Technical Paper: 15 Kubernetes tools reviewed

Kubernetes gained popularity for its capability to simplify scaling, automate deployments, and optimize resource utilization. That said, poor resource allocation, inefficient rollouts, limited observability, and unoptimized networking can silently degrade performance and drain budgets.

In this technical paper, we’ll examine a few critical Kubernetes bottlenecks and the recommended tools to resolve or prevent them, like Karpenter, Crossplane, Flux, ArgoCD, Keda, OPA, Prometheus, Komodor, and more.

A few of the challenges reviewed are:

• Preventing over-provisioning, reducing waste, and ensuring workloads run efficiently.

• Optimizing rollouts, enforcing consistency, and eliminating manual errors.

• Gaining visibility into performance issues and accelerating root cause analysis.

• Automating compliance and enforcing workload security.