Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools

There are more than 500+ Kubernetes Certified Service Providers and tons of Kubernetes Certified distr ibutions. 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 Commu nity.

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	Kuber netes pods used shared S3 storage
3	kubectl-ports-rs	A kubectl krew plugin to prov ide a list of exposed ports on kubernetes Pod resources

Cluster M anagement

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Monokle	Desktop unified visual tool for authoring, analysis and deployment of Kubernetes configurations
2	kops	Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgr ad e s, and Management
3	silver-surfer	Check ApiVe rsion compatibility and p rovide Migration path for Kubernetes objects when upgrading Kubern etes to latest versions
4	Kube-ops-view	Kubernetes Oper atio nal View - r ead-o nly system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters
5	kubep rompt	Kubernetes prompt info
6	Me talk8s	An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments
7	kin d	Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for tes ting Kubernetes
8	Clusterman	Cluster Autos caler for Kubernetes and M esos
9	Cert-manager	Automatically provision and manage TL S certificates
10	Goldilocks	Get your resource req uests “Just Right ”
11	katafygio	Dump, or continuously backup Kuber netes objets as yaml files in git
12	Rancher	Complete container management platform
13	Sealed Secrets	A Kubernetes controller and to ol f or one-way encrypted Secrets
14	OpenKruise/Kruise	Aut omate application workloads management on Kubernetes https://openkruise.io
15	kubectl s napshot	Take Cluster Snapshots
16	kapp	simple deployment tool focused on the concept of “Kubernetes application” — a set of res ources with the same label https://get-kapp.io
17	KEDA	Event-driven aut os ca ler for K ube r netes
1 8	O ctant	To b etter under stand the compl exity of Kubernetes cluste rs
19	Portainer	Portainer inside a Ku b ern ete s environme nt
20	Gar dene r	Deliv e r f ully-mana ged clusters at scale every where wit h y o ur ow n Ku ber net es-as-a-Ser vic e	-
21	xls kubec tl	xls kub ectl — a sp rea d sheet to c o n trol y ou r Kubernetes cl uster
22	Kub efi rst	Fully-automate d OSS deliver y & inf rastruct ure management gitops pl atform s
23	Kamaji	Build and operate Kuberne tes at scale with a f racti o n of operational burden
24	kustomizer	An experimental package manager for dist ributing Kubernet es configurati on as OCI artifacts
25	Kudo	declar ative approach to building pr od uction-grade Kubernetes Operat ors
26	node-pr oblem-detector	This is a plac e for various pr oblem detect ors r unning on the Kubernetes nodes
27	k0s	k0s is an all-inclusive Kube rnetes di stribut ion , which is config ured with all of the fea tures needed to build a Kubernetes cluster and packaged a s a single binary for ease of use
28	k0smotron	Deploy and run Kubernetes control planes powered by k0s on any existing c luster
29	ClusterPedia	The Encyclopedia of Kubernetes clusters
30	kubean	🌱 Kubernetes lifecycle management operator based on kube spray.
31	punq	Self-hosted Kubernetes workload manager with team collaboration
32	Claudie	Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters with each nodepool in a different provider or on-pre m
33	Kubemarine	Management tool for Kubernetes cluster deployment and maintenance
34	k8s-duplicator	Kubernetes controller that copies secrets into other namespaces
35	KubeStellar	a flexi ble solution for challenges associated with multi-cluster configuration management for edge, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud
36	Trolley	Trolley is a multi cloud Kubernetes manag ement system
37	Cyclops	a po werful user interface for managing and interacting with Kubernetes clust ers
38	Liqo	an open-sour ce project that enables dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies, supp orting heterogeneous on-premise, cloud and edge infrastructures
39	Guard	🔑 Kubernetes Authentication & Authorization WebHook Server
40	Meshery	Meshery is a Multi-cluster management to ol for Kubernetes and Clouds
4 1	cluster-template	A template f or deploying a Kubernetes cluster with k3s or Talos
42	vCluster	Create fully functional virtu al Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It’s cheaper than creati ng separate full-blown clusters and it of fers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
43	KindScaler	Node Management for KinD Clusters. Mo dify the KinD cluster configuration by adding or removing nod es, whether they are control-planes or workers, without regenerating it from scratch.
4 4	buoy	A declarative Kubernetes dashboard in your terminal
45	Glass kube	Glasskube is a Kubernetes package manager that lets you install apps via an easy-to-use web int erface or CLI

