https://github.com/adhar-io/adhar
ADHAR - The Open Cloud-Native Foundation
https://github.com/adhar-io/adhar
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ADHAR - The Open Cloud-Native Foundation
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/adhar-io/adhar
- Owner: adhar-io
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2023-11-01T23:10:35.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-12-14T08:32:50.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-16T08:03:48.362Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: adhar, adhar-patform, ai, analytics, architecture, cloud-native, data, developerexperience, devops, enterprise, gitops, governance, helm, idp, k8s, kubernetes, microservices, rapid-development, security
- Language: Go
- Homepage: https://adhar.io
- Size: 314 MB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 6
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Security: SECURITY.md
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## 🎯 What is Adhar?
**Adhar is an Open Internal Developer Platform that eliminates the trade-off between developer freedom and organizational governance.**
Traditional platforms force organizations to choose: either give developers freedom (leading to inconsistent architectures and security gaps) or enforce governance (creating bottlenecks and slowing teams down). Adhar takes a fundamentally different approach—**standardization as enablement, not constraint.**
Adhar delivers battle-tested architectural patterns with 50+ production-grade services—from Kubernetes and Cilium to ArgoCD, Vault, Prometheus, and beyond—all pre-configured, security-hardened, and ready to use. A single `adhar up` command provisions complete platforms across **AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Civo, or local Kind clusters in under 10 minutes**. No infrastructure tickets, no security reviews, no integration projects. Developers get instant self-service access to everything they need, while organizations get consistent, secure, compliant infrastructure enforced automatically through code.
**The result:** Teams spend 100% of their time on business value, zero time on undifferentiated infrastructure work. 100% open source (Apache 2.0) with no vendor lock-in. This is the foundation modern engineering teams deserve.
> ⚠️ **Development Status:** This project is in active development. APIs and configurations may change. Recommended for development and evaluation purposes.
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## Platform Capabilities
| Capability | Description |
|------------|-------------|
| **📐 Standardized Architecture** | Organizational and application patterns that enforce best practices automatically |
| **🚀 Self-Service with Guardrails** | Instant provisioning within security/compliance boundaries - no approval workflows |
| **🎯 Golden Paths** | Pre-built patterns for microservices, microfrontends, data pipelines, and ML workflows |
| **🏗️ True Multi-Cloud** | Consistent experience across AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Civo, and Onprem |
| **🔄 GitOps Native** | Declarative infrastructure and application management via Git and ArgoCD |
| **🛡️ Security Built-In** | Zero-trust networking, secrets vault, vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement |
| **📊 Complete Observability** | Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Hubble configured with auto instrument |
| **🤖 AI/ML Platform** | Jupyter, analytics, ETL and pipeline orchestration ready for data teams |
| **📦 50+ Services Integrated** | From Kafka to databases - production-ready out-of-the-box services |
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## 🚀 Quick Start
### Prerequisites
Before getting started, ensure you have:
| Requirement | Version | Purpose |
|-------------|---------|---------|
| **Docker** | v20.10+ | Container runtime |
| **kubectl** | v1.24+ | Kubernetes CLI |
| **RAM** | 8GB min, 16GB+ recommended | Platform resources |
| **Storage** | 20GB+ free | Images and data |
| **CPU** | 4+ cores | Processing power |
### Local Development (Under 5 Minutes)
```bash
#1. Install Adhar CLI
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adhar-io/adhar/scripts/install.sh | bash
#2. Create local cluster with core platform services
adhar up
#3. Access the platform, Adhar Console
open https://adhar.localtest.me
#4. Retrieve application secrets
adhar get secrets
#5. Check platform usage
adhar help
#6. Destroy Adhar platform
adhar down
```
### Production Environment
```bash
#1. Install Adhar CLI
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adhar-io/adhar/scripts/install.sh | bash
#2. Download the configuration template
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adhar-io/adhar/main/config.yaml -o adhar-config.yaml
# Edit adhar-config.yaml with your cloud provider settings
#3. Adhar platform production setup
adhar up -f adhar-config.yaml
#4. Verify deployment status
adhar get status
#5. Access the platform, Adhar Console
open https://cloud.adhar.io
#6. Get credentials for Adhar Console, ArgoCD, Gitea, Keycloak etc.
