Awesome Kubernetes Resources

A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.

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Contents

• Tools and Libraries
  • Command Line Tools
  • Cluster Provisioning
  • Automation and CI/CD
  • Cluster Resources Management
  • Secrets Management
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Testing and Troubleshooting
  • Monitoring, Alerts, and Visualization
  • Backup and Restore
  • Security and Compliance
  • Service Mesh
  • Development Tools
  • Data Processing and Machine Learning
  • Miscellaneous
• Guides, Documentations, Blogs, and Learnings
  • Guides
  • Documentations
  • Blogs and Videos
  • Learnings
• Contribute
• License

Tools and Libraries

Items with 💚 indicate open source projects.

Command Line Tools

• 💚Kubebox 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes
• 💚K9s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters.
• 💚kubediff 🔥🔥🔥 - Kubediff is a tool for Kubernetes to show you the differences between your running configuration and your version controlled configuration.
• 💚Helm 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Helm is a tool for managing Charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.
• 💚kubeprompt - Isolates KUBECONFIG in each shell and shows the current Kubernetes context/namespace in your prompt
• 💚kubectx + kubens 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kubectx helps you switch between clusters back and forth, and kubens helps you switch between Kubernetes namespaces smoothly.
• 💚kube-shell 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kube-shell: An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.
• 💚Ktunnel 🔥 - Ktunnel is a CLI tool that establishes a reverse tunnel between a kubernetes cluster and your local machine.
• 💚kubectl-aliases 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - This repository contains a script to generate hundreds of convenient shell aliases for kubectl.
• 💚Kubetail 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Bash script that enables you to aggregate (tail/follow) logs from multiple pods into one stream.
• 💚stern 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Stern allows you to tail multiple pods on Kubernetes and multiple containers within the pod.
• 💚kubectl tree 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - A kubectl plugin to explore ownership relationships between Kubernetes objects through owners.
• 💚nova - Nova scans your cluster for installed Helm charts, then cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories.

Cluster Provisioning

• 💚kind 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes".
• 💚k3s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Lightweight Kubernetes. Easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB.
• 💚eksctl 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
• 💚kubespray 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Deploy a production ready Kubernetes cluster
• 💚kops 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kops helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line.
• 💚Bootkube 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Bootkube is a tool for launching self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
• 💚kube-aws 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-aws is a command-line tool to create/update/destroy Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
• 💚Minikube 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
• Kubeadm - kubeadm performs the actions necessary to get a minimum viable cluster up and running.

Automation and CI/CD

• 💚Flux 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
• 💚Argo CD 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
• 💚Argo Rollouts 🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Rollouts controller, uses the Rollout custom resource to provide additional deployment strategies such as Blue Green and Canary to Kubernetes.
• 💚Helm Operator 🔥🔥 - The Helm Operator is a Kubernetes operator, allowing one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases.
• 💚Flagger 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Flagger is a progressive delivery tool that automates the release process for applications running on Kubernetes.
• 💚Argo Workflows 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.
• 💚KEDA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - KEDA allows for fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event driven Kubernetes workloads.
• 💚KubeSphere 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - KubeSphere is a distributed operating system providing cloud native stack with Kubernetes as its kernel, and aims to be plug-and-play architecture for third-party applications seamless integration to boost its ecosystem.
• 💚Skaffold 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
• 💚Apollo 🔥🔥 - Apollo is a simple, lightweight, Continuous Deployment (CD) solution on top of Kubernetes.
• 💚Spinnaker 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
• 💚Argo Events 🔥🔥🔥 - Argo Events is an event-driven workflow automation framework for Kubernetes which helps you trigger K8s objects, Argo Workflows, Serverless workloads, etc.
• 💚Reloader 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Reloader can watch changes in ConfigMap and Secret and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated DeploymentConfigs, Deployments, Daemonsets and Statefulsets.

