News: Our paper "MLOX: Open-Source MLOps for the Rest of Us" has been accepted by CAIN 2026

Sovereign AI Infrastructure. Open by Design. Slothfully Simple.

From prototype to production — calmly.

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WHY TEAMS PICK MLOX

Calm Operations for Serious ML Systems

Build AI infrastructure you can trust and verify.

MLOX helps you deploy and operate AI systems on sovereign infrastructure, using open-source components and inspectable configurations.

Instead of opaque cloud platforms and brittle YAML jungles, MLOX offers a calm, reproducible way to run production-grade ML, on your own servers or hybrid, with full control.

Designed for teams that need transparency, long-term maintainability, and independence. Slothfully simple. Open by design.

Own Your Stack

Run on your own infrastructure with inspectable configs and no black boxes.

Operational Clarity

Web UI, TUI, and CLI stay aligned so teams can deploy and debug faster.

Built To Evolve

Open-source foundations designed for long-term maintainability and adaptation.

UI + TUI + CLI

One Unified Control Surface

Open Source

Transparent By Default

Hybrid Ready

On-Prem Or Mixed Cloud

What can you do with MLOX?

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Infrastructure

  • Manage servers: administrate and secure
  • Choose your runtime: Native, Docker, or Kubernetes
  • Spin up and connect cluster: single node or multi‑node
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Services

  • Install, update, and remove services without fuss
  • Centralized secrets and configuration, at your disposal
  • Ready-to-be-used services: MLflow, Airflow, LiteLLM, Ollama, InfluxDB, Redis, and many more
  • Import GitHub repositories-public or private-with ease
  • Connect services and deploy models with ease
  • Security included
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Integrations

Integrate existing solutions or seamlessly connect to your code:

  • GCP: BigQuery, Secret Manager, Cloud Storage, Sheets, and more
  • Monitoring: WebUI, TUI, NewRelic, or GrafanaLabs (soon)
  • Python: access your infrastructure, secrets and services with the busysloths-mlox library

Why Choose MLOX?

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Open Source & Community Driven

Fully open-source under the MIT license, built by the community for the community. We believe in transparency and collaboration.

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Cost-Effective MLOps

Cloud MLOps solutions can cost thousands per month. MLOX runs on your infrastructure, giving you production-grade MLOps without vendor lock-in.

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Sloth-Paced Philosophy

We believe in thoughtful, calm systems over rushed chaos. Move fast by moving deliberately, with sensible defaults and clear documentation.

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Designed for Long-Term Use

Built with stability, transparency, and maintainability in mind. MLOX evolves with real-world usage and community guidance.

MLOX is under active development. Features and workflows continue to evolve. We welcome contributors and feedback.

See MLOX in Action

Experience the power of MLOX through our intuitive interface and comprehensive tooling

MLOX Infrastructure Control

Infrastructure Control

Manage servers and clusters with ease

MLOX Service Management

Service Management

Deploy and manage ML services effortlessly

MLOX GIT & Cloud Integrations

Git & Cloud Integrations

Seamless integration with Git and Cloud Platforms

MLOX Real-time Monitoring

Real-time Monitoring

Track performance and metrics in real-time

MLOX TUI

Terminal UI

Low bandwidth configuration management

MLOX Dashboard Overview

CLI

Build for automation.

Get Started

Sloth-Friendly Setup

Easing into MLOX should feel like a lazy stretch on a sunny branch

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Install Task

Install Task — our go-powered task runner

# Visit https://taskfile.dev/installation/ for installation instructions

💡 Note: Task is a modern task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than GNU Make

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Clone the Repository

Get the MLOX source code

git clone https://github.com/BusySloths/mlox.git
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Run First Steps

Mosey into the project and run the setup

task first:steps

💡 Note: This unhurried command crafts a conda environment and gathers every dependency for you

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Want the Big Picture?

Check out our comprehensive guides

💡 Note: For a more detailed guide, check out our Installation Guide. You can also view our MLOX – State of the Union — a short slide overview of what MLOX is, what problem it solves, and where it's heading.

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