Stackpilot is a command-line tool that orchestrates multiple local microservice processes with awareness of their startup dependencies. It performs health checks, supports hot reloading, and works with frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Django, Celery, Express, and NestJS. Designed as a lightweight alternative to Docker Compose for local development environments.
stackpilot is a Developer Tools project. Manually managing and coordinating multiple interdependent microservice processes during local development. stackpilot is an open-source project aimed at developers. stackpilot is open source under the MIT license. It runs on the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
Subash Sekar builds and maintains stackpilot, and it first shipped in 2026. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 14 commits in the last 90 days. Among its 4 catalogued features are dependency-aware startup, health checks, and hot reload.
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