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With the holiday season approaching, we have wonderful news to share.
We are thrilled to announce that KusionStack has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox Project following a vote by the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) in Q4 2024. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the CNCF staff involved for the invaluable guidance throughout the process, and to our community and the team for the overwhelming support that made this happen.
What is KusionStack? A Brief History
KusionStack was first incubated at Ant Group in 2020 as an Infrastructure-As-Code tool, accompanied by KCL, designed to simplify and standardize cloud-native resource management. Throughout the years, with the concept of Platform Engineering emerging, KusionStack has growed into a loosely-coupled Platform Engineering toolkit, intend to empower platform teams altogether in developing enterprise grade, production-ready, self-service-able Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
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KusionStack provides a comprehensive set of modular components that teams can use to build every layer of their IDPs. These components are both composable and programmable, offering the flexibility to use them as a complete platform solution or to integrate specific elements into your existing IDPs through extensive APIs. Whether you’re building from the ground up or enhancing what you have, KusionStack offers the tools to simplify the process.
- Kusion — A Platform Orchestrator that “orchestrates” codified intents from multiple parts of an organization, and connects with heterogeneous infrastructures to substantially improve application delivery experience
- Karpor — A data visualization tool for Kubernetes that provides multi-cluster search, insight, and AI-powered data intelligence that enables interactions with clusters via natural language
- Kuperator — A set of Kubernetes controller extensions that provides more complete workload lifecycle management, traffic management, progressive rollouts, and better observability
- More to come in 2025…
Intended scope for KusionStack
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Looking forward…
Being an incredible honor and a major milestone as it is, this is a new beginning for the KusionStack community. We have great plans for 2025 and beyond. We believe Platform Engineering is a multi-year journey to fundamentally transform the way software engineering organizations build and manage their technologies.
It will be a journey filled with challenges, but we have every confidence in the world we can navigate through, thanks to having such an amazing community. We are very excited about the opportunities to be part of the force that advances cloud-native technologies.
We wish see you along the way!