Cluster with Core CLI tools

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Bootkube	bootkube - Launch a self-hosted Kuber netes cluster
2	kubectx + kubens	Switch faster between clusters and namespaces in kubectl
3	kube-shell	Kubernetes shell: An integrated shell for working with the Kube rnetes
4	kuttle: kubectl wrapper for sshu ttle without SSH	Kubernetes wrapper for sshuttle
5	kubectl sudo	Run kubernetes commands with the security privileges of another user
6	K9s	Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your C lusters In Style!
7	Ktunnel	A cli that exposes your local resources to kubernetes
8	Kube Operator	Run kubectl command in Web Browser. https://kubeoperator.io/
9	Vimkubectl	Manage any Kubernetes resource from Vim https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.ph
10	KubeHelper	KubeHelper - simplifies many daily Kubernetes cluster tasks through a web i nterface.
11	kubecolor	colorizes kubec tl output
12	Krew	Krew is the package manager for kubectl plugins
13	Kueue	Kueue is a set of APIs and contro ller for job queueing
14	fubectl	Reduces repetitive interactions with kubectl
15	kube-ps1	Kubernetes prompt for bash and zsh
16	Conftest	Write t ests against struc tured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query lang uage
17	Kube-capacity	A CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits, and utilization in a k8s cluster
18	Karpenter	Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity
19	Autoscaler	autoscaler Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
20	Kured	Kubernetes Reboot Daemon
21	Kube-prompt	An interactive kubernetes client featuring auto-complete
22	Click	Command Line Interactive Controller for Kuberne tes
23	Kubie	A more powerful alterna tive to kubectx and kubens
24	Pluto	A cli tool to hel p discover deprecated apiVersions in Kubernetes
25	ksync	Sync files between your local system and a kubernetes cluster
26	fleet	Manage large fleets of Kubern etes clusters
27	stash	Backup your Kubernetes Stateful Applicati ons
28	Finch	The Finch CLI an open source client for container development
29	KubeView	Kubernetes cluster visualiser and graphical explorer
30	Descheduler	Descheduler for Kubernetes
3 1	cloudtty	A Friendly Kubernetes CloudShel l (Web Terminal) !
32	kor	A Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources
33	Kubernetes Image Puller	Caching images o n a cluster by creating a DaemonSet downloading and running the container images on each node
34	image-builder	A tool for building Kubernetes vi rtual machine images acr oss multiple infrastructu re providers.

Alert and Monitoring

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Thanos	Highly available Prometheus set up with long term storage capabili ties. CNCF Sandbox project. https://thanos.io
2	Prometheus	The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
3	Grafana	The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More
4	Kubetail	Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs fro m multiple pods at the same tim e
5	Searchli ght	Alerts for Kubernetes
6	linkerd2 Monitoring Mixin for Grafana	Grafana dashboard s for linkerd2 monitoring and can work in standalon e (default) or in multi cluster setup
7	kub erhaus	Kubernetes resource dashboard with node/pod layout and resource requests
8	Kubernetes Job/CronJob Notifier	This to ol sends an alert to slack whenever there is a Kubernetes cronJob/Job failure/success
9	Argus	This tool monitors changes in the filesystem on specified paths	-
10	Kube-Scout	Scout for alarmin g issues across your Kuber netes clusters
11	Kwatch	monitor & detect crashes in your Kubernete s(K8s) cluster instantly
12	Scope	Monitoring, visualisation & management for Docker & Kubernetes
13	Kubeshark	TCPDump and Wireshark re-invented for Kubernetes
14	Ksniff	Kubectl plugin to ease sniffing on kubernetes pods using tcpdump and wireshark
15	Kube-Prometheus-Top [ kptop ]	Monitoring for Ku bernetes Nod es, Pods, Containers, and PVCs resources on the terminal through Prometheus metircs
16	ktop	A top-like tool for your K ubernetes clusters
17	Kuberhealthy	A Kubern etes operator for running synthetic checks as pods. Works great with Prometheus!
18	kurt	A Kubernetes plugin that gives context to what is restarting in yo ur Kubernetes cluster
19	KlusterView	Get instant insights on your Kubernetes clusters with our lightweight, plug-and-play performance monitoring tool
20	X.509 Certificate Exporter	Watch certificates for expiration in Kubernetes Secrets and control-plane files. Alerts an d dashboard available.
21	VpK	VpK - Visually presented Kubernetes View k8s in graphical fashion
2 2	k8s-collector	A Kubernetes Job to collect resources, lo gs and events from a Kubernetes cluster

