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- Categories
- 🧰 Cluster Management
- 🧑💻 Cluster with Core CLI tools
- 🫙 Alert and Monitoring
- 🌐 Logging and Tracing
- 🗄️ Troubleshooting / Debugging
- 💾 Developement Tools/Kit
- 🔒 Alternative Tools for Developement
- 🪵 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
- 🗄️ Multiple Tools Repo
- 💾 Cost Optimisation
- 🔒 Non-Categorize
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thanos | Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. CNCF Sandbox project. https://thanos.io |  |
| 2 | Prometheus | The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. |  |
| 3 | Grafana | The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More |  |
| 4 | Kubetail | Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time |  |
| 5 | Searchlight | Alerts for Kubernetes |  |
| 6 | linkerd2 Monitoring Mixin for Grafana | Grafana dashboards for linkerd2 monitoring and can work in standalone (default) or in multi cluster setup |  |
| 7 | kuberhaus | Kubernetes resource dashboard with node/pod layout and resource requests |  |
| 8 | Kubernetes Job/CronJob Notifier | This tool sends an alert to slack whenever there is a Kubernetes cronJob/Job failure/success |  |
| 9 | Argus | This tool monitors changes in the filesystem on specified paths | - |
| 10 | Kube-Scout | Scout for alarming issues across your Kubernetes clusters |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jaeger | CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform |  |
| 2 | Kiali | Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh |  |
| 3 | ELK | Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana |  |
| 4 | fluentbit | Fast and Lightweight Log processor and forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX |  |
| 5 | Loki | Like Prometheus, but for logs |  |
| 6 | kubectl-mtail | tail logs from multiple pods matching label selector |  |
| 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 |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trireme-kubernetes | Aporeto integration with Kubernetes Network Policies |  |
| 2 | Calico | Cloud native connectivity and network policy |  |
| 3 | kubepox | Kubernetes network Policy eXploration tool |  |
| 4 | kokotap | Tools for kubernetes pod network tapping |  |
| 5 | Submariner | Connect all your Kubernetes clusters, no matter where they are in the world |  |
| 6 | egress-operator | An operator to produce egress gateway pods and control access to them with network policies |  |
| 7 | kubefwd (Kube Forward) | Bulk port forwarding Kubernetes services for local development |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Testkube | Kubernetes-native testing framework for testers and developers |  |
| 2 | k6d | A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript |  |
| 3 | Network bandwith and load testingd - | Test suite for Kubernetes |  |
| 4 | test-infrad | Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project |  |
| 5 | kube-scored | Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security |  |
| 6 | Litmusd | Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering; Kubernetes-Native Chaos Engineering; Chaos Engineering for Kubernetes |  |
| 7 | PowerfulSeald | A powerful testing tool for Kubernetes clusters |  |
| 8 | kube-burnerd | Kube-burner is a tool aimed at stressing kubernetes clusters | - |
| 9 | Tracetest | Generate end-to-end and integration tests automatically from your OpenTelemetry traces |  |
| 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 | Layer5 | Layer5, the service mesh company, representing every service mesh |  |
| 9 | Gloo Mesh | The Service Mesh Orchestration Platform |  |
| 10 | APISIX | Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway. |  |
| 11 | Contour | High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes | - |
| 12 | Kusk Gateway | OpenAPI-driven Ingress Controller for Kubernetes | - |
| 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 |  |
| 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 | - |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChubaoFS | distributed file system and object storage |  |
| 2 | Longhorn | Cloud-Native distributed block storage built on and for Kubernetes |  |
| 3 | OpenEBS | Kubernetes native - hyperconverged block storage with multiple storage engines |  |
| 4 | Rook | Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes |  |
| 5 | SeaweedFS | Distributed file system supports read-write many volumes |  |
| 6 | TiKV | Distributed transactional key-value database |  |
| 7 | TopoLVM | Capacity-aware CSI plugin for Kubernetes |  |
| 8 | velero | Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes |  |
| 9 | Vitess | Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL |  |
| 10 | kaDalu | A lightweight Persistent storage solution for Kubernetes / OpenShift using GlusterFS in background |  |
| 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 |  |
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kubecost | Cross-cloud cost allocation models for workloads running on Kubernetes |  |
| 2 | PerfectScale | Reduce Kubernetes costs while improving performance and resilience with data-driven intelligence built for continuous optimization | - |
| 3 | OpenCost | OpenCost — your favorite open source cost monitoring tool for Kubernetes |  |
