Best Application Development Software for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Compare the Top Application Development Software that integrates with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as of December 2025
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This a list of Application Development software that integrates with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). View the products that work with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in the table below.
What is Application Development Software for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?
Application development software is a type of software used to create applications and software programs. It typically includes code editors, compilers, and debuggers that allow developers to write, compile, and debug code. It also includes libraries of pre-written code that developers can use to create more complex and powerful applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Application Development software for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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JOpt.TourOptimizer
DNA Evolutions GmbH
JOpt.TourOptimizer is an adaptable component to solve VRP, CVRP, and VRPTW class problems for any route optimization in logistics or similar fields. JOpt.TourOptimizer gives full access to modern optimization strategies and already includes many useful functions and algorithms to model various tour optimization problems. The JOpt.TourOptimizer library is easily integrated into any product. It can be customized to meet special requirements or adapt to the industries’ specific needs in which your software products are used. JOpt.TourOptimizer – enables you to enhance your product or project by seamlessly integrating DNA’s tour and resource optimization engine. It comes as a Java library or in Docker Container utilizing the Spring Framework and Swagger.Starting Price: €995 -
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Parasoft
Parasoft
Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver high-quality software with its AI-powered software testing platform and automated test solutions. Supporting embedded and enterprise markets, Parasoft’s proven technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to UI and API testing, plus service virtualization and complete code coverage, into the delivery pipeline. A powerful unified C and C++ test automation solution for static analysis, unit testing and structural code coverage, Parasoft C/C++test helps satisfy compliance with industry functional safety and security requirements for embedded software systems.Starting Price: $35/user/mo -
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Designed on the same principles that allows Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your ops team. Whether testing locally or running a global enterprise, Kubernetes flexibility grows with you to deliver your applications consistently and easily no matter how complex your need is. Kubernetes is open source giving you the freedom to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure, letting you effortlessly move workloads to where it matters to you.Starting Price: Free -
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K8Studio
K8Studio
Welcome to K8 Studio, your ultimate cross-platform client IDE for effortless Kubernetes cluster management. Seamlessly deploy to popular platforms such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or your dedicated bare metal setup. Experience the power of connecting to your cluster with an intuitive interface, providing a visual representation of nodes, pods, services, and more. Gain instant access to logs, detailed element descriptions, and a bash terminal, all with a simple click. Elevate your Kubernetes experience with K8Studio's user-friendly features. The grid view allows for a comprehensive tabular display of all Kubernetes objects. The left bar enables the selection of specific object types, and this view is entirely interactive and updated in real time. Users can seamlessly search and filter objects by namespace, and rearrange columns. Organizes workloads, services, ingresses, and volumes by namespace and instance. Visualize object connections for a rapid pod count and status check.Starting Price: $17 per month -
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Azure DevOps
Microsoft
Azure DevOps is a comprehensive set of modern development tools that help teams plan smarter, collaborate better, and deliver software faster. It provides services like Azure Boards for work tracking, Azure Pipelines for continuous integration and deployment, Azure Repos for Git-based source control, and Azure Test Plans for quality assurance. With built-in support for GitHub Copilot, developers can boost productivity by leveraging AI-assisted coding. The platform offers seamless integration with a variety of tools and supports any language, platform, or cloud environment. Azure DevOps emphasizes security with extensive compliance certifications and a dedicated engineering team. Trusted by leading global companies, it enables organizations to accelerate development cycles while maintaining high code quality and operational agility.Starting Price: $6 per user per month -
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Loft
Loft Labs
