There is a variery of management tools that allow you to manage k8s and make your life much easier to proivde extra additional features.
- kubectl
the official command line interface for k8s, this is the main method to interact you will use.
- kubeadm
tools that allow you to setup control plane.
- MiniKube
tool that runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on your workstation for development and testing purposes.
Very simple tools you can find it here.
- Helm
tool for managing packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources. These packages are known as Helm charts.
Use Helm to:
- Find and use popular software packaged as Kubernetes charts
- Share your own applications as Kubernetes charts
- Create reproducible builds of your Kubernetes applications
- Intelligently manage your Kubernetes manifest files
- Manage releases of Helm packages
- Kompose
a tool to help Docker Compose users move to Kubernetes.
Use Kompose to:
- Translate a Docker Compose file into Kubernetes objects
- Go from local Docker development to managing your application via Kubernetes
- Convert v1 or v2 Docker Compose
yamlfiles or Distributed Application Bundles
and the last one which is kustomize.
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Osama
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