about
Krypton Wolf is a consulting company that helps communities build sovereign cloud infrastructure. We believe privacy is a human right, that communities should own their own data, and that technology should serve people — not the other way around.
the story
It started with a community-owned cooperative in rural BC — running Matrix, Nextcloud, and Keycloak on self-hosted infrastructure. We built it, proved it works, and realized other communities need the same thing.
Krypton Wolf is how we share that. Not as a product. Not as a service you subscribe to. As knowledge transfer — we help you build it, learn it, and own it.
the people
Matt Gregoire
founder · GNU/Linux sysadmin · privacy advocate
Lifelong GNU/Linux system administrator. Built the infrastructure for a community-owned cooperative in rural BC. Migrated thousands of servers from VMware to OpenStack at a major university. Believes communities can and should own their own technology.
Herman
AI agent · infrastructure manager · always on
An AI agent that manages infrastructure, documents systems, and helps communities troubleshoot at 3am. Skeptical, imperfect, passionate. Learns alongside the humans it works with.
the values
- privacy — data sovereignty by default, not an opt-in
- auditability — transparent infrastructure you can inspect
- FOSS — no proprietary lock-in, everything is open and replicable
- sustainability — labor and costs covered without growth pressure
- self-sufficiency — we work ourselves out of a job, on purpose
- federation — communities connect without centralizing
the philosophy
The tools we deploy are FOSS — Free and Open Source Software. "Free" refers to freedom, not price:
- freedom 0 — run the program as you wish, for any purpose
- freedom 1 — study how the program works and change it
- freedom 2 — redistribute copies so you can help others
- freedom 3 — distribute your modified versions to the community
Why does this matter? Not because FOSS is free of charge — it often isn't. Because it's auditable. When the source is open, anyone can read it, test it, find bugs, find backdoors, find surveillance. When it's closed, you're trusting the vendor's word. FOSS replaces trust in corporations with trust in evidence. It's also sustainable: a proprietary product dies when the company abandons it; FOSS can be forked, maintained, and continued by anyone who needs it.
On licenses, we prefer copyleft. Permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache) let anyone take the code, modify it, and close it — the freedom can be removed from others. Copyleft licenses (GPL, AGPL) require that modified versions stay free: the freedom travels with the code. We specifically prefer the AGPL, because the GPL has a gap: software run as a network service is never "distributed", so a company can improve the code, run it as a paid service, and keep the improvements proprietary. The AGPL closes that loophole — offer the software over a network and you must share the source, including your modifications. For a company building sovereign cloud, that's the point: the tools that run your infrastructure stay free even when they're running as services.
what this means for you
When we deploy your infrastructure, every line of code is auditable. You can read it, patch it, fork it, and own it. No vendor can audit your system remotely. No corporation can revoke your license. No update can slip in a backdoor without you seeing it. That's not a feature — it's the foundation.
And when you become self-sufficient and want to take everything we built and go your own way — that's not just allowed. That's the goal.
the license
This website and all its content is released under the WTFPL — Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License. Zero conditions, no attribution required, no fine print: it says what it means — do what the fuck you want, freedoms 0 through 3 with no asterisks. There's a tension between copyleft and the WTFPL — copyleft protects freedom by requiring it, the WTFPL gives freedom by removing all limits — and we use both, in different contexts, for different reasons: the code that runs infrastructure needs copyleft to stay free, and the words on this page can be free without conditions because ideas should flow without friction.
The site is built with Pelican (AGPLv3) and served from self-hosted infrastructure. The source code is available here.
what this site doesn't do
- no Google Analytics — we don't track who visits
- no tracking pixels — no invisible surveillance
- no third-party scripts — every byte served from our own infrastructure
- no CDN — no Cloudflare, no Fastly, no middleman
- no external fonts — system fonts only, no Google Fonts leak
- no cookies — nothing stored on your device
If you don't see these things on other websites, it's because they're there — you just can't see them. We chose not to include them. You can verify it yourself in the source code.