#OpenSourceSunday

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-06-29

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: GAMA.

GAMA is a powerful terminal-based user interface tool designed to streamline the management of GitHub Actions workflows. It allows developers to list, trigger, and manage workflows with ease directly from the terminal: github.com/termkit/gama

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-06-22

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Hypershift.

HyperShift is a middleware for hosting OpenShift control planes at scale that solves for cost and time to provision, as well as portability cross cloud with strong separation of concerns between management and workloads. Clusters are fully compliant OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters and are compatible with standard OCP and Kubernetes toolchains: github.com/openshift/hypershift

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-06-15

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Kubebuilder.

Kubebuilder is a framework for building Kubernetes APIs using custom resource definitions (CRDs). It provides powerful libraries and tools to simplify building and publishing Kubernetes APIs from scratch. It's pluggable architecture allows users to take advantage of optional helpers and features: github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kub

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-06-08

Liqo is an open-source project designed to enable dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies, supporting heterogeneous on-premise, cloud, and edge infrastructures. It facilitates automatic peer-to-peer establishment of resource and service consumption relationships between independent and heterogeneous clusters, eliminating the need for complex VPN configurations and certification authorities: github.com/liqotech/liqo

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-05-11

Cloudexit is an open-source tool for cloud engineers to assess cloud exit strategies. It evaluates risks and offers insights into challenges of leaving a current cloud provider. Using EscapeCloud Community Edition, organizations can prepare better for a cloud exit, ensuring informed decisions: github.com/escapecloud/cloudex

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-05-04

The Cluster API Visualizer is an open-source tool designed to simplify the management and understanding of multicluster Kubernetes environments using CAPI. It offers a comprehensive overview of multicluster architectures, visualizing all Cluster API custom resources for each cluster and providing quick access to their specifications and statuses. This makes it easier for both new and experienced users to navigate complex cluster setups: github.com/Jont828/cluster-api

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-02-23

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Shifu.

Shifu is a Kubernetes native, production-grade, protocol & vendor agnostic IoT development framework: github.com/Edgenesis/shifu

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-02-16

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: k8senv.

k8senv is a Kubernetes client's version manager inspired by tfenv to manage multiple versions of CLI tools needed for your daily work with Kubernetes. It supports maintaining multiple versions of kubectl, helm and velero on the same system/jumpbox/bastion: github.com/navilg/k8senv

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-02-09

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: PromLens.

PromLens is a web-based PromQL query builder, analyzer, and visualizer. It helps you with building, understanding, and fixing your queries much more effectively: github.com/prometheus/promlens

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-02-02

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Velero.

Velero gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. You can run Velero with a public cloud platform or on-premises: github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-01-26

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Helmsman.

Helmsman is a Helm Charts (k8s applications) as Code tool which allows you to automate the deployment/management of your Helm charts from version controlled code: github.com/Praqma/helmsman

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-01-19

kapp CLI encourages Kubernetes users to manage resources in bulk by working with "Kubernetes applications" (sets of resources with the same label). It focuses on resource diffing, labeling, deployment and deletion. Unlike tools like Helm, kapp considers YAML templating and management of packages outside of its scope, though it works great with tools that generate Kubernetes configuration: github.com/carvel-dev/kapp

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-01-12

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: k'exp.

k'exp - short for Kubernetes Explorer - helps you understand Kubernetes in a visual way. It is for learning and exploring Kubernetes capabilities as well as for application, controller and operator development: github.com/iximiuz/kexp

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2025-01-05

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: buoy.

buoy is a declarative TUI dashboard for Kubernetes. You define your dashboard in a JSON file and it will fetch the information from your Kubernetes cluster and build a dashboard for viewing the requested content right in your terminal window: github.com/everettraven/buoy

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2024-12-08

Akri lets you easily expose heterogeneous leaf devices (such as IP cameras and USB devices) as resources in a Kubernetes cluster, while also supporting the exposure of embedded hardware resources such as GPUs and FPGAs. Akri continually detects nodes that have access to these devices and schedules workloads based on them: github.com/project-akri/akri

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2024-12-01

Cluster API uses Kubernetes-style APIs and patterns to automate cluster lifecycle management for platform operators. The supporting infrastructure, like virtual machines, networks, or load balancers, as well as the Kubernetes cluster configuration are all defined in the same way that application developers operate deploying and managing their workloads. This enables consistent and repeatable cluster deployments across a wide variety of infrastructure environments.

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2024-11-24

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: kine.

Kine is an etcdshim that translates the etcd API. It enables the usage of MySQL, PostgreSQL, sqlite, dqlite instead of etcd as the central database of a Kubernetes cluster: github.com/k3s-io/kine

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2024-11-17

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Karpor.

Karpor is Intelligence for Kubernetes. It brings advanced Search, Insight and AI to Kubernetes. It is essentially a Kubernetes Visualization Tool. With Karpor, you can gain crucial visibility into your Kubernetes clusters across any clouds: github.com/KusionStack/karpor

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2024-11-10

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: kube-explorer.

kube-explorer is a portable explorer for Kubernetes without any dependency. It integrates the Rancher steve framework and its dashboard, and is recompiled, packaged, compressed, and provides an almost completely stateless Kubernetes resource manager: github.com/cnrancher/kube-expl

Christian Huthchristianhuth
2024-11-03

Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Skooner.

Skooner is the easiest way to manage your Kubernetes cluster. You can monitor cluster health or visualize and analyze metrics within a 100% responsive UI that also works on your phone or tablet: github.com/skooner-k8s/skooner

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