Our story
A Brazilian cloud started with one commit.
Guara Cloud was born from the vision of Victor Bona, in Blumenau, Santa Catarina. This is the trail Victor blazed: from the first commit to a platform in production, release after release.
First commit
- commits authored by Victor
- 3,710
- days with commits
- 170
- days from first commit to production
- 37
- named releases
- 6
Act I · The vision
Why build a cloud in Brazil
In early 2026, a developer in Brazil who wanted to ship a product had two main options: pay in US dollars for platforms running far away from their users, or build their own infrastructure and learn Kubernetes along the way.
Victor saw a third way: a platform as simple as a git push, billed in Brazilian reais, running on servers in São Paulo, with LGPD in mind from day one.
- Billed in reais No dollar invoices swinging with the exchange rate. Plans, billing and credits in BRL.
- Close to your users Apps running in São Paulo, not on the other side of the continent.
- No YAML Connect a repository, push, and get HTTPS, DNS and logs working.
A developer should be able to connect a Git repository, push code, and have a running application with TLS, DNS, and logging, without writing a single line of YAML or understanding pod scheduling.
Why "Guara"
The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the guará, is the largest canid in South America and an icon of the Brazilian cerrado. Just as it is adapted to its environment, the platform was designed for the constraints and opportunities of the Brazilian cloud market.
The naming is deliberate: it represents an assertion of Brazilian identity in a technology landscape dominated by North American branding.
Act II · The build
37 days, from zero to production
Between February 21 and March 30, 2026, Victor turned the idea into a complete platform, almost single-handedly, with AI tools as working partners. That is 51 commits a day on average, sustained for more than five weeks.
- commits to launch
- 1,887
- GitOps applications on ArgoCD
- 30
- alert rules from day one
- 214
- Kubernetes nodes in São Paulo
- 5
- D+0 The first commit The Guara Cloud repository comes to life.
- D+1 Website and waitlist live Before the product existed, the promise was already published.
- D+5 The monorepo is born API, Kubernetes orchestrator, dashboard and infrastructure in a single repository.
- D+6 Stripe and GitHub BRL billing and deploys straight from GitHub, less than a week after the first commit.
- D+13 Admin dashboard Platform operations get their own interface.
- D+17 Infrastructure as code The São Paulo cluster is described in Terraform, ready to be rebuilt from scratch.
- D+29 First versions published API, dashboard and orchestrator get versions and automated releases.
- D+37 GO for production Eighth rehearsal: 30 out of 30 healthy applications, zero manual interventions.
Eight rehearsals to GO
Instead of betting everything on a single deploy, Victor built, validated, documented, tore down and rebuilt the entire production cluster eight times in nine days. Every failure became a fix in code, and every fix became documentation.
100% healthy applications, from 71% to 100%
19 min to deploy, from ~60 down to 19 minutes, with 43% more applications
| Rehearsal | Date | Healthy applications | Deploy time | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R2 | March 24, 2026 | 15/21 (71%) | ~60 min | Failed |
| R3 | March 25, 2026 | 20/23 (87%) | ~3 hrs | Partial |
| R4 | March 26, 2026 | 19/24 (79%) | ~35 min | Partial |
| R5 | March 27, 2026 | 25/28 (89%) | ~45 min | Partial |
| R6 | March 28, 2026 | 25/28 (89%) | ~65 min | Conditional GO |
| R7 | March 29, 2026 | 30/30 (100%) | ~102 min | Conditional GO |
| R8 | March 30, 2026 | 30/30 (100%) | ~19 min | GO |
Source: technical report "Guara Cloud: Building a Platform-as-a-Service from Scratch", by Victor Bona (March 2026). The first rehearsal was not documented.
Act III · The evolution
A named release every few weeks
With the platform in production, the pace never slowed. Between April and July, Victor shipped six named releases, each with a theme and a clear step toward a mature cloud. Then came Guara AI, with its own gateway written in Rust.
| Month | Commits in month | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | 165 | 165 |
| March 2026 | 1,696 | 1,861 |
| April 2026 | 347 | 2,208 |
| May 2026 | 692 | 2,900 |
| June 2026 | 311 | 3,211 |
| July 2026 | 397 | 3,608 |
| August 2026 | 88 | 3,696 |
| September 2026 | 13 | 3,709 |
| October 2026 | 1 | 3,710 |
136 commits on the busiest day, March 12
- Achilles The first named Deploys of Guara Cloud. Read the release notes
- Hector Your data matters, more operations for you, and the platform now sees itself. Read the release notes
- Odysseus Tasks that schedule themselves, traces that see the whole path, and the door open to your private images. Read the release notes
- Persephone Enterprise control, a richer catalog, an AI-ready platform, and a dashboard that bends around your day. Read the release notes
- Athena Security you can act on, storage you can control, and safer operations for everyday deploys. Read the release notes
- Guara AI Work on Guara AI begins, with an in-house AI gateway written in Rust.
- Theseus A new front door: every account now starts with a free trial. Read the release notes
Commits authored by Victor Bona in the main repository. The March report counts every monorepo commit, including automation, so the totals differ slightly. See the full changelog
Act IV · A new chapter
The trail continues
In October 2026, Washington Pires acquired Guara Cloud and took over leadership of the platform. What Victor built is still running, serving Brazilian developers every day, and it is the foundation of every release from here on.
Thank you, Victor. Every deploy on Guara Cloud runs along a trail you blazed.