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What is Kilter?

Kilter creates isolated Kubernetes dev environments using KIND + Tilt + Helm, and provides a Vercel-like one-command production deploy (kilter deploy) onto kilter-platform clusters. Each project gets its own cluster, namespace, and deterministic port allocations.

The 30-second version

cd my-project
kilter up        # auto-detects your framework, creates a cluster, starts dev

That's it. Kilter scans your package.json / go.mod / pyproject.toml, figures out the framework and dev command, provisions backing services you ask for (kilter add postgres), and wires connection strings into your app's environment.

Source of truth

kilter env prints every connection string and port for your project. Any .env file may be stale — always verify against kilter env.

Three audiences, one tool

  • Users run apps: kilter up, kilter status, kilter logs.
  • Devs build apps: services from the catalog, kilter db workflows, skills for agents.
  • Admins operate the platform: orgs, clusters, projects, tokens (kilter admin …), and the portal.

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