Awesome Kubernetes

       

A curated list of awesome tools, resources, and projects for Kubernetes.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This list is for developers, DevOps engineers, SREs, and anyone building or operating systems on Kubernetes.

Contents

• Getting Started
• Learning Resources
• Tools
• Operators
• Monitoring & Logging
• Security
• Helm
• Networking & Ingress
• CI/CD
• Serverless
• Service Mesh
• Distributions
• Cloud Platforms
• Open Source Projects
• Related Awesome Lists

Getting Started

• Kubernetes Official Docs – The official documentation and user guides.
• Play with Kubernetes – A free online Kubernetes lab environment.
• Katacoda Kubernetes Courses – Interactive scenarios for learning Kubernetes.

Learning Resources

• Awesome Kubernetes (Learnk8s) – A categorized list of Kubernetes learning resources.
• Kubernetes by Example – Real-world Kubernetes examples and tutorials.
• The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes – Friendly introduction to Kubernetes concepts.
• Kubernetes Patterns – O’Reilly book on reusable Kubernetes design patterns.

Tools

• kubectl – CLI to interact with Kubernetes clusters.
• k9s – Terminal UI for managing Kubernetes clusters.
• Lens – The Kubernetes IDE for monitoring and management.
• Skaffold – Workflow tool for continuous development on Kubernetes.
• kubectx/kubens – Switch contexts and namespaces easily.

Operators

• Operator SDK – Build Kubernetes Operators using Go, Helm, or Ansible.
• Prometheus Operator – Manages Prometheus monitoring in Kubernetes.
• Elastic Operator – Run Elastic Stack on Kubernetes.

Monitoring & Logging

• Prometheus – Monitoring system and time-series database.
• Grafana – Dashboarding and visualization tool.
• Loki – Logging system for cloud-native infrastructure.
• Fluent Bit – Lightweight log processor and forwarder.
• Kube-state-metrics – Exposes Kubernetes objects as Prometheus metrics.

Security

• Kube-bench – Checks your cluster against the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
• Kubesec – Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources.
• OPA Gatekeeper – Policy controller for Kubernetes.
• Trivy – Vulnerability scanner for container images.

Helm

• Helm – Package manager for Kubernetes.
• Artifact Hub – Find, install, and publish Helm charts.
• Helmfile – Declarative configuration management for Helm.

Networking & Ingress

• NGINX Ingress Controller – Popular ingress controller using NGINX.
• Traefik – Cloud-native edge router with Kubernetes integration.
• Cilium – Networking and security using eBPF.

CI/CD

• Argo CD – Declarative GitOps continuous delivery.
• Tekton – Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipelines.
• Flux – GitOps tool for continuous delivery.

Serverless

• Knative – Serverless workloads on Kubernetes.
• OpenFaaS – Functions-as-a-Service for Kubernetes.
• Kubeless – Kubernetes-native serverless framework.

Service Mesh

• Istio – Connect, secure, and observe services.
• Linkerd – Lightweight and fast service mesh.
• Consul – Service mesh and service discovery.

Distributions

• K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes distribution by Rancher.
• MicroK8s – Low-ops Kubernetes for developers and IoT.
• Minikube – Run Kubernetes locally.

Cloud Platforms

• Amazon EKS – Managed Kubernetes on AWS.
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) – Managed Kubernetes on Google Cloud.
• Azure AKS – Managed Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure.
• DigitalOcean Kubernetes – Simple Kubernetes hosting.

Open Source Projects

• Kustomize – Kubernetes native configuration management.
• Kubecost – Cost monitoring and optimization.
• Keda – Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling.
• Velero – Backup and restore for Kubernetes.

Related Awesome Lists

• Awesome DevOps – Tools and resources for DevOps practices.
• Awesome CI – Continuous integration tools.
• Awesome MLOps – Machine learning operations tools and platforms.

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