Zarf eliminates the complexity of air gap software delivery for Kubernetes clusters and cloud native workloads using a declarative packaging strategy to support DevSecOps in offline and semi-connected environments.

📦 Out of the Box Features

• Automate Kubernetes deployments in disconnected environments
• Automate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation
• Provide a web dashboard for viewing SBOM output
• Deploy a new cluster while fully disconnected with K3s or into any existing cluster using a kube config
• Builtin logging stack with Loki
• Builtin git server with Gitea
• Builtin docker registry
• Builtin K9s Dashboard for managing a cluster from the terminal
• Mutating Webhook to automatically update Kubernetes pods image path and pull secrets as well as Flux Git Repository URLs and secret references
• Builtin command to find images and resources from a helm chart
• Tunneling capability to connect to Kuberenetes resources without network routing, DNS, TLS or Ingress configuration required

🛠️ Configurable Features

• Customizable packages variables with defaults and user prompting
• Composable packages to include multiple sub-packages/components
• Filters to select the correct architectures/operating systems for packages

Early Zarf research and prototypes were developed jointly with United States Naval Postgraduate School research you can read here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnOYlFVVKDE

To try Zarf out for yourself, visit the "Try It Now" section on our website, and if you want to learn more about Zarf and its use cases visit docs.zarf.dev.

From the docs you can learn more about installation, using the CLI, making packages, and the Zarf package schema.

Using Zarf in Github workflows? Checkout the setup-zarf action. Install any version of Zarf and it's init package with zero added dependencies.

To contribute, please see our Contributor Guide. Below is an architectural diagram showing the basics of how Zarf functions which you can read more about here.

Source DrawIO

We would also like to thank the following awesome libraries and projects without which Zarf would not be possible!