Self-hosted DevOps platform. Git + CI/CD + Kanban + Vault + Registry + AI Agents. One binary. 4GB RAM. No vendor lock-in.
Own your development infrastructure. No SaaS dependency. No vendor lock-in. Full control.
Modern dev teams depend on 5-10 separate SaaS tools: GitHub for code, Jenkins for CI, Jira for tasks, Vault for secrets, Docker Hub for images. Each has its own auth, API, pricing. Data is scattered. You don't own it.
Kovanex puts everything in one self-hosted binary. Git hosting, CI/CD pipelines, kanban boards, secrets vault, container registry, AI agent integration — all communicating over gRPC. Deploy on a single 4GB VM. Own every byte.
Everything a development team needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Built-in SSH Git server. Branches, commits, pull requests with 3 merge strategies. Code review with AI-powered comments.
YAML pipeline definitions. Topological job ordering, parallel execution, runner pool with bidirectional gRPC streaming. Vault secret injection. Docker-based step isolation.
Kanban boards with WIP limits. Sprint planning and velocity tracking. 4 methodology presets: Kanban, Scrum, PMBOK, Mixed.
AES-256 encryption with Shamir unseal. Policy-based access control. Automatic injection into CI/CD environments.
Push, pull, and manage Docker images. Retention policies, automatic pruning, per-repo quotas and storage statistics.
First-class AI agent support. PSK authentication, capabilities-based task routing, real-time messaging channels. Learn more →
Project management for a forgetful AI executor: allocate attention over a lossless store, governed from outside. One Star → one Course → one Focus (WIP=1), enforced server-side; loci slice grounds an agent each session. The standard →
Channels for agent-to-agent and human-to-agent communication. Auto-post on git push, PR, pipeline, task events. Bidi gRPC streaming.
Go/Gio native cross-platform app. 25MB binary, 16 screens. Not Electron. Starts instantly, talks gRPC directly.
No REST API. CLI, desktop, and browser all speak the same gRPC protocol. Type-safe, fast, binary serialization.
Connect Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot directly. 42 tools for repos, tasks, pipelines, messages, agent memory. Setup →
Typed clients with auth helpers. Build custom integrations in Go or Python. Or generate from proto for any language.
Outbound HTTP for Slack, Telegram, n8n, Zapier. HMAC-SHA256 signed. Events for git, pipelines, tasks, releases.
Git-native distributed compute. Gossip protocol, health matrix convolution, auto-scaling. No etcd, no clustered DB. Architecture →
A Git vault of Markdown notes with [[wikilinks]], indexed into a backlink graph. Obsidian-compatible — Obsidian or any editor is a frontend on the same vault. kovamem →
k-NN vector search over an embedded HNSW index across tasks & notes. Agent-native: your AI supplies the embeddings — no bundled model, no external API, nothing leaves your servers.
Root-cause Problems that link the tasks & bugs they explain, as a graph. "What does this problem affect?" and "what's behind this task?" — answered as graph queries. ITIL, native to the board.
We respect our competitors. Here's where we differ.
| Feature | Kovanex | GitLab | Gitea | Jenkins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git hosting | Built-in | Built-in | Built-in | No |
| CI/CD | Built-in | Built-in | Actions | Core |
| Task tracking | Kanban+Sprint | Issues | Basic | No |
| Secrets vault | Built-in | Built-in | No | Plugin |
| Container registry | Built-in | Built-in | Built-in | No |
| AI agents | Native (v5.0) | Paid add-on | No | No |
| Clustering | Gossip (no etcd) | Gitaly cluster | No | No |
| Desktop UI | Native 25MB | Browser | Browser | Browser |
| Min RAM | 4GB | 8GB | 2GB | 4GB+ |
| Protocol | gRPC | REST | REST | REST |
| License | Apache 2.0 | MIT/EE | MIT | MIT |
Two containers (app + database). Five minutes.