Glasskube is building a new packaging ecosystem for Kubernetes. With our Open Source package manager, we aim to replace Helm in the long run and give users a Docker-like experience to build, extend, deploy and distribute Kubernetes applications. We're also working on a cloud-native templating language so anyone building packages for Kubernetes can use a DSL and won't have to use the Go templating engine anymore.
The next generation Package Manager for Kubernetes
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### Open Source Package Manager for Kubernetes

Glasskube is an Open Source Package Manager for Kubernetes. Kubernetes is highly fragmented, making it nearly impossible to deploy applications across multiple environments with current tooling. We help software companies sell to enterprises and deploy to private infrastructure, different cloud environments, and on-premises. The founders have been best friends for over 15 years, lived together in college, and even had a startup together. Philip was the CTO of a European Kubernetes-based company that was acquired in 2022.



Glasskube

Founded:2023

Team Size:5

Location:Vienna, Austria

### Active Founders

### Louis Weston, Founder/President

Business, Law, and Compliance background. Before Glasskube, I advanced from intern to legal counsel at a fintech startup with over 100 employees in three years, negotiating contracts with Apple, Deutsche Bank, and Volkswagen, and building a compliance and security system according to ISO standards.



### Philip Miglinci, Founder/CEO

Open-Source and Kubernetes ❤️ Ironman finisher 🏊 🚴 🏃 Before working on Glasskube, I built: - Mission-critical alerting infrastructure in Europe as CTO - PCR testing and analytics software as part of my Master thesis



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[### Glasskube - Open source package manager for Kubernetes](

Hi everyone! We’re [Philip]( and [Louis]( the co-founders of [Glasskube](

**TLDR:** Glasskube is an open source package manager for Kubernetes that makes deploying, updating, and configuring packages on Kubernetes **20x faster than** tools like **Helm or Kustomize.** Inspired by the simplicity of Homebrew and npm, our goal is to build enterprise-ready infrastructure software that can run mission-critical workloads across the more than 3 million Kubernetes clusters globally.

**Glasskube is fully open source.** Check out our repository on [GitHub]( (We'd appreciate a star 🌟)



**The Backstory & Problem**
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Kubernetes packages have been growing rapidly, from around 100 packages in 2016 to over 800 packages on the CNCF landscape today. With more than 7 million developers working with Kubernetes, Helm, an open-source tool created during a hackathon nine years ago, has become the go-to solution. However, Helm struggles to keep up with the increasing demand, leading to complex workflows and non-standardized solutions.

Over the past five years, writing and deploying packages on Kubernetes, we found ourselves defaulting to Helm despite its shortcomings due to a lack of alternatives. While working on other cloud-native projects, users consistently highlighted common pain points with Helm. This realization prompted us to tackle the larger issue of package management in Kubernetes, leading to the development of Glasskube.

**What is Glasskube?**
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Glasskube brings the experience of Homebrew or npm to your Kubernetes cluster. It simplifies installation, updates, and configuration, making it easier and faster to manage your packages.



**Focusing on simplicity and reliability with our CLI and UI**

Easily install packages in your cluster via the Glasskube UI, where all packages are conveniently located, eliminating the need to search for a Helm repository.

**Safe Package Updates**

Preview and perform pending updates to your desired version with a single click (or CLI command). All updates are pre-tested by the Glasskube test suite.

**Package configurations**

Configure packages with typesafe input values via the UI or interactive CLI questionnaire. Inject values from other packages, ConfigMaps, and Secrets easily. No more untyped and undocumented values.yaml files.

**GitOps Integration**

Interested? Check out our [Demo.](

**Our Vision**
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Currently, we are focused on enhancing the user experience, aiming to save engineers as much time as possible by building on top of existing technologies. In the future, we plan to develop an entirely new packaging and bundling format for all cloud-native packages. This will provide package developers with a straightforward way to define how to install and configure packages, offer simple upgrade paths, and enable us to provide feedback, crash reports, and analytics to every developer working on Kubernetes packages, similar to how Android supports Play Store developers.

**Presignup - Glasskube Cloud**
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We are currently working on Glasskube Cloud, for which you can now [pre-signup]( Key features include:

*   Cloud Hosted Private Packages
*   Security Alerts and Update Notifications
*   Advanced GitOps Integrations (intelligent insights on upgrade success probability, smart config migration suggestions, enhanced open PRs showing detailed changes at manifest/resource level)

**Our Asks**
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We love talking to engineers and anyone interested in DevOps who uses Kubernetes. You can schedule a call with Louis and Philip [here](

If you find this interesting and would like to try it out:

*   Presignup for [Glasskube Cloud](
*   Check out our repository [on GitHub](

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