MaksIT publishes cloud-native software for people who work with clusters and systems, and also offers it as a service. The installed tool runs on the machine of the person who uses it. It talks to the systems that person already operates.

What cloud-native means here

Cloud-native, on this site, means a tool for clusters and for the systems around them. You install the tool locally. It connects to a cluster, an API, or another system you already run. It does not become that system.

MaksIT also offers the same software as a service, free or paid. The service is hosted. The installed program still runs on its own and does not depend on the service.

On the machine

Configuration, logs, and data stay where the person using the software puts them. Credentials for a cluster stay in the kubeconfig or in the store you already use. The tool reads them to do the work you asked for. MaksIT does not receive the contents of the cluster, because the tool does not upload them.

The same rule covers other local tools that speak to a system you operate. The exchange is between your machine and that system. Support mail is separate from that exchange: a message you send is correspondence, not cluster data.

Open source and releases

The software is open source. Public code is in the GitHub repository named on the program’s page, under that repository’s license. The license in the repository is the one that applies.

Releases go out on the repository. A later release is published there, with the notes for that release. The catalog page says what the program is for and where to download or buy the build. The site points at the repository. It is not a second copy of the code.

Additional services

MaksIT offers free and paid services alongside the published program. A paid service is hosted and described on its own terms. The open-source program does not depend on that service. When a service has a page, that page says what is hosted and what the service covers.

Where to read a single program

Each program has its own page in the catalog. This article describes the kind of software. Desktop programs for Windows, Linux, and macOS are described on the desktop software page. Releases of both kinds go out on the repository.