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• KubeVela is an application-centric control plan that connects with traditional CI systems or modern Github and provides best practices for platform engineering.
• The Open Application Model provides a consistent model for application delivery and infrastructure-agnostic model that allows developers to focus on components trades and deploy to different runtime platforms.
• KubeVela balances extensibility and user experience by leveraging the Kubernetes API and CRD ecosystem, providing API systems, SDKs, and a UI console.
• KubeVela provides powerful orchestration by allowing data passing for application components dependency, overriding parameters for multi-environments delivery, defining rollout and traffic splitting ways, and checking metrics with quality gates to ensure safe delivery.
• KubeVela manages resource management by sharing resources in multiple applications, defining the replicas of application at initialization while working with an HPA later, and defining different garbage collection policies for data storage and workload metadata.
• KubeVela ensures large scale and stability by horizontally scaling the controller, improving performance for different scenarios, and providing a catalog of add-ons that can connect to the whole community.

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• Teams proficient with Kubernetes and Helm work well together, but onboarding new members can be challenging
• Multi-cluster approach involves creating a customized entity with standard CRDs and deploying Helm charts as components
• Flux CD add-on enables integration with GitHub and deployment of Helm charts as components
• Flexibility is important in implementing the OEM specification, as it defines the minimum requirements but allows for additional features to be added by the runtime

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• The developer platform started with simple app delivery using GitHub and Jenkins for source control and CI/CD respectively.
• As the platform grew, Spinnaker was adopted for CD processes and the suite of in-house tools and libraries were developed for infrastructure management and networking.
• The integration of various tools and interfaces resulted in a high number of user interaction points and integration costs.
• There is a need to consolidate interfaces and rethink the product to focus on providing interfaces for users to describe their deployment needs.
• The example of regionalization of services highlights the need for the platform to own the deployment process rather than users triggering their own deployments.

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• Kubavela is an add-on-based architecture platform for building cloud-native applications
• It follows the OEM model and allows for concern separation
• Kubavela provides transparent runtime and reduces complexity
• Kubavela is extensible and allows for the creation of add-ons
• Kubavela has built-in capabilities and add-ons, including observability and traffic control