What are some useful Kubernetes tools you can share?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/kubernetes

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  • kubesess

    Kubectl plugin managing sessions

  • When working against a cluster I would use stern like you do combined with two tools I’ve written kubesess for sessions and kubediff for comparing state

  • popeye

    👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer

  • "Popeye is a utility that scans live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations."

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • kubectl-debug

    This repository is no longer maintained, please checkout https://github.com/JamesTGrant/kubectl-debug.

  • I’ve used kubectl-debug quite a bit ( https://github.com/aylei/kubectl-debug ), although there might be better ways of doing it nowadays.

  • kubelogin

    A Kubernetes credential (exec) plugin implementing azure authentication (by Azure)

  • If you’re on AKS, then https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin is a must. It simplifies tremendously the authentication process by replacing the device code authentication with Azure CLI.

  • kubediff

    Source VS Deployed

  • When working against a cluster I would use stern like you do combined with two tools I’ve written kubesess for sessions and kubediff for comparing state

  • inspektor-gadget

    The eBPF tool and systems inspection framework for Kubernetes, containers and Linux hosts.

  • I found this tool: https://github.com/kinvolk/inspektor-gadget great if you want to have a detailed debugging for running pods e.g all exec system calls or trace tcp connections etc.

  • stern

    Discontinued ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes

  • I love stern when interacting with Pod logs directly. https://github.com/wercker/stern

  • SaaSHub

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  • lens

    Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

  • Lens has been one of the apps that I recommend to anyone looking to really dig into k8s. I keep it up on a regular basis as an observabity tool, but it’s definitely cable of full administration.

  • carvel

    Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. This repo contains information regarding the Carvel open-source community.

  • Huge fan of Carvel tools, it's a whole bunch of them that can help with a wide array of use cases, grab one or two of them for a given scenario, or adopt a bunch that string together to solve larger problems.

  • kubenav

    kubenav is the navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket.

  • kubectx

    Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

  • devtron

    Tool integration platform for Kubernetes

  • skaffold

    Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

  • I really like https://skaffold.dev/ for local development, speeds up repetitive commands I have to run like build/push/apply.

  • stern

    ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern (by stern)

  • SaaSHub

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