge

Spinifex now ships pre-integrated on Nexus, Critical Shift's US-made rugged JADC2 platform. EC2, EBS, and S3-compatible primitives in a Pelican case, engineered to MIL-STD, ready to deploy.

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Spinifex 1.2.0 release artwork
Engineering ·

Spinifex 1.2.0: Production-Ready Edge Cloud, Released

Spinifex 1.2.0 ships our hardened release: production-ready compute, block storage, and object storage on your hardware. Years of design work on edge-first infrastructure are now in the open, free to deploy.

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Spinifex 1.0.0 launch artwork
Engineering ·

Spinifex 1.0.0: Our First Public Release

After 9 months building in the open, Spinifex v1.0 is here. EC2-style compute, EBS-compatible block, S3-compatible object storage: a complete cloud-in-a-box for the edge, free and open.

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