What It Does

Kusion is an open-source platform orchestrator that simplifies application delivery by unifying infrastructure provisioning and application deployment into a single, codified workflow. It enables teams to manage their entire application lifecycle through a consistent, Infrastructure-as-Code approach that eliminates manual steps and configuration drift.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Everything as Code: Codify your complete application lifecycle, from infrastructure provisioning to application deployment, ensuring consistency and repeatability across all environments
• Single Unified Workflow: Manage both infrastructure and Kubernetes resources through one consistent workflow, combining the simplicity of Terraform-like operations with comprehensive stack management
• Separation of Concerns: Orchestrate configurations from multiple sources and roles, enabling smooth collaboration between platform teams, developers, and operators
• Extensible Architecture: Built with modular support for any cloud resources or runtimes, easily extending beyond Kubernetes and Terraform to meet organizational needs
• Application Resource Graphs: Visualize resource topology, understand cloud resource mapping, and leverage automated dependency injection
• Protocol-Driven Collaboration: Enable developer self-service, dynamic configuration management, and built-in security & compliance through paved golden paths

Use Cases & Workflows

Kusion excels at end-to-end lifecycle management, including infrastructure and workload provisioning, managing ephemeral environments, previewing change differences in detail, and comprehensive version control with state management. Teams use it to establish developer self-service portals, create golden paths for deployments, and maintain security compliance across their infrastructure.

Who It's For

Kusion is designed for platform engineering teams, DevOps practitioners, and organizations managing complex cloud-native applications. It's particularly valuable for teams seeking to bridge the gap between infrastructure management and application deployment while enabling cross-functional collaboration.

Platform & Integration

As a CNCF Sandbox Project and part of the KusionStack ecosystem, Kusion integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes environments and supports Helm-based installation. The platform provides comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and community support through GitHub and Slack.