Introduction to Kubernetes

Chapter 3: Useful Tools

This chapter lists some useful Kubernetes tools we've used in production. You can follow the official awesome-kubernetes for a comprehensive list, but here is a short list of tools we've vetted and found useful.

Books & Resources

• The Kubernetes Book - Great introduction to Kubernetes concepts
• Kubernetes The Hard Way - Kelsey Hightower's tutorial

Security

• Kubernetes Security Best Practice - Collection of best practices for K8 security
• kubeaudit - Audit tool to scan for common security flaws
• kube-bench - Another audit/scanning tool

Package Manager

• Helm - K8 package manager

Monitoring

• Prometheus-Kubernetes - Great sample Prometheus configs

Testing

• Kube Monkey - Implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for K8 clusters
• K8s-testsuite - Load and network test for K8s

CI/CD

• Keel - Lightweight CD that works well with Helm
• Spinnaker Multi-cloud, battle-tested CD system

Dev Tools

• kube-ps1 - K8 prompts for bash and zsh
• kubectx - kubectl wrapper

Others

• Kubernetes Network Policy Recipes - Great collection of sample network policy recipes‍
• cert-manager - TLS cert manager for K8s