50+ Useful Kubernetes Tools

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