In just two relatively short years, Kubernetes has laid waste to its fellow competitors in the battlefield of container orchestration. Sadly, Docker Swarm hasn’t been a major contender since 2016 and, like AWS, admitted defeat by pledging K8s support and integration.
Since Kubernetes has skyrocketed to popularity as the container solution of choice, here’s a comprehensive list of all the tools that complement K8s to further enhance your development work.
Kube Cluster Deployment Tools
1. Kubespray
2. Minikube
3. Kubeadm
4. Kops
5. Bootkube
6. Kubernetes on AWS (Kube-AWS)
7. SimpleKube
8. Juju
9. Conjure-up
10. Amazon EKS
Monitoring Tools
11. Kubebox
12. Kubernetes Operational View (Kube-ops-view)
13. Kubetail
14. Kubewatch
15. Weave Scope
16. Searchlight
17. Heapster
Testing
18. Kube-monkey
19. K8s-testsuite
20. Test-infra
21. Sonobuoy
22. PowerfulSeal
Security
23. Trireme
24. Aporeto
25. Twistlock
26. Sysdig Falco
27. Sysdig Secure
28. Kubesec.io
Helpful CLI Tools
29. Cabin
30. Kubectx/Kubens
31. Kube-shell
32. Kail
Development Tools
33. Telepresence
34. Helm
35. Keel
36. Apollo
37. Draft
38. Deis Workflow
39. Kel
40. Cloud 66
Serverless/Function Tools
41. Kubeless
42. Fission
43. Funktion
44. IronFunction
45. OpenWhisk
46. OpenFaaS
47. Nuclio
48. Virtual-Kubelet
49. Fnproject
Native Service Discovery
50. CoreDNS
Native Visualization & Control
51. Kubernetes Dashboard
Source: https://dzone.com/articles/50-useful-kubernetes-tools