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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to kubewall

A free and open-source GUI dashboard for Kubernetes

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. kubewall launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    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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    Radar▲397

    The missing open-source Kubernetes UI

    May 2026 · radarhq.io · its alternatives →

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    Glasskube▲260

    The next generation package manager for Kubernetes

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    End-to-end Kubernetes security open-source platform

    2022 · cloud.armosec.io · its alternatives →

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    KDash▲76

    A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust

    2021 · kdash.cli.rs · its alternatives →

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    Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend

    2022 · apptio.com · its alternatives →

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    Kubernetes security made for developers

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Devtron▲174

    Kubernetes adoption at warp speed

    2023 · devtron.ai · its alternatives →

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    kubenav is the navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket. - kubenav/kubenav

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The missing UI for Helm - visualize your releases. Contribute to komodorio/helm-dashboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · 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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    Github Link: https://github.com/devtron-labs/helm-ui Helm is one of the most adopted package managers for deploying applications to Kubernetes. The intuitive Helm Dashboard offers a UI-driven approach for managing the lifecycle of Helm Applications, abstracting out all the complexities and challenges. Through the dashboard, one can: 1. Manage community and custom helm charts 2. See manifest diff of past revisions 3. Easily rollback or upgrade between different versions 4. Seamlessly integrate and deploy various charts using Chart Groups

    2022 · devtron.ai · its alternatives →

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    Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi. - pulumi/kubespy

    2018 · 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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    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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    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 →

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    Uncorking K8s bottlenecks and insights, one pod at a time

    2025 · bottlenetes.com · its alternatives →

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    kubectl port-forward manager and reverse tunnel (ngrok-like) for exposing local services publicly, with TLS termination, HTTP traffic inspection, UDP forwarding, multi-hop proxy routing through k8s clusters, stateful config via filesystem or git - GUI and TUI available - hcavarsan/kftray

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kubernetes cluster monitoring made easy

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Manage Kubernetes clusters behind firewalls, no open ports

    Jun 2026 · autokube.io · its alternatives →

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