projects
Kubernetes-related projects that you might find helpful
Projects built to make life with Kubernetes even better, more powerful, more scalable
- Clusterpedia - Complex resource searches across multiple clusters, support simultaneous search of a single kind of resource or multiple kinds of resources existing in multiple clusters.
- Forecastle - A dashboard which dynamically discovers and provides a launchpad to access applications deployed on Kubernetes
- Ingress Monitor Controller - Watches ingress endpoints and automatically registers liveness alerts on the configured uptime checker
- k8s-label-rules-webhook - An admission webhook to enforce standards for labels of resources being created in your k8s cluster
- kube-fledged - A K8S add-on for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on cluster worker nodes
- Reloader - Auto-load updates of ConfigMaps and Secrets into pods for Deployments, StatefulSets and DaemonSets
- krane - A command-line tool that helps you ship changes to a Kubernetes namespace and understand the result
- ktunnel - A command-line tool that establishes a reverse tunnel between Kubernetes and your cluster, use it to locally develop/debug services or integrate with local resources.
- k8s-platform-lcm - A faster and easier way to manage the lifecycle of applications and tools, running and living around your Kubernetes platform
- Pixie - Live-debug multi-cluster K8s environments without changing code and moving data off-cluster.
- configurator - A version control and a sync service that keeps Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets in sync with the deployment.
- CNAB - CNABs facilitate the bundling, installing and managing of container-native apps - and their coupled services.
- Cloudsmith - A fully managed package management SaaS, with first-class support for public and private Kubernetes registries (Docker + Helm Charts, plus many others).
To maintain regular surveillance over kubernetes
- BotKube - App that helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster, debug critical deployments & gives recommendations for the standard practices
- Kubernetes Web View - list and view all Kubernetes resources (incl. CRDs) with permalink-friendly URLs in a plain-HTML frontend
- Mizu - API traffic viewer for Kubernetes enabling you to view all API communication between microservices, multiprotocol support: HTTP1.1, HTTP/2, AMQP, Kafka, Redis.
- Outcold Solutions - monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud (metrics and log forwarding)
- StatusBay - Kubernetes deployment visibility (inc. Slack notifications, metrics and checks enrichment, resources consolidation, etc)
- The Elastic Stack - An open-source solution for monitoring and visualising K8s metrics, logs, application traces and more.
- kube-state-metrics - Simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects.
- loki - Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
- Loghouse - Efficiently store big amounts of your logs (in ClickHouse database), process them using a simple query language and monitor them online through web UI.
Test your applications running on Kubernetes
- Octopus - Octopus is a testing framework that allows you to run integration tests defined as Docker images on a Kubernetes cluster.
- Speedscale - Speedscale is a traffic replay framework that simulates production conditions, so you can validate changes quickly and easily.
Build-test-deploy automated workflow software designed to make production environments more stable and life better for engineers
- Jenkins X - automated CI/CD for Kubernetes with GitOps Promotion and Preview Environments on Pull Requests using best of breed OSS tools like: Jenkins, Helm, Skaffold, Kaniko, Knative Build, Knative Pipeline and Prow
- Apollo - Open Source application providing teams with self service UI for creating and deploying their services to Kubernetes.
- Werf - GitOps tool with advanced features to build images and deploy them to Kubernetes. Integrates with any existing CI system.
- PipeCD - Continuous Delivery for Declarative Kubernetes, Serverless and Infrastructure Applications
- Addon-operator - adds hooks and values to helm charts in order to enhance the capabilities of helm and transform charts into smart modules that configure themselves and respond to changes in the cluster.
- KUDO - KUDO (Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator) is a toolset for writing Kubernetes Operators
- Kured - Kured (Kubernetes Reboot Daemon) is a Kubernetes daemonset that performs safe automatic node reboots
- Terraform Controller - manages the lifecycle of terraform resources and leverages guardrails to provide an environment where developers to self-serve cloud resources
- TiDB Operator - TiDB Operator manages TiDB clusters on Kubernetes and automates tasks related to operating a TiDB cluster.
A list of linux containers supported by kubernetes.
- Submariner: Cross-Cluster Network Connectivity for Kubernetes - Submariner enables direct networking between pods in different Kubernetes clusters on prem or in the cloud.
- Maesh: Simpler Service Mesh - Maesh is a straight-forward, easy to configure, and non-invasive service mesh that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster.
- CyberArk Conjur Kubernetes Authenticator - Secure your Kubernetes-deployed applications with CyberArk Conjur
- Kubernetes Resource Report - report Kubernetes cluster and pod resource requests vs usage and generate static HTML
- Octant - A web-based, highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters.
- Portainer - Containerized web-based UI for managing for Docker, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes environments.
- Monokle - helps you create, edit and validate yaml manifests, visualize and validate resource links and dependencies, connect and compare resources to your clusters, debug the output of kustomize and helm, and more!
- Aptakube - A modern, lightweight and multi-cluster desktop client for Kubernetes. Connect to multiple clusters simultaneously, as if it was just one big cluster. View, edit and manage all your resources from your desktop.
- kubectl-plugins - A collection of kubectl plugins handling everything from easy context switches to connecting to a container as any user (root included) via exec. Slightly tailored towards GKE users.
- kubensx - Simpler Cluster/User/Namespace switching for Kubernetes (featuring interactive mode and wildcard/fuzzy matching).
- webkubectl - A web based tool helps you to manage kubernetes credentials and run kubectl command in web browser.
- Portainer - Secure REST API proxy to Kubernetes environments, enabling integrations with external tools.
- Pulumi - Provides a SDK for k8s deployments targeting on-premises clusters and major cloud vendors' managed services.
- Cue - A data constraint language which aims to simplify tasks involving defining and using data. Cue is a superset of JSON
- ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure allowing you to focus on your data instead of how to properly escape it.
- kosko - Write Kubernetes manifests in JavaScript and validate against Kubernetes OpenAPI definitions.
- MicroConfig - Awesome tool for microservice configuration management. Works with app configs, helm values, kubernetes resources and more.
- kubeletctl - A client for kubelet with advanced capabilities like scanning for pods vulnerable for RCE
- Anchore Engine - An open-source project that provides a centralized service for inspection, analysis, and certification of container images.
- Deepfence ThreatStryker - Full life cycle Cloud Native Security Observability Platform for kubernetes, virtual machines and serverless.
- Deepfence ThreatMapper - Apache v2, powerful runtime vulnerability scanner for kubernetes, virtual machines and serverless.
- Guard - Authenticaton webhook server with support for Github, Gitlab, Google, Azure and LDAP (AD) as identity providers.
- kube-bench - The Kubernetes Bench for Security is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices.
- M9sweeper - Free security platform that wraps trivy, kubesec, kube-bench, OPA Gatekeeper, Project Falco, and kube-hunter
- MetalLB - load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing protocols.
- Porter - a load balancer which is designed for a bare metal Kubernetes cluster. It's implemented by physical switch, and uses BGP and ECMP to achieve optimal performance and HA.
- PureLB - open-source load-balancer orchestrator for Kubernetes clusters. It uses standard Linux networking and routing protocols, and works with the operating system to announce service addresses.
- Skipper - HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress