All
Every language
The platform boundary is the container image and the manifest, not an SDK you have to live inside. If it builds, it runs, with the same auth, routing, secrets, and observability as everything else on the cluster.
- Node, Python, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, and any mix of them in one app. A TypeScript frontend, a Go API, and a Python worker is the reference pattern, each as its own component.
- No buildpack lottery. Your Dockerfile is the contract; kilter generates one when you don't care and stays out of the way when you do.
- Polyglot doesn't fragment operations: one deploy, one log stream, one trace view across every language in the app.
Real
True orchestration
kilter.yaml names the services your app needs (postgres, temporal, kafka, ory) and the platform composes them: provisioned, wired, and reconciled as one system. No glue scripts, no webhook chains, no README of manual steps.
- 42 curated catalog services compose declaratively: databases, queues, identity, observability, even LLM gateways.
- Wiring is synthesized, not copy-pasted: connection strings, credentials, and DNS are injected into exactly the workloads that need them.
- Reconcilers own desired state. Drift heals itself, and a deploy is a reviewed diff, not a fragile script run.
Secure
Secure by default
Every app lands behind real identity, encrypted secrets, and isolated networking from its first deploy. The hardened posture is the starting point, not a retrofit scheduled for after the Series B.
- A full Ory stack (Kratos, Oathkeeper, Keto) wired to your app with one command: sessions, SSO, and permissions you didn't hand-roll.
- Secrets are SOPS-encrypted in git and materialized only in-cluster; nothing sensitive rides in plain text.
- Per-app namespaces, least-privilege service accounts, and TLS everywhere: the blast radius is drawn before the first request arrives.
Compliant
Best-in-class compliance
Controls live in infrastructure you can show an auditor (network policy, RBAC, immutable audit, isolation) instead of application code that quietly rots. The compliance surface is declarative: reviewable in a PR, provable in an audit.
- Isolation as architecture: namespaces, NetworkPolicy, and RBAC drawn per app and per tenant.
- Audit as a primitive: append-only trails and full human→agent provenance chains, enforced by the engine, not by team discipline.
- Proven in practice: a HIPAA-aligned publishing platform built in 45 minutes, with every technical safeguard living in infrastructure.
Proven
Built on what the Fortune 500 runs
The trust isn't ours to claim; it's inherited. Kilter composes the exact primitives that already run the world's largest enterprises: Kubernetes, Postgres, Temporal, Kafka, Ory, Flux. We add the composition, not a proprietary runtime.
- Canonical, CNCF-grade components at every layer: nothing bespoke sits between your app and the substrate.
- The same manifests run a KIND cluster on a laptop and an enterprise production cluster. Parity is structural, not aspirational.
- No trap doors: kilter eject hands you the standard manifests. If we disappeared tomorrow, your stack wouldn't.
Agent-native
Drive it with your agent
The entire platform is a text-addressable surface: a CLI with structured output, declarative manifests, reconcilers that verify. Your agent doesn't get a dumbed-down wrapper; it operates the real thing, read-edit-verify, at machine speed.
- Provisioning, deploys, and ops as conversations: kilter up, kilter deploy, kilter logs are designed for agent operation as much as human hands.
- Development happens against the deployment and runtime infrastructure, so what your agent verifies locally is what production runs.
- Agents act as governed principals (attributed, audited, and bounded), never as an unaccountable automation backdoor.