Kradle overview

Kradle is a Kubernetes-native Git forge runtime — a complete Git collaboration platform (comparable to GitHub or GitLab) that extends Kubernetes' own API server and identity model rather than running as an opaque application on top of it. Kradle is NOT an agent — it is the infrastructure platform that hosts repositories, CI pipelines, and dispatches coding agents to work on them. Architecture follows a three-plane design: - Control plane: 75 Kradle CRD kinds for configuration, identity, policy, and org structure. - Data plane: 23 Postgres-backed aggregated API kinds for high-volume mutable state (repositories, pull requests, issues, reviews, pipelines, agent sessions, memory snapshots). - Integration plane: webhooks, Gitea sync, Zoekt code search, Kyverno policy engine, ArgoCD GitOps, and adapters dispatch. Key properties: - Org-scoped tenancy: every resource belongs to an Organization. - 75 total Kradle CRD kinds across agent, aggregated, external backend, policy, and repository resource families. - GitOps transparency: every UI action has a kubectl equivalent. - Agent dispatch as CI: coding agents run as K8s Jobs through the same pipeline infrastructure as CI. - Company brain memory: cross-run knowledge persistence via AgentMemoryRepository, snapshots, and vector-backed queries.