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24 alternatives to KubeBlocks

An open-source K8s database operator

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. KubeBlocks launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    kubewall▲225

    A free and open-source GUI dashboard for Kubernetes

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Glasskube▲260

    The next generation package manager for Kubernetes

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3GO

    Hello HN, we're Philip and Louis from Glasskube (https://github.com/glasskube/glasskube). We're working on an open-source package manager for Kubernetes. It's an alternative to tools like Helm or Kustomize, primarily focused on making deploying, updating, and configuring Kubernetes packages simpler and a lot faster. Here is a demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIeTHGWsG2c#t=17s) with quick start instructions. Most developers working with Kubernetes use Helm, an open-source tool created during a hackathon nine years ago. However, with the rapid…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KubeDB▲72

    Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes

    2018 · its alternatives →

  5. 5KK
  6. 6KA

    Hey folks. I'm the author of kr8s. I’ve been working on kr8s for a while now and one of my core goals is to build a Python library for Kubernetes that is the most simple, readable and produces the most maintainable code. It should enable folks to write clean code when working with the Kubernetes API. If you're interested in how it compares with other libraries then check out [this post](https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2023/comparison-of-kr8s-vs-...). Happy to answer any questions you might have in the comments here .

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7KA

    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 →

  8. 8KA
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    KubeAdvisor helps DevOps adopt best practices for Kubernetes

    2019 · its alternatives →

  10. 10AO

    Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    End-to-end Kubernetes security open-source platform

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Do microservices integration testing efficiently

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Devtron▲174

    Kubernetes adoption at warp speed

    2023 · its alternatives →

  14. 14KA

    Hello HN! Today, we are pleased to publicly release Kùzu: a new embeddable graph database management system under a permissible license. You can see our blog post in the above link that gives an overview of the system and our goals/vision. The system is in its early stages but please try it out and give us your feedback, tell us your feature requests, and please report bugs!

    2022 · kuzudb.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15KA
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    Kubernetes security made for developers

    2022 · its alternatives →

  18. 18KG
  19. 19RG

    Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…

    2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20KB
  21. 21KC

    Hello HN community! I'm excited to share K8s Cleaner, a tool designed to help you clean up your Kubernetes clusters. As Kubernetes environments grow, they often accumulate unused resources, leading to confusion, waste, and clutter. K8s-cleaner simplifies the process of identifying and removing unnecessary components. The tool scans your Kubernetes clusters for unused or orphaned resources—including pods, services, ingresses, and secrets—and removes them safely. You can fully customize which resources to scan and delete, maintaining complete control over what stays and what goes. Getting…

    2024 · sveltos.projectsveltos.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22GT

    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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    Local First AI SRE Platform for kubernetes

    Mar 2026 · kubegraf.io · its alternatives →

  24. 24KK

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