About KubeVela
KubeVela is a modern application delivery platform that aims to make deploying and operating applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments easier and more reliable. It follows a render, orchestrate, deploy approach built on the Open Application Model, and is a CNCF project written in Go.
Deployment plans are declared as workflows that can be run by any CI/CD or GitOps system and extended with CUE, so there is no need for ad hoc scripts. It natively supports multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud scenarios, including progressive rollout across test, staging and production, automatic canary and blue-green releases, continuous verification, and placement strategies across clusters and clouds. Observability dashboards, LDAP integrations, multi-tenancy and fine-grained RBAC are built in.
The architecture is lightweight, with a control plane that can run in a single pod, and extensible through reusable modules and community addons. KubeVela is licensed under Apache-2.0. It suits platform engineering teams that want to give developers a simpler way to ship applications onto Kubernetes.
Key features
- Deployment plans defined as workflows
- CUE-extensible workflow steps
- Multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud delivery
- Canary and blue-green rollouts
- Multi-tenancy with fine-grained RBAC
- Built-in observability dashboards
- Lightweight single-pod control plane
Good fit for
- →Delivering apps across multiple clusters
- →Platform engineering on Kubernetes
- →GitOps-driven progressive rollouts
- Tags
- kubernetes
- application-delivery
- multi-cluster
- gitops
- cncf
- oam
- platform-engineering
- cue
- golang
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