awesome-eks

A curated list of awesome tools for Amazon EKS 🌊
https://github.com/realvz/awesome-eks

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API gateways

Audit

Chaos testing

CI and CD tools

Flagger - Progressive Delivery Operator for Kubernetes
Jenkins X
Circle CI
Gitlab
Shippable
Flux - The GitOps Kubernetes operator
Spinnaker

CLI tools

Krew - a plugin manager for kubectl
kubectl-plugins
kubectx
kube-ps1
kubectl debug - Debug your pod by a new container with every troubleshooting tools pre-installed
k9s - Provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters
kubectl tree

Cluster management tools

eksctl
AWS CloudFormation
CDK Amazon EKS Construct Library
Terraform
Pulumi
eksctl with Ocean integration by Spot.io - eksctl integrated with Ocean by Spot.io to launch EKS on spot instances with a single command
Octant - Deploy VMware Octant on a EKS Cluster using Pulumi
ekstender - tool that extends a vanilla Amazon EKS cluster with a number of add-on OSS projects.
aws-k8s-tester - Implements k8s.io/test-infra/kubetest2, creates/deletes testing EKS cluster with various add-ons.
eksctl
Pulumi

Compliance

Container runtime security

Cost allocation

Data plane management

Ingress

Nginx
Gloo - The Feature-rich, Kubernetes-native, Next-Generation API Gateway Built on Envoy
Contour
Traefik

Logging

Machine learning

Maintainers

@realvz

Miscellaneous

Monitoring

Kubernetes Metrics Server - wide aggregator of resource usage data
CloudWatch Container Insights
Using Prometheus Metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
kube-state-metrics - on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Mizu - The API Traffic Viewer for Kubernetes (Think TCPDump and Wireshark re-invented for Kubernetes)
k8s-image-availability-exporter - Alerts if an image used in Kubernetes cannot be pulled from container registry
KubeStellar Console - cluster Kubernetes dashboard with real-time observability, AI-powered operations, and CNCF project integrations across EKS and other clusters

Networking

CNI metrics helper
Calico network policy engine for Kubernetes
Cluster VPC considerations
AWS VPC CNI
ksniff - Kubectl plugin to ease sniffing on kubernetes pods using tcpdump and wireshark

Package managers

Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
Amazon EKS Helm chart repository

Pod scaling

Automatic right-sizing - authn-authz/extensible-admission-controllers/) to implement automatic right-sizing recommendations
kube-metrics-adapter
right-size-guide
Escalator - A batch or job optimized horizontal autoscaler

re:Invent 2019 sessions

Security

Open Policy Agent
IAM Roles for service accounts
Sysdig Falco
cert-manager
EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
Kyverno
Gatekeeper
Bane - Custom & better AppArmor profile generator for Docker containers.
kube-hunter
eksuser - Utility to manage Amazon EKS users

Self-paced learning

Service meshes

Storage

Tracing

Troubleshooting

Twitter

Chris Short - AWS Developer Advocate
Massimo Re Ferre' - AWS Developer Advocate
Michael Hausenblas - AWS Developer Advocate

Upcoming events

AWS Cloud Containers Conference