Enterprise orchestration.
No Kubernetes required.
Odysseus is a fully managed container orchestration platform. Sign up, connect your nodes with a one-liner, and get autoscaling, canary deployments, AI-powered operations, and CVE scanning — without the Kubernetes complexity.
Fully managed control plane · One-liner node setup · No dedicated platform team
Stuck between too simple
and too complex?
Managing 50–100 containers shouldn't require a dedicated platform team. But it shouldn't be held together with shell scripts either.
Docker Compose hits its limits
No autoscaling, no high availability, no rolling deploys. One bad push can take down your entire service — and manual recovery takes the team away from shipping.
Kubernetes is overkill
2 GB+ control plane overhead, months of ramp-up, 1–2 dedicated engineers to maintain it. For 50–100 containers, you're paying an enterprise tax for features you'll never fully use.
Every deployment is a risk
No canary releases means bugs reach 100% of your users instantly. No audit trail means you can't answer "what changed and when?" for compliance reviews or post-mortems.
- 30–60 minutes of manual deployment steps
- A bad deploy takes down 100% of users
- Scale manually when traffic spikes hit
- No audit trail — "who changed that?" is unanswerable
- Secrets live in environment variables or bash scripts
- Recovery from failure takes 15–30 minutes
- 2–3 minute automated deployments, every time
- Canary releases expose bugs to 10% before full rollout
- Prometheus-driven autoscaling, no manual intervention
- Complete audit trail with actor, timestamp, and outcome
- Vault-backed secrets on tmpfs — never in env vars
- Instant automated rollback on health check failure
Sign up, connect, deploy
Odysseus is fully managed. Sign up, run a one-liner to connect your nodes, and start deploying — the control plane is on us.
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Built for teams that have outgrown Docker Compose but don't want to build a platform team just to run their containers.
Docker Compose syntax you already know
Extend your existing docker-compose.yml files with an x-odysseus block. No new DSL to learn — your team ships on day one.
Multi-network container attachment
Attach containers to multiple Docker networks simultaneously — a key limitation of Nomad and many other orchestrators that Odysseus solves natively.
Four-tier RBAC
Admin, Operator, Developer, and Read-only roles out of the box. Control exactly who can deploy, scale, or just observe — with JWT + mTLS authentication.
Lightweight agent, zero overhead
The Odysseus agent is a single Go binary that runs on your nodes — under 50 MB RAM, less than 1% CPU at idle. Installs in seconds, auto-upgrades with health-check-gated rollback.
Automated incident response
Odysseus detects container crashes, OOM kills, restart loops, and health check failures in real time — then executes remediation automatically. Self-healing infrastructure without on-call fatigue.
Built-in CVE scanning
Dual-backend vulnerability scanning with Trivy and Grype. Define policies to block deployments with critical CVEs automatically. Get patch recommendations with severity-based prioritization.
Meet Athena — your AI ops assistant
Deploy, troubleshoot, and manage infrastructure through natural language. Athena connects to 61 orchestration tools with RBAC-scoped access and safety guardrails.
The right tool for 50–100 containers
Odysseus is purpose-built for the workload size where Docker Compose breaks down and Kubernetes is overkill.
| Capability | Docker Compose | Odysseus | Kubernetes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autoscaling | ✗ | ✓ Prometheus-driven | ✓ Complex setup |
| Zero-downtime deployments | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canary deployments | ✗ | ✓ Auto-promote + rollback | Via Istio/Argo |
| Instant rollback | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RBAC | ✗ | ✓ 4 built-in roles | ✓ Complex RBAC |
| Audit trail | ✗ | ✓ Built-in | Via add-on |
| Vault secret injection | ✗ | ✓ tmpfs-mounted | Via sidecar |
| Multi-network containers | Limited | ✓ Native | Via CNI plugin |
| Control plane RAM | ~50 MB | <150 MB | 2 GB+ |
| Learning curve | Hours | Days | Months |
| AI operations assistant | ✗ | ✓ Athena (61 tools) | ✗ |
| CVE scanning | ✗ | ✓ Trivy + Grype | Via add-on |
| Auto-incident response | ✗ | ✓ Self-healing | Via add-on |
| Dedicated platform staff | 0 | 0 | 1–2 engineers |
| Ideal container count | 1–20 | 50–500 | 500+ |
Simple, transparent pricing
Base fee + per-node pricing that scales with you. Start free, upgrade as you grow.
For indie developers, home labs, and evaluation use.
- Up to 3 nodes
- 1 user
- Full Docker Compose compatibility
- WireGuard VPN mesh
- Basic Prometheus metrics
- 2-tier RBAC
- Community support
- No Athena AI
- No CVE scanning
For solo developers and tiny teams running small production workloads.
- Up to 5 nodes
- Up to 3 users
- Athena AI (100 queries/mo)
- Weekly CVE scanning
- Canary deployments
- Vault secret injection
- Basic SRE automation
- 30-day audit trail
- Email support (48h SLA)
For SMB production workloads. The core commercial tier.
- Up to 50 nodes
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited Athena AI
- Continuous CVE scanning + policy gating
- Full canary auto-promote/rollback
- Prometheus autoscaling
- Full SRE automation (8 incident types)
- Full 4-tier RBAC
- 90-day audit trail
- Priority support (4h SLA)
For multi-site organizations with compliance and custom SLA needs.
- Unlimited nodes
- Everything in Pro
- Multi-datacenter federation
- SSO / SAML / LDAP / OIDC
- 1-year audit trail
- SOC 2 & ITSG-33 compliance
- Volume discounts (50+ nodes)
- Dedicated account manager
- 1h SLA + 24/7 on-call support
Start orchestrating
in under 10 minutes.
Sign up, connect your first node, and deploy — all in under 10 minutes. No Kubernetes expertise, no dedicated platform team.