kubernetes
An open platform that extends upstream Kubernetes to Edge.
OpenYurt is the intelligent edge computing platform which aims to extend the Cloud Native ecosystem to edge computing and IoT scenarios. By making non-intrusive enhancements, it empowers customer to manage large scale edge computing workloads in different architecture (e.g., ARM and X86) in a native Kubernetes manner.
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Cut your dev loop from hours to seconds. The fastest way to deliver code. Connect your local process and your cloud environment, and run local code in cloud conditions.
mirrord lets you run your microservice locally with seamless access to everything in the cloud—speeding up development, improving code quality, and reducing cloud costs.
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The workflow engine for Kubernetes.
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Argo Workflows is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition).
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A Graphical IDE for Kubernetes.
Freelens is a Kubernetes IDE that provides a graphical interface for managing and monitoring Kubernetes clusters. Freelens is maintained by the community.
Freelens is a free and open-source user interface designed for managing Kubernetes clusters. It provides a standalone application compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems, making it accessible to a wide range of users. The application aims to simplify the complexities of Kubernetes management by offering an intuitive and user-friendly interface.
Fearless Kubernetes App Updates. Check your Kubernetes manifests before it hits the cluster.
kubechecks allows users of Github and Gitlab to see exactly what their changes will affect on their current ArgoCD deployments, as well as automatically run various conformance test suites prior to merge.
Build Container Images In Kubernetes.
kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster.
kaniko doesn't depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile completely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster.
A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust.
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🦀 ⚡ kubectl port forward manager, with support for UDP and proxy connections through k8s clusters
A handy app for managing Kubernetes port forwarding on any platform. It makes things easier for teams.
kftray and kftui are independent, cross-platform applications. They help you set up and manage multiple port-forwarding settings easily. Both apps are part of the same open-source project and aim to make working with Kubernetes easier. kftray has a desktop interface, while kftui has a terminal interface, so you can choose the one that suits you best.
Standardized Serverless ML Inference Platform on Kubernetes. Highly scalable and standards based Model Inference Platform on Kubernetes for Trusted AI.
KServe provides a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition for serving predictive and generative machine learning (ML) models. It aims to solve production model serving use cases by providing high abstraction interfaces for Tensorflow, XGBoost, ScikitLearn, PyTorch, Huggingface Transformer/LLM models using standardized data plane protocols.
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Single-node Kubernetes, reimagined for edge and embedded.
Ultra-lightweight, OCI-compliant, single-node Kubernetes built for constrained environments. No clustering. No etcd. Just what you need to run real workloads on real hardware—fast.
Kubernetes distribution for bare-metal, on-prem, edge, IoT.
k0s is the simple, solid & certified Kubernetes distribution that works on any infrastructure: bare-metal, on-premises, edge, IoT, public & private clouds. It's 100% open source & free.
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Free labs and playgrounds for learning Kubernetes, Cloud, DevOps and AI.
KAI Scheduler is an open source Kubernetes Native scheduler for AI workloads at large scale
Deploy and Manage Kubernetes at scale.
k0rdent has been developed to provide a way to manage distributed infrastructure at massive scale leveraging kubernetes.
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Kubernetes logging dashboard.
Kubetail is a real-time logging dashboard for Kubernetes.
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management.
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
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- How Kubernetes Works Internally? @ System Design Codex.
- Minimum vital pour survivre sur un sujet Kubernetes @ Téotime Pacreau :fr:.
- Formation Kubernetes : Admin & Développeurs @ DevSecOps :fr:.
- How To Run Kubernetes Commands in Go: Steps and Best Practices @ The New Stack.
- Kubernetes Is Powerful, But Not Secure (at least not by default) @ Tigera.
- Docker to Kubernetes: The 30-Day Migration Path Every Developer Should Know @ Teamcamp's dev.to.
- Beyond the surface - Exploring attacker persistence strategies in Kubernetes @ Raesene's Ramblings.
- The Myths (and Costs) of Running Node.js on Kubernetes @ Platformatic.
- k8s-1m: fully functional Kubernetes cluster with 1 million active nodes.
