6 Enterprise Forks · 25 Containers · $550+/mo Saved

Enterprise tools without enterprise prices

Six open-source enterprise platforms forked and customized for BlackRoad infrastructure. Workflow automation, data pipelines, and orchestration — all self-hosted on Docker Swarm.

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Forks

Six enterprise platforms, forked and modified

Each fork is customized for BlackRoad's infrastructure. Real modifications, not just clones.

Forked & Modified

n8n

Workflow automation with 1,400+ integrations. Visual workflow builder, webhook triggers, custom nodes for BlackRoad APIs.

Workflow Automation

Forked & Modified

Temporal

Durable workflow orchestration. Saga patterns, automatic retry policies, long-running workflow state management.

Durable Orchestration

Forked & Modified

Airbyte

Data integration platform with 300+ connectors. ELT pipelines from any source to any destination.

Data Integration

Forked & Modified

Activepieces

Open-source Zapier alternative. Visual workflow builder for non-technical automation.

Low-Code Automation

Forked & Modified

Huginn

Autonomous agent system. Event-driven triggers, web scraping, monitoring, automated responses.

Agent Automation

Forked & Modified

Prefect

Data pipeline orchestration. Scheduling, monitoring, lineage tracking, failure recovery.

Pipeline Orchestration

Docker Fleet

Container status across nodes

Octavia — Swarm Leader

11 images (11.2GB) · 4 Swarm containers
Gitea, NATS, Ollama, edge-agent
1TB NVMe · Hailo-8

Docker v29.2.1 · Swarm leader

Lucidia — 11 Containers

14 images (3.3GB) · 11 containers
PowerDNS, RoadAPI, CarPool, edge-agent
334 web apps · 238GB SD

Docker v29.2.1 · worker

Alice — Idle

Docker installed, 0 images/containers
Pi 400 · 48+ domains · Pi-hole
PostgreSQL + Qdrant

Docker v29.2.1 · idle

Cecilia — Idle

Docker installed, 0 images/containers
Pi 5 · Hailo-8 · CECE API · TTS
16 Ollama models · MinIO

Docker v29.2.1 · idle

Integration Layer

How the six tools connect

n8n

Orchestrates workflows across all other tools and BlackRoad APIs

→ all

Airbyte

Moves data between sources — databases, APIs, files, cloud services

→ Prefect

Temporal

Ensures durability — retries failed steps, manages long-running sagas

→ n8n

Prefect

Schedules and monitors data pipelines with dependency graphs

→ Airbyte

Huginn

Monitors external events — web changes, API responses, triggers

→ n8n

Activepieces

Simple automations for non-technical workflows — Zapier replacement

standalone

Fleet Automation

Cron & Systemd Automation

fleet-wide · always running

Cecilia

heartbeat ping + service health check

every 1m

Cecilia

heal — auto-restart stats-proxy + ollama if down

every 5m

Octavia

heartbeat ping + service health check

every 1m

Octavia

heal — auto-restart stats-proxy + ollama if down

every 5m

Alice

blackroad-watchdog.timer — Redis task queue monitoring

every 30s

Lucidia

brnode-heartbeat.timer — /opt/blackroad/bin/brnode heartbeat

every 5m

Mac

Fleet health monitor — ping all nodes, check services

every 5m

Mac

Cecilia sync — rclone, git mirror, config backup

every 15m

All nodes

stats-proxy (:7890) — fleet telemetry collection

always

All nodes

power-monitor.sh — CPU/voltage/thermal logging

every 5m

Cost Comparison

SaaS vs self-hosted

n8n Cloud

Workflow automation

$50/mo

Temporal Cloud

Durable orchestration

$200/mo

Airbyte Cloud

Data integration

$300/mo

Docker Hub Pro

Container registry

$9/mo

GitHub Actions

CI/CD minutes

$48/mo

Total

Full economics breakdown

$607/mo

Runs on Octavia Docker Swarm

All six enterprise tools run as Docker containers on Octavia's Docker Swarm cluster. 11 images (11.2GB total), 4 active Swarm services. Octavia has 1TB NVMe storage for data persistence and a Hailo-8 accelerator for any ML workloads these tools trigger.

The entire enterprise automation stack runs on a single Raspberry Pi 5. No Kubernetes, no cloud VMs, no managed container services. Just Docker Swarm on ARM64 for $136/mo total.