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App Definition and Development Application Definition Image Build

KOTS provides the framework, tools and integrations that enable the delivery and management of 3rd-party Kubernetes applications, a.k.a. Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software.'

Kapeta accelerates and automates the entire software development lifecycle

KubeDiagrams is a tool to generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from Kubernetes manifest files, kustomization files, Helm charts, and actual cluster state. KubeDiagrams supports most of all Kubernetes built-in resources, any custom resources, and label-based resource clustering.

KubeVPN offers a Cloud-Native Dev Environment that seamlessly connects to your Kubernetes cluster network. Gain access to the Kubernetes cluster network effortlessly using service names or Pod IP/Service IP. Facilitate the interception of inbound traffic from remote Kubernetes cluster services to your local PC through a service mesh and more. For instance, you have the flexibility to run your Kubernetes pod within a local Docker container, ensuring an identical environment, volume, and network setup. With KubeVPN, empower yourself to develop applications entirely on your local PC!

App Definition and Development Continuous Integration Delivery

App Definition and Development Database

KubeBlocks is an open-source Kubernetes operator that manages relational, NoSQL, vector, and streaming databases on the public cloud or on-premise.

App Definition and Development Streaming Messaging

KubeMQ is a Kubernetes Message Queue Broker

Cnai Automl

Automated Machine Learning on Kubernetes

Cnai Ci Cd Delivery

Machine Learning Pipelines for Kubeflow

Cnai Data Architecture

Open source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

Cnai Data Science

Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes

Cnai Distributed Training

Training operators on Kubernetes

Cnai General Orchestration

A toolkit to run Ray applications on Kubernetes

Cloud-native job queueing system for batch, HPC, AI/ML, and similar applications in a Kubernetes cluster.

Cnai Governance Policy Security

Use Kyverno's powerful, declarative, low-code policies to validate any runtime or configuration data that can be converted to JSON.

Cnai Ml Serving

incubating

Standardized Distributed Generative and Predictive AI Inference Platform for Scalable, Multi-Framework Deployment on Kubernetes

sandbox

Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) simplifies LLM inference, tuning, and RAG workloads on Kubernetes.

Cnai Model Llm Observability

Cnai Open Enterprise Ai Blueprints

Cnai Vector Databases

Cnai Workload Observability

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Observability and Analysis Chaos Engineering

sandbox

Chaos testing tool for Kubernetes to identify bottlenecks and improve resilience and performance under failure conditions.

Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for K8s

Observability and Analysis Continuous Optimization

Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.

Observability and Analysis Feature Flagging

Observability and Analysis Observability

sandbox

Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) uses eBPF to probe energy related system stats and exports as Prometheus metrics.

KubeReport is an open-source tool that generates detailed Kubernetes cluster reports in PDF and CSV formats, providing insights into resource utilization, workload status, and cluster health for easier auditing and troubleshooting.

KubeSkoop is a network monitoring & diagnosis suite for Kubernetes.

Real-time logging dasbhboard for Kubernetes

Orchestration Management Api Gateway

sandbox

An Envoy-powered, Kubernetes-native API Gateway that integrates Kubernetes Gateway API with a control plane for API connectivity in any cloud environment.

sandbox

Kuadrant combines Gateway API and Istio-based gateway controllers to enhance application connectivity. It enables platform engineers and application developers to easily connect, secure, and protect their services and infrastructure across multiple clusters with policies for TLS, DNS, application authentication & authorization, and rate limiting.

Kusk Gateway is a self-service API gateway powered by OpenAPI and Envoy. Kusk Gateway is built and maintained by Kubeshop.

Orchestration Management Coordination Service Discovery

Orchestration Management Remote Procedure Call

Orchestration Management Scheduling Orchestration

graduated

Knative is a developer-focused serverless application layer which is a great complement to the existing Kubernetes application constructs. Knative consists of three components: an HTTP-triggered autoscaling container runtime called “Knative Serving”, a CloudEvents-over-HTTP asynchronous routing layer called “Knative Eventing”, and a developer-focused function framework which leverages the Serving and Eventing components, called "Knative Functions".

graduated

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications

incubating

Kubeflow is the foundation of tools for AI Platforms on Kubernetes.

Katalyst is a QoS-based resource management system for workload colocation on kubernetes

Scalable, event-driven, language-agnostic orchestration and scheduling platform to manage millions of workflows declaratively in code.

sandbox

QoS based scheduling system for hybrid orchestration workloads on Kubernetes, bringing workloads the best layout and status.

