Open Foundation for Cloud-Native Platform Engineering

Adhar • Built with ❤️ for developers!

Sanskrit: अधार (Adhāra) – Foundation

Adhar is an Open Internal Developer Platform that eliminates the trade-off between developer freedom and organizational governance.

Traditional platforms force organizations to choose: either give developers freedom (leading to inconsistent architectures and security gaps) or enforce governance (creating bottlenecks and slowing teams down). Adhar takes a fundamentally different approach—standardization as enablement, not constraint.

Adhar delivers battle-tested architectural patterns with 50+ production-grade services—from Kubernetes and Cilium to ArgoCD, Vault, Prometheus, and beyond—all pre-configured, security-hardened, and ready to use. A single adhar up command provisions complete platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Civo, or local Kind clusters in under 10 minutes. No infrastructure tickets, no security reviews, no integration projects. Developers get instant self-service access to everything they need, while organizations get consistent, secure, compliant infrastructure enforced automatically through code.

The result: Teams spend 100% of their time on business value, zero time on undifferentiated infrastructure work. 100% open source (Apache 2.0) with no vendor lock-in. This is the foundation modern engineering teams deserve.

⚠️ Active Development: This project is in active development stage. APIs and configurations may change. Recommended for development and evaluation purposes only.

Before getting started, ensure you have:

#1. Install Adhar CLI
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adhar-io/adhar/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

#2. Create local cluster with core platform services
adhar up

#3. Access the platform, Adhar Console (each UI has its own subdomain)
open https://console.adhar.localtest.me:8443

#4. Retrieve application secrets
adhar get secrets

#5. Check platform usage
adhar help

#6. Destroy Adhar platform
adhar down

#1. Install Adhar CLI
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adhar-io/adhar/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

#2. Create configuration file (see Configuration Examples below)
cat > adhar-config.yaml <<EOF
clusterName: adhar-prod
provider: AWS_EKS  # Supports: AWS_EKS, GCP_GKE, AZURE_AKS, DIGITALOCEAN_DOKS, CIVO_K3S
region: us-east-1
enableHAMode: true

nodePools:
  - name: system
    instanceType: t3.large
    count: 3
    minCount: 3
    maxCount: 5
EOF

#3. Adhar platform production setup
adhar up -f adhar-config.yaml

#4. Verify deployment status
adhar get status

#5. Access the platform, Adhar Console
open https://cloud.adhar.io

#6. Get credentials for Adhar Console, ArgoCD, Gitea, Keycloak etc.
adhar get secrets -p argocd

We welcome contributions from the community! Here's how to get started:

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/adhar-io/adhar.git
cd adhar

# Install dependencies
go mod download

# Build from source
make build

# Run tests
make test

# Run linter
make lint

# Test Adhar platform
./adhar up

• Code Contributions: See our Contributing Guide for detailed instructions
• Bug Reports: Open an issue with detailed reproduction steps
• Feature Requests: Discuss new ideas in GitHub Discussions
• Documentation: Help improve our docs - PRs welcome!

Adhar is built on the shoulders of giants. We're grateful to the open-source community and the maintainers of these incredible projects:

Kubernetes	Cilium	ArgoCD	Crossplane	Prometheus
Grafana	Keycloak	Vault	Harbor	Gitea
Backstage	Falco	Kyverno	Kargo	CloudNativePG

...and many more incredible open-source projects that make cloud-native possible.