How much does Cheaploy cost?

Cheaploy charges a monthly platform fee for the managed DevOps automation. Your cloud bill stays $0 because deployments run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Always Free tier — 2 ARM Ampere CPUs, 12GB RAM, 200GB block storage, a load balancer and 10TB egress per month, perpetually free with no credit-card charges.

What's the catch with Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier?

Oracle's free tier is genuinely free, but new accounts sometimes see capacity errors in popular regions when launching ARM instances. Cheaploy auto-retries across regions and availability domains until provisioning succeeds.

Do I need DevOps experience?

No. Cheaploy detects your stack (React, Node, Python, Go, Java, etc.), generates an optimized multi-stage Dockerfile, provisions a VCN, ARM compute, load balancer, and SSL certificate, then deploys — all from a single 'Deploy' click.

Can I deploy a Lovable, Bolt, v0, or Cursor app?

Yes. Cheaploy was built for vibe coders shipping AI-generated apps. Upload a ZIP from Lovable, paste a GitHub URL from Cursor or v0, or connect Bolt — Cheaploy handles the rest and gives you a URL on your own cloud.

How is this different from Vercel, Render, or Fly.io?

Vercel, Render, and Fly.io rent you their infrastructure with generous free tiers that get expensive at scale. Cheaploy deploys to your own Oracle Cloud account, so the infrastructure is yours — and Oracle's free tier never expires.

Is the open-source edition enough?

For dashboards, questions and SQL it usually is; paid editions add advanced permissions and embedding features.

Can it query my app's Postgres on the same VM?

Yes, over the internal Docker network.

How much RAM should I allow?

2 GB heap is a reasonable starting point for small teams.

Deploy Metabase on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (2026 guide)

At a glance

Base image	`metabase/metabase:latest`
Port	`3000`
Start command	`java -jar metabase.jar`
Infrastructure cost	$0 on Oracle Always Free (platform fee for managed DevOps)

Running Metabase on Ampere ARM

Metabase runs on the JVM and is the most memory-hungry app on this list — give it 2-4 GB. That is comfortable on the 2 OCPU / 12 GB Ampere shape but too much for the AMD micro instance.

Steps

Use Postgres for the application database. The default H2 database is not safe for production and is hard to back up.
Cap the JVM heap. Set JAVA_OPTS so Metabase cannot consume the whole instance.
Restrict access. Put it behind your domain with TLS and enable SSO or strong passwords.

Dockerfile for Metabase on ARM64

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  metabase:
    image: metabase/metabase:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      MB_DB_TYPE: postgres
      MB_DB_HOST: db
      MB_DB_PORT: 5432
      MB_DB_DBNAME: metabase
      MB_DB_USER: metabase
      MB_DB_PASS: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx2g"
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:3000:3000"

Need one tailored to your repository? The free Dockerfile generator writes an ARM-ready multi-stage build for you.

Common mistakes

H2 corruption: Migrating off H2 later is painful. Start on Postgres.
Slow first boot: Initial migrations take a few minutes; set a generous health-check grace period.
Read access to production data: Create a read-only database user for Metabase.

Deploy Metabase on Oracle Cloud's free tier

At a glance

Running Metabase on Ampere ARM

Steps

Dockerfile for Metabase on ARM64

Common mistakes

Related reading

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Frequently asked

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