- Investigating and fixing "StopPodSandbox from runtime service failed" Kubelet errors @ Marcus Noble.
- Managing Kubernetes Workloads Using the App of Apps Pattern in ArgoCD-2 @ CNCF.
- How to use AI to make Kubernetes monitoring smarter @ Danlio's Medium.
- Why Kube-State-Metrics Matters for Kubernetes Observability @ weeklycloud's Medium.
- 64GB RAM Kubernetes Cluster for €39/month — Part 1: Proxmox & LVM & NAT @ TrackIT Blog.
- A Practical Guide to Running NVIDIA GPUs on Kubernetes @ jimangel.io.
- Preventing Kubernetes from Pulling the Pause Image from the Internet @ Kyle Cascade.
- Ten Common Kubernetes Misconfigurations That Cause Outages (And What You Can Do About It) @ Cloud Native Now.
- Wrangling Kubernetes contexts @ natkr's ramblings.
- In-place Pod resizing in Kubernetes: How it works and how to use it @ Palark's Blog.
- Kubernetes Metrics: Types, Tools, & Monitoring Guide @ spacelift.
- How to Troubleshoot Common Kubernetes Errors (2025 Guide) @ Spacelift.
- Kubernetes Optimization using In-Place Pod Resizing and Zone-Aware Routing @ halodoc.
- What's Wrong with Kubernetes Today @ DevZero.
- How I think about Kubernetes @ Georgi Arnaudov.
- A Brief Deep-Dive into Attacking and Defending Kubernetes @ Heilan Cyber.
- Le premier intérêt de Kubernetes n'est pas le scaling @ mcorbien.fr :fr:.
- Kubernetes Rolling Updates for Reliable Deployments @ spacelift.
- Kubernetes 1.35 features that change Day 2 operations @ The New Stack.
- How to Setup Kubectl Aliases with Kuberc (Native Method) @ Devopscube.
- Scaling Nodes From Zero - The Bottleneck @ Labyrinth Labs.
- Learn Kubernetes – Full Handbook for Developers, Startups, and Businesses @ freeCodeCamp.
- Managing Kubernetes Secrets with Mozilla SOPS and AGE @ Cyril Baah's Medium.
- Registry mirror authentication with Kubernetes secrets @ CNCF.
- When Kubernetes Is the Wrong Default @ DevOps Daily.
- Why Kubernetes Reliability Is Now a Machine-Speed Problem @ Cloud Native Now.
- The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter @ Kubernetes Blog.
- When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t @ CNCF.
- Why is your Kubernetes cluster adding nodes when the dashboards look fine? @ The New Stack.
- Kubernetes : la solution face aux promesses non tenues du cloud ? @ AXOPEN's ausha :fr:.
- Kubernetes Still Feels Weird? What i wish i knew sooner @ AWS in Plain English's Medium.
- Kubernetes Strategic Merge Patch @ ITNEXT.
- Kubernetes forensics 1/3 : what the container ? @ Synacktiv :fr:.
- Fleet-Scale Kubernetes: An Operating Model for Homogeneous Clusters with Decoupled Capacity @ lucy.sh.
- From Kubernetes Dev Setup to Production: What Actually Changes @ Georg Schwarz.
- How to Encrypt Kubernetes Traffic with cert-manager, Let's Encrypt, and Internal TLS @ freeCodeCamp.
- Comment migrer ses applications de VMs vers Kubernetes ? Bonnes pratiques et outils indispensables ! @ AXOPEN's ausha :fr:.
- Les données dans Kubernetes : comment bien les gérer et les protéger ? @ AXOPEN's YouTube :fr:.
- Where Did My Pod Go? A Deep Dive into K8s Scheduling @ DevOps.dev's Medium.
- Kubernetes in the Age of AI @ O'Reilly Radar.
- What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes @ ~~p.
- Running AI Agents Safely Inside Kubernetes @ KodeKloud.
- How to Become Ridiculously Good at Kubernetes @ F8010's Medium.
- The feedback loops behind Kubernetes @ Planetscale.
- Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Explained @ Cilium.
- Why I haven’t run my databases on Kubernetes @ Percona.
- Operating Kubernetes at scale: a few stories from running Amazon EKS @ The New Stack.
