In today's era of highly developed cloud computing and DevOps toolchains, DevOps engineers face a paradox: the more tools there are, the more fragmented operations become. SSH clients, SFTP tools, database management interfaces, container orchestration platforms, key management systems, log viewers—these tools are all independent, forcing DevOps engineers to constantly switch between multiple interfaces just to complete daily infrastructure management tasks.
The NAVIG project was born to solve this "tool fragmentation" dilemma. It is a terminal-first infrastructure CLI and runtime created by independent developers, whose core philosophy can be summarized as: "The terminal was never the problem; the chaos around it was."
The project name NAVIG is derived from "No Admin Visible In Graveyard", which is both a humorous description of the work state of DevOps engineers and an implication of the project's vision to make operations work more visible and controllable.