update contribution guideline; add more items

contributing.md

@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ project you agree to abide by its terms.
 Ensure your pull request adheres to the following guidelines:
 
 * Community-authored repo with 50+ stars
-* Community-vouched repo with < 100 stars
+* Community-vouched repo with < 50 stars
+* Commercial tools and resources that are community-vouched
 
-50+ stars for community repos is not a strict requirement, it only serves as a guideline for the initial compilation.  If you can vouch for the awesomeness of a repo with < 100 stars and you can explain why it should be listed, please submit a pull request.
+We welcome newer projects. 50+ stars for community repos is not a strict requirement, it only serves as a guideline for the initial compilation.  If you can vouch for the awesomeness of a repo with < 50 stars and you can explain why it should be listed, please submit a pull request.
 
 Pull requests might be left open for a period of time to let the community chime in and vouch for it. 
 

readme.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.
 
 Inspired by [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) list and [donnemartin/awesome-aws](https://github.com/donnemartin/awesome-aws).
 
-## The Fiery Meter of AWSome
+## The Fiery Meter of Awesomeness
 
 * Repo with 0050+ Stars: :fire:
 * Repo with 0200+ Stars: :fire::fire:
@@ -16,16 +16,21 @@ Idea taken from [donnemartin/awesome-aws](https://github.com/donnemartin/awesome
 
 
 ## Contents
-
 - [Tools and Libraries](#tools-and-libraries)
   - [Command Line Tools](#command-line-tools)
+  - [Cluster Provisioning](#cluster-provisioning)
   - [Automation](#automation)
+  - [Networking](#networking)
+  - [Storage](#storage)
   - [Testing](#testing)
+  - [Monitoring and Visualization](#monitoring-and-visualization)
   - [Backup and Diaster Recovery](#backup-and-diaster-recovery)
   - [Security and Compliance](#security-and-compliance)
-  - [Worker Node Operations](#worker-node-operations)
-- [Guides, Tutorials, Documentations, and Trainings](#guides-tutorials-documentations-and-trainings)
+  - [Service Mesh](#service-mesh)
+  - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
+- [Guides, Documentations, Blogs, and Trainings](#guides-documentations-blogs-and-trainings)
   - [Guides](#guides)
+  - [Documentations](#documentations)
   - [Blogs](#blogs)
 - [Contribute](#contribute)
 - [License](#license)
@@ -37,19 +42,50 @@ Items with :green_heart: indicate open source projects.
 ### Command Line Tools
 - :green_heart:[Kubebox](https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes
 - :green_heart:[K9s](https://github.com/derailed/k9s) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters.
-- :green_heart:[eksctl](https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - `eksctl` is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
 - :green_heart:[kubediff](https://github.com/weaveworks/kubediff) :fire::fire::fire: - Kubediff is a tool for Kubernetes to show you the differences between your running configuration and your version controlled configuration.
+- :green_heart:[Helm](https://github.com/helm/helm) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Helm is a tool for managing Charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.
+- :green_heart:[Telepresence](https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Telepresence provides fast, realistic local development for Kubernetes microservices.
+
+### Cluster Provisioning
+- :green_heart:[kind](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes".
+- :green_heart:[k3s](https://github.com/rancher/k3s) - Lightweight Kubernetes. Easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB.
+- :green_heart:[eksctl](https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - `eksctl` is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
 
