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A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.

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A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.

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Contents

Tools and Libraries

Items with 💚 indicate open source projects.

Command Line Tools

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

Cluster Provisioning

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

Automation and CI/CD

  • 💚Apollo 🔥🔥 - Apollo is a simple, lightweight, Continuous Deployment (CD) solution on top of Kubernetes.
  • 💚Argo CD 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
  • 💚Argo Events 🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Events is an event-driven workflow automation framework for Kubernetes which helps you trigger K8s objects, Argo Workflows, Serverless workloads, etc.
  • 💚Argo Rollouts 🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Rollouts controller, uses the Rollout custom resource to provide additional deployment strategies such as Blue Green and Canary to Kubernetes.
  • 💚Argo Workflows 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.
  • Codefresh - Codefresh is a Docker-native CI/CD platform. Instantly build, test and deploy Docker images to Kubernetes.
  • 💚Flagger 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes.
  • 💚Flux 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
  • 💚Flux2 🔥🔥🔥 - Flux version 2 is built from the ground up to use Kubernetes' API extension system, and to integrate with Prometheus and other core components of the Kubernetes ecosystem.
  • 💚Helm Operator 🔥🔥 - The Helm Operator is a Kubernetes operator, allowing one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases.
  • 💚KEDA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - KEDA allows for fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event driven Kubernetes workloads.
  • 💚KubeSphere 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - 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.
  • 💚Reloader 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Reloader can watch changes in ConfigMap and Secret and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated DeploymentConfigs, Deployments, Daemonsets and Statefulsets.
  • 💚Skaffold 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
  • 💚Spinnaker 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

Cluster Resources Management

  • 💚Grafana Tanka 🔥🔥🔥 - The clean, concise and super flexible alternative to YAML for your Kubernetes cluster.
  • 💚Kruise 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kruise consists of several controllers which extend and complement the Kubernetes core controllers for workload management.
  • 💚KubeDirector 🔥🔥 - KubeDirector uses standard Kubernetes (K8s) facilities of custom resources and API extensions to implement stateful scaleout application clusters.
  • 💚Kubenav 🔥🔥🔥 - kubenav is the navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket.
  • 💚Liqo 🔥 - Liqo implements Dynamic resource sharing across different Kubernetes clusters (e.g.; offloading pods and services), supporting decentralized governance.
  • 💚The Hierarchical Namespace Controller 🔥🔥🔥 - Hierarchical namespaces make it easier to share your cluster by making namespaces more powerful.

Secrets Management

  • 💚Kubernetes External Secrets 🔥🔥🔥 - Kubernetes External Secrets allows you to use external secret management systems, like AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, to securely add secrets in Kubernetes.
  • 💚Sealed Secrets 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Encrypt your Secret into a SealedSecret, which is safe to store - even to a public repository.

Networking

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

Storage

  • 💚Longhorn 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes.
  • 💚OpenEBS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - OpenEBS is the most widely deployed and easy to use open-source storage solution for Kubernetes.
  • 💚Rook 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator 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

  • 💚Chaos Mesh 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Chaos Mesh® is a cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform that orchestrates chaos on Kubernetes environments.
  • 💚chaoskube 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.
  • 💚Conftest 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Conftest helps you write tests against structured configuration data.
  • 💚Cooper 🔥🔥 - A configuration file validator for Kubernetes. This is specifically useful with Kubernetes configuration files to enforce best practices, apply policies and compliance requirements.
  • 💚k6 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - k6 is a modern load testing tool, building on Load Impact's years of experience in the load and performance testing industry.
  • 💚ksniff 🔥🔥🔥 - A kubectl plugin that utilize tcpdump and Wireshark to start a remote capture on any pod in your Kubernetes cluster.
  • 💚Kube DOOM 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - The next level of chaos engineering is here! Kill pods inside your Kubernetes cluster by shooting them in Doom!
  • 💚kube-monkey 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - It randomly deletes Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services.
  • 💚kube-score 🔥🔥🔥 - kube-score is a tool that performs static code analysis of your Kubernetes object definitions.
  • 💚Kubectl-debug 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - 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.
  • 💚KubeInvaders 🔥🔥🔥 - Through KubeInvaders you can stress Kubernetes cluster in a fun way and check how it is resilient.
  • 💚Kubetest 🔥 - Kubetest is a pytest plugin that makes it easier to manage a Kubernetes cluster within your integration tests.
  • 💚Litmus 🔥🔥🔥 - Litmus provides tools to orchestrate chaos on Kubernetes to help SREs find weaknesses in their deployments.
  • 💚popeye 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
  • 💚PowerfulSeal 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - PowerfulSeal injects failure into your Kubernetes clusters, so that you can detect problems as early as possible.

