Hello Community! 👋
We are thrilled to announce that Framework M and the Business M suite are officially ready for active testing and community feedback!
Whether you are a developer looking to build modular business tools, a system administrator deploying secure enterprise architectures, or a functional user managing finance and warehousing workflows, we want your hands on the platform.
We have made deployment as seamless as possible across multiple environments. Read below for how to get started, what we need you to test, and how to raise feedback!
🛠️ 1. Choose Your Deployment Avenue
We have packaged and prepared multiple deployment targets depending on your testing scenario:
| Deployment Method | Best For | Upgrade/Downtime Profile |
|---|---|---|
📦 Debian Packages (.deb) |
Single-server / VM testing, local desktop environments. | Offline / With-Downtime upgrades. |
| ⛵ Helm Charts (Monolith) | Standard single-pod Kubernetes deployments. | Zero-downtime rolling upgrades. |
| 🏛️ Helm Charts (Macroservices) | Distributed, multi-process cloud environments (Currently being tested by our core team with functional users!). | High-density cluster management with dynamic service scaling. |
| 🐳 Docker Compose | Fast, local multi-container spin-ups (DB, Valkey, NATS, Apps). | Zero-configuration local sandbox. |
NOTE: Debian packages are ready and available for download directly from the Releases tabs in our repositories.
📣 2. Where We Need Your Eyes (The Feedback Scope)
We want to hear about everything, but we are especially focusing on UI/UX excellence and functional boundary-pushing. Raise issues or start discussions on:
✨ User Experience (UX/UI)
- Better Framework M UI/UX: Form builders, navigation widgets, layouts, and developer tools.
- Better Business M UI/UX: Ledger interfaces, sales invoice entries, and warehouse dashboards.
- 📱 Mobile-Friendly UI/UX: Responsive behaviors on smartphones and small screens.
- 📐 Tab & Large Screens UI/UX: Layout usage on tablets and modern workstations.
- 🖥️ Desktop UI/UX: Standalone client performance and native Tauri desktop integrations.
💼 Functional Boundaries & Custom Use Cases
- Is there a specific financial transaction, invoicing routine, or warehouse packing list that you need?
- Let us know your industry-specific functional requirements! We are actively designing and architecting how Framework M and Business M can scale to accommodate complex corporate, banking, and government compliance profiles.
🔗 3. Raise Work Items & Build the Future With Us
If you find a bug, think of a missing feature, or want to discuss a new architectural pattern, please raise a Work Item directly in our GitLab repositories:
- 🔧 Framework M Repository (Core Engine): gitlab.com/castlecraft/framework-m
- 💼 Business M Repository (Application Suite): gitlab.com/castlecraft/business-m
💡 Let's Discuss!
What are you most excited to deploy? What functional use case is critical to your team?
Leave a reply below or head over to GitLab to open your first issue. We are excited to collaborate, iterate, and build a truly resilient, evergreen platform together! 🚀