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This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/kubernetes

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  1. k9s

    🐢 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

  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.

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  3. awesome-k8s-resources

    A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.

    Not anything found on the awesome k8s resources list but for example:

  4. pluto

    A cli tool to help discover deprecated apiVersions in Kubernetes

  5. CloudGraph cli

    The universal GraphQL API and CSPM tool for AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s, and tencent. (by cloudgraphdev)

    https://github.com/cloudgraphdev/cli the GraphQL API for K8s, AWS, GCP, and Azure

  6. devtron

    The only Kubernetes dashboard you need

    Have you tried Devtron ?

  7. tilt

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

    https://tilt.dev was a nice experience to develop with k3s. I'm looking forward to using it more

  8. stern

    ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern (by stern)

    Please don't suggest this repo - it isn't actively maintained. It has been forked and is being worked on here https://github.com/stern/stern

  9. SaaSHub

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

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  10. stern

    ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes or pushing to GELF logging solution (by derdanne)

    aggregated container logging in cli: Stern

  11. Flux

    Discontinued Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2 (by fluxcd)

    CI/CD: Tekton Flux

  12. rook

    Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

    rook+ceph : baremetal persistant storage

  13. draino

    Automatically cordon and drain Kubernetes nodes based on node conditions

    Drain node upon a condition: Draino

  14. cost-model

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

    kubecost - analyse cost of the cluster https://kubecost.com/

  15. kured

    Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

    kured : automatic restarts of kubernetes nodes

  16. flagger

    Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)

    flagger: Automated canary using istio/linkerd

  17. local-path-provisioner

    Dynamically provisioning persistent local storage with Kubernetes

    localpathprovisioner : to provision storage in local machine

  18. dex

    OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors

    DEX - Identity provider for kube login: https://github.com/dexidp/dex

  19. kubespy

    Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi.

    KubeSpy - to see what's going on a deployment real time. https://github.com/pulumi/kubespy

  20. rbac-tool

    Rapid7 | insightCloudSec | Kubernetes RBAC Power Toys - Visualize, Analyze, Generate & Query

    Tool to create and visualize RBAC in cluster: https://github.com/alcideio/rbac-tool

  21. k8s-ecr-login-renew

    Renews Docker login credentials for an AWS ECR container registry.

  22. permission-manager

    Permission Manager is a project that brings sanity to Kubernetes RBAC and Users management, Web UI FTW

    permission manager (web ui in cluster to manage user access): https://github.com/sighupio/permission-manager

  23. kube-fledged

    A kubernetes operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes, so application pods start almost instantly

    kube fledged - pre pull containes in nodes: https://github.com/senthilrch/kube-fledged

  24. kubevious

    Kubevious - Kubernetes without disasters

    kubevious: UI tool and query the cluster with regex https://github.com/kubevious/kubevious

  25. kubeaudit

    Discontinued kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls

    kubeaudit: audit kubernetes or specific manifests for issues https://github.com/shopify/kubeaudit

  26. karpenter-provider-aws

    Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.

    Auto scaler from AWS (karpenter): https://github.com/aws/karpenter

  27. mizu

    Discontinued The API traffic viewer for Kubernetes providing deep visibility into all API traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers and pods inside a Kubernetes cluster. Think TCPDump and Wireshark re-invented for Kubernetes [Moved to: https://github.com/kubeshark/kubeshark]

    API traffic viewer for kubernetes(kinda like wireshark): https://github.com/up9inc/mizu

  28. kubefwd

    Bulk port forwarding Kubernetes services for local development.

    kubefwd bulk port forward: https://github.com/txn2/kubefwd

  29. helmfile

    Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts (by roboll)

    helmfile is not widely known but awesomeme

  30. helm-x

    Treat any Kustomization or K8s manifests directory as a Helm chart

    helm-x - Treat any Kustomization or K8s manifests directory as a Helm chart

  31. cdk8s

    Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming

    cdk8s was mentioned here already, but I want to emphasize how underrated this tool is. Because it is the only one capable of replacing the YAML hell not with a different wired language or declarative syntax.

  32. SaaSHub

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

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