- Kubernetes Is Powerful. It’s Also Way Too Complex for Most Teams That Use It. @ Harsh Kumar's Medium.
- Kubernetes made deploying easy. Nobody warned you about the databases @ TheNewStack.
- Your Pod Died of “Out of Ephemeral Storage” but the Disk Is Half Empty!! @ ITNext's Medium.
- A Green Kubernetes Deployment Does Not Mean a Healthy Application @ Cloud Native Now.
- How Kubernetes probes work @ ngrok.
Instant Distributed Tracing. Enterprise-Grade OpenTelemetry. Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF.
Accelerate OpenTelemetry implementation with Odigos, an eBPF-based solution providing zero-code, zero-performance overhead for deeper tracing
Odigos is an open-source distributed tracing solution that simplifies and improves observability for Kubernetes environments and Virtual Machines. It provides instant tracing capabilities without requiring any code changes to your applications.
open source cost monitoring for cloud native environments.
OpenCost is a vendor-neutral open source project for measuring and allocating cloud infrastructure and container costs in real time. Built by Kubernetes experts and supported by Kubernetes practitioners, OpenCost shines a light into the black box of Kubernetes spend.
OpenCost give teams visibility into current and historical Kubernetes and cloud spend and resource allocation. These models provide cost transparency in Kubernetes environments that support multiple applications, teams, departments, etc. It also provides visibility into the cloud costs across multiple providers.
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Free and open source PaaS framework for building clouds.
Transform a set of bare metal servers into an intelligent system with a simple REST API for spawning Kubernetes clusters, Databases-as-a-Service, virtual machines, load balancers, HTTP caching services, and other services with ease.
Stateless cluster local OCI registry mirror.
Speed up container pulls and minimize downtime with a stateless peer-to-peer OCI registry mirror for efficient image distribution.
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CLI tool to easily migrate Kubernetes persistent volumes.
pv-migrate is a CLI tool/kubectl plugin to easily migrate the contents of one Kubernetes PersistentVolumeClaim to another.
An Envoy-Powered, Kubernetes-Native API Gateway
Kgateway is feature-rich, fast, and flexible. It excels in function-level routing, supports legacy apps, microservices and serverless, offers robust discovery capabilities, integrates seamlessly with open-source projects, and is designed to support hybrid applications with various technologies, architectures, protocols, and clouds.
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The platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes.
Koreo is a Platform Engineering toolkit focused on making the Platform Engineer's life easier so that they can focus on making product developers lives' easier.
Koreo is a new approach to Kubernetes configuration management and resource orchestration empowering developers through programmable workflows and structured data
Fix Inventory is an open-source cloud asset inventory tool for infrastructure and security engineers.
Fix Inventory helps you identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes.
Fix Inventory enables a broad set of exploration and automation scenarios. Its foundation is a graph-based data model, which exposes resource metadata and dependency relationships between your service's assets.
A powerful CLI allows you to search, explore, and manage your cloud resources.
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The easiest way to distribute enterprise software.
🧊 The next generation Package Manager for Kubernetes 📦 Featuring a GUI and a CLI. Glasskube packages are dependency aware, GitOps ready and can get automatic updates via a central public package repository.
Developer Friendly Kubernetes 👁️ .
Cyclops is an open-source dev tool that simplifies Kubernetes with an easy-to-use UI, making it less intimidating. Instead of creating and configuring your Kubernetes manifests with YAML, use Cyclops to painlessly configure and deploy your applications - validations included!
Nelm is a Helm 3 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes.
Monitor cross-zone network traffic in Kubernetes.
KUBErnetes cross-ZONe NETwork monitoring with Prometheus for Cilium-based clusters (in Legacy host routing mode).
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pod that scales down to zero.
Zeropod is a Kubernetes runtime (more specifically a containerd shim) that automatically checkpoints containers to disk after a certain amount of time of the last TCP connection. While in scaled down state, it will listen on the same port the application inside the container was listening on and will restore the container on the first incoming connection.
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Cedar is a language for defining permissions as policies, and a specification for evaluating those policies. Use Cedar to define who is authorized to do what within your application. Cedar is open source.
