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Deploy, manage and maintain any project from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any other MCP client. Open source under Apache 2.0, free to run.","Requires Ubuntu 24.04 or 26.04 · 2 GB RAM · 1 CPU","Read the documentation","https:\u002F\u002Fpanelalpha.com\u002Fdocs"]