Most Kubernetes platforms let you spin up and manage Kubernetes clusters. Loft doesn't. Loft is an advanced control plane that runs on top of your existing Kubernetes clusters to add multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities to these clusters to get the full value out of Kubernetes beyond cluster management. Loft provides a powerful UI and CLI but under the hood, it is 100% Kubernetes, so you can control everything via kubectl and the Kubernetes API, which guarantees great integration with existing cloud-native tooling. Building open-source software is part of our DNA. Loft Labs is CNCF and Linux Foundation member. Loft allows companies to empower their employees to spin up low-cost, low-overhead Kubernetes environments for a variety of use cases.Starting Price: $25 per user per month -
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Opsera
Opsera
You choose your tools, we take care of the rest. Put together the perfect CI/CD stack that fits your organization’s goals with zero vendor lock-in. Eliminate manual scripts and stop building toolchain automation. Free your engineers to focus on your core business. Pipeline workflows follow a declarative model so you focus on what is required — not how it’s accomplished — including: software builds, security scans, unit testing, and deployments. With Blueprints, diagnose any failures from within Opsera using a console output of every step of your pipeline execution. Comprehensive software delivery analytics across your CI/CD process in a unified view — including Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, Deployment Frequency, and Time to Restore. Contextualized logs for faster resolution and improved auditing and compliance.Starting Price: $3.60 per user , Min 300 devs -
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Panoptica
Cisco
Panoptica makes it easy to secure your containers, APIs, and serverless functions, and manage software bills of materials. It analyzes internal and external APIs and assigns risk scores. Your policies govern which API calls the gateway permits or disables. New cloud-native architectures allow teams to develop and deploy software more quickly, keeping up with the pace of today’s market. But this speed can come with a cost—security. Panoptica closes the gaps by integrating automated, policy-based security and visibility into every stage of the software-development lifecycle. Decentralized cloud-native architectures have significantly increased the number of attack surfaces. At the same time, changes in the computing landscape have raised the risk of catastrophic security breaches. Here are some of the reasons why comprehensive security is more important than ever before. You need a platform that protects the entire application lifecycle—from development to runtime.Starting Price: $0 -
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Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy
Founded in 2012, Octopus Deploy enables successful deployments for over 25,000 companies around the world. Prior to Octopus Deploy, release orchestration and DevOps automation tools were clunky, limited to large enterprises and didn't deliver what they promised. Octopus Deploy was the first release automation tool to gain popular adoption by software teams, and we continue to invent new ways for Dev & Ops teams to automate releases and deliver working software to production. Runbook automation in Octopus sits side-by-side with your deployments and gives you control over your infrastructure and applications. Automate operations tasks like routine maintenance and emergency incident recovery. Flexible, role-based access control lets you manage who can deploy to production, change your deployment process, infrastructure, and more.Starting Price: Free -
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Container Registry
8gears
8gears Container Registry is a Harbor-based container registry as a service offered and operated by the project's maintainer and contributors. For organizations, and software vendors looking for ways to distribute software as container images.Starting Price: $249 per month -
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Azure Container Registry
Microsoft
Build, store, secure, scan, replicate, and manage container images and artifacts with a fully managed, geo-replicated instance of OCI distribution. Connect across environments, including Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and across Azure services like App Service, Machine Learning, and Batch. Geo-replication to efficiently manage a single registry across multiple regions. OCI artifact repository for adding helm charts, singularity support, and new OCI artifact-supported formats. Automated container building and patching including base image updates and task scheduling. Integrated security with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication, role-based access control, Docker content trust, and virtual network integration. Streamline building, testing, pushing, and deploying images to Azure with Azure Container Registry Tasks.Starting Price: $0.167 per day -
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gopaddle
gopaddle
Unleash the power of the no-code platform for modern applications. Build, Provision, Run and Scale Cloud-Native Applications by leveraging your team's current capabilities. Unlock the potential of your applications, capture new revenue opportunities and exceed customer expectations by modernizing your legacy and greenfield applications rapidly. Be the first to market and lead the change. Leverage Out-of-the-box DevOps capabilities in the platform to simplify and automate your software delivery and maintenance. Spice up your 'cloud first' strategy with multi and hybrid cloud enablement. Avoid vendor lock-in and give the flexibility of choice to your teams to bring their own cloud and infrastructure. Eliminate manual errors due to human factors and save time to modernize applications. Debug and resolve issues faster than before using the built-in developer tools.Starting Price: $45 per month -
