Alternatives to aws-iam-authenticator
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. aws-iam-authenticator itself: install aws-iam-authenticator.
kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
chaoskube
chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster
nelm
Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
git-secrets
Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
kubeseal
A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
AWS Vault
A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments
helmfile
Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD
stern
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
kubectl-tree
kubectl plugin to browse Kubernetes object hierarchies as a tree 🎄 (star the repo if you are using)
kubeconform
A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
kubespy
Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi
docker-credential-helper-ecr
Automatically gets credentials for Amazon ECR on docker push/docker pull
kubelogin
kubectl plugin for Kubernetes OpenID Connect authentication (kubectl oidc-login)
Monokle
Monokle is a set of OSS tools designed to help create and maintain high-quality Kubernetes configurations throughout the application lifecycle
credstash
A little utility for managing credentials in the cloud
kubeaudit
kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
kor
A Golang Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources
sofka
A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up
lazyjournal
TUI for viewing logs from journald, auditd, file system, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks and Kubernetes pods with support for log highlig
ccm
Apache Cassandra® Cluster Manager (CCM) – easily create and destroy clusters on localhost
tfk8s
A tool for converting Kubernetes YAML manifests to Terraform HCL
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than aws-iam-authenticator — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
aws-iam-authenticator is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.