KubeRocketCI vs GitLab CI: Kubernetes-Native CI/CD Compared
KubeRocketCI vs GitLab CI for Kubernetes teams: Tekton vs GitLab Runners, any git host vs GitLab-only, air-gapped self-hosting, GitOps model, and migration.
KubeRocketCI Documentation
The harness for your AI fabric
An open-source CI/CD platform for Kubernetes teams: Tekton builds, Argo CD GitOps, quality gates, and security scans on one golden path for your engineers and their AI agents.
Latest release 3.16Install guideUpgrade guideSupported versions
Try the whole platform locally
Run the full platform on a local kind cluster with three commands: KubeRocketCI Portal, Tekton, Argo CD, SonarQube, self-hosted GitLab, and Prometheus with Grafana. No cloud account needed.
What you need
- Docker Desktop with 12 GB of RAM for the full stack (8 GB runs the core only)
- kind, Helm, kubectl, and make
- macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel), Linux, or Windows with WSL2
git clone https://github.com/KubeRocketCI/try-kuberocketcicd try-kuberocketcimake testbed# full stack ready in ~18–20 min
Documentation by task
Install & upgrade
Set up the platform on your cluster and keep it current.
Operate
Configure, secure, observe, and troubleshoot a running platform.
Build and deploy apps
Onboard applications and ship them through pipelines.
Evaluate
See what the platform covers and how it compares.
One golden path for engineers and AI agents
Agent-authored pull requests run the same review pipeline, quality gates, and RBAC as your engineers' changes. Agents read the results through the krci CLI as JSON.
- Review: Tekton
- Build: Kaniko
- Gate: SonarQube
- Publish: Nexus
- Deploy: Argo CD
krci sonar gate my-app --pr 42 -o json | jq '.data.projectStatus'{ "status": "ERROR", "conditions": [ { "metricKey": "new_coverage", "comparator": "LT", "errorThreshold": "80", "actualValue": "64.2", "status": "ERROR" } ]}# the same gate result a human pull request gets
From the Blog
CI/CD, DevOps, and Kubernetes insights from the team building KubeRocketCI.