polarsquad/krops
Kubernetes-Native Resource Operations
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Where it stands
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The project lists 4 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a GitOps pattern to manage cloud infrastructure as Kubernetes-native resources using declarative YAML and continuous reconciliation.
- Eliminates separate state files and toolchains by unifying infrastructure and workload management under Kubernetes API, RBAC, and audit trails.
- Use for platform engineers managing AWS EKS clusters and resources entirely through Kubernetes APIs and GitOps workflows.
- Use for local development and testing by bootstrapping disposable Kubernetes clusters with Flux and Cluster API on Docker or kind.
- Use for bare-metal provisioning and management of Talos Linux machines via Tinkerbell with Git-synced Kubernetes control planes.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
krops is a GitOps pattern for managing infrastructure through the Kubernetes API with plain declarative YAML. Terraform and OpenTofu use HCL, a state file, and discrete plan/apply runs; krops stores desired state as Kubernetes resources in Git. Flux delivers those resources, and controllers continuously reconcile the infrastructure to match them. Kubernetes provides one API, RBAC model, policy surface, and audit trail for infrastructure and workloads. No HCL, no
.tfstate, no second toolchain.Crossplane is the closer comparison because it also runs infrastructure reconciliation inside Kubernetes. Its providers expose managed resources, while XRDs and compositions can turn them into higher-level platform APIs. krops introduces no krops-specific CRD or controller: it combines Cluster API for clusters, ACK for AWS resources, and Flux for GitOps. If those resource APIs already say what you mean, krops does not wrap them to say it again.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+29 stars over 58 days across 6 snapshot days; best day +5 on Sep 10.
Forks
14+0
Open issues
73+36
Compared with peers in Kubernetes
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| superplanehq/superplane | 8.8K | +435 | 60 | 7 days ago |
| aquasecurity/trivy | 39.0K | +204 | 45 | today |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.0K | +183 | 60 | 9 days ago |
| argoproj/argo-cd | 24.6K | +58 | 60 | 1 day ago |
| cilium/cilium | 25.8K | +52 | 65 | 3 days ago |
| polarsquad/krops | 165 | — | 40 | — |
| Category median | 24.6K | +183 | 60 | — |
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