Logging and Trac ing

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	J aeger	CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
2	Kiali	Kiali project, observability for t he Istio service mesh
3	ELK	Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
4	fluentbit	Fast and Light w eight Log processor and forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX
5	Loki	Like Prometheus, but for logs
6	kubectl-mtail	tail logs from mul tiple pods matchin g label selector
7	k8spacket	packets traffic visualization for kubernetes
8	goldpinger	Debugging t ool 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
10	kube-audit-rest	Kubern etes audit logging, when you don’t control the control plane
11	kail	kubernetes log viewer
12	network mapper	Map Kubernetes in-cluste r traffic and export as text, intents, or an image
13	retina	eBPF distributed networking observ ability tool for Kubernetes.

Troubleshooting / Debugging

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Monokle	Desktop unifi ed visual tool for authoring, analysis and deployment of Kubernetes configurations
2	Kubectl-debug	Allows you to run a new container with all the troubleshooting tools installed in runnin g pod for debugging purposed
3	Pow erfulSeal	A powerful testing tool for Kubernetes clustersd
4	Crash-diagnostic	Crash-Diagnostics is a tool to help investigate, analyze, and t roubleshoot unresponsive or crashed Kubernetes clustersd
5	K9s	Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clus ters In Style!d
6	Kubernete s CLI Plugin - Doctor	kubectl clust er triage plugin fo r k8s - 🏥 (brew doctor equivalent)d
7	Knative Inspect	A light-weight debugging tool for Knative’s system compo nentsd
8	Kubeman	To find information from Kubernet es clu sters, and to investigate issues related to Kubernetes and Istiod
9	kpexec	kpe xec is a kubernetes c li that runs commands in a container with high privileges
10	Koolkits	🧰 Opinionated, language-specific, batt eries-included debug container images for Kuberne tes
11	kubes py	pod debugging tool for kubernetes clusters with docker runtimes
12	Inspektor Gadget	A collection of eBPF-based tools to debug and inspect Kuberne tes resources and applications
13	KubeSkoop	kubernetes networking diagnose tool for different CNI plug-ins and IAAS providers
14	kubent	Easily check your cluste rs for use of deprecated APIs
15	kftray	A cross-platform system tray application for managing multiple kubectl port-forward commands, with support for UDP and proxy connections through k8s clusters

