Managing Kubernetes without losing your cool

As someone who&#x27;s been using, administering, and consulting on Kubernetes since 2017, this list is bang on, with maybe one major omission.<p>I could not imagine my day to day workflows without tools like kubectx&#x2F;krew&#x2F;k9s.<p>What I think the author doesn&#x27;t really touch upon is how much of a revolution GitOps has been for Kubernetes. I&#x27;ve watched it grow from idea to stable implementation and in 99.9% of cases if you are using Kubernetes but not doing GitOps (preferably via FluxCD or ArgoCD) I know exactly the sort of mess I&#x27;m going to find in your clusters and organisation.<p>Kyverno is also another tool that has quickly become indispensable. What&#x27;s not so obvious about it is you can lean on it for all the things you&#x27;d lean on bash in a typical non-k8s&#x2F;non-cloud-native infra. It can be used as the de facto Kubernetes duct tape, not just for policies.

I&#x27;ll take this moment to remind everyone that you don&#x27;t have to use k8s, if you don&#x27;t need it.<p>Regular VMs are still a great and simple solution to many, many, many deployment scenarios.<p>The same can be said for pretty much any shiny tool (FaaS, Rust, React, GraphQL, etc). These tools are sometimes the right solution, but they sometimes aren&#x27;t.

Slightly off topic, but the author should really reconsider the flashing title and logo. It is incredibly distracting.

anybody else enjoy direnv for managing multiple eks clusters? just cd into a said directory and it sources needed kubeconfig - no need for fancy mergeing setups, ect

Good read