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A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.

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Contents

Tools and Libraries

Items with ๐Ÿ’š indicate open source projects.

Command Line Tools

  • ๐Ÿ’šKubebox ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes
  • ๐Ÿ’šK9s ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubediff ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubediff is a tool for Kubernetes to show you the differences between your running configuration and your version controlled configuration.
  • ๐Ÿ’šHelm ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Helm is a tool for managing Charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubeprompt - Isolates KUBECONFIG in each shell and shows the current Kubernetes context/namespace in your prompt
  • ๐Ÿ’škubectx + kubens ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubectx helps you switch between clusters back and forth, and kubens helps you switch between Kubernetes namespaces smoothly.
  • ๐Ÿ’škube-shell ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kube-shell: An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKtunnel ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Ktunnel is a CLI tool that establishes a reverse tunnel between a kubernetes cluster and your local machine.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubectl-aliases ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - This repository contains a script to generate hundreds of convenient shell aliases for kubectl.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubetail ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Bash script that enables you to aggregate (tail/follow) logs from multiple pods into one stream.
  • ๐Ÿ’šstern ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Stern allows you to tail multiple pods on Kubernetes and multiple containers within the pod.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubectl tree ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - A kubectl plugin to explore ownership relationships between Kubernetes objects through owners.
  • ๐Ÿ’šnova - Nova scans your cluster for installed Helm charts, then cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories.

Cluster Provisioning

  • ๐Ÿ’škind ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes".
  • ๐Ÿ’šk3s ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Lightweight Kubernetes. Easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB.
  • ๐Ÿ’šk3d ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - k3d, like kind, is a tool for running local k3s clusters in docker. It's a single binary about 20 MB. You need to have docker installed.
  • ๐Ÿ’šeksctl ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubespray ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Deploy a production ready Kubernetes cluster
  • ๐Ÿ’škops ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kops helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line.
  • ๐Ÿ’šBootkube ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Bootkube is a tool for launching self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
  • ๐Ÿ’škube-aws ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kube-aws is a command-line tool to create/update/destroy Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
  • ๐Ÿ’šMinikube ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
  • Kubeadm - kubeadm performs the actions necessary to get a minimum viable cluster up and running.

Automation and CI/CD

  • ๐Ÿ’šFlux ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
  • ๐Ÿ’šArgo CD ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šArgo Rollouts ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Argo Rollouts controller, uses the Rollout custom resource to provide additional deployment strategies such as Blue Green and Canary to Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šHelm Operator ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - The Helm Operator is a Kubernetes operator, allowing one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases.
  • ๐Ÿ’šFlagger ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šArgo Workflows ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKEDA ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - KEDA allows for fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event driven Kubernetes workloads.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubeSphere ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - KubeSphere is a distributed operating system providing cloud native stack with Kubernetes as its kernel, and aims to be plug-and-play architecture for third-party applications seamless integration to boost its ecosystem.
  • ๐Ÿ’šSkaffold ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
  • ๐Ÿ’šApollo ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Apollo is a simple, lightweight, Continuous Deployment (CD) solution on top of Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šSpinnaker ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
  • ๐Ÿ’šArgo Events ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Argo Events is an event-driven workflow automation framework for Kubernetes which helps you trigger K8s objects, Argo Workflows, Serverless workloads, etc.
  • ๐Ÿ’šReloader ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Reloader can watch changes in ConfigMap and Secret and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated DeploymentConfigs, Deployments, Daemonsets and Statefulsets.

Cluster Resources Management

  • ๐Ÿ’šKruise ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kruise consists of several controllers which extend and complement the Kubernetes core controllers for workload management.
  • ๐Ÿ’šGrafana Tanka ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - The clean, concise and super flexible alternative to YAML for your Kubernetes cluster.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubeDirector ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - KubeDirector uses standard Kubernetes (K8s) facilities of custom resources and API extensions to implement stateful scaleout application clusters.
  • ๐Ÿ’šThe Hierarchical Namespace Controller ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Hierarchical namespaces make it easier to share your cluster by making namespaces more powerful.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubenav ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubenav is the navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket.

Secrets Management

  • ๐Ÿ’šKubernetes External Secrets ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubernetes External Secrets allows you to use external secret management systems, like AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, to securely add secrets in Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šSealed Secrets ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Encrypt your Secret into a SealedSecret, which is safe to store - even to a public repository.

