NEW infrared 0.1 — a software change control plane for humans and agents read the docs →
darkshift_
// services{{ pulse1 }}2 founders available

The agentic platform and patterns you need for the best human experience.

The founders of Kubefirst, Konstruct and Colony design, build and run the Kubernetes platform your business needs on AWS, Google Cloud, bare metal and everywhere cloud native.

2 full-time seats · filled by oct 31
limited founder capacity
// new productv0.1
infrared_

A software change control plane where humans and agents work on software intelligently together.

$ helm install infrared darkshift/infrared
$ darkshift --help

The agentic platform and patterns you need for the best human experience.

darkshift is the team behind Kubefirst, Konstruct and Colony. We've built public and private clouds, run the enterprise platforms on top of them, and written the tools that install them. Now we deliver the platform solutions you need, fast.

$ kubectl get foundersns: darkshift
2 full-time engagements open
booking now · filled by oct 31
limited founder capacity
{{ pulse1 }}john-dietzAvailable
{{ pulse2 }}jared-edwardsAvailable
scope: mission-critical enterprise platforms
aws · google cloud · bare metal · kubernetes · cloud native ops & architecture
$ helm install infrared

Humans and agents. One change flow.

Infrared is a software change control plane where humans and agents work on software intelligently together. Every Change, written by a person or an agent, gets the same reviews, the same evidence and the same human approval before it merges.

1000s
platform installs
2017
kubernetes in production since
2,000+
github stars on kubefirst
CNCF
landscape recognized
// new product · v0.1github.com/darkshiftio ↗

infrared_

A software change control plane where humans and agents work on software intelligently together.

# one command. then gitops forever.
$ helm install infrared darkshift/infrared
✓ operator, api, ui on management cluster
✓ github app created, no personal tokens
✓ gitops repo hydrated from catalog
✓ argo cd synced · infrared adopted
$
01 / product first

Start from the Product, not the cluster.

A Product is the repos you build, release and change together. Releases are made of Changes. Clusters, zones and gitops plumbing exist to serve it.

02 / agentworkflows

Agents do defined jobs. Humans hold the gates.

Each Change moves through ordered steps: AgentRoles like the security reviewer or end-to-end verifier, plus human approval gates.

03 / evidence

Approve from proofs, not a diff alone.

Every AgentWorkflowRun records what each step did, the verdict it reached and the evidence it captured.

[ infrared ui screenshot · product view ]
// services

Platform solutions, delivered fast.

No junior bench and no quarter-long discovery phase. The people who wrote the installers show up and build what you need.

/build

Platform builds

A production-ready internal platform on your clouds: gitops, CI/CD, secrets, identity and self-service environments, in weeks instead of months.

cncf
open sourced
gitops platform lands on the cncf landscape
2022
exit 01 · kubeshop
kubefirst acquired
konstruct
colony ships
bare metal provisioning and private cloud
2025
exit 02 · civo
konstruct acquired; enterprise cloud and civo kubernetes
2026
darkshift
services and infrared
[ headshot ]
cofounder

John Dietz

Co-founder of Kubefirst, CEO of Konstruct, Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo. Moving companies to Kubernetes since 2017.

jd.goodguy.dev ↗linkedin ↗
[ headshot ]
cofounder

Jared Edwards

Co-founder of Kubefirst and CTO of Konstruct. Engineering lead behind Colony, and later owner of the Civo Kubernetes and Colony products. Previously senior DevOps engineer at Virtru.

linkedin ↗
kubefirst ↗
open source gitops platforms in minutes
konstruct ↗
enterprise platform engineering
colony ↗
bare metal kubernetes automation
// what that takes, inside and out
build

Kubernetes operators, CLIs, APIs and UIs. Installers that go from an empty cloud account to a full platform in one command.

run

Public and private clouds, managed Kubernetes, bare metal data centers, and the production environments on top of them.

deliver

Enterprise rollouts, migrations and the business lines those products created, from pilot to production.

community

Open source maintainership, a community Slack, livestreams, and talks at PlatformCon, Civo Navigate and more.

$ darkshift engage

Two founders. Two seats. Your platform.

John and Jared are each available for one full-time engagement on a mission-critical enterprise platform. Tell us what you need to build.

book a founder→ hello@darkshift.io↗ try infrared instead↗