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Why would anyone want this in the cloud? Self hosted, absolutely. I wouldn't want any service to store credentials that can remotely bounce my VMs or login and restart services.

edit: If I wanted to run my own instance what things are missing? That doesn't seem very clear.

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Also if you wanted to stand up your own instance you could follow this.

http://runbook.readthedocs.org/en/master/developers/install/

It's geared more towards a development environment for the reasons I mentioned above but it would get you a running instance for sure.

Thats a good point, right now we work solely off of API's and don't offer any way for us to store usersnames/passwords. The thought is that API credentials can be revoked easier. In general we are looking to meet the market of folks who are 100% in cloud environments, where the adoption of a SaaS solution is not as much of a concern. But in the future there are some ideas on how to handle self hosting and not sending credentials to the SaaS environment.

But we are open source, and our license does allow for self hosting: https://github.com/asm-products/cloudroutes-service/blob/mas...

> In general we are looking to meet the market of folks who are 100% in cloud environments, where the adoption of a SaaS solution is not as much of a concern

In theory you could meet this need via a prebuilt AWS image or something. Then people can still get up and running with one click but within their own cloud environments.

True, that is something worth looking into. We are also of course looking at setting up some Docker images for quick and speedy deployments.

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