Developement Tools/Kit

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Okteto: A Tool for Cloud Native Developers	Build better applications by developing and testing your code directly in Kubernetes
2	Tilt: Tilt manages local development instanc es for teams that deploy to Kubernetes	Local Kubernetes dev elopment with no stress
3	Garden: Kuberne tes from source to finish	Development orchestrator for Kubernetes, containers and functions.
4	KuberNix	Single dependency Kubernetes clusters for local testing, experimenting and development
5	Copper	A configuration file validator for K ubernetes
6	ko	Build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes
7	Dekorate	Java annotation processo rs for Kubernetes
8	Lens IDE	A powerful interface and toolkit for mana ging, visualizing, and interacting with multiple Kubernetes clusters	-
9	Kosko	Organize Kubernetes manifests in Java Script	-
10	Telepresence	Fast, local development for Kubernetes and Openshift microservices	-
11	Mono kle	Desktop unified visual tool for authoring, analysis and deployment of Kubernetes configu rations
12	KuberEz	Graphical modeling tool for Kubernetes manifest
13	mirrord	Run your local proc ess in the context of your cloud cluster
14	Apt akube	A modern, lightweight and multi-cluster desktop client for Kubernetes	-
15	Kubes	Kubernetes App Deploy Tool: build docker image, compile Kubernetes YAML files, and apply them
16	Kaniko	Build C ontainer Images In Kubernetes
17	Python client for kuberenetes	Of ficial Python client library for kubernetes
18	eclipse che IDE for k8s	The Kubernetes-Native IDE for Developer Teams
19	Kubebuilder	SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs
20	Operator-sdk	SDK for building Kubernetes applications. Provide s high level APIs, useful abstractions, and project scaffolding
21	cdk8s	Kubernetes native apps and abstracti ons using object-o r iented programming
22	Gitkube	Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push
23	Arkade	Open Source Ma rketplace For Kubernetes
24	k2tf	k2tf - Kubernetes YA ML to Terraform HCL converters
25	Terraformer	CLI tool to generate te rraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infr astructure to Code
26	Atomix	A Kubernetes toolkit for building distributed applications using cloud native principles
27	Brigade	Event-dri ven scripting for Kubernetes
28	Sp read	Docker to Kubernetes in one c omman d
29	Kompose	convert docker compose to kubernetes resources
30	Helmfile	Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD.
31	validkube	ValidKube combines the best open-source tools to help ensu re Kubernetes YAML best practices, hygiene & security.
32	Config Syncer	Config Syncer by AppsCode keeps ConfigMaps and Secrets synchronized across namespaces and/or clusters.
33	G efyra	Gefyra: Blazingly-fast, rock-solid, local application development with K ubernetes
34	Kubernetes ConfigMap Reload	Simple binary to trigger a reload wh en a Kubernetes ConfigMap is updated
35	RELOADER	A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets an d do rolling upgrades on Pods
36	Ingress Monitor Controller	A Kubernetes controller to watch ingresses and create liveness alerts for your apps/micros ervices in UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Pingdom, etc
37	odo	Developer-focused CL I for fast & iterative applica tion development on Kubernetes and Podman
38	configmap-reload	Simple binary to trigger a reload wh en a Kubernetes ConfigMap is updated
39	k8tz	Kubernetes admission controller and a CLI tool to inject timezones into Pods and CronJobs
40	KDash	A simple and fast dash board for Kubernetes
41	DevSpace	An open-source develop er tool for Kubernetes that lets you develop and deploy cloud-native software faster
42	K8Studio	K8 Studio is a cross-platform client IDE to manage Kubernetes Clusters
43	Radius	Radius is a cloud-native, portable application platform that makes app development easier for teams building cloud-native apps
44	Kubefirst	The Kubefirst CLI creates instant GitOps platforms that integrate s ome of the best tools in cloud na tive from scratch in minutes
45	k’exp	Understand Kubernetes - the visual way Not yet another a ttempt to manage production clusters i n t he browser
46	k8s-insider	A zero-config way to access y ou kubern etes cluster network
47	Cyclops	Developer friendly Kubernetes 👁️
48	Sablier	Start your containers on demand, shut them down automatically when there’s no activity.
49	kr onic	The simple Kubernetes Cro nJob Admin UI
50	Kor	A Golang Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources
51	Docketeer	Do cketeer is a developer-friendly application that provides a single interface for container and network management as well as metric visualiza tion.
52	Helmify	Creates Helm chart from Kubernetes yaml
53	Kueue	Kubernetes-native Job Queueing
54	Reckoner	Declaratively install and manage multiple Helm chart releases
55	Katenary	Convert docker-compose to a configurable helm chart
56	kubernetes-replicator	Kubernetes controller for synchronizing se crets & config maps across namespaces
57	node-gizmo	A CLI utility for your Kubernetes nodes
58	Kube Blocks	open-source control plane that runs and manages databases, message queues and other data infrastructure on K8s.
59	KFtray	Manage and run multiple kubectl port-forward configurations directly in the menu bar, syncing configurations with git repositories.
60	T ilt	Define your dev environment as code. For microservice apps on Kubernetes.
61	Garden	Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand.
62	Kubectl-fields	A Kubernetes resources hierarchy parsing tool.
63	sleepcycles	Define sleep & wake up cycl es for your Kubernetes resources.
64	scaf	scaf provides d evelopers and DevOps engineers with a complete blueprint for a new project using Kubernetes .
65	KubePug	Deprecations AKA KubePug - Pre UpGrade (Checker)
6 6	scaf	scaf provides developers and DevOps engineers with a complete blueprint for a new project using Kubern etes
67	mogenius	A self-service platform that enables developers to deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes with ease and safety	-

