Useful Tools for Better Kubernetes Development

Yitaek Hwang
4 min readJan 6, 2021

A collection of awesome Kubernetes tools and projects to deploy, secure, and monitor your Kubernetes clusters.

Photo by Jefferson Santos on Unsplash

Previously I shared top Technologies & Tools to Watch in 2021, which received a ton of support from the DevOps and SRE community. So today I’m listing my top Kubernetes tools for testing and development.

Lens

For a while, I was an exclusive GKE user, spoiled by its simplicity and the managed dashboard on the GCP console. For local development, running the Kubernetes Dashboard maintained by the Kubernetes community fit most of my needs. However, as I transitioned into managing multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, I needed a single tool to interact with GKE, EKS, and local minikube clusters.

Lens is an open-source Kubernetes IDE that makes it easy to switch between multiple clusters and interact with deployed applications. Aqua Security also has an extension for Starboard that integrates vulnerability testing, which makes the DevSecOps workflow easier to manage.

Image Credit: Lens

Fairwinds Tools

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Yitaek Hwang
Yitaek Hwang

Written by Yitaek Hwang

Software Engineer at NYDIG writing about cloud, DevOps/SRE, and crypto topics: https://yitaekhwang.com

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