# ICE · Light Cloud Labs

> ICE is an open-source visual editor for cloud infrastructure. Drag blocks onto a canvas, connect them, preview the cost, and deploy to your own cloud accounts. Free, Apache 2.0, on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

ICE stands for Integrated Cloud Environment. It is built around a graph engine that does not know about specific clouds, plus per-cloud deployers that turn the canvas into real resources. The design is the source of truth, so switching the target cloud is a change of deployer, not a rewrite.

## What is in the editor

- **Visual editor.** Drag blocks onto a canvas and connect them. The design is the source of truth.
- **AI assistant.** Ask Claude to add a database or wire a queue in plain English. It proposes, you apply. Bring your own key.
- **Cost preview.** A per-canvas monthly projection before you deploy, so the bill is not a surprise.
- **GitHub CI/CD.** Wire a repo to a canvas and a push triggers a plan and apply.
- **Observability.** A deployed block shows its logs and metrics next to it on the canvas.
- **Cloud blocks.** A palette of provider-neutral primitives across compute, data, messaging, AI, networking, and more.
- **Templates.** Start from a SaaS starter, a RAG chatbot, or a full-stack web app and edit from there.
- **Import and migrate.** Scan an existing GCP project into a canvas, or retarget the same design to another cloud.
- **Yours to run.** Apache 2.0, no telemetry, no license keys. Runs on your machine and deploys to your own accounts.

## Provider support, honestly

GCP is the mature target, with the full set of handlers and 45+ importers. AWS and Azure ship the main primitives and are experimental. DigitalOcean, Oracle, Alibaba, and Kubernetes are in preview. See https://light-cloud.com/labs/providers for where each one stands.

## Single-user by design

The Community Edition is built for one person and stores everything locally. Team and Cloud editions with multi-user features are on the roadmap. The desktop app embeds its own backend, so it works offline.

## Try ICE

Read the code and run it locally. It is free and Apache 2.0.

- GitHub: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/ice