Show HN: Hasura – A Postgres BaaS and Kubernetes PaaS on Your Own Infrastructure

We built Hasura over the last few years to help us build products fast. We didn&#x27;t know what it would look like when we started, but we&#x27;ve ended up with something like a Parse + Heroku but on your own infra so that you can mess around with the internals when required.<p>Key features:<p>1. Data APIs on a Postgres database<p>2. Deploy with git-push, or any docker image<p>3. Expose HTTP services on the API gateway over subdomains&#x2F;paths<p>4. Automatic LetsEncrypt SSL cert generation for exposed http services<p>5. SSH service to get tunnelled access to TCP services on your cluster<p>6. Auth middleware built into the API gateway, so that upstream services don&#x27;t have to resolve sessions<p>7. Out of the box auth APIs for password, email, recaptcha, social login. mobile-OTP stuff

Looks kinda like Dokku + PostgREST + a fancy UI, is that mostly right? Not trying to disparage it, just trying to relate figure out what Hasura is, there&#x27;s a lot going on.<p>One thing that concerns me is the &quot;Don&#x27;t make changes to your Postgres schema outside of the UI, it&#x27;ll mess things up&quot; warning. If I already have a tool to manage database migrations, it sounds like using it with this would be a bad idea?<p>Edit: Also, what accounts for the speed increase over a bare VM? I&#x27;m assuming something Hasura does for you, but it would be nice to know what that is.

This is super useful. I&#x27;d wager 80% of API&#x27;s are single data API&#x27;s and Hasura would speed up development time by a significant factor while still allowing for more flexibility than just building on top of something like Parse. I think eventually most API&#x27;s will use managed frameworks like this or go serverless so that a lot of the repetitive wiring code is abstracted out.

Looks great. How does it handle networking? E.g. if you are on AWS or Google you are fine with your VPC. But as far as I understood on Digital Ocean the private subnet is shared across all customers in this region. Do you employ an overlay network with encryption, e.g. Weave.net? Or do you deploy a VPN (tinc, peervpn) and Kubernetes on top?

It would be great if the events info have links to the events. I am based out off Chennai and use Kubernetes in production and would like to hear more about what you guys do at Hasura.<p>Edit - realized that only the IIT talk wasn&#x27;t a link. On mobile.

One of the features, that I know how to do in MongoDB quickly but not in Postgres, is creating permissions not on the the role level (user, admin, etc) but on the id level like users with unique id blah234 and blah546 can access this table&#x2F;row. I can figure it out in sql with time but it is not a tradeoff worth taking in my certain situation. I always look for this feature when I see a baas&#x2F;paas tool show up on hacker news.

Looks great... may be just what I have been looking for. PS: The illustrations are awesome !

How do I change some part of controller function of a DB table ? i.e can I change generated code (what language is the code?) or is it like hook functions available in cloud ?

I may be wrong but I think the username lookup on your login page is case sensitive.

Couldn&#x27;t find docs for installing Hasura on own infrastructure?

Is it open source ?

Χασούρα! (so funny Hasura in Greek)