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Introducing Worktree Cloud

We’re building a new sovereign cloud platform for Canada 🇨🇦 – starting with static sites and CDN, and soon containers, object storage, and DNS.

To run cloud infrastructure in Canada, it’s always been at the feet of foreign companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle… We’ve piggy-backed on American tech for decades, and so local options have been scarce and under-developed.

But, this reliance on US cloud providers has exposed most Canadian citizens and businesses to US policies like the “Cloud Act” and “Patriot Act”. These invasive policies cross borders and threaten the privacy and security of Canadians’ data, even when it physically resides on Canadian soil.

What's new in Worktree: July 2025

A lot has happened since Worktree publicly launched earlier this year.

• 💪 Worktree.ca now hosts well over 200 repositories.
• 👋 Over 100 new users joined in May-June.
• 📈 We’re serving on average 2 million HTTP requests per month.

Through all this, we’ve also made some massive changes internally to how we build Worktree. In the beginning, we chose to “hard-fork” Gitea, an open source project, as the basis of Worktree. This is no longer the case. You may have noticed some small new features or UI changes recently, and this all comes from Gitea 1.23, our new base.

Introducing Worktree Actions: A GitHub-compatible CI Platform

We’re incredibly excited to announce the general availability of Worktree Actions. With this release, Worktree can now support the majority of common CI/CD and DevOps workflows, available on every repository for every user or organization on a paid plan.

Worktree Actions provides a GitHub Actions-compatible runtime. Migrating from GitHub Actions to Worktree Actions requires only minor tweaks to your existing workflows, and you can continue to utilize the rich ecosystem of third-party and open-source Actions on GitHub and Worktree alike.

Introducing Worktree

This post was written by BlackieOps President and Founder, Alex Blackie, who is leading the Worktree product development.

Hi, I’m Alex and I’m a software developer. I’ve lived and worked all over Canada, and throughout my career one common thread joined it all together: all our data is in the US. Servers, databases, code, CI – you name it, it’s probably in North Virginia.

Now, of course, there are a lot of historical reasons for this, but it always bothered me. It just felt… wrong. I’m Canadian, my employers were Canadian; why should all our intellectual property be stored in a foreign country?