winter-soldier VS silver-surfer

It’s very often that in a kubernetes cluster, workloads remains up which are not being utilized since long or having no need anymore and increase TCO of infrastructure. Over the weekend, it’s very rare that a kubernetes cluster or workloads are being used but still it remains up. In such user-cases, we can use winter soldier. To know more about winter-soldier, please follow this link.

git clone https://github.com/devtron-labs/silver-surfer.git cd silver-surfer go mod vendor go mod download make

Upgrades using eksctl are easy and enabling pod disruption budgets let you do the upgrades without any downtime. Do remember to check for any removed apis in the target cluster version (k8s 1.22 has removed a lot of apis) before you upgrade. I use an open source tool silversurfer for the same.

kops - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management silver-surfer - Check ApiVersion compatibility and provide Migration path for Kubernetes objects when upgrading Kubernetes to latest versions Kube-ops-view - Kubernetes Operational View - read-only system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters kubeprompt - Kubernetes prompt info Metalk8s - An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes Clusterman - Cluster Autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos Cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates Goldilocks - Get your resource requests "Just Right" katafygio - Dump, or continuously backup Kubernetes objets as yaml files in git Rancher - Complete container management platform Sealed Secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets OpenKruise/Kruise - Automate application workloads management on Kubernetes https://openkruise.io kubectl snapshot - Take Cluster Snapshots kapp - simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label https://get-kapp.io keda - Event-driven autoscaler for Kubernetes Octant - To better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters Portainer - Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment Gardener - Deliver fully-managed clusters at scale everywhere with your own Kubernetes-as-a-Service Kubed - Kubernetes Cluster Operator Daemon Kubestack - Kubestack is the free and open-source GitOps framework to codify your custom platform stack using Terraform.

Silver Surfer

devtron-labs/silver-surfer