Hearth OS
Users are part of the platform
LLDAP and Dex form the identity spine so access policy and authentication are not fragmented across random stacks.
One platform. One identity. Your infrastructure.
A self-hosted platform with an operating model.
Hearth makes a self-hosted server feel like a coherent environment instead of a pile of unrelated containers. Identity, ingress, recovery, administration, content, access, and extensibility live inside one durable platform model.
Identity-aware
Recoverable
Operator-first
Extensible
Operating model
Identity, routing, recovery
What Hearth is
Infrastructure with an internal logic
Hearth does not try to replace existing solutions. It gives those tools one coherent place to shine.
What Hearth does
It pulls operational ownership back into one place.
Instead of manually stitching together reverse proxies, TLS, identity, application credentials, backup paths, restore flows, commerce, and custom deployments, Hearth gathers those concerns into one platform model.
Routes are part of the platform
Caddy provides one ingress model for TLS, hostname behavior, and public exposure instead of letting every service invent its own pattern.
State is treated as recoverable
Backups, restores, snapshots, and migration paths are first-class concerns because real operators eventually need to repair, move, or rebuild.
What ships with it
The practical feature set behind the platform.
Hearth OS 1.0.0 Community Beta is built around a concrete operator-first scope: infrastructure, administrative surfaces, publishing, protected access, commerce, deployment workflows, and Hearth-owned content systems.
Infrastructure and identity
Compose orchestration, Caddy ingress, LLDAP directory authority, Dex federation, and local-first hostname workflows.
Native administrative surfaces
A first-party admin portal for installs, updates, backups, restores, databases, storage, and service management.
Content and publishing
Nexus site workflows, protected content routes, Hearth Codex, and HCodex package-based content ingestion.
Commerce and access control
Medusa transactions, Hearth Vault fulfillment, Hearth-managed entitlements, memberships, and activation workflows.
Custom deployment workflows
Custom Install for Compose stacks plus App Compiler support for Next.js, React, Node.js, Vue, and static deployments.
Gaming and media-adjacent systems
Hearth Arcade, Hearth Sync-backed save-state workflows, controller bypass support, and local ROM feed handling.
Live demo
See the platform in motion before you install it.
The live beta is the fastest way to understand how Hearth actually feels. Open the portal, walk the surfaces, and see how admin, apps, Codex, Arcade, and protected content live together as one system.
Limited open beta
Portal-first tour
Smaller live server
What to preview
Dashboard and admin
Get a feel for the operating surface that makes Hearth more than a launcher for containers.
Codex, Arcade, and apps
Preview the native systems that give the platform memory, play, and an expanding application
layer.