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JobSet: a k8s native API for distributed ML training and HPC workloads
JobSet is a Kubernetes-native API for managing a group of k8s Jobs as a unit. It aims to offer a unified API for deploying HPC (e.g., MPI) and AI/ML training workloads (PyTorch, Jax, Tensorflow etc.) on Kubernetes.
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Bringing Agentic AI to cloud native.
An open-source framework for DevOps and platform engineers to run AI agents in Kubernetes, automating complex operations and troubleshooting tasks.
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Introducing the IaC Package Manager for Kubernetes.
yoke is a Helm-inspired infrastructure-as-code (IaC) package deployer.
The philosophy behind yoke is that Kubernetes packages should be described via code. Programming environments have control flow, test frameworks, static typing, documentation, error management, and versioning. They are ideal for building contracts and enforcing them.
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Postgre SQL Operator for Kubernetes. Run PostgreSQL. The Kubernetes way.
CloudNativePG is the Kubernetes operator that covers the full lifecycle of a highly available PostgreSQL database cluster with a primary/standby architecture, using native streaming replication.
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- Plongez dans le monde de CloudNativePG #4 - Les sauvegardes ! @ Dalibo :fr:.
- Making Postgres scale to zero with CNPG @ xata.
- Kubernetes Finally Solves Its Biggest Problem: Managing Databases @ The New Stack. https://medium.com/@nejdetkadir/how-i-built-my-own-home-lab-a-single-node-kubernetes-platform-34bdf6a08a26
Trust Your Deployments.
Easily handle Kubernetes deployments of any size, complexity, and across various environments using Kluctl. The missing glue to put together large Kubernetes deployments, composed of multiple smaller parts (Helm/Kustomize/...) in a manageable and unified way.
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Automated Kubernetes Resource Optimization.
Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 80% and enhance cluster reliability by using real-time, application context-aware, automation for your most critical production environments
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This is a simple CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits, and utilization in a Kubernetes cluster. It attempts to combine the best parts of the output from kubectl top and kubectl describe into an easy to use CLI focused on cluster resources.
Multi-Stage GitOps Continuous Promotion. Application lifecycle orchestration. Seamlessly orchestrate stage-to-stage deployments, without custom scripts or CI pipelines.
Kargo is a next-generation continuous delivery and application lifecycle orchestration platform for Kubernetes. It builds upon GitOps principles and integrates with existing technologies, like Argo CD, to streamline and automate the progressive rollout of changes across the many stages of an application's lifecycle.
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MetalLB is a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing protocols.
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Backup and migrate Kubernetes resources and persistent volumes.
Velero is an open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.
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ExternalDNS synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with DNS providers.
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services.
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External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
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- (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup @ Jack's home on the web.
- How Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster @ The New Stack.
- GitOps architecture, patterns and anti-patterns @ Platform Engineering.
- Discover the External Secret Operator (ESO) OVHcloud Provider to manage your Kubernetes secrets 🎉 @ OVHcloud.
Zero-ops Kubernetes for developers, edge and IoT. Zero-ops, pure-upstream, HA Kubernetes, from developer workstations to production.
MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
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Power of Kubernetes, Simplicity of Heroku. Making Kubernetes as easy as Heroku
Canine is a Kubernetes platform that makes it easy to deploy and manage your applications.
Kmesh is a high-performance service grid data plane software implemented based on the ebpf and programmable kernel. It adopts the sidecarless architecture and does not need to deploy proxy components on the data plane. It implements the service governance function and improves the forwarding performance of service access.
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A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer.
A Global Service Load Balancing solution with a focus on having cloud native qualities and work natively in a Kubernetes context.
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Cloud Native Dev Environment. KubeVPN offers a Cloud Native Dev Environment that connects to kubernetes cluster network.
Gain access to the Kubernetes cluster network effortlessly using service names or Pod IP/Service IP. Facilitate the interception of inbound traffic from remote Kubernetes cluster services to your local PC through a service mesh and more.
Virtual Kubernetes and Multi-Tenancy.
Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
Virtual clusters are fully functional Kubernetes clusters nested inside a physical host cluster providing better isolation and flexibility to support multi-tenancy. Multiple teams can operate independently within the same physical infrastructure while minimizing conflicts, maximizing autonomy, and reducing costs.