Cluster Resources Management

• 💚Kruise 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kruise consists of several controllers which extend and complement the Kubernetes core controllers for workload management.
• 💚Grafana Tanka 🔥🔥🔥 - The clean, concise and super flexible alternative to YAML for your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚KubeDirector 🔥🔥 - KubeDirector uses standard Kubernetes (K8s) facilities of custom resources and API extensions to implement stateful scaleout application clusters.
• 💚The Hierarchical Namespace Controller 🔥🔥🔥 - Hierarchical namespaces make it easier to share your cluster by making namespaces more powerful.

Secrets Management

• 💚Kubernetes External Secrets 🔥🔥🔥 - Kubernetes External Secrets allows you to use external secret management systems, like AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, to securely add secrets in Kubernetes.
• 💚Sealed Secrets 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Encrypt your Secret into a SealedSecret, which is safe to store - even to a public repository.

Networking

• 💚ingress-nginx 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - ingress-nginx is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
• 💚kubernetes-ingress 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - An implementation of an Ingress controller for NGINX and NGINX Plus (commercial).
• 💚Calico Networking 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads
• 💚CoreDNS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server that works on Kubernetes.
• 💚Kong for Kubernetes 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Configure plugins, health checking, load balancing and more in Kong for Kubernetes Services.
• 💚cert-manager 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources.
• 💚ksniff 🔥🔥🔥 - A kubectl plugin that utilize tcpdump and Wireshark to start a remote capture on any pod in your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚kubectl trace 🔥🔥🔥 - kubectl trace is a kubectl plugin that allows you to schedule the execution of bpftrace programs in your Kubernetes cluster.

Storage

• 💚Rook 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes.
• 💚OpenEBS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - OpenEBS is the most widely deployed and easy to use open-source storage solution for Kubernetes.
• 💚Longhorn 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes.
• Amazon EBS CSI Driver - The Amazon Elastic Block Store Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver provides a CSI interface used by Container Orchestrators to manage the lifecycle of Amazon EBS volumes.
• Amazon EFS CSI Driver - The Amazon Elastic File System Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver implements the CSI specification for container orchestrators to manage the lifecycle of Amazon EFS filesystems.
• Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver - The Amazon FSx for Lustre Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver implements CSI specification for container orchestrators (CO) to manage lifecycle of Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems.

Testing and Troubleshooting

• 💚kube-monkey 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - It randomly deletes Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services.
• 💚Kubetest 🔥 - Kubetest is a pytest plugin that makes it easier to manage a Kubernetes cluster within your integration tests.
• 💚Litmus 🔥🔥🔥 - Litmus provides tools to orchestrate chaos on Kubernetes to help SREs find weaknesses in their deployments.
• 💚PowerfulSeal 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - PowerfulSeal injects failure into your Kubernetes clusters, so that you can detect problems as early as possible.
• 💚Kubectl-debug 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kubectl-debug is an out-of-tree solution for troubleshooting running pods, which allows you to run a new container in running pods for debugging purpose.
• 💚ksniff 🔥🔥🔥 - A kubectl plugin that utilize tcpdump and Wireshark to start a remote capture on any pod in your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚k6 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - k6 is a modern load testing tool, building on Load Impact's years of experience in the load and performance testing industry.
• 💚Conftest 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Conftest helps you write tests against structured configuration data.
• 💚chaoskube 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚Chaos Mesh 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Chaos Mesh® is a cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform that orchestrates chaos on Kubernetes environments.
• 💚popeye 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
• 💚kube-score 🔥🔥🔥 - kube-score is a tool that performs static code analysis of your Kubernetes object definitions.

