Automation and tasking

Observability

• awesome_bot - awesome_bot checks for valid URLs in a file, it can be used to verify pull requests updating a README.
• semantic-release - packagerocket Fully automated version management and package publishing - semantic-release.gitbook.io
• carvel vendir - Easy way to vendor portions of git repos, github releases, helm charts, docker image contents, etc. declaratively
• renovate - Renovatebot - Universal dependency update tool that fits into your workflows.

Browser automation

Observability

• Rod - A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping go-rod.github.io

Build tools

Observability

• Dagger - A PORTABLE DEVKIT FOR CI/CD PIPELINES.
• Melange - build APKs from source code.
• apko - apko: apk-based OCI image builder - Build OCI images using APK directly without Dockerfile
• Makisu - Fast and flexible Docker image building tool, works in unprivileged containerized environments like Mesos and Kubernetes.
• LayerSmith - Build OCI container images with Docker or Podman through a self-hosted web UI, with distro-aware templates, editable Containerfiles, and air-gap exports.

Command Line and Tooling

Observability

• NixOS - Reproducible builds and deployments.
• Script - Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
• Whalebrew - Homebrew, but with Docker images
• aliases - Resolve dependency on all commands by container
• EnvCLI - Don't install Node, Go, ... locally - use containers you define within your project. If you have a new machine / other contributors you just have to install docker and envcli to get started.
• asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more https://asdf-vm.com/
• asdf-k3d - k3d plugin for asdf version manager https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
• Variant - Wrap up your bash scripts into a modern CLI today. Graduate to a full-blown golang app tomorrow.
• pet - Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go.
• git-cliff - A highly customizable changelog generator ⛰️
• the-way - A code snippets manager for your terminal.
• relnote - Offline stdlib Python CLI and GitHub Action for conventional-commit release notes (no API, no config)

Container Image and Container OS

Observability

• Wolfi - Wolfi is a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. Chainguard build curated distroless images.

Content Distribution

Observability

• imgproxy - Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

Observability

• Concourse CI - Continuous thingdoer - Concourse presents a general approach to automation that makes it great for CI/CD.

Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)

Observability

• coder - Terraform leveraged Software development on your infrastructure - https://coder.com/

Docker

Observability

• await - Await tool to check resource status.
• aws-ecr-public - Public endpoint for AWS Elastic Container Registry
• whoami - Tiny Go webserver that prints os information and HTTP request to output
• local-docker-registry-proxy - Local Docker registry proxy stack for swift K3D (and other) container-related workflows.
• dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Documentation

Observability

• Grip - Preview GitHub Markdown files like Readme locally before committing them.

EC2

Kubernetes // Storage

• ec2-instance-selector - A CLI tool and go library which recommends instance types based on resource criteria like vcpus and memory

Go

Observability

• lile - Easily generate gRPC services in Go ⚡
• goreleaser - Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible. gorelaser.com

Jsonnet

Observability

• jsonnet-training-course - https://jsonnet-libs.github.io/jsonnet-training-course/

Kubernetes

Kubernetes // Authentication

• kubelogin - kubectl plugin for Kubernetes OpenID Connect authentication (kubectl oidc-login)
• gangway - An application that can be used to easily enable authentication flows via OIDC for a kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes // Dashboards, UI, Reporting and Validation

• k9s - 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! k9scli.io
• Polaris - Validation of best practices in your Kubernetes clusters
• Forecastle - Forecastle is a control panel which dynamically discovers and provides a launchpad to access applications deployed on Kubernetes
• kube-ops-view - Kubernetes Operational View - read-only system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters
• popeye - 👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer. popeyecli.io
• pluto - A cli tool to help discover deprecated apiVersions in Kubernetes - Easily Find Deprecated API Versions with Pluto
• Kubeconform - A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources! (Supercedes kubeval)
• Kail - kubernetes log viewer
• kubespy - Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi. https://pulumi.io/

Kubernetes // Development environments

• Skaffold - Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application, allowing you to focus on what matters most: writing code.
• Tilt - Productivity for teams building Kubernetes apps.
• Loft - Namespace & Virtual Cluster Manager for Kubernetes - Lightweight Virtual Clusters, Self-Service Provisioning for Engineers and 70% Cost Savings with Sleep Mode
• DevSpace - DevSpace - The Fastest Developer Tool for Kubernetes zap Automate your deployment workflow with DevSpace and develop software directly inside Kubernetes.