Altern ative 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 Contai ner Platform https://kubesphere.io
3	skippbox	A Desktop applicatio n 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 minim al Kubernetes distribution) in docker.d	-
6	Systemk: virtual kubelet for systemd	Syst emk is a systemd backend for the virtual-kubelet. Instead of sta rting containers, you start systemd units
7	mokbox	Build verifiably conformant multi-node k ubernetes clusters in containers
8	Otomi	Self -hosted PaaS for Kubernetes
9	Rainbond	offers a serverless experience, and allows you to easily manage containerized applications without needing to understand Kubernetes
10	MyKube	k8s -installer - One-click k8s singl e-node cluster installatio n on your own device

CI /CD integration Tools

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	HybridK8s Droid	Intelligence foor your favourit e Delivery Platfo rm	-
2	Devtron	Software Delivery Workflow for Kubernetes
3	Skaffold	Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
4	Apollo	Apollo - The logz.io continuous deployment solution over kub ernetes
5	Helm C abin	Web UI that visualizes Helm releases in a Kubernetes cluster
6	flagger	Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)
7	Kubeform	Kubernetes CRDs for Terraform providers https://kubeform.com
8	Spinnaker	Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software c hanges with high velocity and confidence. http://www.spinnaker.io/
9	werf	GitOps tool to deliver apps to Kubernetes and integrate this process with GitLab and other CI tools
10	Flux	GitOps Kubernetes operator
11	Argo CD	Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes
12	Tekton	A cloud native continuous integration and d elivery (CI/CD) solution
13	Jenkins X	Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kube rnetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Tekton , Knative, Lighthouse, Skaffold and Helm
14	Drone	Drone is a Container-Native, Continuous Delivery Platform
15	Helmwave	Helmwave i s helm3-native tool for deplo y your Helm Charts
16	Helmsman	Helm Charts as Code
17	PipeCD	The One CD for All {applications , platforms, operations}
18	Kluctl	Kluctl implements templ ated declarative Kubernetes deploy ments, supporting push (CLI) and pull (kluctl-controller) based GitOps from the same source
19	kubedog	Lib rary to watch and follow kubernetes resources in CI/CD deploy pipelines
20	Kubefirst	GitOps Infrastructure & Application Delivery Platform
21	aut oapply	Automatically apply changes to a Kubernetes cluster

Security Tool s

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Kubevious CLI	P revent cross-manifest errors and viol ations of best practicees i n YAML files, Helm Charts and Kubernetes clusters
2	TerraScan	Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
3	klum	Kubernetes Lazy User Manager
4	kube2iam	IAM credentials to containers runn ing inside a kubernetes cluster based on annota tions.
5	Kyverno	Kubernete s Native Policy Management https://kyverno.io
6	kiosk	kiosk office Multi-Tenanc y Extension For Kubernetes - Secure Cluster Sha ring & Self-Service Namespace Provisioning
7	kube-bench	CIS Kubernetes Benchmark tool
8	kube-hunter	Pentesting tool - Hunts for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
9	kube-who-c an	Show who has RBAC permissions to perform actions on different resources in Kubernetes
10	s tarboard	Kubernetes-native security toolkit
11	Simulator	Kubernetes Se curity Training Platform - Focussin g on security mitigation
12	RBAC Lookup	Easily find roles and cluster roles attached to any user, service account, or group name in your Kubernetes cluster https://fairwinds.com
13	Kubeaudit	kubeaudit helps yo u audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
14	Gan gway	An application that can be used to easily enable authentication flows via OIDC for a kubernetes cluster
15	Audit2rbac	Autogenerate RBAC policies based on Kubernetes audit logs
16	Chartsec	Helm Chart securit y scanner
17	kubestriker	Security Auditing tool
18	Datree	CLI tool to preven t K8s misconfigurations by ensuring that mani fests and Helm charts follow best prac tices as well as your organization’s policies
19	Kr ane	Kubernetes RBAC static Analysis & visualisation tool
20	Falco	The Falco Project - Cloud-Native runtime security	-
21	Clair	Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers
22	M9sweeper	Complete Kubernetes Se curity Platform
23	Trivy	Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in Kubernetes
24	kubesec	Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
25	Vault-k8s	First-class support for Vault and Kubernetes
26	Hardeneks	Runs checks to see if an EKS cluster foll ows EKS Best Practices.
27	Hubbl e	Network, Service & Security Observabili ty for Kubernetes using eBPF
28	Kubeval	Validate your Kubernetes configuration files, supports multiple Ku bernetes versions
29	Paralus	Paralus enables controlled, audited access to Kubernetes infrastructure a nd Zero trust Kubernetes with zero friction.
30	Pe irates	Kubernetes Penetration Testing tool
31	Kubectl-kubesec	Securit y risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
32	jsPolicy	jsPolicy is a policy engine for Kubernetes that allows you to write policies in JavaScript or TypeScript	-
33	Netchecks	Set o f tools for testing network conditions and asserting that they are as expected .
34	KubeLinter	KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that che cks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best pract ices
35	IceKube	IceKube is a tool to help find attack paths with in a Kubernetes cluster from a low privileged point, to a preferred location, typically cluster-admin
36	kube-rebac-authorizer	Beyond RB AC: Implementing Relation-based Access Control for Kubernetes with OpenFGA
37	MTKPI	🧰 Multi Tool Kubernetes Pentest Ima ge
38	KubeZoo	a lightweight kubernet es m u lti-tenancy gateway
39	kubectl-modify-secrets	allows user to directly modify the secret without worrying about base64 encoding/decoding
40	rbac-tool	Rapid7 insightCloudSec Kubernetes RBAC Power Toys - Visualize, Anal yze, Generate & Query
41	KubeClarity	KubeClarity is a tool for detection and management of Software Bill Of Ma terials (SBOM) and vulnerabilities of container images and filesystems.
42	MKAT	All-in-one auditing toolkit for identifying common security issues in managed Kubernetes environments. Currently supports Amazon EKS

