It’s been a while since we released a new version of our CLI, but it's for a good reason: we were working hard on 2.0. We are really excited to share with you the new major release of the kubefirst platform, which includes a lot of new goodies! For those of you that are new with us, kubefirst delivers instant GitOps platforms so you can have the most popular open source platform tools working together in minutes.

We love HashiCorp’s Terraform, but have one big reservation with how it gets used in ways that don’t respect proper GitOps practices. Most notably, the requirement that your system-level changes are handled in code and peer reviewed, with fully-auditable results.

Secret-scattering.

This phrase might conjure up an image of childhood games or harmless pranks, but for the Kubefirst team, it’s how we describe a practice that hamstrings even the most well-meaning engineering teams.

When folks try out Kubefirst and join our community for the first time, they tend to fall into two categories. First, there are those inside of established organizations, which are balancing their older technology with their ambition to adopt the cloud native landscape. Second, we have technical co-founders and early engineers at youthful startups, who just need to make that leap from “my application runs on localhost” to having development/staging/production Kubernetes environments.

The Kubefirst 1.11 release continues the momentum our recent introduction of kubefirst local. The local environment is a fully automated local kubernetes cluster and gitops platform that includes some of the best open source tools like argo cd, vault, terraform automated with Atlantis, argo workflows, and so much more all working together.

Hello lovely people!

I'm Fred, Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst. Today is day two in my new role, and there is nothing more important to me than introducing myself to our community. If you are not familiar with my title, don't worry: my job is to help you being successful with Kubefirst. This means listening to you, and bringing your feedback to the product team. It also means creating fun, inspirational and educational content (i.e., documentation, tutorials, blog articles, videos) to ensure you get the best out of Kubefirst, but also the Kubernetes ecosystem overall. Lastly, I'm here to foster and grow a healthy open source community around Kubefirst. Think of me as the friendly social technical approachable face of the company!

My buddy Jared and I started kubefirst because cloud native platforms take too long to build from scratch. Well, as it turns out, solving that problem also takes a long time - it took us years to mature our instant cloud native platform to the point where we could build a team around it to see the vision through. Over the course of those years, you could pretty regularly find Jared and me on a zoom late at night, waiting for some cloud resources to provision, often killing that time daydreaming about what it would be like to have our platform on the KubeCon floor. Last week, that daydream was realized as our newly acquired project and freshly built team at Kubeshop traveled to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Detroit.

A cloud native ecosystem for everyone​

Adopting Kubernetes and cloud native can be difficult and time consuming. Kubefirst's mission is to change this by producing cloud native platforms that are preconfigured, operational, and fully-automated from a single command. Throughout our project's history, we've focused our efforts on Kubernetes environments in public clouds. With our kubefirst cluster create command, your empty cloud will transform into a self-hosted open-source cloud native ecosystem running workloads in production in minutes instead of the months it would take to build from scratch.