Kowabunga Features

Unlimited, unconditioned, and all-in. 100% open-source cloud orchestration.

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Kowabunga is designed with modularity and minimalism at its core. Every component is purpose-built to deliver high-performance compute, resilient distributed storage, and automated software-defined networking without proprietary licensing or vendor lock-in.

Core Components Virtual Services Architecture Concepts
Platform Architecture

Core Infrastructure Components

The distributed building blocks that orchestrate hypervisors, storage clusters, and network fabrics across multiple availability zones.

Kahuna Controller

Kahuna

Orchestration Controller

The central orchestration brain of Kowabunga. Remotely controls compute, storage, and networking resources across all regions while maintaining system state consistency. Gateway to the comprehensive Kowabunga REST API.

Kahuna Concept
Koala WebUI

Koala

Web Management UI

The official Kowabunga WebUI dashboard. Provides operators and tenants with intuitive day-to-day supervision, resource visualization, project quota allocation, and operational control.

Koala Guide
Kiwi SD-WAN Node

Kiwi

SD-WAN Edge Node

The Kowabunga software-defined network node. Delivers automated routing, stateful firewalling, DHCP, DNS, WireGuard/IPSec site-to-site tunneling, and active-passive gateway failover.

Kiwi Guide
Kaktus HCI Node

Kaktus

HCI Hypervisor Node

The bare-metal hyper-converged node agent. Manages KVM/QEMU virtual machines and integrates local NVMe storage into Ceph distributed block pools, providing resilient compute execution.

Kaktus Guide
DevOps Automation

Turnkey Virtual Services

High-level, API-driven virtual services deployable on-demand via Terraform, OpenTofu, or RESTful API calls.

Kawaii Gateway

Kawaii

Internet Gateway

Kawaii provides managed Internet Gateway services. Connects isolated project VPCs to the public Internet with inbound NAT/firewall security, egress filtering, and secure BGP peering.

VPC Edge
Kompute Engine

Kompute

Virtual Compute & Disks

Kompute is the core compute building block. Grants granular per-vCPU and per-GB RAM sizing with instant snapshotting and live migration backed by distributed Ceph storage pools.

KVM / QEMU
Konvey Load Balancer

Konvey

Load Balancing as a Service

Konvey provides standalone TCP/UDP Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancers with automated health checking, TLS termination, and traffic distribution across backend compute instances.

L4 / L7 LB
Kylo Distributed Storage

Kylo

Distributed NFSv4 Storage

Kylo exposes scalable, 100% NFSv4-compatible distributed shared filesystems. Highly resilient and multi-AZ replicated, perfect for Kubernetes Persistent Volumes (PVs).

Ceph NFSv4