Self-hosted
Keep feature infrastructure close to your data.
ClearFeature is designed for self-hosted deployment using infrastructure components your engineering team can operate and inspect.
Why self-host feature infrastructure
For organizations with real requirements on where data lives and who operates infrastructure, the question is rarely abstract.
Data control
Bureau reports, transaction history, and customer data feed your features. Self-hosting keeps that data inside systems your organization already governs.
Network locality
Request-time feature computation sits in the live request path. Running it next to your services and sources avoids a round trip to someone else’s cloud.
Existing infrastructure
The storage and messaging layers are components most platform teams already run — not a parallel proprietary stack to learn and license.
Operational ownership
Your team decides how the platform is deployed, monitored, upgraded, and backed up — with open code underneath when questions get hard.
The deployment model
Single-purpose platform services around one compute core, running where you decide.
Your sources
Source reports
landed as canonical payloads
ClearFeature services
HTTP API
Online / batch / propagation workers
Compute core + your Feature Project
Consumers
Training pipelines
Live inference services
Where data lives
Four storage roles, four familiar components — each one inspectable, each one operated by you.
raw reports
MinIO / S3-compatible
offline history
PostgreSQL
latest online
Valkey
events
Kafka / Redpanda-compatible
No required ClearFeature data service
There is no ClearFeature SaaS your data must pass through. The platform is the open-source software plus your infrastructure — your source reports and computed features never need to leave your environment.
Self-hosting is a responsibility, not just a feature
Honest scope: running ClearFeature yourself means your team operates the services and the storage layer — deployment, monitoring, upgrades, backups, capacity. If your organization prefers infrastructure it controls, that trade is the point. If you want that responsibility shared, that is exactly the conversation to have with us.
Help with the deployment, if you want it
We can work with your platform team on architecture review, deployment planning, and migration from existing feature pipelines — scoped to your environment rather than a generic playbook.
Planning a self-hosted deployment?
Tell us about your environment and the systems your features serve.