Kubernetes // Grafana

• promcat - A resource catalog for enterprise-class Prometheus monitoringyou
• Karma - Alert dashboard for Prometheus Alertmanager
• Loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs. https://grafana.com/loki
• dark - (grafana) Dashboards As Resources in Kubernetes
• grabana - User-friendly Go library for building Grafana dashboards

Kubernetes // Image Registries and Image Distribution

• Harbor - An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
• Kraken - P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds
• Dragonfly - Dragonfly is an intelligent P2P based image and file distribution system
• ecr-mirror - Mirror public repositories to internal ECR repos
• trow - Container Registry and Image Management for Kubernetes Clusters

Kubernetes // Leader Election

• leaderz - Modern coordination API based leader election example for blog post
• leader-elector - Leader elector sidecar as explain in Kubernetes blog post: Simple leader election with Kubernetes and Docker

Kubernetes // Observability

• cloudprober - An active monitoring software to detect failures before your customers do.
• kubernetes-mixin - Prometheus Monitoring Mixin for Kubernetes - A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes.
• vigil - 🚦 Microservices Status Page. Monitors a distributed infrastructure and sends alerts (Slack, SMS, etc.).
• gatus - ⛑ Automated service health dashboard - https://gatus.io
• uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool - https://uptime.kuma.pet

Kubernetes // Orchestration

• OperatorHub - OperatorHub.io is a new home for the Kubernetes community to share Operators. Find an existing Operator or list your own today.
• ArgoCD - Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes. https://argoproj.github.io/argo-cd/
• flagger - Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)

Kubernetes // Provisioning and Dev Clusters

• KubeStitch - Kubernetes deployment stitcher - local development and demo stack.

Kubernetes // Storage

• rook - Open-Source, Cloud-Native Storage for Kubernetes - Production ready management for File, Block and Object Storage
• ceph - Ceph uniquely delivers object, block, and file storage in one unified system.
• longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed block storage built on and for Kubernetes

Kubernetes // Storage and Databases

• Vitess - A database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL

• kapp - Deploy and view groups of Kubernetes resources as "applications". Apply changes safely and predictably, watching resources as they converge.
• carvel - Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes.
• Contour - open source Kubernetes ingress controller providing the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy.​
• Keiko - Keiko - Enable Kubernetes at scale - from Intuit. Creators of Argo CD etc.
• helm-mapkubeapis - This is a Helm plugin which map deprecated or removed Kubernetes APIs in a release to supported APIs
• kube-node-init - Kubernetes daemonset for node initial configuration. Currently for modifying files and systemd services on eksctl nodes without changing userdata
• Kuard - Demo app for Kubernetes Up and Running book - Useful for testing basics of readynesschecks behaviours etc.
• nodetaint - Controller to manage taints for nodes in a k8s cluster.
• nidhogg - Kubernetes Node taints based on Daemonset Pods
• k8s-metadata-injector - Inject metadata into kubernetes resources based on namespces
• helm-controller - A simple way to manage helm charts (v2 and v3) with a Custom Resource Definitions in k8s.
• k8s-image-swaper - ☸️ Mirror images into your own registry and swap image references automatically.
• banzaicloud/bank-vaults - A Vault swiss-army knife: a K8s operator, Go client with automatic token renewal, automatic configuration, multiple unseal options and more. A CLI tool to init, unseal and configure Vault (auth methods, secret engines). Direct secret injection into Pods.
• kubernetes-secret-generator - Kubernetes controller for automatically generating and updating secrets
• kube-ns-suspender - A k8s controller that scales up and down namespaces on-demand with an embedded friendly UI and a Prometheus exporter. Inspired by kube-downscaler.

Kubernetes // Operator Frameworks

Kubernetes // Storage

• kopf - A Python framework to write Kubernetes operators in just a few lines of code https://kopf.readthedocs.io/

Logs and Observability

Observability

• M3 - M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform https://m3db.io/
• gosivy - Another visualization tool for Go process metrics.
• exporter-merger - Merges Prometheus metrics from multiple sources

Networking

Observability

• Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security. defined.net
• alterNAT - High availability implementation of AWS NAT instances.
• vyos - Open source router and firewall platform. vyos.io

On prem

Observability

• seesaw - Seesaw v2 is a Linux Virtual Server (LVS) based load balancing platform. Binaries: Shelmangroup

Other

Observability

• Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. - excalidraw.com
• diagrams - 🎨 Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures.
• Heimdall - An Application dashboard and launcher

Performance related

Observability

• ec2-boot-bench - Benchmark EC2 instance boot time from API call to accepting TCP connections.

Python

Observability

• python-poetry - PYTHON PACKAGING AND DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT MADE EASY

Templating and configuration management

Observability

• Konfigurator - A kubernetes operator that dynamically generates and manages app configuration based on kubernetes resources
• gomplate - A flexible commandline tool for template rendering. Supports lots of local and remote datasources. https://gomplate.ca
• confd - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
• remco - remco is a lightweight configuration management tool https://heavyhorst.github.io/remco/

Terraform

Kubernetes // Storage

• Atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
• Pluralith - Infrastructure State Visualisation
• blast-radius - Interactive visualizations of Terraform dependency graphs using d3.js - https://28mm.github.io/blast-radius-docs/
• tflock - Lock your Terraform state manually
• tfmigrate - A Terraform state migration tool for GitOps