 ### Automation
 - :green_heart:[Flux](https://github.com/fluxcd/flux) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
 - :green_heart:[Helm Operator](https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-operator) :fire::fire: - The Helm Operator is a Kubernetes operator, allowing one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases.
 - :green_heart:[Flagger](https://github.com/weaveworks/flagger) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes.
 - :green_heart:[Kubernetes External Secrets](https://github.com/godaddy/kubernetes-external-secrets) :fire::fire::fire: - Kubernetes External Secrets allows you to use external secret management systems, like AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, to securely add secrets in Kubernetes.
-- :green_heart:[Calico Networking](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico_ :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads
+- :green_heart:[Argo Workflows](https://github.com/argoproj/argo) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.
+- :green_heart:[KEDA](https://github.com/kedacore/keda) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - KEDA allows for fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event driven Kubernetes workloads.
+
+### Networking
+- :green_heart:[ingress-nginx](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - `ingress-nginx` is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
+- :green_heart:[kubernetes-ingress](https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:  - An implementation of an Ingress controller for NGINX and NGINX Plus (commercial).
+- :green_heart:[Calico Networking](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads
+- :green_heart:[CoreDNS](https://github.com/coredns/coredns) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server that works on Kubernetes.
+- :green_heart:[Kong for Kubernetes](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Configure plugins, health checking, load balancing and more in Kong for Kubernetes Services.
+
+### Storage
+- :green_heart:[Rook](https://github.com/rook/rook) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes.
+- :green_heart:[OpenEBS](https://github.com/openebs/openebs) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - OpenEBS is the most widely deployed and easy to use open-source storage solution for Kubernetes.
+- :green_heart:[Longhorn] :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes.
+
 
 ### Testing
 - :green_heart:[kube-monkey](https://github.com/asobti/kube-monkey) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - It randomly deletes Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services.
 - :green_heart:[Kubetest](https://github.com/vapor-ware/kubetest) :fire: - Kubetest is a pytest plugin that makes it easier to manage a Kubernetes cluster within your integration tests.
+- :green_heart:[Litmus](https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus) :fire::fire::fire: - Litmus provides tools to orchestrate chaos on Kubernetes to help SREs find weaknesses in their deployments.
+
+### Monitoring and Visualization
+- :green_heart:[Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system.
+- :green_heart:[Grafana](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.
+- :green_heart:[kube-state-metrics](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - kube-state-metrics is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects.
+- :green_heart:[Kubernetes Metrics Server](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Metrics Server is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.
+- :green_heart:[Kubernetes Operational View](https://github.com/hjacobs/kube-ops-view) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - A tool that aims to provide a common operational picture for multiple Kubernetes clusters.
+- :green_heart:[Kubernetes Dashboard](https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Kubernetes Dashboard is a general purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters.
+- :green_heart:[Thanos](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.
+- :green_heart:[Cortex](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.
 
 ### Backup and Diaster Recovery
 - :green_heart:[katafygio](https://github.com/bpineau/katafygio) :fire: - katafygio discovers Kubernetes objects (deployments, services, ...), and continuously save them as yaml files in a git repository.
@@ -59,11 +95,21 @@ Items with :green_heart: indicate open source projects.
 - :green_heart:[Gatekeeper](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Policy controller for Kubernetes
 - :green_heart:[Konstraint](https://github.com/plexsystems/konstraint) - Konstraint is a CLI tool to assist with the creation and management of constraints when using Gatekeeper.
 
-### Worker Node Operations
+### Service Mesh
+- :green_heart:[Istio](https://github.com/istio/istio) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
+- :green_heart:[Linkderd](https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Linkerd is a transparent service mesh, designed to make modern applications safe and sane.
+- [Consul](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/multi-platform-service-mesh/) - HashiCorp's service mesh service that is infrastructure agnostic.
+- [AWS App Mesh](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/) - A service mesh service offered by AWS that works on AWS infrastructure services such as EKS and Fargate. 
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- :green_heart:[Crossplane](https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that extends any cluster with the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, services, and applications.
+- :green_heart:[Brigade](https://github.com/brigadecore/brigade/) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - Brigade is the tool for creating pipelines for Kubernetes.
+- :green_heart:[Strimzi](https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations.
+- :green_heart:[KubeEdge](https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge) :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - KubeEdge is built upon Kubernetes and extends native containerized application orchestration and device management to hosts at the Edge.
+- :green_heart:[Volcano](https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano) :fire::fire::fire: - Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.
 - :green_heart:[AWS Node Termination Handler](https://github.com/aws/aws-node-termination-handler) :fire::fire: - A Kubernetes Daemonset to gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown
 - :green_heart:[Descheduler for Kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/descheduler) :fire::fire::fire::fire: - Descheduling pods from nodes based on policies
 
-
 ## Guides, Documentations, Blogs, and Trainings
 
 ### Guides