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cairn

cairn is the page you hand to the people you host services for: family, a club, whoever ends up using your server.

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cairn is the page you hand to the people you host services for: family, a club, whoever ends up using your server. One YAML file in, a static multilingual directory out, with no account to create, no database and no outbound requests. It shows your services and nothing else: no widgets, no Docker socket, no metrics. Each service can show a live status pill pulled from Gatus or Uptime Kuma, so visitors see what is up before they click, and cairn serves its own legal and privacy pages. It ships as a single static Go binary in a FROM scratch image, around 4 MB to pull, and it writes nothing at runtime, so it runs read-only with every Linux capability dropped.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid (not listed)
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

7/100 Low

Maintained
0GitHub repository no longer exists
Popular
No data
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 2 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

No GitHub repository data collected yet.

Checked today - source: GitHub (BigBearTechWorld/cairn)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked today - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

Alternatives

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Common questions

What third-party credentials are required to self-host a full Cairn instance?

You need to create your own GitHub App and GitHub OAuth App, and provide a Google Gemini API key.

How much setup time should first-time self-hosters budget for Cairn?

The docs say to budget about 20 minutes for first-time setup.

Can Cairn operate in an offline-first way?

The GitHub overview describes Cairn as a self-contained, offline-first knowledge and education server.

Does Cairn use Go and React?

The GitHub project describes Cairn as a self-hosted reading and knowledge library built with Go and React.

Answers sourced from cairn.vela.partners, github.com, github.com

Community

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