Sablier
Scale services to zero and start them on demand
Sablier is a free and open-source middleware that starts container workloads on demand and scales them to zero when idle. It integrates with Traefik, Nginx, and Caddy.
Key features
- On-demand container start
- Scale to zero when idle
- Works with major proxies
- Loading page support
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Active community (2.9k GitHub stars)
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