Monitoring, Alerts, and Visualization

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

Backup and Restore

  • 💚katafygio 🔥 - katafygio discovers Kubernetes objects (deployments, services, ...), and continuously save them as yaml files in a git repository.
  • 💚Velero 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

Security and Compliance

  • 💚Falco 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - 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.
  • 💚Gatekeeper 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Policy controller for Kubernetes
  • 💚k-rail 🔥🔥 - 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.
  • 💚Konstraint - Konstraint is a CLI tool to assist with the creation and management of constraints when using Gatekeeper.
  • 💚kube-bench 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-bench is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
  • 💚kube-hunter 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-hunter hunts for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters.
  • 💚KubeLinter 🔥🔥🔥 - KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.
  • 💚Permission manager 🔥🔥🔥 - Permission Manager is an application developed by SIGHUP that enables a super-easy and user-friendly RBAC management for Kubernetes.
  • 💚rakkess 🔥🔥🔥 - kubectl plugin to show an access matrix for server resources
  • Kube-Scan 🔥🔥 - Kube-Scan gives a risk score, from 0 (no risk) to 10 (high risk) for each workload.
  • 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

  • 💚Istio 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
  • 💚Linkerd 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Linkerd is a transparent service mesh, designed to make modern applications safe and sane.
  • 💚Open Service Mesh 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - 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.
  • AWS App Mesh - A service mesh service offered by AWS that works on AWS infrastructure services such as EKS and Fargate.
  • Consul - HashiCorp's service mesh service that is infrastructure agnostic.
  • NGINX Service Mesh - NGINX Service Mesh (NSM) provides a turnkey, secure, service-to-service solution for container traffic management, with a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration.

Development Tools

  • 💚garden 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Garden provides production-like Kubernetes testing environments for integration tests, QA, and development.
  • 💚ko 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - ko is a tool for building and deploying Golang applications to Kubernetes.
  • 💚Konfig 🔥 - Konfig is a Kubernetes friendly Rails gem. It can load configuration and secrets from both YAML or folders with individual files and present them to your application the same way.
  • 💚kubevious 🔥🔥🔥 - Kubevious renders all configurations relevant to the application in one place. That saves a lot of time from operators, eliminating the need for looking up settings and digging within selectors and labels.
  • 💚kubectl-warp 🔥🔥 - Kubernetes CLI plugin for syncing and executing local files in Pod on Kubernetes
  • 💚kubernix 🔥🔥 - This project aims to provide single dependency Kubernetes clusters for local testing, experimenting and development purposes.
  • 💚Makisu 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Makisu is a fast and flexible Docker image build tool designed for unprivileged containerized environments such as Mesos or Kubernetes.
  • 💚Okteto 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - okteto accelerates the development workflow of Kubernetes applications.
  • 💚Telepresence 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Telepresence provides fast, realistic local development for Kubernetes microservices.
  • 💚Tilt 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tilt powers multi-service development and makes sure they behave.
  • 💚Tye 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tye is a developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier.

Data Processing and Machine Learning

  • 💚Kubeflow 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kubeflow is a Cloud Native platform for machine learning based on Google’s internal machine learning pipelines.
  • 💚Strimzi 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations.
  • 💚Volcano 🔥🔥🔥 - Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.

Miscellaneous

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

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