Since Kubernetes alone doesn’t provide every feature necessary for managing a fully functional and secure production environment, several additional tools are typically required to address other concerns. This section contains a collection of useful projects and tools from the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Projects

This section provides details for selected open source projects, with a focus on CNCF ones. It doesn’t explore the complete feature sets of each project, but rather illustrates their key capabilities. New projects are added regularly to give you a broader vision of the Cloud Native ecosystem.

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Some items may reference my personal repo and temp credentials as I use them for demo during meetups and other tech events.

Tools

This section presents a non-exhaustive list of widely used tools organized by category like security, observability, or daily operations.

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Some of these tools are detailed in the Projects section above.

Daily Operations

Management Tools

Application Management & Packaging

Networking

Security

Observability

GitOps Tools

Cost related tools

Backup & Disaster Recovery

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The choice of tools should align with your specific requirements and use cases. Note that some tools are complementary, while others are direct competitors and should not be used together.