Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools
There are more than 450+ Kubernetes Certified Service Providers and tons of Kubernetes Certified distributions. Choosing a right distribution can be a daunting task. Kubetools is built with a purpose to build a curated list of popular Kubernetes tools. It is actively maintained by Collabnix Slack Community.
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Top Featured Kubernetes Tools(Nov 2023)
- K8s-insider
- Stern
- Node Problem Detector
- Karpenter
- Kubestalk
- K8sGPT
- Kubeshark
- Monokle
- Numaflow
- Otterize
- Botkube
- K9s
Table of Contents
- Categories
- 🌐 Pods
- 🧰 Cluster Management
- 🧑💻 Cluster with Core CLI tools
- 🫙 Alert and Monitoring
- 🌐 Logging and Tracing
- 🗄️ Troubleshooting / Debugging
- 💾 Developement Tools/Kit
- 🔒 Alternative Tools for Development
- 🪵 CI/CD integration Tools
- 🎮 Security Tools
- 🧪 Network Policies
- 🏗️ Testing Tools
- ⚙️ Service Mesh
- 🇼 Observability
- 🧰 Machine Learning/Deep Learning
- 🧑💻 Compute Edge Tools
- 🫙 Kubernetes Tools for Specific Cloud
- 🌐 Storage Providers
- 🏗️ Backup Tools
- 🗄️ Multiple Tools Repo
- 💾 Cost Optimisation
- ⚙️ Function as a Service FaaS
- 🚀 Artificial Intelligence
- 🔒 Non-Categorize
Pods
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kubetail | Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time |  |
| 2 | kube-s3 | Kubernetes pods used shared S3 storage |  |
| 3 | kubectl-ports-rs | A kubectl krew plugin to provide a list of exposed ports on kubernetes Pod resources |  |
Cluster Management
Cluster with Core CLI tools
Alert and Monitoring
Logging and Tracing
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jaeger | CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform |  |
| 2 | Kiali | Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh |  |
| 3 | ELK | Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana |  |
| 4 | fluentbit | Fast and Lightweight Log processor and forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX |  |
| 5 | Loki | Like Prometheus, but for logs |  |
| 6 | kubectl-mtail | tail logs from multiple pods matching label selector |  |
| 7 | k8spacket | packets traffic visualization for kubernetes |  |
| 8 | goldpinger | Debugging tool for Kubernetes which tests and displays connectivity between nodes in the cluster |  |
| 9 | Otterize network mapper | Map Kubernetes in-cluster traffic and export as text, intents, or an image |  |
Troubleshooting / Debugging
Developement Tools/Kit
Alternative Tools for Development
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minikube | minikube implements a local Kubernetes clusterd |  |
| 2 | KubeSphere | Easy-to-use Production Ready Container Platform https://kubesphere.io |  |
| 3 | skippbox | A Desktop application for k8sd |  |
| 4 | kind | Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/d |  |
| 5 | k3d | k3d is a lightweight wrapper to run k3s (Rancher Lab’s minimal Kubernetes distribution) in docker.d | - |
| 6 | Systemk: virtual kubelet for systemd | Systemk is a systemd backend for the virtual-kubelet. Instead of starting containers, you start systemd units |  |
| 7 | mokbox | Build verifiably conformant multi-node kubernetes clusters in containers |  |
| 8 | Otomi | Self-hosted PaaS for Kubernetes |  |
CI/CD integration Tools
Security Tools
Network Policies
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calico | Cloud native connectivity and network policy |  |
| 2 | kokotap | Tools for kubernetes pod network tapping |  |
| 3 | Submariner | Connect all your Kubernetes clusters, no matter where they are in the world |  |
| 4 | egress-operator | An operator to produce egress gateway pods and control access to them with network policies |  |
| 5 | kubefwd (Kube Forward) | Bulk port forwarding Kubernetes services for local development |  |
| 6 | Kilo (k8s + wg) | A multi-cloud network overlay built on WireGuard and designed for Kubernetes |  |
| 7 | Cilium | eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability |  |
| 8 | MetalLB | MetalLB is a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing protocols |  |
| 9 | Spiderpool | underlay network solution of cloud native, for bare metal, VM and public cloud |  |
| 10 | LoxiLB | eBPF based cloud-native load-balancer. Powering K8s,Edge,5G,IoT,XaaS Apps |  |
| 11 | submariner | Networking component for interconnecting Pods and Services across Kubernetes clusters | |
Testing Tools
Service Mesh
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Istio | Connect, secure, control, and observe services |  |
| 2 | Traefik | The Cloud Native Edge Router |  |
| 3 | NGINX Ingress Controller | NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes |  |
| 4 | Autopilot | THE SERVICE MESH SDK | - |
| 5 | linkerd-config | A Kubernetes controller that knows how to reconcile the Linkerd configuration |  |
| 6 | Kong | Kong for Kubernetes: the official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes |  |
| 7 | OSM | Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh |  |
| 8 | Layer5 | Layer5, the service mesh company, representing every service mesh |  |
| 9 | Gloo Mesh | The Service Mesh Orchestration Platform |  |
| 10 | APISIX | Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway. |  |
| 11 | Contour | High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes | - |
| 12 | Kusk Gateway | OpenAPI-driven Ingress Controller for Kubernetes | - |
| 13 | MerBridge | Use eBPF to speed up your Service Mesh like crossing an Einstein-Rosen Bridge. |  |
