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A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Is kubara? A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary kubara is an open-source CLI that helps platform teams build reusable Kubernetes platforms using a GitOps-first workflow. It works by combining a declarative platform contract (config.yaml) with a curated component catalog to generate reviewable configuration artifacts that can be committed to Git. Argo CD then continuously reconciles the approved state against target clusters. Key capabilities include bootstrapping platforms on existing clusters, onboarding spoke clusters in a hub-and-spoke architecture, and establishing tenant-aware GitOps delivery boundaries via Argo CD AppProjects. The built-in catalog covers common platform needs like ingress, cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, Kyverno, MetalLB, and Longhorn. kubara is explicitly not a Kubernetes distribution, a running controller, or a replacement for Argo CD — it generates and bootstraps platform state while leaving continuous reconciliation to Argo CD. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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