Kurtosis
A platform for packaging and launching ephemeral blockchain development and test stacks, abstracting over Docker and Kubernetes.
What is Kurtosis?
Kurtosis is a platform that simplifies creating ephemeral development and test environments for blockchain and backend applications. It provides a higher-level abstraction over container orchestration tools like Docker Compose and Helm, handling infrastructure complexity so developers can focus on building rather than configuring. The platform includes a packaging system for reusable stack definitions, state initialization capabilities, and multi-engine support for Docker or Kubernetes.
Backend and blockchain developers who need reproducible, ephemeral environments for local development, CI testing, and ad-hoc testing on Kubernetes clusters. Teams looking to share application environments with one-liner setup commands.
Developers choose Kurtosis for its portable state initialization system, stack-level parameterization beyond environment variables, and first-class composability that allows importing stack definitions into larger stacks. Unlike Docker Compose or Helm, it provides the same stack definitions running on either Docker or Kubernetes with optimized ephemeral environment workflows.
Overview
A platform for packaging and launching blockchain infra. Think docker compose for blockchain
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