Fleet — Editions¶

The Naftiko Fleet is available in three editions — Community, Standard, and Enterprise. All three editions ship every component of the Fleet — Shipyard, Ikanos, Polychro, Crafter, Warden, and Skipper. What changes between editions is the set of premium features layered on top of Shipyard, Crafter, Warden, and Skipper as you move up.

At a glance¶

Premium features by component¶

The split is illustrative for unreleased components — exact feature mapping will firm up as their roadmaps mature. Ikanos and Polychro are committed to staying 100% Apache 2.0 OSS.

Picking an edition¶

Community edition¶

The Community edition is the freely available baseline of the Naftiko Fleet. It is free forever for personal and internal business use and ships as native binaries + Docker images on every release. It includes every component of the Fleet — Shipyard, Ikanos, Polychro, Crafter, Warden, and Skipper.

What's included¶

What you can do today¶

• Author capabilities in YAML and run them on Ikanos
• Validate every change with Polychro (locally and in CI)
• Scaffold and catalog capabilities in CNCF Backstage
• Edit .naftiko.yaml files with inline validation in VS Code
• Expose capabilities as MCP, Skill, REST, and Control adapters
• Use the full Spec-Driven Integration workflow on your own infrastructure

Where to get it¶

• Docker images — ghcr.io/naftiko/ikanos, ghcr.io/naftiko/polychro
• Native binaries — Ikanos releases, Polychro releases
• VS Code Marketplace — search "Naftiko"
• GitHub Discussions — community.naftiko.io

Freeware EULA — what it does and doesn't allow¶

The Naftiko Fleet — Community edition EULA grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the Software for personal or internal business purposes, on any number of devices under your direct control. You may redistribute the installer unchanged and free of charge. You may not reverse-engineer, modify, sublicense, or remove Naftiko branding. See the full text at naftiko/fleet/LICENSE.md.

The Apache 2.0 components (Ikanos and Polychro) are not restricted by that EULA — they are independently licensed Apache 2.0 OSS and you can fork, modify, and redistribute them freely under standard Apache terms.

When to move up¶

The Community edition has no usage limits and no telemetry phone-home. You will want Standard when you need premium team-grade features on top of the components you already have, and Enterprise when you need premium governance + scale features (SSO/RBAC, audit trails, fleet-wide policy distribution, air-gapped hosting, FIPS crypto, or long-term-support branches).

Standard edition¶

The Standard edition is aimed at teams building between five and a few dozen capabilities, who need a shared catalog, a hosted builder, and basic fleet-wide observability — without taking on the operational complexity of the Enterprise tier.

Premium features by component¶

Plus cross-component additions:

• Backstage integration — first-class scaffolder templates and entity importer for the Naftiko capability kind
• Fleet observability dashboard — aggregated RED metrics, error budgets, and capability health rollups across many Ikanos processes (note: the dashboard is the Standard add-on; the Ikanos metrics themselves are emitted by every Ikanos process, Community included)

Deployment options¶

• Self-hosted — Helm chart for Kubernetes, Docker Compose for single-host
• Managed (planned) — Naftiko Cloud, with bring-your-own-cluster runners

Coexistence with Community¶

Anything you author in the Community edition runs unchanged in Standard. The capability YAML format, ruleset format, and policy format are identical across editions; only the surrounding tooling expands. Because Ikanos and Polychro are fully OSS, you can also mix-and-match: an Ikanos process from Community talks to a Standard-edition Crafter catalog just fine.

Status¶

See Roadmap for the current Standard milestones and planned deliveries.

Enterprise edition¶

The Enterprise edition is aimed at regulated organizations running hundreds of capabilities across multiple environments, regions, and compliance domains.

Premium features by component¶

Plus cross-component additions:

The three layers in production¶

                 ┌──────────────────────────────┐
                 │           Skipper            │   ← global placement & routing
                 │   (fleet orchestrator)       │
                 └──────────────┬───────────────┘
                                │
              ┌─────────────────┼─────────────────┐
              ▼                 ▼                 ▼
       ┌──────────┐      ┌──────────┐      ┌──────────┐
       │   Ship   │      │   Ship   │      │   Ship   │     ← runtime cells
       │  (cell)  │      │  (cell)  │      │  (cell)  │
       └────┬─────┘      └────┬─────┘      └────┬─────┘
            ▼                 ▼                 ▼
       Ikanos engines   Ikanos engines   Ikanos engines    ← capability runtime
       (one per cap.)   (one per cap.)   (one per cap.)
            ▲                 ▲                 ▲
            └─────────────────┼─────────────────┘
                              │
                       ┌──────┴───────┐
                       │    Warden    │   ← policy gate on every deploy
                       └──────────────┘

Compliance¶

Enterprise targets the controls expected in regulated environments:

• SOC 2, ISO 27001 alignment
• Data residency via region-scoped ships
• Customer-managed keys for at-rest encryption
• FIPS 140-2 cryptographic modules where applicable (delivered via the Enterprise distribution channel — the underlying Ikanos runtime stays Apache 2.0)

Status¶

The Enterprise-grade premium features for Warden and Skipper are in exploration. See Roadmap for the latest milestones.

Licensing summary¶

The Naftiko Fleet — Community bundle stays under the Naftiko Fleet Freeware EULA across every edition — and Ikanos and Polychro stay 100% Apache 2.0 with no commercial add-ons. The premium features for Standard and Enterprise (on Shipyard, Crafter, Warden, Skipper, plus cross-component governance and scale add-ons) are licensed under the Naftiko Commercial License.

See Fleet → License for the full three-license picture.