KubeAdmiral is a multi-cluster scheduling and orchestration system for Kubernetes.

sandbox

A multi-cluster solution that enables users to effectively manage their applications running in multiple Kubernetes clusters.

sandbox

Kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) is a Kubernetes daemonset that performs safe automatic node reboots when the need to do so is indicated by the package management system of the underlying OS

Orchestration Management Service Mesh

sandbox

Kmesh is a high-performance and low overhead service mesh data plane based on eBPF and programmable kernel. Kmesh brings traffic management, security and monitoring to service communication without needing application code changes. It is natively sidecarless, zero intrusion and without adding any resource cost to application container.

Orchestration Management Service Proxy

Platform Certified Kubernetes Ai Platform

Platform Certified Kubernetes Distribution

The K-PaaS Container Platform provides an independent Kubernetes environment, and developers can easily deploy Kubernetes clusters to build and manage the modern applications anywhere.

Virtual Kubernetes cluster

Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform automates Kubernetes deployments and Day 2 operations for thousands of Kubernetes clusters on any cloud, on-premises and edge.

Kubesphere.io is an upstream project of the KubeSphere container management platform. Our vision is to provide an easier, more friendly and more powerful distributed management platform for individuals and enterprises based on Kubernetes, as well as meet more business demands and help more users to use Kubernetes faster and better.

Platform Certified Kubernetes Hosted

Platform Certified Kubernetes Installer

sandbox

Manage kubernetes in the most light and convenient way.

Kubeasz is a tool to deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster with ansible playbooks.

Deploy a highly available Kubernetes cluster in offline environments.

Kubekey provides a flexible, rapid and convenient way to install Kubernetes only, both Kubernetes and KubeSphere, and related cloud-native add-ons. It is also an efficient tool to scale and upgrade your cluster.

Lifecycle management tool for Highly-Available Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure

Kubernetes - The Easier Way enables users to create and manage an easily customizable HA Kubernetes cluster with only a couple of commands

Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

Platform Paas Container Service

Kubero is a developer friendly selfservice platform for Kubernetes.

Kyma is the opinionated set of Kubernetes based modular building blocks that includes the necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.

Provisioning Automation Configuration

sandbox

A constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios.

A configuration management system for platform engineering and other things

sandbox

An open standard for packaging, managing, and deploying ML models and artifacts across different systems

Kosko can help you organize your Kubernetes manifests in TypeScript, manage multiple environments, ensure type safety using OpenAPI schema, and find issues in your manifests.

sandbox

Product ready cluster lifecycle management toolchains based on kubespray and other cluster LCM engine.

Instant operational open source gitops platforms for platform engineering, infrastructure, and software teams

Provisioning Container Registry

Provisioning Key Management

Provisioning Security Compliance

incubating

Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution for modern applications and services, built on top of industry security standard protocols.

incubating

Kubescape is an open source security and compliance platform that scans clusters, Kubernetes manifest files (YAML files, and Helm charts), code repositories, container registries and images. It detects misconfigurations according to frameworks such as the NSA-CISA, MITRE ATT&CK® and CIS, as well as software vulnerabilities, and calculates risk scores.

Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.

sandbox

Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT.

sandbox

Runtime protection for Kubernetes & other cloud Workloads. Kubearmor provides a observability and policy enforcement system to restrict any unwanted, malicious behaviour of cloud-native workloads at runtime.

KubeLinter analyzes Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts, and checks them against a variety of best practices, with a focus on production readiness and security.

sandbox

Kubewarden is a Policy Engine powered by WebAssembly policies. Its policies can be written in CEL, Rego (OPA & Gatekeeper flavours), Rust, Go, YAML, and others. Kubewarden simplifies Policy-As-Code by allowing policy authors and consumers to use their preferred tooling and stack, develop and test policies out of cluster.

Runtime Cloud Native Storage

Runtime Container Runtime

sandbox

A multi-sandbox container runtime that provides cloud-native, all-scenario multiple sandbox container solutions.

Serverless Framework

sandbox

Auto scale-to-zero pods when idle and scale up pods when traffic arrives, without losing any requests. KubeElasti uses a smart proxy that queues incoming requests while scaling up targets, ensuring no request loss. It works with existing Kubernetes services and deployments without requiring code changes.

Serverless Hosted Platform

Serverless Installable Platform

Serverless Security

Serverless Tools

Special Certified Cnfs

Special Kubernetes and Cloud Native Training Partner

Special Kubernetes Certified Service Provider

Wasm Ai Machine Learning

Wasm Application Frameworks

Wasm Debugging Observability

Wasm Decentralized Platforms

Wasm Edge Bare Metal

Wasm Embedded Functions

Wasm Hosted Platforms

Wasm Languages

Managed language

Wasm Packaging Registries Application Delivery

Wasm Runtimes

Wasm Tooling