A Cloud Native Data and AI project Enabler
KAST is an inner source development accelerator designed to streamline the initiation of containerized projects across various domains, including data analytics and defense, even under stringent security constraints. It offers a lightweight, flexible, and comprehensive containerized stack that integrates essential services and open-source data analytics components.
Key Features
- Rapid Deployment: Quickly set up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster tailored to your specific needs.
- Integrated Services: Optionally include services such as logs and metrics management, Identity and Access Management (IAM), storage solutions, data ingestion, data analysis, and stream processing.
- Versatile Deployment: Deploy KAST in diverse environments, whether on-premises, private cloud, or public cloud. It scales from a single laptop to multiple clusters of machines (from 1 to n, based on requirements).
Benefits
- Efficiency: Accelerate the development process with a ready-to-use, fully integrated containerized stack.
- Flexibility: Customize your deployment with additional services as needed.
- Scalability: Adapt to different scales of deployment, from small-scale testing on a single laptop to large-scale production across multiple clusters.
- Kast Support: KAST is supported by a team with a long expertise with K8S ecosystem and a technical support, ensuring reliable and responsive assistance for your projects.
- Long Term Support: Up to Flèche all LTS versions are supported 18 months and with Gemini all LTS versions will be supported 3 years.
KAST enables users to quickly and efficiently initiate and manage containerized projects, ensuring that they meet security requirements and operational demands.
Components
Refer to the online Kast documentation for detail. In a nutshell Kast provides three packs:
- Core: the base components and deployer to deploy a standard K8 stack.
- Data: a set of additional components and serverless applications to facilitate the design of data centric, streaming or batch applications.
- Edge: a ligthweight instance and deployer to accomodate edge deployments.
Contacts
- Arnaud Bartholome : product owner
- Gilles Meignan : product design authority
- Clair Bazin : head of product management