Page 9 | Best Application Development Software for Kubernetes

Argo

Open-source tools for Kubernetes to run workflows, manage clusters and do GitOps right. Kubernetes-native workflow engine supporting DAG and step-based workflows. Declarative continuous delivery with a fully-loaded UI. Advanced Kubernetes deployment strategies such as Canary and Blue-Green made easy. Argo Workflows is an open-source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Argo Workflows is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD. Model multi-step workflows as a sequence of tasks or capture the dependencies between tasks using a graph (DAG). Easily run compute-intensive jobs for machine learning or data processing in a fraction of the time using Argo Workflows on Kubernetes. Run CI/CD pipelines natively on Kubernetes without configuring complex software development products. Designed from the ground up for containers without the overhead and limitations of legacy VM and server-based environments.

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Kuma

The open-source control plane for service mesh, delivering security, observability, routing and more. Built on top of Envoy, Kuma is a modern control plane for Microservices & Service Mesh for both K8s and VMs, with support for multiple meshes in one cluster. Out of the box L4 + L7 policy architecture to enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing and traffic reliability in one click. Getting up and running with Kuma only requires three easy steps. Natively embedded with Envoy proxy, Kuma Delivers easy to use policies that can secure, observe, connect, route and enhance service connectivity for every application and services, databases included. Build modern service and application connectivity across every platform, cloud and architecture. Kuma supports modern Kubernetes environments and Virtual Machine workloads in the same cluster, with native multi-cloud and multi-cluster connectivity to support the entire organization.

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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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Calisti

Cisco

Calisti enables security, observability, traffic management for microservices and cloud native applications, and allows admins to switch between live and historical views. Configuring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), burn rate, error budget and compliance monitoring, Calisti sends a GraphQL alert to automatically scale based on SLO burn rate. Calisti manages microservices running on containers and virtual machines, allowing for application migration from VMs to containers in a phased manner. Reducing management overhead by applying policies consistently and meeting application Service Level Objectives across both K8s and VMs. Istio has new releases every three months. Calisti includes our Istio Operator that automates lifecycle management, and even enables canary deployment of the platform itself.

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Argon

ArgonSec

The first unified security solution protecting the integrity of your software throughout the entire DevOps CI CD pipeline. Track all events and actions across your software supply chain with unparalleled clarity, get actionable information and make decisions faster. Bolster your security posture by enforcing security best practices at all stages of the software delivery process with real-time alerts and auto-remediation. Ensure source code integrity with automated validity checks on each release, so you can be sure the code you committed is the source code deployed. Argon continuously monitors your DevOps infrastructure to identify security risks, code leaks, misconfigurations, and anomalies, and provide insights about the posture of your CI CD pipeline.

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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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Kata Containers

Kata Containers is Apache 2 licensed software consisting of two main components: the Kata agent, and the Kata Containerd shim v2 runtime. It also packages a Linux kernel and versions of QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker hypervisors. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers supports Linux (host and guest) for now. On the host side, we have installation instructions for several popular distributions. We also have out-of-the-box support for Clear Linux, Fedora, and CentOS 7 rootfs images through the OSBuilder which can also be used to roll your own guest images.

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UBOS

Everything you need to transform your ideas into AI apps in minutes. Anyone can create next-generation AI-powered apps in 10 minutes, from professional developers to business users, using our no-code/low-code platform. Seamlessly integrate APIs like ChatGPT, Dalle-2, and Codex from Open AI, and even use custom ML models. Build custom admin client and CRUD functionalities to effectively manage sales, inventory, contracts, and more. Create dynamic dashboards that transform data into actionable insights and fuel innovation for your business. Easily create a chatbot to improve customer support and create a true omnichannel experience with multiple integrations. An all-in-one cloud platform combines low-code/no-code tools with edge technologies to make your web application scalable, secure, and easy to manage. Transform your software development process with our no-code/low-code platform, perfect for both business users and professional developers alike.

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CodeConductor

Say hello to CodeConductor, CodeConductor is an AI-powered platform that enables startups to build custom AI agents without coding. Dedicated to making AI accessible and flexible, CodeConductor allows users to create, own, and freely move their code and applications. The platform fosters collaboration between non-technical users and developers, empowering businesses to innovate quickly and effectively.

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Fianu

Fianu monitors activity throughout your DevOps toolchain and generates an immutable, context-aware ledger of attestations that tells the story of your software leading up to production. Capture key security data points using pre-built integrations with your favorite security tools. Monitor and enforce best practices such as code review, branching strategy, and versioning scheme. Ensure software meets necessary functional, performance, and accessibility standards. Create or configure custom controls to meet the unique needs of your company. Out-of-the-box tooling to help you secure your software supply chain from development, to build, to deployment. Configurable control requirements and thresholds provide executives, managers, and stakeholders with the knobs and dials necessary to fine-tune compliance to your company's needs.

