Frequently asked questions

Install and deployment

Does Orion need an internet connection? No. Orion can be configured completely air-gapped. A signed license file is checked locally, and nothing phones home.

Is there a separate air-gapped version? No. Connected and disconnected clusters run the same Orion. See Air-Gapped installation.

Where can I run Orion? On bare metal, hypervisors, virtual machines, on-prem or in your own cloud account. Orion has been deployed on AWS, CoreWeave, and on-premises hardware. Running on Azure, GCP, or another cloud? Feel free to try it. Orion uses standard Kubernetes primitives, so most environments need only minor tweaks.

Can a license check stop my workloads? No. The license file is checked locally, and running workloads never stop mid-term.

Can I try Orion before I buy? Yes. Run Orion on your own hardware with a Proof of Value. Talk to sales.

Security and identity

Can Juno see our data or our logs? No. Orion runs inside your network and nothing phones home. Logs stay in your console, and metrics go to your own dashboards. See Metrics Gatherer for the Grafana dashboards.

Does Orion work with our identity provider? Yes. Orion supports Google, AWS Cognito, and LDAP or Active Directory, including LDAPS with your own certificate authority. Groups map to roles, and every workload runs as the user's own UID and GID. See Authentication.

How are teams kept apart? Each workspace is an isolated environment with its own network policies, and quotas cap the CPU, GPU, memory, node ports, and load balancers each group can hold.

Using Orion

Can I run VMs? Yes. Orion runs on-prem VMs through KubeVirt on the same cluster as your containers, and on AWS it can launch EC2 instances through Crossplane. See Virtual Machines and AWS EC2 via Crossplane.

How does Orion share GPUs? Orion uses NVIDIA time-slicing so several workloads share one card. MIG can also be configured per node to split supported GPUs into isolated instances. See GPU Operator.

Is there an API? Orion is API first. Create a token from the user menu and see the API Reference. Orion also has an MCP server so your AI agents can work with it. See MCP Server.

Orion Apps powered by Terra

What is in the app catalog? 50+ official plugins, from Jupyter and Hermes to Deadline, KubeVirt, and Helios.

Can we add our own apps? Yes. Point Orion Apps at your own Terra-compatible Git repository, pinned to a branch or release tag. Most Helm charts become Terra-compatible with minimal effort. See Source Repositories.

Can we share what we build? Yes. Open a pull request to add your installer to the community catalog, or keep it in a private Git repository that only your Orion install reads.

Do end users need to write YAML? No. End users fill in a form and Orion deploys the chart.

What runs underneath? Helm charts, kept in sync from Git by Argo CD. Users don't need to touch either.

Support

How do I get help? Email support@juno-innovations.com or join the Discord. See Support for details.