Cloud Edition

The cloud edition of starkite adds Kubernetes (k8s module) and the kite kube artifact-generation subcommand on top of the base edition. It ships as the standalone kitecloud binary, and is also bundled into the all-in-one kite binary.

Installation¶

# Build from source — produces ./bin/kitecloud
make build-cloud

# Or install via the edition manager (downloads from GitHub Releases)
kitecmd edition use cloud

If you have the all-in-one kite binary installed, you already have the cloud module — no separate install needed.

Kubernetes Module¶

The k8s module provides full Kubernetes resource management:

# List pods in a namespace
pods = k8s.list("pod", namespace="default")
for pod in pods:
    print(pod["metadata"]["name"])

# Create a deployment
k8s.deploy("nginx", "nginx:latest", replicas=3, port=80)

# Apply a manifest
manifest = yaml.encode({
    "apiVersion": "v1",
    "kind": "ConfigMap",
    "metadata": {"name": "my-config", "namespace": "default"},
    "data": {"key": "value"},
})
k8s.apply(manifest)

# Scale a deployment
k8s.scale("deployment", "nginx", 5)

# Rolling restart
k8s.rollout("deployment", "nginx", action="restart")

Available Kubernetes Functions¶

Function	Description
`k8s.get(kind, name)`	Get a single resource
`k8s.list(kind)`	List resources
`k8s.create(manifest)`	Create a resource
`k8s.apply(manifest)`	Server-side apply
`k8s.delete(kind, name)`	Delete a resource
`k8s.patch(kind, name, patch)`	Patch a resource
`k8s.label(kind, name, labels)`	Set labels
`k8s.annotate(kind, name, annotations)`	Set annotations
`k8s.deploy(name, image, ...)`	Create Deployment + optional Service
`k8s.run(name, image, ...)`	Run a Pod
`k8s.expose(kind, name, port)`	Create a Service
`k8s.scale(kind, name, replicas)`	Scale a workload
`k8s.rollout(kind, name, action)`	Manage rollouts
`k8s.set_image(kind, name, container, image)`	Update container image
`k8s.set_env(kind, name, env)`	Update environment variables
`k8s.set_resources(kind, name, ...)`	Update resource limits
`k8s.autoscale(kind, name, ...)`	Create HPA
`k8s.version()`	Get server version
`k8s.api_resources()`	List API resources

Editions Management¶

kitecmd edition status        # List installed editions
kitecmd edition use cloud     # Install cloud edition (downloads kitecloud)
kitecmd edition use base      # Switch back to base
kitecmd edition remove cloud  # Uninstall cloud edition

When cloud is active, kitecmd transparently execs into kitecloud for every command.