Tarook — Lifecycle management for Kubernetes

As a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution, Tarook is a comprehensive lifecycle management tool that enables the easy deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters—whether on OpenStack, bare metal or Proxmox. Regardless of the use case, it offers a flexible, automated solution for end-to-end lifecycle management, ensuring efficient operations.

Where to find it

• Code gitlab.com/alasca.cloud/tarook/tarook
• Docs docs.tarook.cloud
• Website tarook.cloud
• Issues gitlab.com/groups/alasca.cloud/tarook/-/work_items
• Mailing list tarook@lists.alasca.cloud

Maintained by

• Bruno Schubert Project representative · Cloud & Heat
• Silvio Ankermann Project representative · Cloud & Heat
• Steve Starke Project representative · Cloud & Heat

Written in

NixAnsibleTerraformPython

Licence

Apache License 2.0

Context

• Kubernetes
• OpenStack
• Bare Metal
• GitOps
• Lifecycle Management

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Presentations

• ALASCA Tech Talk #29: TAROOK Holistic lifecycle-management of K8s clusters on bare metal or OpenStack

Project Statistics

The data is gathered automatically and periodically. Beware that there might be issues on how they have been collected. The data was lastly gathered on 2026-10-21. Every contribution, organisation and approval counted below falls within the last 12 months.

ActivityIndividual contributorsOrganizational contributorsMR ApproversOpen/closed issuesOpen/closed merge requests

Metric	Count
Commits (365d)	966
Total merged merge requests	1492
Open merge requests	54
Open Issues	185
Forks	14
Stars	15
Releases (365d)	31

Contributor (15)	Commits (708)
Steve Starke	374
Silvio Ankermann	213
Bruno Schubert	41
brunos	31
Daniel Muehne	23
Sascha Masopust	10
Friedrich Zahn	4
Joshua Bühler	3
Alexander	2
Anika Borchmann	2
Daniel Gerber	1
Henry Richter	1
Jakob Müller	1
Nicolai Ruckel	1
Tony Fiedler	1

Organization (5)	Commits (708)
other	352
cloudandheat.com	350
alasca.cloud	3
bloodimooni.com	2
frajasalo.de	1

Approver (3)	Merges (366)
sstrk	230
Lykos153	106
bruno.sc	30

Workshops and Hackathons

The project was featured in the following events:

• Tarook: US-Hyperscaler-freies Kubernetes auf OpenStack @ Chemnitzer Linuxtage

CNCF Certification

Since September 12^th Tarook is officially a certified Kubernetes distribution from CNCF. The instructions for the certification process can be found at the k8s-conformance wiki. The actual pull request/application for Tarook can be found here. An overview of all certified distributions can be found here.