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collabnix/kubetools
Kubetools - Curated List of Kubernetes Tools
A community-maintained list of Kubernetes tools, organized by category (monitoring, CI/CD, security, etc.) and presented as a big Markdown table. It's a reference document for anyone standing up or operating a Kubernetes cluster who wants to know what tooling exists in a given space.
The breadth is genuinely useful — 500+ tools across 25+ categories means it covers most of the operational surface area of running Kubernetes. It's actively maintained (pushed July 2026) and the community is real, with contributors adding new tools regularly. The category structure is practical rather than vendor-driven, so you can navigate to 'Cost Optimisation' or 'Security Tools' and get a useful shortlist quickly. The periodic table visual is a clever at-a-glance orientation for newcomers.
There's no signal on tool quality or maintenance status — a tool with 12 stars that hasn't been touched in three years sits in the same table row as a CNCF project with 20k stars. Entries get duplicated across sections (K9s appears in both Cluster Management and Troubleshooting, kubetail appears twice in the same section), which suggests curation is additive-only with no cleanup pass. The 'portal' directory hints at a companion web UI but it's a stub React app with no apparent build or deployment setup. The discover_tools.py script suggests automated discovery is aspirational but the quality bar for what gets added seems low — several entries are closed-source commercial products with no GitHub link.