Tech Radar

Table of Contents

1. Container Tools
2. Kubernetes Tools
3. Security Tools
4. CI-CD
5. GitOps Tools
6. Plataform as a Service
7. Infraestructure as a Service
8. Infraestructure as a Code
9. Infrastructure as Software
10. Certificates and Key Management
11. IAM
12. Load Balancers, Proxies, Service Meshes and Service Discovery
13. Monitoring
14. Logging and Tracing
15. Data visualization
16. Distribute Storage Systems
17. Databases and Cache
18. Content Management System
19. Messaging and Queuing Systems
20. Testing Tools
21. Interesting Links

Container Tools

Container Runtimes

CRI Container Runtimes

• cri-o
• containerd

OCI Container Runtimes

• runc
• crun
• gVisor

Container Engines

• docker
• podman
• rkt
• lxd/lxc
• frakti

Virtual Machines containers-like Runtimes

• katacontainers

Build Image Tools

• buildah
• kaniko
• buildkit-cli-for-kubectl
• img

Images and Registries Interaction Tools

• crane
• skopeo
• umoci
• dive

Image Build and Post Build Scan

• Microscanner: Scan during build of images
• Trivy: Post build scans
• snyk containers
• Clair
• Aqua Security
• kube-hunter
• StackRox
• Twistlock
• Sysdig Secure

Container Runtime Scanners

• Sysdig Falco
• NeuVector

Container Images Signing

• Notary

Dockerfile Linting

• hadolint

Container Monitoring/Statistics

• cAdvisor

Containers Orchestrators

• Kubernetes
• k3s: Lightweight Kubernetes
• Docker Swarm
• Marathon
• Nomad

Kubernetes Tools

Package Managers

• kustomize
• Helm

Observability

• kube-state-metrics
• metrics-server
• node-problem-detector
• k8s dashboard
• kube-web-view
• octant
• weave scope
• kube-ops-view

Cluster Management

• kops
• kubespray
• kubeadm
• kubicorn

Kubernetes Managers

• RedHat OpenShift
• Rancher
• Digital Ocean Kubernetes
• EKS (AWS)

Kubernetes Manifests Validation Tools

• kubeval

Backup Tools

• Velero

Kubernetes Network Policies and Plugins

• WeaveNet
• flannel
• Calico
• Cilium
• kube-router

Kubernetes Operations

• operators whitepaper
• operator-framework
• ansible operators: Deploying containers into Kubernetes
• kubebuilder: Kubebuilder is a framework for building Kubernetes APIs using custom resource definitions (CRDs)
• shell-operator: Tool for running event-driven scripts in a Kubernetes cluster
• kudo
• charmed operator framework
• metacontroller
• kubediff

Machine Learning Kubernetes Tools

• kubeflow

DNS Tools

• external-dns

Schedulling Tools

• descheduler

Ingress Controllers

• aws-load-balancer-controller
• Traefik
• Nginx
• Ambassador
• Gloo
• Contour
• Kong

Auditing, Security and Certificates

• Cert Manager
• popeye
• kube-bench
• k8Guard
• copper

Autoscaling

• cluster-autoscaler
• karpenter
• keda
• cluster-proportional-autoscaler
• aws-node-termination-handler
• kube-downscaler: Scale down Kubernetes deployments after work hours

Functions as a Service Tools

• Knative
• OpenFaaS

Local Development

• Skaffold
• Draft
• Teleprecense
• Bridge to K8s
• squash: Code debugging tool

Cluster Administration Tools

• kube-janitor: Clean up (delete) Kubernetes resources after a configured TTL (time to live)
• kube-shell: An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI
• kubespy: Tool for observing Kubernetes resources in real time
• kube-ps1: PS1 prompt to see the namespace and the current kubetcl context
• kubetail: Easily tail pod logs
• stern: Easily tail pod logs
• kubens: Change kubernetes default namespace
• kubectx: Change kubectl contexts
• krew: Kubectl plugin manager
• clic: Command Line Interactive Controller for Kubernetes
• kubed-sh: Lets you execute a program in a Kubernetes cluster without having to create a container image or learn new concepts
• k2tf: Kubernetes to Terraform converter
• k9s
• lens

Debugging Tools

• crictl

Security Tools

Secrets Management

• sealed-secrets
• sops
• vault

Source Code Scan

• synk
• aquasec

Static Code Analysis

• sonarqube

CI-CD

• Spinnaker
• Jenkins
• Jenkins X
• Tekton
• Travis CI
• GiLab CI
• Github Actions
• Bamboo
• Circle CI
• Team City
• Drone
• Harness
• Codefresh

GitOps Tools

• Argo CD
  • Argo Rollouts
  • Argo Events
• Flux
  • https://www.weave.works/oss/flux/
• GitKube
• Flagger

Plataform as a Service

• Digital Ocean
• Heroku
• Dokku
• Linode
• Cloud Foundry
• Pivotal

Infraestructure as a Service

• CloudFoundry
• Digital Ocean
• OpenStack
• AWS
• Azure
• GCE

Infraestructure as a Code

• Terraform
• Vagrant
• Packer
• Ansible
• Ansible Tower
• AWX
• Puppet
• Chef
• Salt

Infrastructure as Software

• Pulumi
• Amazon CDK
• cdk8s
• terraform-cdk

Certificates and Key Management

• Vault
• DIY encryption
• Spiffe
• cfssl
• step tools
  • step-ca
  • step-cli
• ssh-key-authority
• Syspass

IAM

• Keycloak
• dex
• Free IPA
• WsO2 IAM

Load Balancers, Proxies, Service Meshes and Service Discovery

Load Balancers and Proxies

• Envoy Proxy
• HAProxy
• Nginx
• Traefik

Service Discovery and DNS Tools

• Consul
• Apache Zookeeper
• CoreDNS
• nip.io

Service Meshes

smi-spec

• Istio
• Linkerd
• Consul Connect
• Nginx Service Mesh

Monitoring

• Prometheus
• Cortex
• Thanos
• cAdvisor
• Sysdig
• Loggly
• New Relic
• Datadog
• App Dynamics

Logging and Tracing

• Zipkin
• Jaeger
• OpenTracing
• ELK
• Fluentd
• Logplex
• Splunk
• Scribe

Data visualization

• Kibana
• Grafana
• Graylog

Distribute Storage Systems

• Rook
• Gluster
• Ceph
• OpenEBS

Databases and Cache

• NoSQL (Key-Value)
  • Etcd
  • MongoDB
  • CockroachDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • Apache Cassandra
  • CoudchDB
  • etcd
  • RocksDB
  • Memcached
  • Redis
• SQL
  • Mysql
  • Postgres
  • Yugabyte
  • Apache ignite
  • NuoDB
  • CreateDB

Content Management System

• WordPress
• Drupal
• BonitaSoft

Messaging and Queuing Systems

• RabbitMQ
• Apache Kafka
• Beanstalkd

Testing Tools

HTTP Load and Stress Testing

• Siege: Siege is an open source regression test and benchmark utility: https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/
• Apache Bench
• Apache JMeter

Chaos Engineering

• Chaos Monkey
• chaoskube
• kube-monkey
• PowerfulSeal

Interesting Links

• Netflix OSS
• Netflix Tech Blog
• Airbnb Engineering
• Pinterest Engineering
• CDF Presentations
• Twelve Factor
• Open Containers
• Open Containers - Runtime Spec
• CNCF Landscape