# Distr

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Distr and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an open source alternative to Replicated that covers much of a deployment stack end to end. Caveat: SSO is reportedly limited to higher paid tiers.

## Why people recommend it

- Covers deployment stack end to end (3 comments): "It puts a lot of pieces together end to end that are missing from building a deployment system around the defaults ArgoCD etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969627)) "Distr already has a lot of features and can replace many other tools in your deployment stack" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972192)) "This pretty much does it all, but with bells and whistles on top!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972362))

## What people warn about

- SSO only in higher tiers (2 comments): "Any chance you would consider avoiding the SSO tax and making it available for all tiers?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959772)) "Starter package does not show SSO as being available." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960321))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Flux CD](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flux.md): 44 recommend
- [Dokku](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dokku.md): 22 recommend
- [Kamal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kamal.md): 21 recommend
- [Argo CD](https://hackerapproved.com/p/argocd.md): 21 recommend
- [bootc](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bootc.md): 16 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://distr.sh/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Distr", https://hackerapproved.com/p/distr/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).