Getting Started with CompactHive
A short introduction to CompactHive: what it is, your first steps, included services, deploying your app, Hive Code, and trial/support details.
Getting Started
What CompactHive is, your first 15 minutes, included services, deploying your app, Hive Code, and...
What is CompactHive?
CompactHive is a self-hosted, managed infrastructure platform built for small technical teams — t...
Your First 15 Minutes
Here's what happens between clicking "sign up" and having a working environment. 1. Sign up for t...
Included Services
Every CompactHive tenant gets a set of managed services provisioned into their namespace automati...
Deploying Your App
CompactHive's deploy flow is push-to-deploy: once it's set up, you don't run any deploy commands ...
Hive Code (Beta)
Hive Code is currently in beta. Hive Code is CompactHive's in-portal coding agent, available at ...
Trial, Plans & Support
Trial lifecycle Signing up puts you on the Basic tier as a 14-day free trial, no card required. H...
Guides & Reference
Deeper reference material: Git providers, CI/CD, databases, connecting your own AI agent, and oth...
Connect Your AI Agent
CompactHive runs a remote MCP server (Model Context Protocol) at https://app.compacthive.io/mcp....
Git Providers
Forgejo (built-in, default) Forgejo is the default and recommended Git provider for every new ten...
CI/CD Pipelines
How CI/CD works on CompactHive CompactHive uses Woodpecker CI for continuous integration and deli...
Deploying Apps — Reference
This page is the detailed reference for custom apps. For the push-to-deploy overview, see Deployi...
Environment Variables & Secrets
Setting plain environment variables When deploying a custom app, you can pass environment variabl...
Finding Your Connection Details
Finding your credentials Go to portal → Connect. This page shows connection details for every dep...
Container Registry
Overview Every CompactHive tenant gets a private container registry backed by Harbor. It stores t...
PostgreSQL Database
Overview CompactHive provides a managed PostgreSQL database via the CloudNativePG (CNPG) operator...
Custom Domains
Default URLs Every service and app gets a URL under *.compacthive.dev: https://<your-slug>-<serv...
Service Catalog Reference
This page covers how the service catalog works. For the plain tier-by-tier table of what's includ...
Using AI Coding Assistants
If you use an AI coding assistant — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar — this page g...