Introduction

What is Kubails?

Kubails is a highly opinionated framework for enabling rapid deployment and prototyping of Docker-based web services.

That is, if you're developing a web app, Kubails makes a bunch of tooling and infrastructure decisions for you so that you can get your app deployed in less than an hour. Then you can start iterating quickly while being supported by modern development comforts like repeatable environments, true CI/CD, and per branch deployments.

So if this sounds like the sort of thing that would be helpful for your project, then try out Kubails and get to building now.

If you have any questions about the project, feel free to check the FAQ.

Kubails is still alpha software.

While the underlying technologies are mostly production-ready, using Kubails for production projects is certainly at your own risk!

Features

  • Fast initial setup: Get deployed and developing in less than an hour.

  • Opinionated project architecture: Worry less about deciding between one person's cloud or another.

  • Robust infrastructure management: With Terraform and Helm, everything is just configuration as code.

  • Centralized configuration: kubails.json is your entrypoint to keeping Terraform, Helm, and everything else in sync.

  • Scale as you grow: By the power of The Cloudâ„¢ and Kubernetes, you can scale as much as you have money.

  • Modern developer experience: Between Docker and per branch deployments, you can be sure that what works in one place works everywhere.

Get Started

Follow the Getting Started guide to get your project up and running in the next hour.

Learn about Kubails

While Kubails makes a lot of decisions for you and tries to automate away a lot of the drudgery, that doesn't mean you shouldn't understand the underlying concepts and technologies.

Here are some guides that explain each piece of Kubails and what technologies are used to make it happen:

  1. Folder Structure

  2. Services

  3. Infrastructure

  4. CI/CD and Per Branch Deployments

  5. Project Configuration

  6. Manifests

  7. Make as a Task Runner

References

Need to quickly look up what a configuration does or how a command works? Look no further.

  1. CLI Reference

  2. kubails.json Reference

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