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- Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools
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- Table of Contents
- Pods
- Cluster Management
- Cluster with Core CLI tools
- Alert and Monitoring
- Logging and Tracing
- Troubleshooting / Debugging
- Developement Tools/Kit
- Alternative Tools for Development
- CI/CD integration Tools
- Security Tools
- Network Policies
- Testing Tools
- Service Mesh
- Observability
- Machine Learning/Deep Learning
- Compute Edge Tools
- Kubernetes Tools for Specific Cloud
- Storage Providers
- Backup Tools
- Multiple Tools Repo
- Cost Optimisation
- Function as a Service FaaS
- Artificial Intelligence
- Caching
- Clients
- Cleanup
- Non-Categorize
- Maintainer
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kubetail | Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time |  |
| 2 | kube-s3 | Kubernetes pods used shared S3 storage |  |
| 3 | kubectl-ports-rs | A kubectl krew plugin to provide a list of exposed ports on kubernetes Pod resources |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minikube | minikube implements a local Kubernetes clusterd |  |
| 2 | KubeSphere | Easy-to-use Production Ready Container Platform https://kubesphere.io |  |
| 3 | skippbox | A Desktop application for k8sd |  |
| 4 | kind | Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/d |  |
| 5 | k3d | k3d is a lightweight wrapper to run k3s (Rancher Lab’s minimal Kubernetes distribution) in docker.d | - |
| 6 | Systemk: virtual kubelet for systemd | Systemk is a systemd backend for the virtual-kubelet. Instead of starting containers, you start systemd units |  |
| 7 | mokbox | Build verifiably conformant multi-node kubernetes clusters in containers |  |
| 8 | Otomi | Self-hosted PaaS for Kubernetes |  |
| 9 | Rainbond | offers a serverless experience, and allows you to easily manage containerized applications without needing to understand Kubernetes |  |
| 10 | MyKube | k8s-installer - One-click k8s single-node cluster installation on your own device |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Istio | Connect, secure, control, and observe services |  |
| 2 | Traefik | The Cloud Native Edge Router |  |
| 3 | NGINX Ingress Controller | NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes |  |
| 4 | Autopilot | THE SERVICE MESH SDK | - |
| 5 | linkerd-config | A Kubernetes controller that knows how to reconcile the Linkerd configuration |  |
| 6 | Kong | Kong for Kubernetes: the official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes |  |
| 7 | OSM | Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh |  |
| 8 | Gloo Mesh | The Service Mesh Orchestration Platform |  |
| 9 | APISIX | Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway. |  |
| 10 | Contour | High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes | - |
| 11 | Kusk Gateway | OpenAPI-driven Ingress Controller for Kubernetes | - |
| 12 | MerBridge | Use eBPF to speed up your Service Mesh like crossing an Einstein-Rosen Bridge. |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nos | nos is an open-source platform to efficiently run AI workloads on Kubernetes, increasing GPU utilization and reducing infrastructure and operational costs |  |
| 2 | Kubeflow | Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes |  |
| 3 | Volcano | A Kubernetes Native Batch System |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KubeEdge | Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework |  |
| 2 | OpenYurt | Extending your native Kubernetes to edge |  |
| 3 | Akri | A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge |  |
| 4 | SuperEdge | An edge-native container management system for edge computing |  |
| 5 | Keylime | A CNCF Project to Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT |  |
| 6 | Microk8s | A small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for developers, IoT and edge |  |
| 7 | Shifu | Kubernetes native IoT software development framework |  |
| 8 | kairos | The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kubernetes on AWS (kube-aws) | A command-line tool to declaratively manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS |  |
| 2 | Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development | A tool for developers to create cloud-native applications on Kubernetes |  |
| 3 | helm-ssm | A low dependency tool for retrieving and injecting secrets from AWS SSM into Helm |  |
| 4 | Skupper | Multicloud communication for Kubernetes | - |
| 5 | AWS workshop for kubernetes | AWS workshop for kubernetes |  |
