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Dev tools · March 18, 2024

I'm building a simple way to package, collaborate, and deploy ML models

Heya HN, after spending +1 year building an ML-driven analytics product (that didn't pan out unfortunately), I've pivoted to solving a problem my team and I found while building the previous product … why the hell is it so hard to move a model from a Jupyter notebook, to a development server, then to a production pipeline!? To solve this my team and I started the open source KitOps project under the Apache 2 license. KitOps includes the Kit CLI that uses a Kitfile manifest to create ModelKits: 1. The kit CLI packages your model, datasets, code, and configuration into an OCI compliant…

I'm building a simple way to package, collaborate, and deploy ML models launched on March 18, 2024 with 9 votes, #1,700 of 4,270 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Discover KitOps: an open-source DevOps tool that packages and versions your AI/ML models, datasets, code, and configurations into reproducible artifacts called ModelKits. Simplify your AI pipeline with standardized packaging and deployment.

KitOps gives your whole agentic stack the same rigor you already apply to containers: one signed, versioned OCI artifact that runs anywhere, from public cloud to fully air‑gapped. Enterprise AI is no longer just models. Teams are deploying agents, MCP servers, skills, and policies — all of which need the same versioning, security, and governance as container images. KitOps packages them all as standard OCI artifacts in the registries you already run. From proprietary repos that trap your AI artifacts in closed ecosystems to fragile ad‑hoc approaches that bypass your security toolchain — KitOps brings models, agent skills, MCP servers, datasets, and configuration under one governed workflow.…from kitops.ml

In the maker’s words, at launch

Heya HN, after spending +1 year building an ML-driven analytics product (that didn't pan out unfortunately), I've pivoted to solving a problem my team and I found while building the previous product … why the hell is it so hard to move a model from a Jupyter notebook, to a development server, then to a production…

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