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darkshift
// company

We've built platforms. Now we're building the factory.

darkshift is the team behind Kubefirst, Konstruct and Colony. Infrared is everything we learned, rebuilt for a world where agents write much of the code.

We've built public and private clouds, run enterprise platforms on top of them, and written the tools that install them in one command. Infrared is our product and our focus.

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// track record

Two exits. Thousands of installs.

1000splatform installs
2017Kubernetes in production since
2,000+GitHub stars on Kubefirst
CNCFlandscape recognized
  1. 2022

    Kubefirst, open sourced

    A gitops platform in minutes, recognised on the CNCF landscape.

  2. exit 01

    Kubefirst acquired by Kubeshop

    Then Konstruct: enterprise platform engineering.

  3. 2025

    Colony ships

    Bare metal provisioning and private cloud automation.

  4. exit 02

    Konstruct acquired by Civo

    Enterprise cloud and Civo Kubernetes.

  5. 2026

    darkshift and Infrared

    The agentic software and infrastructure factory. 0.1 released October 29.

// founders

The people you'll talk to.

co-founder

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 ↗
co-founder

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 ↗
// what that takes

Inside and out.

buildKubernetes operators, CLIs, APIs and UIs. Installers that go from an empty cloud account to a full platform in one command.
runPublic and private clouds, managed Kubernetes, bare metal data centers, and the production environments on top of them.
deliverEnterprise rollouts, migrations and the business lines those products created, from pilot to production.
communityOpen source maintainership, a community Slack, livestreams, and talks at PlatformCon, Civo Navigate and more.
// services

We still lend our people.

Infrared is our focus, and most of our time goes to it and to our design partners. When a team needs senior platform hands beside Infrared, we still help, and every engagement runs on Infrared.

Fractional architectsA senior cloud native architect on call: design reviews, ADRs, vendor calls and a platform roadmap.
Fractional platform teamsPlatform engineers embedded with your team, working beside Infrared's agents.
Platform buildsA production-ready platform on your clouds: gitops, CI/CD, secrets, identity and self-service environments.
talk to us about services →
// brand

The goat.

darkshift: a mountain goat on a rock above the name

darkshift's mark is a mountain goat on a rock: sure-footed where the ground is hard. Use the files as they are, white on dark grounds and dark on light ones, and don't redraw, recolour or crop them.

landscapeFor headers and footers. svg white · svg dark · png white · png dark
stackedFor covers and title cards. svg white · svg dark · png white · png dark
signThe goat alone, for small spaces. svg white · svg dark · png white · png dark
squareThe stacked logo, square, for landscapes and directories. svg white · svg dark · png white · png dark
avatarThe sign on darkshift Dark, for profile pictures. png, 1024 px

Build the factory with us.

Our first design partners work directly with the founders.

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