Monitoring, Alerts, and Visualization

• 💚Prometheus 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system.
• 💚Grafana 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.
• 💚kube-state-metrics 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-state-metrics is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects.
• 💚Kubernetes Metrics Server 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Metrics Server is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.
• 💚Kubernetes Operational View 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - A tool that aims to provide a common operational picture for multiple Kubernetes clusters.
• 💚Kubernetes Dashboard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kubernetes Dashboard is a general purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters.
• 💚Thanos 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.
• 💚Cortex 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.
• 💚Goldilocks 🔥🔥 - This tool creates a vertical pod autoscaler for each deployment in a namespace and then queries them for information.
• 💚Kiali 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kiali works with Istio to visualise the service mesh topology.
• 💚Searchlight 🔥🔥 - Searchlight/Icinga periodically runs various checks on a Kubernetes cluster and sends notifications if detects an issue.
• 💚Popeye 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
• 💚kubewatch 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kubewatch is a Kubernetes watcher that currently publishes notification to available collaboration hubs/notification channels.
• 💚Sloop 🔥🔥🔥 - Sloop monitors Kubernetes, recording histories of events and resource state changes and providing visualizations to aid in debugging past events.
• 💚BotKube 🔥🔥🔥 - BotKube integration with Slack or Mattermost helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster, debug critical deployments and gives recommendations for standard practices by running checks on the Kubernetes resources.
• 💚kube-capacity 🔥🔥🔥 - This is a simple CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits, and utilization in a Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚Lens 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Lens it's an useful, attractive, open source user interface (UI) for working with Kubernetes clusters.

Backup and Restore

• 💚katafygio 🔥 - katafygio discovers Kubernetes objects (deployments, services, ...), and continuously save them as yaml files in a git repository.
• 💚Velero 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

Security and Compliance

• 💚kube-bench 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-bench is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
• 💚Gatekeeper 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Policy controller for Kubernetes
• 💚Konstraint - Konstraint is a CLI tool to assist with the creation and management of constraints when using Gatekeeper.
• 💚kube-hunter 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kube-hunter hunts for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters.
• Kube-Scan 🔥🔥 - Kube-Scan gives a risk score, from 0 (no risk) to 10 (high risk) for each workload.
• 💚Permission manager 🔥🔥🔥 - Permission Manager is an application developed by SIGHUP that enables a super-easy and user-friendly RBAC management for Kubernetes.
• 💚rakkess 🔥🔥🔥 - kubectl plugin to show an access matrix for server resources
• 💚k-rail 🔥🔥 - k-rail is a workload policy enforcement tool for Kubernetes. It can help you secure a multi tenant cluster with minimal disruption and maximum velocity.
• 💚Falco 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Falco is a behavioral activity monitor designed to detect anomalous activity in your applications. You can use Falco to monitor run-time security of your Kubernetes applications and internal components.

Service Mesh

• 💚Istio 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
• 💚Linkerd 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Linkerd is a transparent service mesh, designed to make modern applications safe and sane.
• Consul - HashiCorp's service mesh service that is infrastructure agnostic.
• AWS App Mesh - A service mesh service offered by AWS that works on AWS infrastructure services such as EKS and Fargate.
• 💚Open Service Mesh 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, Cloud Native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

Development Tools

• 💚Telepresence 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Telepresence provides fast, realistic local development for Kubernetes microservices.
• 💚Okteto 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - okteto accelerates the development workflow of Kubernetes applications.
• 💚Tilt 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tilt powers multi-service development and makes sure they behave.
• 💚garden 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Garden provides production-like Kubernetes testing environments for integration tests, QA, and development.
• 💚kubernix 🔥🔥 - This project aims to provide single dependency Kubernetes clusters for local testing, experimenting and development purposes.
• 💚ko 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - ko is a tool for building and deploying Golang applications to Kubernetes.
• 💚Makisu 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Makisu is a fast and flexible Docker image build tool designed for unprivileged containerized environments such as Mesos or Kubernetes.
• 💚Tye 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tye is a developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier.

Data Processing and Machine Learning

• 💚Volcano 🔥🔥🔥 - Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.
• 💚Kubeflow 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kubeflow is a Cloud Native platform for machine learning based on Google’s internal machine learning pipelines.
• 💚Strimzi 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations.

