When we launched Tempest, our goal was to deliver the internal platform we always wished we had. Fast, composable, and built for teams who actually ship.

Now, as we head to KubeCon London next week, we're making that promise even more real. We’re introducing the Relationships Graph to beta release — a live, evolving view of how your stack is actually connected.

No more spreadsheets. No more tribal handoffs. No more clicking through six tabs to figure out who owns what.

The Map You Don’t Have (Yet)

Most teams today are building and operating software without a real map. Services talk to each other, APIs depend on infrastructure, teams own half of something but not all of it. And somehow, you’re expected to deploy, govern, and scale all of it with confidence.

The Tempest Relationships Graph - now in beta - is here to help.

It works two ways:

• Explicit relationships — the ones you define: ownership, labels, teams, maturity levels.

• Inferred relationships — automatically discovered when you deploy through Tempest Recipes. Behind the scenes, we use a lightweight graph model and AI to connect the dots.

The result is a living system map — always up to date, deeply linked, and visible at every level.

You can trace ownership. You can follow dependencies. You can understand what’s connected, what’s drifting, and what matters.

Explicit relationships are available to everyone starting today. Inferred relationships are partially live, and Tempest-deployed resources are auto-mapped. AI-suggested relationships are coming soon.

👉 Try the Relationships Graph (beta) and let us know what you think. Your input will help shape what comes next.

What Tempest Actually Is

If you’re new here, Tempest is a developer platform that:

• Catalogs your services, infrastructure, teams, environments

• Lets you deploy with recipes, our declarative, reusable golden paths

• Tracks everything: ownership, metadata, maturity, policy

• Orchestrates real deploys with runtime awareness

• And gives you visibility, governance, and control in one place

And it’s fully extensible, with a developer SDK for building private apps.

It’s not another dashboard. It’s your internal platform, composable by default and with real orchestration, real control, and way less glue code.

What's Next

We’re just getting started. Over the next few months, we’re going even deeper:

• Subscribe-able deployment failure summaries powered by AI

• Smarter relationship inference

• More powerful deploy workflows

• And a few things we’re not ready to talk about yet ;)

The direction of our work is clear: we're building the control plane for modern software delivery.

Stay tuned! And if you try the beta, let us know what works, what doesn’t, and what you want to see next.

- Ken

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PS. We’d love to show you what we’re building — whether you’re at KubeCon or watching from afar.

Check out the product, say hi, or follow along:

• tempestdx.com

• tempestdx on Bluesky

• Linkedin