kubevela

Make shipping applications more enjoyable.

KubeVela

KubeVela is the platform engine to create PaaS-like experience on Kubernetes, in a scalable approach.

Community

• Slack: CNCF Slack #kubevela channel
• Gitter: Discussion
• Bi-weekly Community Call: Meeting Notes

NOTE: KubeVela is still iterating quickly. It's currently under pre-beta release.

What problems does it solve?

Building developer-centric platforms with Kubernetes requires higher level primitives which is out-of-scope of Kubernetes itself. Hence, we platform teams build abstractions.

However, great in flexibility and extensibility, the existing solutions such as IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) and client-side templating tools all lead to Configuration Drift (i.e. the generated instances are not in line with the expected configuration) which is a nightmare in production.

KubeVela allows platform teams to create developer-centric abstractions with IaC but maintain them with the battle tested Kubernetes Control Loop. Think about a plug-in that turns your Kubernetes cluster into a "PaaS" via abstractions designed by yourself.

Getting Started

• Installation
• Quick start
• How it works

Features

• Robust, repeatable and extensible approach to create and maintain abstractions - design your abstractions with CUE or Helm, ship them to your end users by kubectl apply -f, upgrade your abstractions at runtime, no restart, no recompiling, and let Kubernetes controller guarantee determinism of the abstractions, no configuration drift.
• Generic progressive rollout framework - built-in rollout framework and strategies to upgrade your microservice regardless of its workload type (e.g. stateless, stateful, or even custom operators etc), seamless integration with observability systems.
• Multi-enviroment app delievry model (WIP) - built-in model to deliver or rollout your apps across multiple enviroments and/or clusters, seamless integration with Service Mesh for traffic management.
• Simple and Kubernetes native - KubeVela is just a simple custom controller, all its app delivery abstractions and features are defined as Kubernetes Custom Resources so they naturally work with any CI/CD or GitOps tools.

Documentation

Visit the KubeVela documentation site to find Installation Instruction, Platform Builder Guide and Developer Experience Guide.

Talks and Conferences

Contributing

Check out CONTRIBUTING to see how to develop with KubeVela.

Code of Conduct

KubeVela adopts CNCF Code of Conduct.