Kroton

A batteries-included microservices platform

In Active Design

What is Kroton?

Think Kubernetes, but with all required plugins integrated from the start. Kroton is a single cohesive platform that combines orchestration, service mesh, observability, authentication, storage, and cluster management — built entirely in Rust.

Instead of assembling dozens of separate tools with incompatible configurations, Kroton provides everything as one integrated system. Simple for the user, sophisticated underneath.

Storage-Compute Colocation

The core design insight behind Kroton: route requests to the pod most likely to have relevant data cached. This reduces network hops, data transfer costs, and tail latency simultaneously.

Data-aware routing is not an add-on — it is a first-class design concern woven through every subsystem.

Components

Kroton Auth

Production Ready

Lightweight identity and authorization service. JWT authentication with refresh token rotation, hierarchical RBAC, and Google OAuth SSO.

Kroton is in active design. Follow the project on GitHub to stay updated.

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