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# Welcome to **K8id.io** Kubernetes Aid
# Welcome to **K8id.org** - The home of Kubernetes Aid

**K8id.io** is a Kubernetes management suite, offering a way to setup and operate K8s clusters, following gitops and
**K8id** is a Kubernetes management suite, offering a way to setup and operate K8s clusters, following gitops and
automation principles.

K8id offers:
K8id feature goals:

- Setup of k8s clusters on physical servers (on-premise or at e.g. [Hetzner.com](https://hetzner.com)) and in cloud
providers like Azure AKS, Amazon AWS or Google GCE
- Auto-scaling for all cloud k8s clusters and easy manual scale-up for physical servers
- Manage an ever-growing list of Open Source k8s applications (see `argocd-helm-charts/` folder for a list)
- Build advanced, customized Prometheus monitoring, using just a per-cluster config file
- Build advanced, customized Prometheus monitoring, using just a per-cluster config file, with automated handling of trivial alerts, like disk filling.
- Gitops setup - ALL changes in cluster, is done via Git AND we detect if anyone adds anything in cluster or modifies existing resources, without doing it through Git.
- Regular application updates with security and bug fixes, ready to be issued to your cluster(s) at will
- Air-gapped operation of your clusters, to ensure operational stability
- Cluster security - ensuring least priviledge between applications in your clusters, via resource limits and per-namespace/pod firewalling.
- Backup, recovery and live-migration of applications or entire clusters
- Major cluster upgrades, via a shadow Kubernetes setup utilizing the recovery and live-migration features
- Supply chain attack protection and discovery - and security scans of all software used in cluster

An operations team, typicly has 2 hugely important tasks:

1. Developing a setup that enables as high availability for the companies applications as possible.
This is a very difficult task, and it constantly evolves, as the software used in the setup, evolves.

2. Increasing the velocity of the application teams, by assisting them with improving how their application operates in production.

Even with Kubernetes, there is a lot of work to be done, to pick the right solutions for each feature you need - and it is our experience that 95% of what one team needs, is the EXACT same most of the other teams need.

**K8id** aims to be a constantly evolving solution for 1. - enabling the collaboration of operations teams across the world, to increase the velocity of every operations team, so they can focus on 2. - while everyone gets to enjoy a highly available and secure operations setup.

Quite often its very difficult to find enough who can to do this work, and especially since EVERY other company, is building a replica of what you are building to solve 1. This is even WHY Kubernetes was started, to help enable collaboration between companies on a shared goal.

**K8id** is being developed by https://Obmondo.com - where we build the solutions our customers need, and share the work with everyone, via this project. We feel this is the only way, We ever have a chance of actually delivering the features that every operations team should have - without needing to have a subject matter expert at hand for everything.

The fact that we help many customers operate their k8s clusters, also enables us to hire more k8s experts than is normally available - and we can offer them a job where they get time to work on the challenges that interest them, to a much higher degree - because we focus on one thing - furthering this project and delivering value to the customers that sponsor it, via their subscriptions and development tasks they ask of us.

https://Obmondo.com offers low cost subscriptions, where we monitor your clusters and handle your alerts 24/7/365 - enabling teams to not have to worry about who is on vacation, or sick - as we are there to back them up if they need it.

## Setup of Kubernetes clusters

Mirror this repo and the `kubernetes-config` repo into a Git platform of your choice, and follow the `README` file in
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## support

Besides the community support, the primary developers of this project offers support via services on https://obmondo.com - where you can opt to have us react to your alerts, and/or help you with developing new features or other tasks on clusters, setup using this project.
Besides the community support, the primary developers of this project offers support via services on https://obmondo.com - where you can opt to have us observe your world - and react to your alerts, and/or help you with developing new features or other tasks on clusters, setup using this project.

There are ZERO vendor lockin - so any subscription you sign - can be cancelled at any time - you only pay for 1 month at a time.

With a subscription we will be there, to ensure your smooth operations, in timeso f sickness and employee shortages - and able to scale your development efforts on k8id if needed.

## License

**K8id.io** is licensed under the GPLv3 license, as we believe this is the best way to protect against the patent
**K8id** is licensed under the GPLv3 license, as we believe this is the best way to protect against the patent
attacks we see hurting the industry; where companies submit code that uses technology they have patented, and then turn
and litigate companies that use the software.

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We currently have CI support for Gitlab and Github actions.

TODO: Implement Robusta to automate handling of trivial tasks, like increasing size of a PVC (and running disk cleanup scripts first to try and avoid it), or scaling up instead.

## Regular application updates with security and bug fixes, ready to be issued to your cluster(s) at will

We update this repository with updated versions of the applications, and improvements - which if you have a subscription with https://Obmondo.com you will get automaticly, or you can just git pull, to get.
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TODO: maintain copy of all used docker images and override images on all charts used to use that instead.

## Cluster security - ensuring least priviledge between applications in your clusters, via resource limits and per-namespace/pod firewalling.

We use Calico and NetworkPolicy objects, to firewall each pod, so they cannot access anything in the cluster, that they do not need to.
This protects against a pod compromise and WHEN we block traffic from a pod, it triggers an event in the namespace, so the application developers can see what happened AND it enables us to detect Pod compromises and alert.

## Backup, recovery and live-migration of applications or entire clusters

We use Velero to do regular backups of cluster and PVC data.
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