feat: on-prem, cloud-prem or self-hosting

[eseidel]

We should publish instructions on how to use Shorebird from on-prem, cloud-prem or self-hosting.

Sentry is an interesting example as they offer both self-hosting for free:
https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/LICENSE

As well as on-prem:
https://sentry.io/pricing/

Expo appears to have historically offered self-hosting, but no longer does?
https://docs.expo.dev/archive/classic-updates/hosting-your-app/

See also #458 where we're tracking towards having clearer guidance on our intended pricing post 1.0.

Update:

I've learned a bit more about this recently and there appear to be two main options:

1. "on-prem" bundle up and hand customers a VM image for them to install/manage themselves on whatever hardware/setup needed.
2. "cloud-prem" customers provide an IAM role specific to shorebird which it then uses to stand up and maintain a cluster within their cloud provider.

[kenzouno1]

waiting this feature

[liu731]

expect！

[sagar-tide]

This is really important for a fintech company. Since our security might not allow us to host binary on a third party cloud.

[emiliev]

I'm really looking forward for this to be released!

[shivamkj]

Eagerly waiting for self-hosting Shorebird Flutter code push.

[Medformatik]

The possibility to host shorebird ourselves is very important for us. Of course, Shorebird does not process any highly sensitive personal data (GDPR), but the data transfer to the USA is still problematic, which is why we are currently removing all US services from our app. Nevertheless, we would very much like to use Shorebird.

[hey-nicolasklein]

Looking out for this feature 👀

[eseidel]

https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/ was mentioned by another founder as being useful. Also with the suggestion of hosting the "data plane" on-prem (where any customer data, binaries, etc. live), while keeping the "control plane" (UI, etc) centrally hosted for simplicity. 🤷

[eseidel]

https://www.replicated.com/ was also mentioned as a product which potentially can help with such. 🤷

[highread]

I've been really waiting for this feature, it's absolutely necessary for commercial purposes.

[mohamad72]

Waitiiiiiing so much

[MJHelloWorld]

May I ask when self-hosting will be supported?

[eseidel]

We don't have any specific date yet. Right now we're focused on bringing iOS to feature parity with Android and supporting the large apps adopting Shorebird. I expect this is still a couple months away.

[canewsin]

@eseidel are all the components of shorebird open sourced ?

[eseidel]

@eseidel are all the components of shorebird open sourced ?

Most are open. But currently our custom Dart interpreter and server source code are not.