Integrations
How MicroStax connects with Kubernetes, cloud providers, observability stacks, IDE workflows, and automation systems.
MicroStax already integrates with the tooling most teams need to run and operate developer environments.
| Integration | Status | Notes |
|---|
| k3s / Kubernetes | Shipped | Primary runtime for isolated environments, baselines, overlays, and shadows. |
| GKE | Shipped | Dedicated provider implementation in the orchestrator layer. |
| EKS | Shipped | Provider entry point available for AWS-managed clusters. |
| AKS | Shipped | Provider entry point available for Azure-managed clusters. |
| No-op orchestrator | Shipped | Useful for tests, dry runs, and local validation flows. |
| Integration | Status | Notes |
|---|
| CLI | Shipped | Full lifecycle, replay, diagnostics, seeds, governance, and compliance commands. |
| Dashboard | Shipped | Environment management, logs, topology, gallery, audit, compliance, and admin views. |
| VS Code Extension | Shipped | Blueprint schema support, linting, CodeLens, logs, topology, seed and snapshot views. |
| MCP Server | Shipped | Agent-facing tools for environments, templates, snapshots, logs, seeds, stubs, and sharing. |
| Integration | Status | Notes |
|---|
| Traefik ingress | Shipped | External routing, share links, and overlay-aware traffic entry. |
| Header-based routing | Shipped | Pins traffic to overlays and derived environments. |
| Traffic tee / mirror | Shipped | Supports shadow observation and behavioral diff workflows. |
| NetworkPolicy enforcement | Shipped | Default-deny isolation with explicit exposure rules. |
| Integration | Status | Notes |
|---|
| OpenTelemetry | Shipped | Trace ingestion and recent telemetry retrieval. |
| Prometheus metrics | Shipped | Platform, routing, and status metrics. |
| Jaeger-compatible tracing | Shipped | Exposed through CLI trace commands and runtime integrations. |
| Audit logs | Shipped | Governance and administrative activity tracking. |
| Integration | Status | Notes |
|---|
| Postgres | Shipped | Metadata store for production deployments. |
| In-memory store | Shipped | Local development and tests. |
| Redis | Shipped | Used where queueing or persistence helpers are required. |
| Object storage | Shipped | Snapshot artifact storage and retrieval. |
| Integration | Status | Notes |
|---|
| GitHub OAuth | Shipped | Dashboard authentication flow. |
| GitHub webhooks | Shipped | Automation entry point for repository events. |
| CI pipelines | Shipped | Use CLI --json output for scripted environment workflows and automation. |
| Template gallery | Shipped | Built-in Blueprint templates for common stacks. |
- Kubernetes or k3s for environment execution
- Postgres for metadata persistence
- Traefik for ingress
- OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for observability
- CLI or MCP for automation
- VS Code extension for Blueprint authoring and diagnostics