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SiteWhere

SiteWhere infrastructure and microservices are deployed on Kubernetes, allowing for deployment on-premise or almost any cloud provider. Highly-available configurations of Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, and Hashicorp Consul provide infrastructure. Each microservice scales independently and integrates automatically. Complete multitenant IoT ecosystem including device management, event ingestion, big data event storage, REST APIs, data integration, and much more. Distributed architecture built with Java microservices running on Docker infrastructure with Apache Kafka processing pipeline. SiteWhere CE will always be open source and free for private as well as commercial use. The SiteWhere team offers free basic support and a steady stream of new features.

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Offensive 360

We’ve spent years researching and developing an all-in-one product that is affordable for any organization, offering the best quality ever seen in the SAST industry. We’ve spent years in research to create an all-in-one product that is affordable to any organization with the best quality ever in the industry. O’360 conducts an in-depth source code examination, identifying flaws in the open-source components used in your project. In addition, it offers malware analysis, licensing analysis, and IaC, all enabled by our “brain” technology. Offensive 360 is developed by cybersecurity researchers, not by investors. It is unlimited, as we don’t charge you based on lines of code, projects, or users. Moreover, O360 identifies vulnerabilities that most SAST tools in the market would never find.

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OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker

OpsMx

OES is highly available and scalable for increasing deployment workloads, and extensible to integrate with multiple SDLC tool chains. OES offers easy-to-define custom stages to parallely deploy into any number of targets and save time. Action such as rollback or roll forward or stopping of all the parallel deployments is easy and can be done with a click. Automate repeated activities in your SDLC process by the ability to create as many child pipelines and invoke them in the parent pipeline. OES is modular and can act as a central CD tool for many enterprises because it uses an API-based architecture. Developers across the team can easily integrate external services with Spinnaker services for deployment orchestration.

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Selenic

Parasoft

Selenium tests are often unstable and difficult to maintain. Parasoft Selenic fixes common Selenium problems within your existing projects with no vendor lock. When your team is using Selenium to develop and test the UI for your software applications, you need confidence that your testing process is identifying real issues, creating meaningful and appropriate tests, and reducing test maintenance. While Selenium offers many benefits, you want to get more out of your UI testing while leveraging your current practice. Find the real UI issues and get quick feedback on test execution so you can deliver better software faster with Parasoft Selenic. Improve your existing library of Selenium web UI tests, or quickly create new ones, with a flexible Selenium companion that integrates seamlessly with your environment. Parasoft Selenic fixes common Selenium problems with AI-powered self-healing to minimize runtime failures, test impact analysis to dramatically reduce test execution time, etc.

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CAEPE Continuous Deployment

Biqmind

CAEPE™ simplifies application deployment across environments, automating complex deployment tasks and enabling tech teams to get products to market faster. With CAEPE, tech leaders can empower teams to carry out independent application deployments, regardless of skill levels or locations, with consistency and quality in line with organizational demands. Use Cases: - Need to improve quality, consistency, and speed of deployments - Application deployments across multiple Kubernetes environments and/or where there is regional complexity - Requirement to validate application deployments work on new Kubernetes versions or where there are infrastructure changes

Starting Price: $500/cluster/month

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Verica

Running complex systems doesn’t have to lead to chaos. Continuous verification provides proactive insights into complex systems. Continuous verification uses experimentation to discover security and availability weaknesses before they become business-disrupting incidents. The complexity of our software & systems continues to increase. Dev teams need a way to prevent costly security and availability incidents. A proactive way to discover weaknesses is needed. Continuous integration & continuous delivery have helped successful developers move faster. Continuous verification uses principles of chaos engineering to prevent expensive availability and security incidents. Verica provides confidence in your most complex systems. Chaos engineering draws from the rich history of empirical experimentation to proactively discover vulnerabilities in complex systems. An enterprise-grade tool that integrates with Kubernetes and Kafka out of the box.

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AppFactor

AppFactor significantly reduces the cost and labor that would otherwise be required for a manual application modernization project. Post modernization, our platform empowers teams to deploy, operate, and maintain existing applications more efficiently and cost-effectively, Increase engineering velocity, level-up your business-critical applications, streamline innovation, and gain a competitive edge. Quickly transform legacy physical and virtual server-based apps into cloud-native form to kickstart iterative modernization of architecture, deployment, and improvements. Intelligently persist runtime and process-to-process relationships from multiple server hosts into cloud-native architectures. Accelerate and induct legacy apps into CI/CD pipelines. Remove older physical and virtual infrastructure along with having to maintain operating systems. Simplify cloud migration by modernizing as you go to more mature cloud services such as Kubernetes platforms or PaaS.