Miscellaneous

• 💚Crossplane 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that extends any cluster with the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, services, and applications.
• 💚Brigade 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Brigade is the tool for creating pipelines for Kubernetes.
• 💚KubeEdge 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - KubeEdge is built upon Kubernetes and extends native containerized application orchestration and device management to hosts at the Edge.
• 💚AWS Node Termination Handler 🔥🔥 - A Kubernetes Daemonset to gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown
• 💚Descheduler for Kubernetes 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Descheduling pods from nodes based on policies
• 💚Kubeless 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - kubeless is a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that lets you deploy small bits of code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure plumbing.
• 💚Agones 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Agones is a library for hosting, running and scaling dedicated game servers on Kubernetes.
• 💚Shell-operator 🔥🔥🔥 - Shell-operator is a tool for running event-driven scripts in a Kubernetes cluster.
• 💚Kubecost 🔥🔥🔥 - Kubecost models give teams visibility into current and historical Kubernetes spend and resource allocation.
• 💚KubePug 🔥 - A tool to check deprecations before upgrading Kubernetes version

Guides, Documentations, Blogs, and Learnings

Guides

• A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes - A comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes architecture
• The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes - Graphical explanations of Kubernetes
• 💚Kubernetes The Hard Way 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Kubernetes The Hard Way guides you through bootstrapping a highly available Kubernetes cluster with end-to-end encryption between components and RBAC authentication.
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments - A flow chart to troubleshoot a kubernetes deployment in case of issues
• A Guide to the Kubernetes Networking Model - A in-depth run-through of Kubernetes networking
• Writing Your First Kubernetes Operator - In this article, we’ll see how to build and deploy your first Kubernetes Operator using the Operator SDK.
• Production grade Kubernetes Monitoring using Prometheus - A in-depth guide to deploy Prometheus monitoring solution.
• Configuring HA Kubernetes cluster on bare metal servers with kubeadm - A guide to standing up a HA Kubernetes cluster on bare metal servers with kubeadm.
• Introduction to Using Google Kubernetes Engine; Explain Like I’m Five! - Creating your first managed Kubernetes cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine using Terraform.
• Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security - This guide provides advice about protecting information, systems, and assets that are reliant on EKS while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• Amazon EKS Node Drainer - A guide and an example to cordon and evict all evictable pods from an EC2 node being terminated.
• Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy - This is a working place for multi-tenancy related proposals and prototypes.

Blogs and Videos

• 10 most common mistakes using kubernetes
• Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes
• Kubernetes at Reddit: Tales from Production
• Life of a Packet
• How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio
• OPA Deep Dive
• Kubernetes Failure Stories
• Service Mesh Comparison

Learnings and Documentations

• Kubernetes API Reference Docs
• kubectl Cheat Sheet
• Katacoda - This is a Kubernetes playground, a safe place designed for experimenting, exploring and learning Kubernetes.
• Play with Kubernetes - Play with Kubernetes is a playground which allows users to run K8s clusters in a matter of seconds.
• Learn Kubernetes Basics - This tutorial provides a walkthrough of the basics of the Kubernetes cluster orchestration system.
• A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes - A comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes architecture
• Configuring Redis using a ConfigMap - A walkthrough that provides a real world example of how to configure Redis using a ConfigMap
• Exposing an External IP Address to Access an Application in a Cluster - This guide shows how to create a Kubernetes Service object that exposes an external IP address.
• Example: Deploying PHP Guestbook application with Redis - This tutorial shows you how to build and deploy a simple, multi-tier web application using Kubernetes and Docker.
• StatefulSet Basics - This tutorial provides an introduction to managing applications with StatefulSets.
• Example: Deploying WordPress and MySQL with Persistent Volumes - This tutorial shows you how to deploy a WordPress site and a MySQL database using Minikube.
• Example: Deploying Cassandra with a StatefulSet - This tutorial shows you how to run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes. Cassandra, a database, needs persistent storage to provide data durability.
• Running ZooKeeper, A Distributed System Coordinator - This tutorial demonstrates running Apache Zookeeper on Kubernetes using StatefulSets, PodDisruptionBudgets, and PodAntiAffinity.
• Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Kubernetes - A end-to-end guide to set up a CI/CD Pipeline with Kubernetes.
• How to pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam on the first attempt - A guide to pass CKA exam
• Webinar: K8s with OPA Gatekeeper
• Kubectl Kubernetes CheatSheet - A cheatsheet containing many helpful kubectl commands

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