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24 alternatives to konfd – Manage Kubernetes secrets and configmaps with Go templates

Manage application configuration using Kubernetes secrets, configmaps, and Go templates. - kelseyhightower/konfd

konfd is a tool that helps developers manage Kubernetes secrets and configmaps using Go templates. It allows configuration and secret data to be templated and deployed to Kubernetes clusters programmatically. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. konfd – Manage Kubernetes secrets and configmaps with Go templates launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Convert your Docker Compose file to Kubernetes or OpenShift

    2017 · kompose.io · its alternatives →

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    Konfig▲87

    Generate SDKs to easily onboard external devs to your API

    2023 · konfigthis.com · its alternatives →

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    Remocal Kubernetes development for teams and enterprises

    2024 · metalbear.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Everyone! Kubetail is a general-purpose logging dashboard for Kubernetes, optimized for tailing logs across multi-container workloads in real-time. With Kubetail, you can view logs from all the containers in a workload (e.g. Deployment or DaemonSet) merged into a single chronological timeline, delivered to your browser or terminal. I launched Kubetail on HN last year and at that time the top request was to add search. Now I'm happy to say we finally have search available in our latest official release (cli/v0.4.3, helm/v0.10.1). You can check it out in action here:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Kubernetes native troubleshooting platform

    2021 · komodor.com · its alternatives →

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    A large part of our (Real Kinetic's) business is helping organizations implement platform engineering, but we've found the existing tooling to be lacking. For IaC, Terraform state becomes a pain because TF treats infrastructure as "one-shot" commands. The Kubernetes controller model provides a nicer approach to managing infrastructure, but the tooling here is also lacking. For configuration management, Helm just doesn't really scale with complexity, nor does Kustomize. For resource orchestration, Crossplane is a step in the right direction but still has challenges and limitations. As a…

    2025 · koreo.dev · its alternatives →

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    End-to-end Kubernetes security open-source platform

    2022 · cloud.armosec.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, this is Shimon and Eyar of Datree (https://www.datree.io/). When I was an Engineering Manager of Infrastructure at ironSource (NASDAQ:IS) for 400 developers, a developer made a mistake, causing a misconfiguration to reach production, which caused major problems for the company's infrastructure. Mistakes happen all the time - you learn from them and hope to never make them again. But how can we prevent a production issue from recurring, or, how about a bigger challenge — how can you prevent the next one from the get-go? In our case, we tried sending emails to our devs,…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Kloak - Kubernetes eBPF Secret Interceptor for HTTPS. Secure secret management without application changes or sidecars.

    Apr 2026 · getkloak.io · its alternatives →

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    Seamless dev environments for Kubernetes. Contribute to lapce/lapdev development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kaptn▲70

    Create and manage your K8s clusters with a user friendly GUI

    2023 · kaptn.io · its alternatives →

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    The lightest-weight k8s dev environments in the world.

    2024 · kardinal.dev · its alternatives →

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    Docker to Kubernetes in one command. Contribute to redspread/spread development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, we’re Philip Louis from Glasskube (https://github.com/glasskube/glasskube). We are working on a package manager for Kubernetes to simplify the packaging of complex applications with multiple dependencies, ensuring they are installed and kept up-to-date across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Nowadays, it is best practice to use Git as a revision control system for your Kubernetes configurations. Update automation workflows like Renovate or Dependabot can create pull requests for new versions of Docker images and Helm charts, but ensuring these new package versions…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’m excited to share Holos, a Go command line tool we wrote to fill the configuration management gap in Kubernetes. Holos uses CUE to configure software distributed with Helm and Kustomize using a well defined, type safe language eliminating the need to template YAML. You probably know (or are) someone who has suffered with the complexity of plain text YAML templates and merging multiple values.yaml files together to configure software running in Kubernetes. We built Holos so we don’t have to template YAML but we can still integrate software distributed with Helm and Kustomize…

    2024 · holos.run · its alternatives →

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    Docker to Kubernetes in one command. Contribute to redspread/spread development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kubernetes security made for developers

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Brandon, a solo dev, and I built KubeForge - a visual editor for Kubernetes deployments that helps you build and validate YAML configs. Origin Story: Over the past couple weeks, I got fed up manually writing Kubernetes YAMLs, especially when working with nested structures like containers, env, and volumeMounts. Even small typos or misaligned fields added lost time to broken deploys. So I started hacking together a tool to visualize the structure of Kubernetes objects based on the OpenAPI schema. That prototype quickly turned into a full manifest builder. What KubeForge does: -…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀. Contribute to alexellis/k3sup development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · k3sup.dev · its alternatives →

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    KUR8▲71

    Overview of Kubernetes architecture and Prometheus metrics

    2021 · kur8.io · its alternatives →

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    K8 Cluster Source Map and Distributed Tracing Visualizer

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Fully fledged (HA) Kubernetes Cluster using official kubeadm, ansible and helm. Tested on RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu with support of http_proxy, dashboard installed, ingress controller, heapster - using official helm charts - ReSearchITEng/kubeadm-playbook

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    K8R▲65

    Kubernetes cluster visualization focused on customization.

    2023 · its alternatives →

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