What is KAOPS?

KAOPS is an acronymn for Kubernetes Application Operations Platform as a Service. KAOPS is a framework for Platform Engineers to quickly create an Internal Developer Platform, which helps to deploy and operate the applications, so that developers can focus on features and quality.

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KAOPS uses Kuberenetes as a control plane to leverage all the latest and greatest cloud-native open source software. KAOPS gives your DevOps team a single plane of glass to collaborate on operational tasks, such as creating infrastrucutre, deploying apps, configuration, security, networking, monitoring, and upgrades. A few of the guiding principals of KAOPS are:

  • Simplify and Automate Operations
  • Works with any public or private cloud
  • Works with any Kubernetes distribution or version
  • Leverages GitOps... to automate, audit, configure and control cloud applications
  • Multi-Cloud and Multi-Cluster... to reduce operations as you add apps, clusters, and environments.
  • Multi-Tenant... to serve multiple isolate teams or 'organizations'
  • Day1 Deployments... to reliably deploy appications
  • Day2 Operations... to secure, monitor, alert, and upgrade applications
  • Manage upgrades and version dependencies... between your Kubernetes, Tools, and Applications
  • SaaS or Self-hosted (including air-gap) solutions