Shoehorn is a self-hosted, Kubernetes-native platform designed for engineering teams to automatically map, catalog, and manage their software infrastructure. By deploying a lightweight agent into Kubernetes clusters, Shoehorn provides real-time visibility into every workload, detailing service ownership, dependencies, RBAC risks, and the status of Helm and GitOps deployments. The platform aims to eliminate manual catalog maintenance by discovering services, their owners, dependencies, and documentation locations directly from connected repositories and clusters.
Shoehorn integrates with GitHub organizations and repositories, Kubernetes clusters, and supports cloud providers such as UpCloud. Its setup process involves connecting these sources, after which Shoehorn automatically builds a comprehensive catalog and ownership graph. The platform features built-in cataloging, search, documentation, governance, and operational tools, all delivered as a unified service without the need for additional plugins. Users can trace dependencies up to five levels deep, assess the blast radius of changes before deployment, and utilize hybrid keyword and vector search across services, documentation, and APIs.
For AI integration, Shoehorn ships a read-only MCP server that allows AI assistants—including Claude, Cursor, and Copilot—to answer questions about the stack based on live, grounded data from the catalog. This read-only interface ensures that assistants can provide context and answers without making changes, while write operations are managed through the CLI. yaml files, and offers multiple interfaces for interaction, including a CLI, Terraform Provider, REST API, and the MCP server.
The platform is currently in beta and is free to use during this period. Users can self-host Shoehorn on their own infrastructure, with support for up to three Kubernetes clusters and unlimited entities, users, and sources at no cost. After the beta phase, the free tier will continue to support a single cluster, with multi-cluster production plans planned for the future. Shoehorn is developed in Sweden.
In the Other infrastructure space, Shoehorn takes a focused approach. It focuses on managing and documenting engineering services and infrastructure efficiently. It is built as a B2B product for engineering teams, DevOps. It runs on the web and the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
Shoehorn first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 34 commits in the last 90 days. Key capabilities include service catalog, documentation, and template management. Shoehorn is currently in beta.
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