adhar get secrets -p argocd
```
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## 📦 Integrated Tools (50+ Components)
Core Platform & Infrastructure (15)
- **Backstage** - Unified developer portal
- **Kubernetes** - Container orchestration platform
- **Kamaji** - Multi-tenant Kubernetes control plane
- **vCluster** - Virtual Kubernetes clusters
- **Open Cluster Management** - Multi-cluster orchestration
- **Sveltos** - Kubernetes add-on management
- **Crossplane** - Cloud-native Infrastructure as Code
- **ArgoCD** - GitOps continuous delivery
- **Gitea** - Self-hosted Git service
- **Cilium** - eBPF-based networking & security
- **Nginx Ingress** - HTTP/HTTPS traffic routing
- **External DNS** - Automated DNS management
- **Velero** - Backup & disaster recovery
- **Harbor** - Container registry & artifact repository
- **Armada** - Multi-cluster batch job scheduling
Security & Compliance (11)
- **Vault** - Secrets management & encryption
- **Keycloak** - Identity & access management
- **Kyverno** - Kubernetes policy engine
- **Falco** - Runtime threat detection
- **Trivy** - Vulnerability & security scanning
- **cert-manager** - Certificate lifecycle automation
- **Tetragon** - eBPF-based security observability
- **Cosign** - Container image signing & verification
- **External Secrets Operator** - External secrets synchronization
- **SPIFFE/SPIRE** - Workload identity & authentication
- **SealedSecrets** - Encrypted secrets for GitOps
Observability (16)
- **Prometheus** - Metrics collection & monitoring
- **Grafana** - Visualization & dashboards
- **Loki** - Log aggregation & querying
- **Tempo** - Distributed tracing backend
- **Jaeger** - Distributed tracing & analysis
- **Hubble** - Cilium network observability
- **AlertManager** - Alert routing & management
- **Grafana Mimir** - Scalable long-term metrics storage
- **OpenTelemetry** - Unified observability framework
- **Grafana Alloy** - OpenTelemetry collector distribution
- **FluentBit** - Lightweight log processor & forwarder
- **Pixie** - eBPF-based Kubernetes observability
- **Pyroscope** - Continuous profiling platform
- **Grafana Beyla** - eBPF application auto-instrumentation
- **Grafana Faro** - Real user monitoring for web apps
- **Grafana OnCall** - On-call management & incident response
Application Development & Delivery (22)
- **ArgoCD** - GitOps continuous delivery
- **Argo Workflows** - Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines
- **Argo Rollouts** - Progressive delivery with canary/blue-green
- **Argo Events** - Event-driven workflow automation
- **Gitea** - Self-hosted Git service
- **Harbor** - Container registry & artifact repository
- **FluxCD** - GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes
- **Knative** - Kubernetes-based serverless platform
- **OpenFaaS** - Functions as a Service framework
- **DAPR** - Distributed application runtime
- **Cilium Service Mesh** - eBPF-based service mesh
- **Cilium Gateway API** - Kubernetes Gateway API implementation
- **Coder** - Cloud development environments (CDE)
- **DevSpace** - Developer workflow automation
- **Kargo** - Freight promotion for GitOps
- **K6** - Modern load testing tool
- **ChaosMesh** - Chaos engineering platform
- **Penpot** - Open-source design & prototyping
- **Webstudio** - Visual web development platform
- **Plane** - Project management & issue tracking
- **Buildpacks** - Cloud-native buildpack support
Data & Analytics (14)
- **PostHog** - Product analytics & feature flags
- **Metabase** - Business intelligence dashboard
- **PostgreSQL** - Relational database
- **Valkey** - In-memory data store (Redis fork)
- **MinIO** - S3-compatible object storage
- **Kafka** - Distributed event streaming platform
- **Airbyte** - Data integration & ELT platform
- **Iceberg** - Open table format for data lakes
- **Kubeflow** - Machine learning workflows on Kubernetes
- **Dagster** - Data orchestration platform
- **MLflow** - ML lifecycle management platform
- **Flink** - Stream processing engine
- **OpenSearch** - Search & analytics engine
- **Milvus** - Vector database for AI applications
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## 📚 Documentation
| Resource | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| [Documentation Home](docs/README.md) | Complete documentation index and navigation |
| [Getting Started Guide](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) | Quick start and installation walkthrough |
| [User Guide](docs/USER_GUIDE.md) | Platform capabilities, configuration, and CLI reference |
| [Architecture Overview](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) | System design, components, and technical details |
| [Provider Guide](docs/PROVIDER_GUIDE.md) | Multi-cloud provider implementation guide |
| [Advanced Guide](docs/ADVANCED.md) | HA mode, production deployment, and best practices |
| [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) | How to contribute to the Adhar project |
---
## 🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions from the community! Here's how to get started:
### Development Setup
```bash
# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/adhar-io/adhar.git
cd adhar
# Install dependencies
go mod download
# Build from source
make build
# Run tests
make test
# Run linter
make lint
# Test Adhar platform
./adhar up
```
### Contributing Guidelines
- **Code Contributions:** See our [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for detailed instructions
- **Bug Reports:** Open an issue with detailed reproduction steps
- **Feature Requests:** Discuss new ideas in [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/adhar-io/adhar/discussions)
- **Documentation:** Help improve our docs - PRs welcome!
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## 🙏 Acknowledgments
Adhar is built on the shoulders of giants. We're grateful to the open-source community and the maintainers of these incredible projects:
...and many more incredible open-source projects that make cloud-native possible.
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