Network Policies

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Calico	Cloud native con nectivity and network policy
2	kokotap	Tools for kube rnetes pod network tapping
3	Subma riner	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 se rvices for local development
6	Kilo (k8s + wg)	A multi-cloud network overlay built on WireGuard and designed for Ku berne tes
7	Cilium	eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
8	MetalLB	MetalLB is a load-balancer implement ation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing pr otocols
9	Spiderpool	underlay network solution of cloud native, for bare metal, VM and pu blic cloud
10	LoxiLB	eBPF based cloud-native load-balancer. Powering K8s,Edge,5G ,IoT,XaaS Apps
11	submariner	Networ king component for interconnecting Pods and Services across K ubernetes clusters
12	netfetch	Scan k8s clusters for network policies and identifying unprotected workloa ds.
13	Network Policy API	A further work involving Kubernetes network security beyond the NetworkPolicy v1 resource.
14	KubeIP	Assign static public IPs to Kubernetes nod es (GKE, EKS)

Testing Tools

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Te stkube	Kubernetes-native testing framework for testers and developers
2	k6d	A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
3	Network bandwith and load testingd -	Test suite for Kubernetes
4	test-infrad	Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project
5	kube-scored	Kubernetes object an alysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security
6	Litmusd	Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering; Kubernetes-Native Chaos Engineering; Chaos Enginee ring for Kubernetes
7	PowerfulSeald	A pow erful testing tool for Kubernetes clust ers
8	kube-burnerd	Kube-burner is a tool aimed at stressing kubernetes clusters	-
9	Tracetest	Generate end-to-end and integration tests automatically from your OpenTelemetry traces
10	Microcks	Kubernetes native tool for mocking and testing API and micro-services
11	KWOK	Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Node s and Clusters.
12	Keploy	Open source Tool for converting user-traffic to T est Cases and Data Stubs.
13	Netchecks	Tool to validate assumptions about the network
14	Nighthawk	Nighthawk is Layer5’s versatile HTTP load tester. Drills deep with constant & adaptive rates, revealing performance i nsights
15	perf-tests	Performan ce tests and benchmarks

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 Ingres s 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 Ingre ss Controller for Kubernetes
7	OSM	Ope n Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh
8	Gloo Mesh	The Service Mesh Orchestration Platform
9	APISIX	Apache APIS IX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway.
10	Contour	High performance ingress control ler for Kubernetes	-
11	Kusk Gateway	OpenAPI-driven Ing ress Controller for Kubernetes	-
12	MerBri dge	Use eBPF to speed up your Service Mesh like crossing an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

