What is Volcano?

Volcano is AI infrastructure for agents and applications. It gives you the pieces most applications need, without running infrastructure yourself:

• Databases — managed PostgreSQL that auto-scales, with row-level security, a browser-friendly query builder or a direct connection, branches, and backups with point-in-time restore on SUPERAGENT.
• Functions — agents and APIs in Node.js, Python, or Ruby, invoked over HTTP and deployed to the project's regions, with cron schedules and the caller's identity on the request.
• Frontend hosting — Next.js, static or server-rendered, served from the edge. A failed build never replaces the live version. Custom domains are on every plan.
• Durable functions — JavaScript or Python workflows that checkpoint each step and resume for up to a year, with waits, retries, idempotent starts, and cron schedules. A workflow can pause for a person's approval, or for a message from a webhook, your app, or another function, and publish its progress live.
• Authentication — email and password, Google, GitHub, Microsoft, and Apple, plus anonymous users that convert to a permanent account. That identity is available in Postgres policies.
• Realtime — Postgres changes, broadcast, and presence over WebSockets.
• File storage — buckets that are private by default, with access policies, per-file public links, and resumable uploads.
• Distributed locks — renewable leases so one holder runs a task, and a fencing token the protected resource can check.

The model

A project is the container for everything else. You authenticate, select an active project, then operate on the resources inside it — functions, durable functions, databases, authentication, realtime, file storage, frontends, distributed locks, and variables.

Three ways to work

Next: install the tools.