Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools

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There are more than 500+ Kubernetes Certified Service Providers and tons of Kubernetes Certified distributions. Choosing a right distribution can be a daunting task. Kubetools is built with a purpose to build a curated list of popular Kubernetes tools. It is actively maintained by Collabnix Slack Community.

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Top Featured Kubernetes Tools( Aug 2024)

Categories
- 🌐 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

Pods

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL
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

Cluster Management

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Monokle	Desktop unified visual tool for authoring, analysis and deployment of Kubernetes configurations
2	kops	Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management
3	silver-surfer	Check ApiVersion compatibility and provide Migration path for Kubernetes objects when upgrading Kubernetes to latest versions
4	Kube-ops-view	Kubernetes Operational View - read-only system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters
5	kubeprompt	Kubernetes prompt info
6	Metalk8s	An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments
7	kind	Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes
8	Clusterman	Cluster Autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
9	Cert-manager	Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates
10	Goldilocks	Get your resource requests "Just Right"
11	katafygio	Dump, or continuously backup Kubernetes objets as yaml files in git
12	Rancher	Complete container management platform
13	Sealed Secrets	A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
14	OpenKruise/Kruise	Automate application workloads management on Kubernetes https://openkruise.io
15	kubectl snapshot	Take Cluster Snapshots
16	kapp	simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label https://get-kapp.io
17	KEDA	Event-driven autoscaler for Kubernetes
18	Octant	To better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters
19	Portainer	Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment
20	Gardener	Deliver fully-managed clusters at scale everywhere with your own Kubernetes-as-a-Service	-
21	xlskubectl	xlskubectl — a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
22	Kubefirst	Fully-automated OSS delivery & infrastructure management gitops platforms
23	Kamaji	Build and operate Kubernetes at scale with a fraction of operational burden
24	kustomizer	An experimental package manager for distributing Kubernetes configuration as OCI artifacts
25	Kudo	declarative approach to building production-grade Kubernetes Operators
26	node-problem-detector	This is a place for various problem detectors running on the Kubernetes nodes
27	k0s	k0s is an all-inclusive Kubernetes distribution, which is configured with all of the features needed to build a Kubernetes cluster and packaged as a single binary for ease of use
28	k0smotron	Deploy and run Kubernetes control planes powered by k0s on any existing cluster
29	ClusterPedia	The Encyclopedia of Kubernetes clusters
30	kubean	🌱 Kubernetes lifecycle management operator based on kubespray.
31	punq	Self-hosted Kubernetes workload manager with team collaboration
32	Claudie	Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters with each nodepool in a different provider or on-prem
33	Kubemarine	Management tool for Kubernetes cluster deployment and maintenance
34	k8s-duplicator	Kubernetes controller that copies secrets into other namespaces
35	KubeStellar	a flexible solution for challenges associated with multi-cluster configuration management for edge, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud
36	Trolley	Trolley is a multi cloud Kubernetes management system
37	Cyclops	a powerful user interface for managing and interacting with Kubernetes clusters
38	Liqo	an open-source project that enables dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies, supporting heterogeneous on-premise, cloud and edge infrastructures
39	Guard	🔑 Kubernetes Authentication & Authorization WebHook Server
40	Meshery	Meshery is a Multi-cluster management tool for Kubernetes and Clouds
41	cluster-template	A template for deploying a Kubernetes cluster with k3s or Talos
42	vCluster	Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
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Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools

Top Featured Kubernetes Tools( Aug 2024)

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Pods

Cluster Management