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48 tools · 4 priority tiers
CATEGORY
◈All Tools48
⟳GitOps & CD5
⎈Packaging3
🛡Security5
📋Policy3
📊Observability6
🕸Networking6
💾Storage3
🔧Dev Tools6
⚖Scheduling4
🔑Secrets3
☁Infra Mgmt4
PRIORITY
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MUST HAVE
IMPORTANT
KNOW IT
EXPLORE
CNCF ✓ Graduated
CNCF ~ Incubating
CNCF ○ Sandbox
CNCF ~ Incubating
CNCF ○ Sandbox
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48 tools
ArgoCD✓
CNCF ✓Declarative GitOps CD for Kubernetes
MUST HAVEFlux
CNCF ✓GitOps toolkit, ArgoCD's main rival
KNOW ITArgo Rollouts
CNCF ~Progressive delivery: canary & blue-green
IMPORTANTArgo Workflows
CNCF ~Kubernetes-native workflow engine
KNOW ITTekton
CNCF ✓Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines
KNOW ITHelm
CNCF ✓The Kubernetes package manager
MUST HAVEKustomize
K8s CoreTemplate-free YAML customization
IMPORTANTTimoni
Helm alternative using CUE language
EXPLORENeuVector
CNCF ~Full-lifecycle container security
IMPORTANTFalco
CNCF ✓Runtime threat detection via syscalls
IMPORTANTTrivy
CNCF ~Vulnerability scanner for images & IaC
MUST HAVECosign
CNCF ~Container image signing & verification
KNOW ITKubescape
CNCF ○K8s security posture scanner
KNOW ITKyverno
CNCF ✓Kubernetes-native policy engine
MUST HAVEOPA Gatekeeper
CNCF ✓Policy engine using Rego language
KNOW ITKubewarden
CNCF ○Policy engine using WebAssembly
EXPLOREPrometheus
CNCF ✓Metrics collection & alerting
MUST HAVEGrafana
Metrics, logs, traces visualization
MUST HAVELoki
Log aggregation — Prometheus for logs
IMPORTANTTempo
Distributed tracing backend
KNOW ITOpenTelemetry
CNCF ~Unified instrumentation standard
IMPORTANTVictoriaMetrics
High-performance Prometheus drop-in
KNOW ITCilium
CNCF ✓eBPF-based networking & security
IMPORTANTIstio
CNCF ✓Full-featured service mesh (sidecar)
KNOW ITTraefik
Cloud-native ingress controller
IMPORTANTingress-nginx
The standard Nginx ingress
IMPORTANTGateway API
K8s CoreNext-gen Ingress standard (k8s SIG)
KNOW ITMetalLB
CNCF ○LoadBalancer for bare-metal clusters
KNOW ITLonghorn
CNCF ~Distributed block storage for k8s
IMPORTANTRook-Ceph
CNCF ✓Cloud-native Ceph storage operator
KNOW ITVelero
CNCF ~Backup & restore for k8s resources + PVs
IMPORTANTk9s
Terminal UI for Kubernetes
MUST HAVELens
Kubernetes IDE (desktop app)
KNOW ITTelepresence
CNCF ○Local dev against remote cluster
KNOW ITTilt
Dev environment for k8s microservices
KNOW ITStern
Multi-pod log tailing
IMPORTANTKubectx/Kubens
Fast context & namespace switching
MUST HAVEDescheduler
CNCF ○Rebalance pods across nodes
IMPORTANTKEDA
CNCF ✓Event-driven autoscaling
IMPORTANTCluster Autoscaler
Auto add/remove cluster nodes
IMPORTANTVPA
Auto-set resource requests/limits
KNOW ITSealed Secrets
Encrypt secrets safe for Git commit
IMPORTANTExternal Secrets
CNCF ~Pull secrets from Vault/AWS/GCP/1Password
IMPORTANTHashiCorp Vault
Full secrets management platform
KNOW ITCrossplane
CNCF ✓Provision cloud infra as Kubernetes CRDs
IMPORTANTcert-manager
CNCF ✓Auto-provision & renew TLS certs
MUST HAVECluster API
CNCF ~Manage k8s clusters as CRDs
KNOW ITRancher
Multi-cluster management UI
KNOW IT