Set of generic tools to operate Kubernetes.

UI

Management tools to work directly with Kubernetes.

Web

• Official Dashboard;
• Octant;
• Containerum;
• Headlamp;
• Kubevious;
• devtron;
• Kubermetrics;
• Portainer;
• KubeSail.

Desktop app

• Kubernetic;
• Walmart Kubeman;
• Kube Lens;
• Infra.app;
• IBM Kui.

Terminal

• kubelive;
• dive - tool for docker image layers analysis.

Templating

There are many tools for templating Kubernetes entities:

• helm - traditional tool for k8s;
• kustomize is currently integrated into kubectl;
• jsonnet - Google tool written in JavaScript;
• go-jsonnet - jsonnet in pure Go from Google;
• ksonnet - k8s specific modification of go-jsonnet (deprecated scince k8s 1.13 in favour of kustomize);
• qbec from Splunk;
• tanka from Grafana;
• kapitan from Deepmind;
• kubecfg from Bitnami;
• karavel in Python;
• cue - Configure Unify Execute;
• ytt - YAML Templating Tool.

Monitoring

• Kubernetes Metrics Server;
• kube-state-metrics;
• Kube eagle;
• DevOpsProdigy KubeGraf;
• Goldpinger;
• kmoncon.

Misc tools

• DevSpace is an open-source developer tool for Kubernetes that lets you develop and deploy cloud-native software faster;
• Kyverno - Kubernetes Native Policy Management;
• KEDA - Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling;
• Open Policy Agent - Policy-based control for cloud native environments.

Links

• Kubernetes by example;
• Secure Your Kubernetes Cluster With Pod Security Policies;
• How to assign a namespace to certain nodes?;
• Kubernetes Exam Simulator;
• The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes;
• k0s vs MicroK8s vs kind vs k3s vs Minikube;
• kind vs k3d vs minikube vs Docker Desktop vs Rancher Desktop;
• k0s;
• Gardener - tool with UI to deploy and manage k8s (even on-premis);
• Kubernetes LoadBalancer External;
• DNS Lookups in Kubernetes: ndots;
• krew - kubectl plugin manager;
• ksniff - kubectl plugin to connect to pods with Wireshark.