Observability

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Kubespy	Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time
2	Popeye	A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer
3	Stern	Multi pod and co ntainer log tailing for Kub ernetes
4	Cri-tools	C LI and validation tool s for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
5	Kubebox	Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes
6	Kubewatch	Watch k8s events and trigger Handle rs
7	kube-state-metrics	Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics
8	Sloop	Kubernetes History Visualization
9	kubectl tree 🎄	Kubectl plugin to observe object hierarchies through ownerReferences
10	chaoskube	chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster
11	BotKube	Helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster(s), debu g critical deployments and gives rec o mmendations for standard practices	-
12	Kubestone	Kubestone is a benchmarking Operator that can evaluate the performance of Kubernetes installations	-
13	Chaos Mesh	A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes
14	Lemur	LEMUR: Observa bility and Context
15	kubernetes-event-exporter	Export Kubern etes events to multiple destinations with routing and filtering
16	Kubevious	Kubevious is an app-centric assur ance, validation, and introspection platform for Kubernetes	-
17	O penTelemetry	High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability	-
18	Grafana Tempo	Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend
19	Tracetest	Generate end-to-end and integration tests automatically from your OpenTelemetry traces
20	Pumba	Chaos testing, network emulation, and stress testing tool for containers
21	Robusta	Kubernetes observability and au tomation, with an awesome Prometheus integration
22	kubeinvaders	Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
23	Headlamp	An easy-to-use and extensible web UI for Kubernetes

Machine Learning/Deep Learning

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Nos	nos is an open-s ource platform to efficiently run AI workloads on Kubernetes, increasing GPU u tilization and reducing infrastructure and operational costs
2	Kubeflow	Machine Learnin g Toolkit for Kubernetes
3	Volcano	A Kubernetes Na tive Batch System

Compute Edge Tools

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	KubeEdge	Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework
2	Ope nYurt	Extending your native Kubernetes to edge
3	Akri	A Kubernetes Re source Interface for the Edge
4	SuperEdge	An edge-native container m anagement 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 devel opment framework
8	kairos	The immutable Linux meta-distri bution for edge Kubernetes

Kubernetes Tools for Specific Cloud

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Kubernetes on AWS (kube-aws)	A comma nd-line tool to declaratively manag e 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 commun ication for Kubernetes	-
5	AWS w orkshop 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	C reate, manage, snapshot, and scale Kubernetes infrastructu re in the public cloud
9	eksdemo	The easy button for learning, tes ting and demoing Amazon EKS

Storage Prov iders

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	T iKV	Distributed transactional key-value database
7	TopoLVM	Capacity-aware CSI plugin for Kubernetes
8	velero	B ackup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
9	Vitess	Vitess is a database clustering system for horizo ntal 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.
11	simplyblock	Simplyblock i s a distributed block storage engine for Kubernetes persistent volumes	-

Backup Tools

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	G itHub Popularity
1	Stash	🛅 Backup your Kubernetes Stateful Applications
2	kube-dump	Backup a Kubernetes cluster as a yaml manifest
3	VolSync	Asynchronous data replication for Kubernetes volumes
4	Reflector	Cu stom Kubernetes controller that can be used to replicate secrets, configmaps and certificates.
5	SnapScheduler	Scheduled snapshots for Kubernetes p ersistent volumes.
6	K8up Backup Operator	K8up is a Kubernetes backup operator based on Restic that wil l handle PVC and application backups on a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster

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 phi losophy to be simple and composable
3	Pulumi	Pulumi - Modern Infrastructure as Code. Any cloud, any langu age. 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, resour ces and applications via YAML files
7	Kamus	An open source, git-ops, zero-trust secret encryp tion and decryption solution for Kubernetes applications
8	korb	Move Kubernetes PVCs between Storage Classes and Namespaces

Cost Optimisation

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Kubecost	Cross-cloud cost allocation models for workloads running on K ubernetes
2	PerfectScale	Reduce Kubernetes costs while improving performance and resilience wit h data-driven intelligence bu ilt for continuous optimization	-
3	OpenCost	OpenCost — your favorite open source cost monitoring to ol for Kubernetes
4	kube-green	kube-green is a simple k8s addon that automatically shuts down (some of) your resour ces when you don’t need them
5	kepler	Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) uses eBPF to prob e performance counters and other system stats, use ML models to estimate workload energy consumption based on these stats, and exports them as Prometheus metrics
6	KBOM	KBOM - K ubernetes Bill of Materials

