Make shipping applications more enjoyable.

KubeVela is a modern application engine that adapts to your application's needs, not the other way around.

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Developers simply want to deploy.

Traditional Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) systems enable easy application deployments, but this happiness disappears when your application outgrows the capabilities of your platform. This is inevitable regardless of your PaaS is built on Kubernetes or not - the root cause is its inflexibility.

KubeVela is a modern application deployment system that adapts to your needs. Essentially, KubeVela enables you to define platform capabilities (such as workloads, operational behaviors, and cloud services) as reusable CUE or Helm components, per needs of your application deployment. And when your needs grow, your platform capabilities expand naturally in a programmable approach.

Perfect in flexibility though, X-as-Code tends to lead to configuration drift. That's why KubeVela is fully built as a Kubernetes Controller instead of a client-side tool, i.e. all its capabilities are modeled as code but enforced with battle tested reconciling loops which will never leave inconsistency in your clusters. Think about Platform-as-Code enabled by Kubernetes, CUE and Helm.

With developer experience in mind, KubeVela exposes those programmable platform capabilities as application-centric API shown as below:

• Components - deployable/provisionable entities that composed your application deployment
  • e.g. a Kubernetes workload, a MySQL database, or a AWS OSS bucket
• Traits - attachable operational features per your needs
  • e.g. autoscaling rules, rollout strategies, ingress rules, sidecars, security policies etc
• Application - full description of your application deployment assembled with components and traits.

• Installation
• Quick start
• How it works

• Zero-restriction application deployment system - design and express platform capabilities with CUE and Helm per needs of your application, and let Kubernetes controller guarantee the determinism in the application deployment. GUI forms are automatically generated for capabilities so even your dashboard are fully extensible.
• 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).
• Multi-cluster multi-revision application deployment - built-in model to deploy or rollout your apps across hybrid infrastructures, with Service Mesh for traffic shifting.
• Simple and native - KubeVela is a just simple Kubernetes custom controller, all its capabilities are defined as Custom Resources so they naturally work with any CI/CD or GitOps tools which work with Kubernetes.

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

Check out CONTRIBUTING to see how to develop with KubeVela.

KubeVela adopts CNCF Code of Conduct.