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Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Microsoft
Easily handle multicluster scenarios for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters such as workload propagation, north-south load balancing (for traffic flowing into member clusters), and upgrade orchestration across multiple clusters. Fleet cluster enables centralized management of all your clusters at scale. The managed hub cluster takes care of the upgrades and Kubernetes cluster configuration for you. Kubernetes configuration propagation lets you use policies and overrides to disseminate objects across fleet member clusters. North-south load balancer orchestrates traffic flow across workloads deployed in multiple member clusters of the fleet. Group any combination of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to simplify multi-cluster workflows like Kubernetes configuration propagation and multi-cluster networking. Fleet requires a hub Kubernetes cluster to store configurations for placement policy and multicluster networking.Starting Price: $0.10 per cluster per hour -
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D2iQ
D2iQ
D2iQ Enterprise Kubernetes Platform (DKP) Run Kubernetes Workloads at Scale DKP includes everything you need to ease Kubernetes adoption, expand Kubernetes use, and enable advanced workloads across any infrastructure, whether on-prem, on the cloud, in air-gapped environments, or at the edge. Built to Solve the Toughest Enterprise Kubernetes Challenges Created to accelerate the journey to production at scale, DKP provides a single, centralized point of control to build, run, and manage applications across any infrastructure. Enable Day 2 Readiness Out-of-the-Box Without Lock-In DKP takes care of the heavy lifting by providing a comprehensive, enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution and a full stack of CNCF-certified Day 2 platform applications that are integrated, automated, and tested at scale for an out-of-the-box, production-ready experience. -
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IronWorker
Iron.io
Container based workloads, full GPU support, autoscaling, custom built solutions. Let Worker take care of your jobs so you can focus on your application. A hosted background job solution that lets you run your containers with dynamic scale, detailed analytics and world class customer support. Run short lived containers quickly, or even containers needing to work across multiple days. Whether it's a one-off job, or one that needs 1000's of workers running in parallel, we've got you covered. Containerize your background tasks with confidence. Run your containers on our shared infrastructure. Dedicated hardware for your workloads. A great option when you need consistent performance and throughput. Our autoscale technology helps you scale up and down based on your usage. You run workers on your own hardware, and we take care of the authentication, scheduling, and everything else. If you have access to your own infrastructure and/or have higher security needs, this is often a great fit.Starting Price: $4.99 per month -
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CloudPlex
CloudPlex
CloudPlex is an enterprise cloud enablement platform that meets both the technical and business needs of the enterprise for running their applications in the cloud. It handles all key aspects of managing apps including governance, security, orchestration and cost management. The platform manages cloud-native, container-based and legacy applications on all major public clouds in a unified manner. It enables a completely automated application provisioning and orchestration process. CloudPlex addresses the business needs of the enterprise by providing a complete estimation, review, approval and change management workflow of cloud-spend, as well as end-to-end license management. -
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Azure Container Instances
Microsoft
Develop apps fast without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just your application, in a container, running in the cloud. By running your workloads in Azure Container Instances (ACI), you can focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them. Deploy containers to the cloud with unprecedented simplicity and speed—with a single command. Use ACI to provision additional compute for demanding workloads whenever you need. For example, with the Virtual Kubelet, use ACI to elastically burst from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster when traffic comes in spikes. Gain the security of virtual machines for your container workloads, while preserving the efficiency of lightweight containers. ACI provides hypervisor isolation for each container group to ensure containers run in isolation without sharing a kernel. -
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ARMO
ARMO
ARMO pioneers a new approach to Cloud Security with an open source powered, behavioral driven, Cloud Runtime Security Platform. ARMOs CADR (Cloud App Detection & Response) solution addresses a major unsolved pain point for organizations running on cloud-native architectures: how to continuously protect dynamic workloads during runtime without overwhelming teams with alerts or interrupting operations. ARMO CADR continuously reduces the cloud attack surface using real-time runtime insights, while actively detecting and responding to threats with true risk context. It includes 2 major products that are tightly integrated together and are part of one platform solution - * Kubernetes-First, runtime driven, Cloud Security Posture mgmt (CSPM) - identifying risks, prioritizing them and offering remediation without breaking applications in production * Real-Time Threat Detection & Response - detecting and responding to active threats across the entire cloud and applications stack -
