Alternatives to kubespy
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. kubespy itself: install kubespy.
kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
Textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed
kubeconform
A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
bpftop
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for e
nbping
🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations
Monokle
Monokle is a set of OSS tools designed to help create and maintain high-quality Kubernetes configurations throughout the application lifecycle
kor
A Golang Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
ttl
Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A better mtr
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
dex2jar
Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
kubeseal
A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
helmfile
Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD
forgit
:zzz: A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively
stern
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
mago
Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code
kubectl-tree
kubectl plugin to browse Kubernetes object hierarchies as a tree 🎄 (star the repo if you are using)
smap
a drop-in replacement for Nmap powered by shodan.io
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 kubespy — 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.
kubespy 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.