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Declarative GitOps CD for Kubernetes. Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
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- How to Build a Multi-Tenancy Internal Developer Platform with GitOps and vCluster @ ITNEXT's Medium.
- Unleashing the Power of ArgoCD by Streamlining Kubernetes Deployments @ sitepoint.
- Using ArgoCD ApplicationSet to deploy to multiple clusters @ ITNEXT's Medium.
- Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops @ Container Hub's Medium.
- How Engineers are Automating More with Less: Trends in DevOps Tooling @ DevOps.
- Harnessing GitOps on Linux for Seamless, Git-First Infrastructure Management @ Linux Journal.
- Managing Kubernetes Workloads Using the App of Apps Pattern in ArgoCD-2 @ CNCF.
- Anatomy of a Pull Request Generator @ Codefresh.
- Manage Multi-Cluster Deployments with ArgoCD @ DigitalOcean.
- Behind the scenes: Designing Argo CD in Octopus @ Octopus Deploy.
- ArgoCD diffs at scale @ monday engineering.
- How to scale GitOps in the enterprise: From single cluster to fleet management @ Platform Engineering.
- Argo CD 3.3 Brings Safer GitOps Deletions and Smoother Day‑to‑Day Operations @ InfoQ.
- Introduction to ArgoCD: Getting Started with GitOps @ DevOps Daily.
- How to Implement GitOps on Kubernetes Using Argo CD @ freeCodeCamp.
- GitOps policy-as-code: Securing Kubernetes with Argo CD and Kyverno @ CNCF.
- Security Flaw in Argo CD Can Let Attackers Take Over Kubernetes Clusters @ Cloud Native Now.
Power tools for kubectl. Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl.
kubectx is a tool to switch between contexts (clusters) on kubectl faster. kubens is a tool to switch between Kubernetes namespaces (and configure them for kubectl) easily.
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Kubernetes-native platform to run massively parallel data/streaming jobs.
A Kubernetes-native, serverless platform for running scalable and reliable event-driven applications. Numaflow decouples event sources and sinks from the processing logic, allowing each component to independently auto-scale based on demand. With out-of-the-box sources and sinks, and built-in observability, developers can focus on their processing logic without worrying about event consumption, writing boilerplate code, or operational complexities. Each step of the pipeline can be written in any programming language, offering unparalleled flexibility in using the best programming language for each step and ease of using the languages you are most familiar with.
Kubernetes native configuration management.
Kustomize introduces a template-free way to customize application configuration that simplifies the use of off-the-shelf applications. Now, built into kubectl as apply -k.
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Kube Resource Orchestrator. Powerful Abstractions for Kubernetes.
Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) helps you to define complex multi-resource constructs as reusable components in your applications and systems. It does this by providing a Kubernetes-native, vendor agnostic way to define groupings of Kubernetes resources.
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A transformative log viewer for Kubernetes.
Kubernetes History Inspector (KHI) is a rich log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters. KHI transforms vast quantities of logs into an interactive, comprehensive timeline view. This makes it an invaluable tool for troubleshooting complex issues that span multiple components within your Kubernetes clusters.
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⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes.
Stern allows you to tail multiple pods on Kubernetes and multiple containers within the pod. Each result is color coded for quicker debugging.
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The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart makes it easy to start gathering telemetry data from your Kubernetes clusters. With one deployment, you can capture all of the metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from your cluster and the applications running on it!
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Data Portability and Resilience.
Data loss leaves a mess. Don’t get stuck with the broom. Veeam data resilience secures and restores your data anytime, anywhere.
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CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI) . cri-tools aims to provide a series of debugging and validation tools for Kubelet CRI, which includes:
- crictl: CLI for kubelet CRI.
- critest: validation test suites for kubelet CRI.
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A service to keep container images up-to-date. Made for Kubernetes and Docker..
Cupdate is a zero-config service that helps you keep your container images up-to-date. It automatically identifies container images in use in your Kubernetes cluster or on your Docker host. Cupdate then identifies the latest available version and makes this data and more available to you via a UI, API or through an RSS feed.