Networking

  • ๐Ÿ’šingress-nginx ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - ingress-nginx is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubernetes-ingress ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - An implementation of an Ingress controller for NGINX and NGINX Plus (commercial).
  • ๐Ÿ’šCalico Networking ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads
  • ๐Ÿ’šCoreDNS ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server that works on Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKong for Kubernetes ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Configure plugins, health checking, load balancing and more in Kong for Kubernetes Services.
  • ๐Ÿ’šcert-manager ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources.
  • ๐Ÿ’šksniff ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - A kubectl plugin that utilize tcpdump and Wireshark to start a remote capture on any pod in your Kubernetes cluster.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubectl trace ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubectl trace is a kubectl plugin that allows you to schedule the execution of bpftrace programs in your Kubernetes cluster.

Storage

  • ๐Ÿ’šRook ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šOpenEBS ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - OpenEBS is the most widely deployed and easy to use open-source storage solution for Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šLonghorn ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes.
  • Amazon EBS CSI Driver - The Amazon Elastic Block Store Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver provides a CSI interface used by Container Orchestrators to manage the lifecycle of Amazon EBS volumes.
  • Amazon EFS CSI Driver - The Amazon Elastic File System Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver implements the CSI specification for container orchestrators to manage the lifecycle of Amazon EFS filesystems.
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver - The Amazon FSx for Lustre Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver implements CSI specification for container orchestrators (CO) to manage lifecycle of Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems.

Testing and Troubleshooting

  • ๐Ÿ’škube-monkey ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - It randomly deletes Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubetest ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubetest is a pytest plugin that makes it easier to manage a Kubernetes cluster within your integration tests.
  • ๐Ÿ’šLitmus ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Litmus provides tools to orchestrate chaos on Kubernetes to help SREs find weaknesses in their deployments.
  • ๐Ÿ’šPowerfulSeal ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - PowerfulSeal injects failure into your Kubernetes clusters, so that you can detect problems as early as possible.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubectl-debug ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubectl-debug is an out-of-tree solution for troubleshooting running pods, which allows you to run a new container in running pods for debugging purpose.
  • ๐Ÿ’šksniff ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - A kubectl plugin that utilize tcpdump and Wireshark to start a remote capture on any pod in your Kubernetes cluster.
  • ๐Ÿ’šk6 ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - k6 is a modern load testing tool, building on Load Impact's years of experience in the load and performance testing industry.
  • ๐Ÿ’šConftest ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Conftest helps you write tests against structured configuration data.
  • ๐Ÿ’šchaoskube ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.
  • ๐Ÿ’šChaos Mesh ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Chaos Meshยฎ is a cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform that orchestrates chaos on Kubernetes environments.
  • ๐Ÿ’špopeye ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
  • ๐Ÿ’škube-score ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kube-score is a tool that performs static code analysis of your Kubernetes object definitions.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubeInvaders ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Through KubeInvaders you can stress Kubernetes cluster in a fun way and check how it is resilient.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKube DOOM ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - The next level of chaos engineering is here! Kill pods inside your Kubernetes cluster by shooting them in Doom!

Monitoring, Alerts, and Visualization

  • ๐Ÿ’šPrometheus ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system.
  • ๐Ÿ’šGrafana ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.
  • ๐Ÿ’škube-state-metrics ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kube-state-metrics is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubernetes Metrics Server ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Metrics Server is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubernetes Operational View ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - A tool that aims to provide a common operational picture for multiple Kubernetes clusters.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubernetes Dashboard ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubernetes Dashboard is a general purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters.
  • ๐Ÿ’šThanos ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.
  • ๐Ÿ’šCortex ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.
  • ๐Ÿ’šGoldilocks ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - This tool creates a vertical pod autoscaler for each deployment in a namespace and then queries them for information.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKiali ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kiali works with Istio to visualise the service mesh topology.
  • ๐Ÿ’šSearchlight ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Searchlight/Icinga periodically runs various checks on a Kubernetes cluster and sends notifications if detects an issue.
  • ๐Ÿ’šPopeye ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubewatch ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubewatch is a Kubernetes watcher that currently publishes notification to available collaboration hubs/notification channels.
  • ๐Ÿ’šSloop ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Sloop monitors Kubernetes, recording histories of events and resource state changes and providing visualizations to aid in debugging past events.
  • ๐Ÿ’šBotKube ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - BotKube integration with Slack or Mattermost helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster, debug critical deployments and gives recommendations for standard practices by running checks on the Kubernetes resources.
  • ๐Ÿ’škube-capacity ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - This is a simple CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits, and utilization in a Kubernetes cluster.
  • ๐Ÿ’šLens ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Lens it's an useful, attractive, open source user interface (UI) for working with Kubernetes clusters.