| 6 | Sealos | A Kubernetes distribution, a general-purpose Cloud Operating System designed for managing cloud-native applications |  |
| 7 | Porter | Kubernetes-powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud. |  |
| 8 | Kubicorn | Create, manage, snapshot, and scale Kubernetes infrastructure in the public cloud |  |
| 9 | eksdemo | The easy button for learning, testing and demoing Amazon EKS |  |
| 10 | Claudie | Claudie allows users to manage Kubernetes clusters that span across multiple cloud providers and on-premise infrastructures |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stash | 🛅 Backup your Kubernetes Stateful Applications |  |
| 2 | kube-dump | Backup a Kubernetes cluster as a yaml manifest |  |
| 3 | VolSync | Asynchronous data replication for Kubernetes volumes |  |
| 4 | Reflector | Custom Kubernetes controller that can be used to replicate secrets, configmaps and certificates. |  |
| 5 | SnapScheduler | Scheduled snapshots for Kubernetes persistent volumes. |  |
| 6 | K8up Backup Operator | K8up is a Kubernetes backup operator based on Restic that will handle PVC and application backups on a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaos Toolkit Kubernetes Support | Kubernetes driver extension of the Chaos Toolkit probes and actions API |  |
| 2 | k14s | Kubernetes Tools that follow Unix philosophy to be simple and composable |  |
| 3 | Pulumi | Pulumi - Modern Infrastructure as Code. Any cloud, any language. Give your team cloud superpowers rocket https://www.pulumi.com |  |
| 4 | Gvisor | Application Kernel for Containers |  |
| 5 | Colima | Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup |  |
| 6 | Krateo Platformops | Open source platform to manage infrastructure, resources and applications via YAML files |  |
| 7 | Kamus | An open source, git-ops, zero-trust secret encryption and decryption solution for Kubernetes applications |  |
| 8 | korb | Move Kubernetes PVCs between Storage Classes and Namespaces |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knative Serving | Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute |  |
| 2 | OpenFaaS | OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple |  |
| 3 | Kubeless | Kubernetes Native Serverless Framework |  |
| 4 | Fission | Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes |  |
| 5 | Nuclio | High-Performance Serverless event and data processing platform |  |
| 6 | Apache OpenServerless | Serverless environment based on Apache OpenWhisk with lots of integrated services |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | k8sgpt | Giving Kubernetes SRE superpowers to everyone |  |
| 2 | kubectl-ai | Kubectl plugin for OpenAI GPT |  |
| 3 | kopilot | Your AI Kubernetes Expert |  |
| 4 | kopylot | An AI-Powered assistant for Kubernetes developers |  |
| 5 | aiac | Artificial Intelligence K8s manifest and package generator |  |
| 6 | mico | An AI assisted kubectl helper |  |
| 7 | kserve | Standardized Serverless ML Inference Platform on Kubernets |  |
| 8 | kubectl-assistant | This tool uses OpenAI's GPT3 API to generate Kubernetes kubectl commands to run against a cluster |  |
| 9 | HolmesGPT | The only DevOps assistant that solves alerts like a human does - by looking at alerts and fetching missing data repeatedly until the alert can be solved |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kube-fledged | A kubernetes operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes |  |
| 2 | kubernetes-image-puller | It is used for caching images on a cluster. It creates a DaemonSet downloading and running the relevant container images on each node. |  |
| 3 | Tugger | Kubernetes Admission Webhook to enforce pulling of Docker images from the private registry. |  |
| 4 | kube-image-keeper (kuik) | kuik is a container image caching system for Kubernetes |  |
| 5 | harbor | A trusted cloud native registry project that stores,caches, signs, and scans content. |  |
| 6 | kuik | kuik is a container image caching system for Kubernetes | |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go Client for Kubernetes | Official Golang client library for kubernetes |  |
| 2 | Python Client for Kubernetes | Official Python client library for kubernetes |  |
| 3 | Java Client for Kubernetes | Official Java client library for kubernetes |  |
| 4 | Javascript Client for Kubernetes | Official Javascript client library for kubernetes |  |
| 5 | csharp Client for Kubernetes | Official dotnet client library for kubernetes |  |
| 6 | Dapr | Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge |  |
| 7 | DevPod | client-only tool to create reproducible developer environments based on a devcontainer.json on any backend |  |
