Architecture
Data ownership
Exactly what lives where — self-hosted database vs. Openship Cloud — and how projects move between them.
Openship is explicit about where each piece of data lives, because that's what makes both self-hosting and the cloud trustworthy.
Self-hosted is sovereign
Local and server projects — and all of their deployments, domains, environment variables, and logs — live only in your instance's database. Nothing is sent to Openship Cloud for these projects. If you never connect a cloud account, your instance is fully standalone.
Cloud projects live on the cloud
Cloud projects are canonical on Openship Cloud. Your instance holds no shadow copy; it reads and writes them through the gateway. See Cloud-as-source.
Moving a project
- Promote (local → cloud): the project's data is copied to the cloud, then the local rows are removed.
- Bring home (cloud → local): the reverse.
A project is always in exactly one place, so there is never a divergent copy to reconcile.