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🎀 Five tools to make your K8s experience more enjoyable 🎀

Juraj on January 15, 2024

For the uninitiated, K8s stands for Kubernetes, with the number 8 representing the eight letters between K and s. Kubernetes has become pretty much...
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DevicBruno

I am big fan of your summaries @karadza , can we hear a bit more about containers and Docker in next one?

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Athreya aka Maneshwar
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Juraj

Seems amazing, thanks for the suggestion Maneshwar!

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Juraj

Glad you liked the blog @devicbruno 😊!
That's a great suggestion, I will make a blog on that topic for sure.

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MatijaSrbic

Great read, thank you @karadza! What is your favourite one?

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Juraj

My pleasure @matijasrbic!
Cyclops is my winner, of course 😄, but all of these tools were very impressive, so I wanted to give them a go and shine a spotlight on them.

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Luka

Thanks for great suggestions

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Juraj

My pleasure 😊

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Matija Sosic

A helpful list! I wasn't aware of DevSpace, it seems super handy. Do you personally use all of these tools?

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Sergey

I've been using devspace for a few years. I'd describe it as docker-compose for k8s but on steroids. At least it used to be because docker-compose got some long waited features recently. I'd still use devspace in place of compose though.

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Juraj

Thanks @matijasos,
Personally, I don't use all of them since I don't always encounter the problems that they solve.
However, I am a big fan of open-source tools and am always on the lookout for more, hence this blog post. 😁

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Marc Seitz

Great summary of each tool!

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Juraj

Thanks @mfts !

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Marc Seitz

🔥

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Sebastian Fritsch

Lens must be the number 1 Tool and also Arkade 🚀

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Juraj

Isn't Arkade more of a marketplace than a tool?
In this article, I focused on tools that are fully open-source, but Lens is for sure a powerhouse 💪🏻

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Bap

Cyclops looks cool 😎

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Juraj

Thanks @fernandezbaptiste 🤗!

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Jura Milić

Nice read, I’ll definitely be checking a few of these out!

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Juraj

I'm glad I've convinced you to try them!
They are all open source; support them by giving them a GitHub star ⭐!

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Nevo David

Great stuff!

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Juraj

Glad you like it!

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Roko

Great article!

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Juraj

Thanks @adminrole !