# Minimal Viable Kubernetes

What is  MVK ?

### ≥ CLI friendly, CLI first

### 🤹 Promotes Infrastructure as code

### 📤 **Portable** on-prem, cloud

### 🧐 Fosters curiosity

### 🔒 Avoids lock-in



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We live in the command line, so MVK is CLI centric. It uses a very simple command line tool, `infctl` to marshal scripts and commands in a stop by step manner, similar to the way we right pipelines in the cloud.

It is simple to get started, so that startups and the impatient can become productive with Kubernetes quickly, without having to rely on managed offerings and in order to self host easily.

Each pipeline use steps of code that are repeatable, idempotent and using infrastructure as code.

Kubernetes *can run anywhere* so MVK takes that principle and applies this to the self hosted approach making it possible to have the same setup on-prem and in the cloud

It is important to keep things simple so as to be understandable, maintainable and easy to change and extend to our own use cases

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