Open Source Projects
This is not just a project list. It documents how real Kubernetes platforms, storage infrastructure, data platforms, and local AI environments were designed, verified, and operated as a connected OSS portfolio.
The projects remain independent, but connect through shared engineering practice and real usage paths.
OpenForge
│ engineering standards / supply-chain / reusable templates
│
├── kube-ready-box ──→ local Kubernetes node baseline
│ │
│ ├── Narwhal ──→ Narwhal Portal
│ │ │
│ │ ├── nfs-quota-agent
│ │ └── ldapium
│ │
│ └── Beluga ──→ Beluga Manager
│
└── KubeMetal ──→ Apple Silicon / host-native MLX MLOpsThe relationship map does not imply runtime dependency. Each repository remains an independent OSS project; the relationship represents shared engineering patterns and practical usage scenarios.
Projects that standardize OSS engineering practice, local Kubernetes node readiness, and reusable foundations.
OpenForge
An open-source project blueprint, engineering standards, and reusable templates for building, deploying, and operating high-quality OSS projects
Every new OSS project tends to rebuild repository structures, documentation guidelines, GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines, supply chain security, AI engineering safety, and release governance from scratch
A proven, repeatable engineering foundation providing a standardized blueprint, 29 engineering standards, 15 categories of reusable implementation templates, and a maturity scorecard based on active OSS practices
Kube-Ready-Box
Kubernetes-ready Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS Vagrant Base Boxes for ARM64/AMD64, ext4/XFS, and local hypervisors
Local Kubernetes projects repeatedly rebuild the same OS, kernel, networking, storage, and diagnostic baseline across architectures and hypervisors
Reproducible Ubuntu Vagrant base boxes built with Packer so higher-level Kubernetes projects can start from a consistent node-ready operating system
Kubernetes platform, portal, storage enforcement, and directory infrastructure projects.
Narwhal
A reproducible and verifiable Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform
Integrating dozens of cloud-native components creates recurring DNS, TLS, identity, networking, startup-order, and version-compatibility failures that must be re-proven after upgrades
Integrate 35 GitOps-managed applications into one reproducible IDP and turn 263 documented incidents into 51 CI regression checks plus live cluster verification
Narwhal Portal
Operations and developer workbench for the Narwhal Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform
A Kubernetes IDP can expose dozens of independent dashboards while leaving platform-wide state, relationships, and operator workflows fragmented
A unified Next.js portal that presents cluster, application, catalog, security, cost, governance, and onboarding workflows as one operational surface
NFS Quota Agent
Kubernetes agent that enforces filesystem Project Quotas for NFS PersistentVolumes
Kubernetes NFS PersistentVolumes can expose requested capacity without enforcing an equivalent filesystem-level limit on the shared NFS storage
A node-local agent that watches NFS PVs and applies filesystem Project Quotas on the actual NFS server using XFS, ext4, or Btrfs quota mechanisms
ldapium
An OpenLDAP Kubernetes packaging stack built from upstream source: server, management UI, Helm, and offline delivery
OpenLDAP deployment options often combine stale images, inconsistent packaging, default-credential risks, and incomplete ARM64/offline support
Build OpenLDAP 2.6.14 from the upstream tarball and package it with zero-default-passwords, multi-architecture images, a management UI, Helm, backup/restore, offline bundles, and release evidence
Projects connecting CDC, streaming, lakehouse storage, query, BI, and orchestration into a coherent platform.
Beluga
A local Kubernetes data platform connecting Kafka, CDC, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, Superset, and Airflow
Each modern data-platform component is easy to deploy in isolation, but reproducing CDC, streaming, lakehouse, query, BI, and orchestration boundaries consistently is difficult on a local machine
A reproducible k3s-based reference platform using Vagrant, Helm, and Argo CD GitOps, validated through real end-to-end clickstream and PostgreSQL CDC flows
Beluga Manager
Unified control plane that correlates Beluga data-platform services into Pipeline, Data Asset, Service, and Operations domains
Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, and Airflow expose independent APIs and UIs, making cross-service pipeline context difficult to inspect from one place
Use adapters and correlation to expose stable platform domains without replacing upstream systems or creating a second source of truth
A desktop MLOps project combining Apple Silicon native compute with a Kubernetes control plane.
Documentation Standard
Each project profile covers problem definition, design principles, architecture, key technologies, operational model, verification, current status, and portfolio relationships. Detailed documents are then split into Overview, Architecture, Getting Started, Operations, Troubleshooting, and ADR topics where applicable.