Brooder: Autoscaling that keeps your capacity warm

Overview

A predictive autoscaler that tucks in extra capacity before the traffic arrives. Named for the heat lamp that keeps chicks cozy, not for the mood of its engineers.

Brooder is part of our Cloud & Infrastructure line, and it plays nicely with NestKube and Perch Edge, so you can adopt it one perch at a time. Store, serve, and scale from a coop that never needs mucking out.

Teams usually start with the free Chick plan, move to Hen when the flock grows past a handful, and graduate to Rooster once the security team wants audit logs. The upgrade is one click, and nobody needs to molt.

Key features

Brooder scales horizontally by hatching new nodes in under nine seconds.
A status page that crows when there is an incident, not after.
Terraform, Pulumi, and plain old shell scripts all work. Even the scripts that scratch the dirt.
Free-range networking: packets roam freely within the VPC (Very Pleasant Coop).
Encrypted at rest, in transit, and when it is just thinking about leaving.

Specifications

Regions	41 coops and 1 secret barn
Uptime SLA	99.95%
Max throughput	10,000 pecks/sec
Data durability	9 nines of egg safety
SKU	`PS-CLOUD-010`
Category	Cloud & Infrastructure
Released	2023-06-11
Current version	`1.2.5`

Plans

Chick

Free

For one hen and a dream.

1 seat
Community support
Core features
Watermarked with a tiny egg

Hen

$22/mo

For flocks that lay every day.

Up to 25 seats
Email and chat support
Everything in Chick
Integrations with the flock

Rooster

$88/mo

For the whole barnyard.

Unlimited seats
24/7 clucking support
SSO and audit logs
A named support goose

Quick start

$ cluck install brooder
$ cluck brooder init --coop us-east-1

✔ Brooder hatched in 2.5s
✔ Connected to coop us-east-1 (36 hens online)
  Next: cluck brooder --help

Need more? The cluck install reference covers flags, and the getting started guide covers everything else.

What the flock says

★★★★☆ Ignatius I. Intern, Everywhere

A few rough edges, but every one of them came with a charming error message.

★★★★★ Ignatius I. Intern, Everywhere

Does exactly what it says. Rare enough that we put it in the all-hands deck.

★★★★★ Ignatius I. Intern, Everywhere

Rolled it out to 800 hens without a single feather out of place.

Frequently asked questions

Does Brooder work with the rest of the Pollosoft flock?

Absolutely. Everything shares one identity (Cage-Free SSO), one billing account (BillOfLaying), and one deeply optimistic status page.

What happens if I cancel?

You can export all of your data in open formats, and we keep a copy for 30 days in case you change your mind. We do not hold your eggs hostage.

Who do I call when something goes wrong?

Our 24/7 clucking support line at (06) 123CLUCK. Please do not call during the 3 p.m. egg break, because we do not pick up.

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