Function as a Service FaaS

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Knati ve Serving	Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-d riven compute
2	OpenFaaS	OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
3	Kubeless	Kubernetes Native Serverless Framework
4	F ission	Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
5	Nuclio	High-Perf ormance 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
7	kserve	Standardized Serverless ML Inference Platform on Kubernets
8	kubectl-assistant	This tool uses OpenAI’s GPT3 API to generate Kubernetes kubectl commands to run against a cluster
9	HolmesGPT	The only DevOps assistant that solves alerts like a human does - by looking at alerts and fetching missing data repeatedly until the alert can be solved

Caching

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	kube-fledged	A kubernetes operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes
2	kubernetes-image-puller	It is used for caching images on a cluster. It creates a DaemonSet downloading and running the relevant container images on each node.
3	Tugger	Kubernetes Admission Webhook to enforce pulling of Docker images from the private registry.
4	kube-image-keeper (kuik)	kuik is a container image caching system for Kubernetes
5	harbor	A trusted cloud native registry project that stores,caches, signs, and scans content.
6	kuik	kuik is a container image caching system for Kubernetes

Clients

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Go Client for Kubernetes	Official Golang client library for kubernetes
2	Python Client for Kubernetes	Official Python client library for kubernetes
3	Java Client for Kubernetes	Official Java client library for kubernetes
4	Javascript Client for Kubernetes	Official Javascript client library for kubernetes
5	csharp Client for Kubernetes	Official dotnet client library for kubernetes
6	Dapr	Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge
7	DevPod	client-only tool to create reproducible developer environments based on a devcontainer.json on any backend

Cleanup

Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	kube-fencing	cleaning resources from the failed nodes that’s blocks any further operation and recovery
2	k8s-cleaner	Cleaner is a Kubernetes controller that helps you maintain a clean and efficient Kubernetes environment by proactively identifying, removing, or updating stale resources
3	CRI-Purge	CRI Purge - Cleanup of Cached Kubernetes CRI Images
4	Pred8tor	Pred8tor is a simple tool to clean up K8s objects that were tagged for expiration

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Sr No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Rudr	A Kubernetes implementation of the Open Application Model specification
2	Keel	Kubernetes Operator to automate Helm, DaemonSet, StatefulSet & Deployment updates	-
3	Cabin, the mobile app for Kubernetes -	The Mobile Dashboard for Kubernetes
4	Funktion	CLI tool for working with funktion
5	Alterant	A simple Kubernetes configuration modifier
6	BUCK	Brigade Universal Controller for Kubernetes
7	kube-fledged	A kubernetes add-on for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes, so application pods start almost instantly
8	kpt	toolkit to help you manage, manipulate, customize, and apply Kubernetes Resource configuration
9	capsule	Capsule helps to implement a multi-tenancy and policy-based environment in your Kubernetes cluster
10	KubeSlice	KubeSlice enables Kubernetes pods and services to communicate seamlessly across clusters, clouds, edges, and data centers by creating logical application boundaries known as Slices
11	routernetes	Use Kubernetes to make a home router!
12	Symbiosis	Symbiosis is a cloud service provider optimized for Kubernetes. Launch clusters in <2 min with better tools and lower costs	-
13	Projectsveltos	Kubernetes add-on controller for hundreds of clusters that automatically discovers and classifies clusters, making it easy to manage add-ons at scale
14	MayFly	Mayfly is a Kubernetes operator that enables you to create temporary resources on the cluster that will expire after a certain period of time
15	yupd	Yupd is a command-line tool that allows updating YAML files the GitOps way
16	kube-job	Run one off job on kubernetes from the command line tool
17	paster	This program base64 encodes a file, then pastes chunks it into an activated window using ‘Ctrl+V’ in the pod	-
18	Mirror	A Kubernetes ConfigMap and Secrets reflector with a strong emphasis on security and performance

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Table of Contents

Pods

Cluster M anagement

Cluster with Core CLI tools

Alert and Monitoring

Logging and Trac ing

Troubleshooting / Debugging

Developement Tools/Kit

Altern ative Tools for Development

CI /CD integration Tools

Security Tool s

Network Policies

Testing Tools

Service Mesh

Observability

Machine Learning/Deep Learning

Compute Edge Tools

Kubernetes Tools for Specific Cloud

Storage Prov iders

Backup Tools

Multiple Tools Repo

Cost Optimisation

Function as a Service FaaS

Artificial Intelligence

Caching

Clients

Cleanup

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