Awesome K8s

A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools & resources inspired by other Awesome lists

CLI plugins

• buildkit-cli-for-kubectl - building container images with your Kubernetes cluster * blog
• kail - kubernetes log viewer
• kdo - Deployless Development on Kubernetes
• Kube-capacity - Simple CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits, and utilization in a Kubernetes cluster
• Kubectx - Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl.
• ssh-jump - kubectl plugin to SSH into Kubernetes nodes using a SSH jump host Pod
• Klum - Kubernetes Lazy User Manager
• Tubekit - kubectl alternative with quick context switching, kubectl on steroids
• kubectl-rolesum - Summarize Kubernetes RBAC roles for the specified subjects
• kubectl-tree - kubectl plugin to browse Kubernetes object hierarchies as a tree
• ktunnel - Exposes your local resources to kubernetes ~ blog
• kubescout - Scout for alarming issues across your Kubernetes clusters
• stern - Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
• kybectl-debug - Debug a target container in a Kubernetes cluster by automatically creating a new, non-invasive, 'debug' container

Config

• Kr8 - Opinionated Kubernetes cluster configuration management tool based on Jsonnet
• Tanka - Composable configuration utility for Kubernetes

Distributions

• k0s - Zero Friction Kubernetes - docs
• k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
• Kubefire - Kubefire

Functions

• Fission - Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
• Knative

Frontend & admin

• havener - Swiss army knife for Kubernetes tasks
• k1s - The world's simplest Kubernetes dashboard
• Kubedev - A simpler and more powerful Kubernetes Dashboard.
• Lens
• Octant
• Pixie
• more here

Logging

• https://github.com/OT-CONTAINER-KIT/logging-operator
• https://github.com/up9inc/mizu - API traffic viewer for Kubernetes enabling you to view all API communication between microservices

Metrics & Scale

• pangolin - Enhanced Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for Kubernetes.
• Karpenter - Kubernetes Node Autoscaling https://twitter.com/nathankpeck/status/1420463945865998344
• kubernetes-event-exporter - Export Kubernetes events to multiple destinations with routing and filtering.
• Murre - On-demand, scaleable source of container resource metrics for K8s.

Operators

• wireguard-operator - Wireguard operator created to easily provision a VPN in a k8s cluster

Registry & container mngm

• https://github.com/shipwright-io/build - framework for building container images on Kubernetes

Storage

• k8s-csi-s3 - Container Storage Interface (CSI) for S3 (or S3 compatible) storage.
• fuse-device-plugin - kubernetes device plugin for using /dev/fuse without privilege

Secrets management

• aws-secret-operator - Creates and updates Kubernetes secrets according to what are stored in AWS Secrets Manager
• kube-secret-syncer - Operator to sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
• kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
• setec - Tool that encrypts and decrypts secrets that are managed by Bitnami's Sealed Secrets
• sealed-secrets - Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
• secrets-store-csi-driver

Other list

• 90DaysOfDevOps
• Awesome-eks - A curated list of awesome tools for Amazon EKS.
• aws-eks-best-practices - EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
• awesome-kubectl-plugins - Curated list of kubectl plugins
• Curated List of Kubernetes Tools
• kubernetes-examples - Minimal self-contained examples of standard Kubernetes features and patterns in YAML

Tricks & Blogs

• ContainerSSH - Launch containers on demand
• Getting a SSH shell on each node
• Gradual-code-releases-using-an-in-house-kubernetes-canary-controller
• Kubernetes-essential-tools-2021
• visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
• Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes
• vk8s - Setting up a virtual Kubernetes cluster inside a Docker container for integration testing