zarf-dev/zarf

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2019 stars · 275 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Zarf is a free, open-source CLI package manager for declaratively packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications and cloud-native workloads into air-gapped or network-constrained environments. It bundles images, Helm charts, Git repos, and other dependencies into a single compressed, signable package that can be deployed offline.

Use cases

• deploy kubernetes apps in an air-gapped environment
• package helm charts and container images into a single offline artifact
• mirror container images and git repos across a network boundary
• set up a k3s cluster on an edge device without internet
• sign and verify software packages with cosign
• generate sboms for delivered software packages
• deliver devsecops stacks to classified or disconnected networks
• make kubernetes deployments declarative and repeatable

When to choose

• you must deliver software to environments with no or restricted internet connectivity
• you want a single-file, declarative deployment of a full Kubernetes stack
• you need supply-chain security features like signing, SBOMs, and OCI-based distribution
• you want a vendor-neutral, statically compiled CLI with zero dependencies

When to avoid

• your deployments always have reliable internet access and standard tooling suffices
• you are not deploying to Kubernetes or similar cloud-native workloads
• you need a GUI-driven deployment platform rather than a CLI workflow

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

deployment package-manager container-orchestration security developer-tools cli cloud-computing self-hosted security infrastructure-as-code windows cli cross-platform airgap kubernetes helm oci-registry gitops sbom cosign offline-deployment edge-computing devsecops devops containers linux macos docker

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