27 open-source tools that can make your Kubernetes workflow easier 🚀🥳

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • minikube

    Run Kubernetes locally

  • kubebox

    ⎈❏ Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • kops

    Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

  • kube-burner

    Kubernetes performance and scale test orchestration framework written in golang

  • kube-hunter

    Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters

  • k9s

    🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

  • k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • helm

    The Kubernetes Package Manager

  • Nacos

    an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications.

  • kaniko

    Build Container Images In Kubernetes

  • kube-monkey

    An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters

  • Gravitational Teleport

    Protect access to all of your infrastructure

  • kubespray

    Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

  • kube-bench

    Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark

  • quay

    Build, Store, and Distribute your Applications and Containers

  • kube-applier

    kube-applier enables automated deployment and declarative configuration for your Kubernetes cluster. (by box)

  • kubetail

    Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time

  • kube-state-metrics

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

  • kubeval

    Validate your Kubernetes configuration files, supports multiple Kubernetes versions

  • kube-ps1

    Kubernetes prompt info for bash and zsh

  • kubectx

    Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

  • cost-model

    Discontinued Cross-cloud cost allocation models for Kubernetes workloads [Moved to: https://github.com/kubecost/opencost]

  • skaffold

    Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

  • tilt

    Define your dev environment as code. For microservice apps on Kubernetes.

  • dashboard

    General-purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters

  • Kong

    🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.

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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.

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