Backup and Restore

  • ๐Ÿ’škatafygio ๐Ÿ”ฅ - katafygio discovers Kubernetes objects (deployments, services, ...), and continuously save them as yaml files in a git repository.
  • ๐Ÿ’šVelero ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

Security and Compliance

  • ๐Ÿ’škube-bench ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kube-bench is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
  • ๐Ÿ’šGatekeeper ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Policy controller for Kubernetes
  • ๐Ÿ’šKonstraint - Konstraint is a CLI tool to assist with the creation and management of constraints when using Gatekeeper.
  • ๐Ÿ’škube-hunter ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kube-hunter hunts for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters.
  • Kube-Scan ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kube-Scan gives a risk score, from 0 (no risk) to 10 (high risk) for each workload.
  • ๐Ÿ’šPermission manager ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Permission Manager is an application developed by SIGHUP that enables a super-easy and user-friendly RBAC management for Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šrakkess ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubectl plugin to show an access matrix for server resources
  • ๐Ÿ’šk-rail ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - k-rail is a workload policy enforcement tool for Kubernetes. It can help you secure a multi tenant cluster with minimal disruption and maximum velocity.
  • ๐Ÿ’šFalco ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Falco is a behavioral activity monitor designed to detect anomalous activity in your applications. You can use Falco to monitor run-time security of your Kubernetes applications and internal components.
  • Teleport - Teleport allows you to implement industry-best practices for SSH and Kubernetes access, meet compliance requirements, and have complete visibility into access and behavior.

Service Mesh

  • ๐Ÿ’šIstio ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
  • ๐Ÿ’šLinkerd ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Linkerd is a transparent service mesh, designed to make modern applications safe and sane.
  • Consul - HashiCorp's service mesh service that is infrastructure agnostic.
  • AWS App Mesh - A service mesh service offered by AWS that works on AWS infrastructure services such as EKS and Fargate.
  • ๐Ÿ’šOpen Service Mesh ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, Cloud Native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

Development Tools

  • ๐Ÿ’šTelepresence ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Telepresence provides fast, realistic local development for Kubernetes microservices.
  • ๐Ÿ’šOkteto ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - okteto accelerates the development workflow of Kubernetes applications.
  • ๐Ÿ’šTilt ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Tilt powers multi-service development and makes sure they behave.
  • ๐Ÿ’šgarden ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Garden provides production-like Kubernetes testing environments for integration tests, QA, and development.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubernix ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - This project aims to provide single dependency Kubernetes clusters for local testing, experimenting and development purposes.
  • ๐Ÿ’ško ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - ko is a tool for building and deploying Golang applications to Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šMakisu ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Makisu is a fast and flexible Docker image build tool designed for unprivileged containerized environments such as Mesos or Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šTye ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Tye is a developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier.
  • ๐Ÿ’škubectl-warp ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubernetes CLI plugin for syncing and executing local files in Pod on Kubernetes

Data Processing and Machine Learning

  • ๐Ÿ’šVolcano ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubeflow ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubeflow is a Cloud Native platform for machine learning based on Googleโ€™s internal machine learning pipelines.
  • ๐Ÿ’šStrimzi ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations.

Miscellaneous

  • ๐Ÿ’šCrossplane ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that extends any cluster with the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, services, and applications.
  • ๐Ÿ’šBrigade ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Brigade is the tool for creating pipelines for Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubeEdge ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - KubeEdge is built upon Kubernetes and extends native containerized application orchestration and device management to hosts at the Edge.
  • ๐Ÿ’šAWS Node Termination Handler ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - A Kubernetes Daemonset to gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown
  • ๐Ÿ’šDescheduler for Kubernetes ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Descheduling pods from nodes based on policies
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubeless ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - kubeless is a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that lets you deploy small bits of code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure plumbing.
  • ๐Ÿ’šAgones ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Agones is a library for hosting, running and scaling dedicated game servers on Kubernetes.
  • ๐Ÿ’šShell-operator ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Shell-operator is a tool for running event-driven scripts in a Kubernetes cluster.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubecost ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Kubecost models give teams visibility into current and historical Kubernetes spend and resource allocation.
  • ๐Ÿ’šKubePug ๐Ÿ”ฅ - A tool to check deprecations before upgrading Kubernetes version
  • ๐Ÿ’šAWS Controllers for Kubernetes ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) lets you define and use AWS service resources directly from Kubernetes.

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