Awesome Kubernetes Resources

A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.

Inspired by awesome list and donnemartin/awesome-aws.

The Fiery Meter of Awesomeness

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Idea taken from donnemartin/awesome-aws.

Contents

• Tools and Libraries
  • Command Line Tools
  • Cluster Provisioning
  • Automation
  • Cluster Resources Management
  • Secrets Management
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Testing
  • Monitoring, Alerts, and Visualization
  • Backup and Diaster Recovery
  • Security and Compliance
  • Service Mesh
  • Miscellaneous
• Guides, Documentations, Blogs, and Trainings
  • Guides
  • Documentations
  • Blogs
• Contribute
• License

Tools and Libraries

Items with 💚 indicate open source projects.

Command Line Tools

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

Cluster Provisioning

• 💚kind 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes".
• 💚k3s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Lightweight Kubernetes. Easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB.
• 💚eksctl 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
• 💚kubespray 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Deploy a production ready Kubernetes cluster
• 💚kops 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kops helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line.
• 💚Bootkube 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Bootkube is a tool for launching self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
• 💚kube-aws 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-aws is a command-line tool to create/update/destroy Kubernetes clusters on AWS.

Automation and CI/CD

• 💚Flux 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
• 💚Helm Operator 🔥🔥 - The Helm Operator is a Kubernetes operator, allowing one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases.
• 💚Flagger 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes.
• 💚Argo Workflows 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.
• 💚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.
• 💚Skaffold 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
• 💚Apollo 🔥🔥 - Apollo is a simple, lightweight, Continuous Deployment (CD) solution on top of Kubernetes.
• 💚Spinnaker 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

Cluster Resources Management

• 💚Kruise 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kruise consists of several controllers which extend and complement the Kubernetes core controllers for workload management.
• 💚Grafana Tanka 🔥🔥🔥 - The clean, concise and super flexible alternative to YAML for your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚KubeDirector 🔥🔥 - KubeDirector uses standard Kubernetes (K8s) facilities of custom resources and API extensions to implement stateful scaleout application clusters.

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

• 💚ingress-nginx 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - ingress-nginx is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
• 💚kubernetes-ingress 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - An implementation of an Ingress controller for NGINX and NGINX Plus (commercial).
• 💚Calico Networking 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads
• 💚CoreDNS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server that works on Kubernetes.
• 💚Kong for Kubernetes 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Configure plugins, health checking, load balancing and more in Kong for Kubernetes Services.
• 💚cert-manager 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources.

Storage

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

Testing and Troubleshooting

• 💚kube-monkey 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - It randomly deletes Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services.
• 💚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.
• 💚PowerfulSeal 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - PowerfulSeal injects failure into your Kubernetes clusters, so that you can detect problems as early as possible.
• 💚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.
• 💚ksniff 🔥🔥🔥 - A kubectl plugin that utilize tcpdump and Wireshark to start a remote capture on any pod in your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚k6 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - k6 is a modern load testing tool, building on Load Impact's years of experience in the load and performance testing industry.
• 💚Conftest 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Conftest helps you write tests against structured configuration data.
• 💚chaoskube 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚Chaos Mesh 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Chaos Mesh® is a cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform that orchestrates chaos on Kubernetes environments.

Monitoring, Alerts, and Visualization

• 💚Prometheus 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system.
• 💚Grafana 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.
• 💚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 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.
• 💚Kubernetes Dashboard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kubernetes Dashboard is a general purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters.
• 💚Thanos 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.
• 💚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.
• 💚Kiali 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kiali works with Istio to visualise the service mesh topology.
• 💚Searchlight 🔥🔥 - Searchlight/Icinga periodically runs various checks on a Kubernetes cluster and sends notifications if detects an issue.
• 💚Popeye 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
• 💚kubewatch 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kubewatch is a Kubernetes watcher that currently publishes notification to available collaboration hubs/notification channels.
• 💚Sloop 🔥🔥🔥 - Sloop monitors Kubernetes, recording histories of events and resource state changes and providing visualizations to aid in debugging past events.
• 💚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.

Backup and Diaster Recovery

• 💚katafygio 🔥 - katafygio discovers Kubernetes objects (deployments, services, ...), and continuously save them as yaml files in a git repository.

Security and Compliance

• 💚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.
• 💚Gatekeeper 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Policy controller for Kubernetes
• 💚Konstraint - Konstraint is a CLI tool to assist with the creation and management of constraints when using Gatekeeper.
• 💚kube-hunter 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-hunter hunts for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters.
• Kube-Scan 🔥🔥 - Kube-Scan gives a risk score, from 0 (no risk) to 10 (high risk) for each workload.
• 💚Permission manager 🔥🔥🔥 - Permission Manager is an application developed by SIGHUP that enables a super-easy and user-friendly RBAC management for Kubernetes.

Service Mesh

• 💚Istio 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
• 💚Linkderd 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - 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.

Development Tools

• 💚Telepresence 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Telepresence provides fast, realistic local development for Kubernetes microservices.
• 💚Okteto 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - okteto accelerates the development workflow of Kubernetes applications.
• 💚Tilt 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tilt powers multi-service development and makes sure they behave.
• 💚garden 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Garden provides production-like Kubernetes testing environments for integration tests, QA, and development.
• 💚kubernix 🔥🔥 - This project aims to provide single dependency Kubernetes clusters for local testing, experimenting and development purposes.
• 💚ko 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - ko is a tool for building and deploying Golang applications to Kubernetes.
• 💚Makisu 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Makisu is a fast and flexible Docker image build tool designed for unprivileged containerized environments such as Mesos or Kubernetes.
• 💚Tye 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tye is a developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier.

Data Processing and Machine Learning

• 💚Volcano 🔥🔥🔥 - Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.
• 💚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.

Miscellaneous

• 💚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.
• 💚Brigade 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Brigade is the tool for creating pipelines for Kubernetes.
• 💚KubeEdge 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - KubeEdge is built upon Kubernetes and extends native containerized application orchestration and device management to hosts at the Edge.
• 💚AWS Node Termination Handler 🔥🔥 - A Kubernetes Daemonset to gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown
• 💚Descheduler for Kubernetes 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Descheduling pods from nodes based on policies
• 💚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.

Guides, Documentations, Blogs, and Trainings

Guides

• Amazon EKS Node Drainer - A guide and an example to cordon and evict all evictable pods from an EC2 node being terminated.
• Amazon EKS Workshop - A comprehensive guide and list of tutorials to work with Amazon EKS.
• Moduler and Scalable Amazon EKS Architecture - A deployment guide that provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Amazon EKS clusters.
• kubectl Cheat Sheet - kubectl cheat sheet
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments - A flow chart to troubleshoot a kubernetes deployment in case of issues
• How to deploy a production-grade Kubernetes cluster on AWS - This guide will walk you through the process of configuring a production-grade Kubernetes cluster on AWS.
• Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security - This guide provides advice about protecting information, systems, and assets that are reliant on EKS while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Documentations

• Kubernetes API Reference Docs

Blogs

• 10 most common mistakes using kubernetes

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License

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