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Harness
Harness
Harness is an AI-native software delivery platform that helps engineering teams achieve excellence by automating and streamlining the entire software delivery lifecycle. It enables continuous integration, continuous delivery, and GitOps for multi-cloud, multi-region deployments with increased speed and reliability. Harness simplifies infrastructure as code, database DevOps, and artifact management to improve collaboration and reduce errors. The platform offers AI-powered testing, incident response, chaos engineering, and feature management to enhance quality and resilience. Harness also provides cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, and developer insights to optimize performance and governance. Trusted by leading enterprises, Harness accelerates innovation while reducing manual effort and risk. -
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Shoreline
Shoreline.io
Shoreline is the Cloud Reliability platform — the only platform that lets DevOps engineers build automations in an afternoon, and fix issues forever. Shoreline reduces on-call complexity by running across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and VMs allowing operators to manage their entire fleet as if it were a single box. Debugging and repairing issues is easy with advanced tooling for your best SREs, automated runbooks for the broader team, and a platform that makes building automations 30X faster. Shoreline does the heavy lifting, setting up monitors and building repair scripts, so that customers only need to configure them for their environment. Shoreline’s modern “Operations at the Edge” architecture runs efficient agents in the background of all monitored hosts. Agents run as a DaemonSet on Kubernetes or an installed package on VMs (apt, yum). The Shoreline backend is hosted by Shoreline in AWS, or deployed in your AWS virtual private cloud. -
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The always-free NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise‑grade solution. Take control of Kubernetes with NGINX Service Mesh, featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration. The real star of NGINX Service Mesh is the fully integrated, high-performance data plane. Leveraging the power of NGINX Plus to operate highly available and scalable containerized environments, our data plane brings a level of enterprise traffic management, performance, and scalability to the market that no other sidecars can offer. It provides the seamless and transparent load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. When paired with the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, it provides a unified data plane that can be managed with a single configuration.
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Gloo Mesh
Solo.io
Today's Kubernetes environments need help in scaling, securing and observing modern cloud-native applications. Gloo Mesh, based on the industry's leading Istio service mesh, simplifies multi-cloud and multi-cluster management of service mesh for containers and virtual machines. Gloo Mesh helps platform engineering teams to reduce costs, reduce risks, and improve application agility. Gloo Mesh is a modular component of Gloo Platform. The service mesh allows for application-aware network tasks to be managed independently from the application, adding observability, security, and reliability to distributed applications. By introducing the service mesh to your applications, you can: Simplify the application layer Provide more insights into your traffic Increase the security of your application -
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Traefik Mesh
Traefik Labs
Traefik Mesh is a straight-forward, easy to configure, and non-invasive service mesh that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster. By improving monitoring, logging, and visibility, as well as implementing access controls. Allows administrators to increase the security of their clusters easily and quickly. By being able to monitor and trace how applications communicate in your Kubernetes cluster, administrators are able to optimize internal communications, and improve application performance. Reducing the time to learn, install, and configure makes it easier to implement, and to provide value for the time actually spent implementing. Administrators can focus on their business applications. Being open source means that there is no vendor lock-in, as Traefik Mesh is opt-in by design. -
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Tanzu Observability
Broadcom
Tanzu Observability by Broadcom is a high-performance observability platform designed to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud-native applications and infrastructure. It provides real-time visibility into the health, performance, and operations of complex applications by collecting and analyzing metrics, traces, and logs. Tanzu Observability leverages advanced AI and machine learning capabilities to detect anomalies and provide actionable insights, helping businesses proactively manage and optimize their digital environments. The platform’s scalable architecture supports large-scale deployments and offers deep insights into application performance, enabling faster troubleshooting and enhanced decision-making. -
