Cloud Native Weekly: 13 Best Open Source Monitoring Tools for K8s

Open source project recommendations

Silver Surfer

This project aims to check API version compatibility of Kubernetes objects and provide migration paths for them in preparation for cluster upgrades.

Actions Runner Controller

Actions Runner Controller (ARC) is a Kubernetes operator that orchestrates and scales self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions.

Using ARC, you can create runner scale sets that automatically scale based on the number of workflows running in your repository, organization, or enterprise. Because managed runners can be ephemeral and container-based, new runner instances can be scaled up or down quickly and cleanly.

helm-mapkubeapis

This is a Helm plugin that maps Kubernetes APIs that are deprecated or removed in a release to supported APIs.

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The Linux Foundation launches OpenTofu

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of OpenTofu, an open source alternative to Terraform's widely used infrastructure-as-code tool. OpenTofu, formerly known as OpenTF, is an open and community-driven response to Terraform's recently announced license change from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPLv2) to Business Source License v1.1, providing a A reliable open source alternative with a neutral governance model.

Fluent Operator 2.5.0 released: multiple new plug-ins

Fluent Operator v2.5.0 adds 11 new features, of which Fluent Bit supports 7 new plug-ins and Fluentd supports 1 new plug-in. In addition, the Fluent Operator has been enhanced, the default parameters have been adjusted to adapt to more scenarios, and the helm chart has been optimized so that users can install it more conveniently, and some bugs have been fixed.

HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes officially launched

HashiCorp has officially launched the HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes. This Kubernetes Operator combines Vault's secret caching. The operator also handles Secrets rotation and has controllers for various Secrets-specific custom resources.

Vault Secrets Operators monitor changes to their custom resource definition (CRD) sets. Each CRD allows operators to synchronize Vault Secrets to Kubernetes Secrets. This operator writes the source Vault secret directly to the target Kubernetes secret. This ensures that all changes made to the origin are replicated correctly and uses Kubernetes custom resources to manage the secrets used by the service. Applications can consume secrets from destinations in a Kubernetes-native manner.

Harness launches open source Git platform Gitness

DevOps company Harness has released Gitness, a new open source Git platform that it says is "the first major release of the open source Git platform in nearly a decade."

Gitness has two main components, self-hosted Git repositories and Drone-based pipelines.

Harness offers what it calls a software delivery platform that can be self-hosted, installed on AWS or on the cloud hosted by Harness, offering a variety of offerings including continuous delivery, feature flagging, bug tracking and chaos engineering. The company also offers several free-to-use open source or available source code products, although not all of them qualify as true open source products due to licensing restrictions.

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