A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
www.influxdata.com
featured
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com
featured
  1. enhancements

    Enhancements tracking repo for Kubernetes

    eg: LoadBalancer supports AWS/GCP/Azure/..

    Kubernetes has been pruning out vendor-specific code for a while now, moving it out of tree. The upcoming 1.31 release will drop a lot of existing, already deprecated support for AWS & others from Kubernetes proper. https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

    InfluxDB logo
  3. kube-state-metrics

    Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

    Look for example at the metrics exposed by kube state metrics: https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/tree/main/d...

    With controllers metrics + kube state metrics about most Kubernetes resources, you can easily build alerts when a resource fails to reconcile.

    > Basically, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler but with sensors which are not just "CPU"

    Take a look at KEDA, it's exactly this: https://keda.sh/

  4. keda

    KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes

    Look for example at the metrics exposed by kube state metrics: https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/tree/main/d...

    With controllers metrics + kube state metrics about most Kubernetes resources, you can easily build alerts when a resource fails to reconcile.

    > Basically, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler but with sensors which are not just "CPU"

    Take a look at KEDA, it's exactly this: https://keda.sh/

  5. rcl

    A reasonable configuration language

    RCL has control flow and types: https://rcl-lang.org/. No record types yet though, so they are not yet very useful to validate e.g. a Kubernetes manifest against a schema.

  6. cni

    Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers

    There are ways to unbolt the native networking stack and roll your own. Tons of options available: https://github.com/containernetworking/cni

    I don’t agree with your approach (curious as to why you would want this) but I believe it’s possible.

  7. api

    The canonical location of the Kubernetes API definition. (by kubernetes)

    On the last point ("Stringy Types") - k8s API types are actually defined as Protobufs[0] so they have strictly defined schemas. There are some types that are sum types (IntOrString) but generally no type depends on some other field's value afaik. Ofc that doesn't stop CRD developers from making everything a String type and then interpolation based on phases of the moon and what not...

    [0] - e.g https://github.com/kubernetes/api/blob/master/core/v1/genera...

  8. dhall-kubernetes

    Typecheck, template and modularize your Kubernetes definitions with Dhall

    At the moment nothing like that exists. Eventually it should be possible to generate RCL types like https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes does for Dhall.

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    SaaSHub logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • How to connect transmission to *arr apps via gluetun?

    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 7 Apr 2023
  • Blog: KWOK: Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet

    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2023
  • Building an Online Code Compiler: A Complete Guide

    13 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2025
  • What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like

    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2025
  • Show HN: Unregistry – "Docker push" directly to servers without a registry

    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2025

Did you know that Go is
the 4th most popular programming language
based on number of references?