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Payara Enterprise
Payara Services Ltd
Jakarta EE & MicroProfile compatible, supported application servers for production and containerized deployments. Monthly releases, bug fixes, and patches. Rolled into Payara Enterprise products making Payara Server the best option for production Jakarta EE (Java EE) applications and Payara Micro the best option for containerized Jakarta EE applications. Payara Migration & Support engineers assist customers with Payara Server or Payara Micro during development projects before going to production, or provide assistance with the application server migration process. Raise tickets for bugs, incidents or questions related to Payara Server or Payara Micro, including any general questions you may have about configuration, deployment, security, monitoring and troubleshooting. Exclusive access to monthly releases of Payara Server and Payara Micro including crucial fixes and patches. New features are added once they are stable and ready for production use. -
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Ozone
Ozone
Ozone platform helps enterprises to ship modern applications quickly, securely and reliably. Ozone removes the unwanted headache of managing too many DevOps tools and makes it super easy for anyone to deploy applications on Kubernetes clusters. Just integrate all your existing DevOps tools and automate your application delivery process end-to-end. Accelerate deployments with automated pipeline workflows and on demand infrastructure management with zero downtime. Prevent business losses by enforcing governance and compliance policy for app deployments at scale. Single pane of glass where engineering, DevOps and Security teams can collaborate on application releases in realtime. -
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Tetrate
Tetrate
Connect and manage applications across clusters, clouds, and data centers. Coordinate app connectivity across heterogeneous infrastructure from a single management plane. Integrate traditional workloads into your cloud-native application infrastructure. Create tenants within your business to define fine-grained access control and editing rights for teams on shared infrastructure. Audit the history of changes to services and shared resources from day zero. Automate traffic shifting across failure domains before your customers notice. TSB sits at the application edge, at cluster ingress, and between workloads in your Kubernetes and traditional compute clusters. Edge and ingress gateways route and load balance application traffic across clusters and clouds while the mesh controls connectivity between services. A single management plane configures connectivity, security, and observability for your entire application network. -
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Meshery
Meshery
Describe all of your cloud native infrastructure and manage as a pattern. Design your service mesh configuration and workload deployments. Apply intelligent canary strategies and performance profiles with service mesh pattern management. Assess your service mesh configuration against deployment and operational best practices with Meshery's configuration validator. Validate your service mesh's conformance to Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specifications. Dynamically load and manage your own WebAssembly filters in Envoy-based service meshes. Service mesh adapters provision, configure, and manage their respective service meshes. -
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Rafay
Rafay
Delight developers and operations teams with the self-service and automation they need, with the right mix of standardization and control that the business requires. Centrally specify and manage configurations (in Git) for clusters encompassing security policy and software add-ons such as service mesh, ingress controllers, monitoring, logging, and backup and restore solutions. Blueprints and add-on lifecycle management can easily be applied to greenfield and brownfield clusters centrally. Blueprints can also be shared across multiple teams for centralized governance of add-ons deployed across the fleet. For environments requiring agile development cycles, users can go from a Git push to an updated application on managed clusters in seconds — 100+ times a day. This is particularly suited for developer environments where updates are very frequent. -
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DROPS
DROPS
DROPS is a release management tool designed to simplify, secure, and centralize the deployment of applications across data centers, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructures. It supports a wide range of platforms, integrates seamlessly with various CI/CD pipelines, and offers both agent-based and agentless operations. With features like full-stack release management, automated infrastructure provisioning, and 24/7 availability, DROPS aims to streamline deployment processes and ensure consistent, reliable delivery. The tool is flexible enough to manage both legacy and modern applications, catering to diverse enterprise needs. Select agent-based or agentless operation. No need for agent installation and management. DROPS adapts to your configuration and if agents are needed, they are provisioned automatically. Plan and organize your application deployment from the web console with no scripting needed. Ease collaboration between stakeholders and technical teams.
