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Kubefirst (now Konstruct)

About Kubefirst (now Konstruct)

Kubefirst can be used as a fully hosted experience or self-hosted on the customer's own infrastructure. It is described as multicloud and hybrid-ready, built to scale from startup to enterprise. It provisions workload clusters on multiple cloud providers.

Products

  • Hosted Control Plane: Provides a hosted way to run a first cluster without managing infrastructure.
  • Self-Hosted on AWS: Deploys Konstruct on the customer's own EKS cluster with GitHub or GitLab as git provider.
  • Multicloud & Hybrid: Provisions workload clusters on AWS, Civo, GCP, and Azure, with customizable cluster templates.
  • GitOps Catalog: Distributes applications, infrastructure modules, and hybrid packages across a fleet of clusters.
  • GitHub & GitLab: Connects via GitHub Apps or GitLab OAuth for GitOps repositories, application repos, and CI pipelines.

Used for

  • Provisioning workload clusters on AWS, Civo, GCP, and Azure
  • Customizing cluster templates for any provider, including bare metal and on-prem
  • Distributing applications, infrastructure modules, and hybrid packages across a fleet of clusters
  • Running a first cluster with zero infrastructure to manage

Who it is for

  • Intended for platform teams.
  • Intended for downstream teams receiving software delivery ecosystems.

From Kubefirst (now Konstruct)'s own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Infrastructure as Code

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Kubefirst (now Konstruct). It comes from our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Platforms buyer guide.

25%
Language & Authoring Model
Declarative DSL (HCL) vs. general-purpose language (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#); readability for reviewers vs. expressive power (loops, conditionals, abstractions); module/component reuse and registry maturity; testing and IDE support; learning curve for the people who will actually write infrastructure
20%
State Management & Drift
Where state is stored, remote-state locking to prevent concurrent-apply corruption, state encryption and secret handling, plan/preview fidelity, drift detection and continuous reconciliation, import of existing resources, and blast-radius controls on apply
20%
Policy-as-Code & Governance
OPA/Rego and Sentinel support, pre-apply guardrails (block non-compliant resources, mandatory tags, region/cost limits), RBAC and SSO/SAML/SCIM, audit logging, approval workflows, and integration with cost-estimation and security scanning in the pipeline
15%
Provider Ecosystem & Portability
Breadth and quality of providers/resource coverage, day-one support for new cloud services, multi-cloud and on-prem reach, third-party SaaS providers, and how locked-in the resulting code is to one vendor or one cloud
10%
Collaboration & Workflow (TACOS)
Run orchestration and queuing, VCS/PR-driven plans, stack dependencies, self-service environments with TTL/ephemeral teardown, drift remediation workflows, and whether you self-host in CI (Atlantis-style) or buy a managed platform
10%
Licensing & Project Health
License (open-source MPL/Apache vs. source-available BUSL vs. proprietary), governance and ownership after recent M&A, release cadence and roadmap, community/foundation backing (CNCF, Linux Foundation), and how easily you could exit or fork

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Quick Facts

docs.kubefirst.com Pricing page
CategoryDevOps & Platform Engineering
SubcategoryInfrastructure as Code
DeploymentHosted, Self-hosted

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