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Self-hosting code analysis without the headache

The Impact team·April 15, 2026

Plenty of teams — regulated industries, security-conscious orgs, anyone with strict data-residency rules — simply can't send their source code to someone else's cloud. Historically that meant either giving up on good tooling or signing up for a painful self-managed deployment. We wanted a third option: self-hosting that takes minutes, not days.

One command to run

The entire stack — backend, frontend, and license server — ships as Docker images with a Compose file. You can build from source or pull the pre-built images. Setup is genuinely three steps:

git clone https://github.com/ImpactDev/impact.git
cd impact
cp .env.example .env      # set your secrets + license key
docker compose up -d

Open localhost:3000 and you're analyzing. No Kubernetes, no external database required to get started, no vendor calling home for permission on every scan.

Your data stays yours

Self-hosted means self-hosted. Source code is cloned into your infrastructure, analyzed there, and never leaves. For the strictest environments, Enterprise supports fully air-gapped operation with an offline license — no outbound connectivity required at all.

Same product, your walls

Self-hosted isn't a stripped-down fork. It's the same analysis engine, the same dashboard, the same API — just running inside your perimeter. You get quality gates, the dependency graph, security scanning, and CI integration exactly as the cloud does.

If you're evaluating self-hosting for a larger deployment, reach out — we'll walk you through sizing, SSO, and air-gapped licensing.

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Self-hosting code analysis without the headache