kurtosis

Containers & Orchestration

Kurtosis simplifies spinning up ephemeral dev or test stacks by abstracting Docker and Kubernetes into reusable packages with built‑in state management and parameterization.

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Go Latest 1.20.0 · 1mo ago Security brief →

Features

Packages backend stack definitions that can run on Docker or Kubernetes
Per‑stack file system for reproducible initialization of dev/test state
Powerful parameterization beyond environment variables for flexible modifications
First‑class composability to import and combine stack definitions
Unified API works over either the Docker engine or a K8s cluster

Recent releases

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1.20.0 New feature 1mo

backend-log-collector + k8s retry + port allocation

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1.19.0 New feature 1mo

otel CLI command + log stamping

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1.18.3 Bug fix 2mo

Engine fix: heredoc

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1.18.1 New feature 3mo

Notable features

verify release tokens before release PR merges

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1.18.1 (2026-04-15)

Features

verify release tokens before release PR merges (#3040) (2850515)

Miscellaneous Chores

release 1.18.1 (#3050) (5f3fcec)

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1.18.0 Security relevant 3mo

Security fixes

CVE-2026-33186 — grpc-go authz bypass patch in CLI and enclave-manager

Notable features

shm size ulimits adjustments for GPU environments

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1.18.0 (2026-04-14)

Features

shm size ulimits gpus (#3018) (8420323)

Bug Fixes

group dependabot updates by dependency name across directories (#2998) (d8bf5a7)
reduce CI flakiness across log tests, K8s setup, and CLI tests (#3007) (817243a)
security: bump vulnerable dependencies (#3008) (5a2d4b2)
security: patch CVE-2026-33186 grpc-go authz bypass in cli and enclave-manager (#2985) (e393aa2)
use pull_request_target for dependabot auto-merge (#2993) (3da8e12)