Observability
Machine Learning/Deep Learning
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nos | nos is an open-source platform to efficiently run AI workloads on Kubernetes, increasing GPU utilization and reducing infrastructure and operational costs |  |
| 2 | Kubeflow | Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes |  |
| 3 | Volcano | A Kubernetes Native Batch System |  |
Compute Edge Tools
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KubeEdge | Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework |  |
| 2 | OpenYurt | Extending your native Kubernetes to edge |  |
| 3 | Akri | A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge |  |
| 4 | SuperEdge | An edge-native container management system for edge computing |  |
| 5 | Keylime | A CNCF Project to Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT |  |
| 6 | Microk8s | A small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for developers, IoT and edge |  |
| 7 | Shifu | Kubernetes native IoT software development framework |  |
| 8 | kairos | The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes |  |
Kubernetes Tools for Specific Cloud
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kubernetes on AWS (kube-aws) | A command-line tool to declaratively manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS |  |
| 2 | Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development | A tool for developers to create cloud-native applications on Kubernetes |  |
| 3 | helm-ssm | A low dependency tool for retrieving and injecting secrets from AWS SSM into Helm |  |
| 4 | Skupper | Multicloud communication for Kubernetes | - |
| 5 | AWS workshop for kubernetes | AWS workshop for kubernetes |  |
| 6 | Sealos | A Kubernetes distribution, a general-purpose Cloud Operating System designed for managing cloud-native applications |  |
| 7 | Porter | Kubernetes-powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud. |  |
| 8 | Kubicorn | Create, manage, snapshot, and scale Kubernetes infrastructure in the public cloud |  |
Storage Providers
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChubaoFS | distributed file system and object storage |  |
| 2 | Longhorn | Cloud-Native distributed block storage built on and for Kubernetes |  |
| 3 | OpenEBS | Kubernetes native - hyperconverged block storage with multiple storage engines |  |
| 4 | Rook | Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes |  |
| 5 | SeaweedFS | Distributed file system supports read-write many volumes |  |
| 6 | TiKV | Distributed transactional key-value database |  |
| 7 | TopoLVM | Capacity-aware CSI plugin for Kubernetes |  |
| 8 | velero | Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes |  |
| 9 | Vitess | Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL |  |
| 10 | kaDalu | A lightweight Persistent storage solution for Kubernetes / OpenShift using GlusterFS in background |  |
| 11 | hwameistor | Hwameistor is an HA local storage system for cloud-native stateful workloads. |  |
Backup Tools
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stash | 🛅 Backup your Kubernetes Stateful Applications |  |
| 2 | kube-dump | Backup a Kubernetes cluster as a yaml manifest |  |
Multiple Tools Repo
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaos Toolkit Kubernetes Support | Kubernetes driver extension of the Chaos Toolkit probes and actions API |  |
| 2 | k14s | Kubernetes Tools that follow Unix philosophy to be simple and composable |  |
| 3 | Pulumi | Pulumi - Modern Infrastructure as Code. Any cloud, any language. Give your team cloud superpowers rocket https://www.pulumi.com |  |
| 4 | Gvisor | Application Kernel for Containers |  |
| 5 | Colima | Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup |  |
| 6 | Krateo Platformops | Open source platform to manage infrastructure, resources and applications via YAML files |  |
| 7 | Kamus | An open source, git-ops, zero-trust secret encryption and decryption solution for Kubernetes applications |  |
Cost Optimisation
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kubecost | Cross-cloud cost allocation models for workloads running on Kubernetes |  |
| 2 | PerfectScale | Reduce Kubernetes costs while improving performance and resilience with data-driven intelligence built for continuous optimization | - |
| 3 | OpenCost | OpenCost — your favorite open source cost monitoring tool for Kubernetes |  |
| 4 | kube-green | kube-green is a simple k8s addon that automatically shuts down (some of) your resources when you don’t need them |  |
Function as a Service FaaS
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knative Serving | Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute |  |
| 2 | OpenFaaS | OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple |  |
| 3 | Kubeless | Kubernetes Native Serverless Framework |  |
| 4 | Fission | Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes |  |
| 5 | Nuclio | High-Performance Serverless event and data processing platform |  |
Artificial Intelligence
| Sr No | Tool Name | Description with URL | GitHub Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | k8sgpt | Giving Kubernetes SRE superpowers to everyone |  |
| 2 | kubectl-ai | Kubectl plugin for OpenAI GPT |  |
| 3 | kopilot | Your AI Kubernetes Expert |  |
| 4 | kopylot | An AI-Powered assistant for Kubernetes developers |  |
| 5 | aiac | Artificial Intelligence K8s manifest and package generator |  |
| 6 | mico | An AI assisted kubectl helper |  |
