Cyclops: Simple Kubernetes Deployment Manager

A user-friendly dashboard for developers to leverage existing Kubernetes frameworks to deploy and manage applications.

When it comes to deploying applications to Kubernetes, the division of responsibilities between developers and infrastructure teams at various organizations is always an interesting (or contentious) topic. Some teams prefer their developers to fully buy into the DevOps ethos and own the entire stack. In this model, developers are expected to not only write their application code, but also the necessary Kubernetes components to run their applications. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve also seen teams with embedded DevOps or SREs who take on this burden of writing Helm charts and owning everything after code has been merged into their main branch.

Obviously, the “best” option in dividing these responsibilities will depend on the makeup of your team, especially along their familiarity with Kubernetes concepts and/or their willingness to learn. The latter point is especially important as I’ve seen some developers simply refuse to touch anything YAML. The learning curve going from Docker to Kubernetes has always been a huge challenge.

The community has not been ignoring this problem either. In fact, there’s been many attempts to address this tension. Some tools have really focused on the templating…