racker VS awesome-k8s-tools

If someone wants to try out IPMI locally with VMs, here is a setup for that: https://github.com/kinvolk/racker/tree/main/racker-sim (you don't need to use Flatcar and Racker)

When working on automated bare-metal provisioning of Kubernetes clusters (the main purpose of the repo https://github.com/kinvolk/racker) it's quite time consuming to test on actual hardware. Also, the hardware may be in use at the moment, or you don't even have access to a free full rack. It was nice to see that there is IPMI support for QEMU and that ipmi_sim integrates, but it was quite hard to set up. Especially the requirement that the BMCs should get their IP address via DHCP on the internal network is a bit more complicated/hacky. If you need to test IPMI commands or develop your own IPMI automation, have a look at this, otherwise it may serve as a demo on how to do Immutable Infra with your on-prem servers.

https://github.com/vilaca/awesome-k8s-tools is a project I've started about 9 months ago. This project aims to rank a comprehensive list of Kubernetes/container related OSS projects, sorted by stars. Every early morning, a GitHub action retrieves repositories from https://github.com/vilaca/awesome-k8s-tools/blob/main/data/repos and updates the README file accordingly. Initially, I intended for it to be another "awesome_X" list, but later I realised that there were already a few similar lists for Kubernetes, and the format didn't quite fit. Nonetheless, I've diligently maintained and updated the project almost every week, ensuring it remains a valuable resource. I often rely on it personally, and I believe it can be helpful to others in search of Kubernetes tooling. To further enhance the project, I am currently exploring new features. One idea is to generate a GitHub page (instead), providing a more user-friendly interface for browsing the list. This page could include additional details about each tool, such as concise descriptions, documentation links, and even user ratings or reviews. I would also like to encourage contributions from the community. If you know of any repositories that should or shouldn't be included in the list, I warmly welcome pull requests. You can find guidelines for contributing in the project's README, which will help maintain the list's relevancy and accuracy over time.

Here's the file that acts as a database https://github.com/vilaca/awesome-k8s-tools/tree/main/data and here's the scripts that generates the README https://github.com/vilaca/awesome-k8s-tools/tree/main/build

This is really cool. I expect to test it this week on some pipelines. I also added to a list of k8s/container tools I maintain on https://github.com/vilaca/awesome-k8s-tools/

I'm doing something in the same spirit here: https://github.com/vilaca/awesome-k8s-tools