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Spectro Cloud Palette

Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud’s Palette is a comprehensive Kubernetes management platform designed to simplify and unify the deployment, operation, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments—from edge to cloud to data center. It provides full-stack, declarative orchestration, enabling users to blueprint cluster configurations with consistency and flexibility. The platform supports multi-cluster, multi-distro Kubernetes environments, delivering lifecycle management, granular access controls, cost visibility, and optimization. Palette integrates seamlessly with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and popular Kubernetes services such as EKS, OpenShift, and Rancher. With robust security features including FIPS and FedRAMP compliance, Palette addresses needs of government and regulated industries. It offers flexible deployment options—self-hosted, SaaS, or airgapped—ensuring organizations can choose the best fit for their infrastructure and security requirements.

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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.

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F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

F5

Deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplify by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations. Achieve effortless management and scaling of applications across multiple k8s clusters (customer sites or F5 Distributed Cloud Regional Edge) with a single Kubernetes compatible API, unlocking the ease of multi-cluster management. Deploy, deliver, and secure applications to all locations as one ”virtual” location. Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Kubernetes no matter the location, from private and public cloud to edge locations. Secure K8s Gateway with zero trust security all the way to the cluster with ingress services with WAAP, service policies management, network, and application firewall.

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Testkube

Define a test execution consisting of a tool, test repository, and any arguments/parameters. Run any testing tools out of the box with Testkube-supplied workflows, or build your own custom workflow. Combine similar or dissimilar test execution workflows into suites. Create a searchable repository of ready-to-run test executions. Use proactive triggers to start test executions from CI/CD events, manually or on a schedule. Listen for Kubernetes infrastructure events, such as deployments, to automatically trigger test executions. Leverage Kubernetes native scalability to scale the number of concurrent test executions. Access advanced scaling capabilities to scale load tests from one to 1,000. Parallelize to scale functional tests to speed completion. Access logs and artifacts created by executing test tools in a centralized repository. Quickly find errors with log highlighting of failure-related keywords.

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Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

Nutanix

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) simplifies platform engineering by reducing operational complexity and establishing consistency across any environment. All the components needed for production-ready Kubernetes in a fully integrated turnkey solution. Deploy in the public cloud, on-premises, or at the edge with or without Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. Composed of upstream CNCF projects that are fully integrated and validated, but easily replaced so you’re not locked in. Simplify complex microservices management while enhancing observability and security. Add comprehensive multi-cluster management capabilities to your public cloud Kubernetes deployments without needing to migrate to a different runtime. Leverage AI and get the most out of Kubernetes with anomaly detection with root cause analysis and an intelligent chatbot to provide best practices and drive consistency.

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Syself

Managing Kubernetes shouldn't be a headache. With Syself Autopilot, both beginners and experts can deploy and maintain enterprise-grade clusters with ease. Say goodbye to downtime and complexity—our platform ensures automated upgrades, self-healing capabilities, and GitOps compatibility. Whether you're running on bare metal or cloud infrastructure, Syself Autopilot is designed to handle your needs, all while maintaining GDPR-compliant data protection. Syself Autopilot integrates with leading DevOps and infrastructure solutions, allowing you to build and scale applications effortlessly. Our platform supports: - Argo CD, Flux (GitOps & CI/CD) - MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse (Databases) - Grafana, Istio, Redis, NATS (Monitoring & Service Mesh) Need additional solutions? Our team helps you deploy, configure, and optimize your infrastructure for peak performance.

Starting Price: €299/month

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Cloudfleet Kubernetes Engine (CFKE)

Cloudfleet OÜ

From datacenter to cloud to edge, Cloudfleet delivers the Kubernetes experience as it was meant to be. Just-in-time infrastructure, automated upgrades, and advanced permissions management, all seamlessly controlled through a single pane of glass for your clusters. Cloudfleet is a fully managed multi-cloud and hybrid Kubernetes service that simplifies your infrastructure setup with automated server provisioning across on-premises environments and 12 cloud service providers.

Starting Price: $0

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Sangfor Kubernetes Engine

Sangfor

Sangfor Kubernetes Engine (SKE) is a container management platform built on upstream Kubernetes, fully integrated into Sangfor HCI and managed by Sangfor Cloud Platform, that provides a unified environment for running and managing both containers and virtual machines with simplicity, reliability, and security. Ideal for deploying new containerized applications, transitioning to microservices architectures, or consolidating existing VM workloads, SKE offers centralized account, permission, monitoring, and alert management across all workloads. Users can automate the creation of production‑ready Kubernetes clusters in as little as 15 minutes, eliminating manual OS installation and configuration, and leverage a rich set of out‑of‑the‑box components for rapid application deployment, visualized monitoring, diverse log types, and built‑in high‑performance load balancing.

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ShuttleOps

DevOps teams now have a single platform to build, deploy and manage applications, so they can get fixes, features, and updates to customers quickly and securely. One platform. Ample integrations. Rapid scalability. ShuttleOps is a no-code continuous delivery platform that makes it quick and simple to build, deploy and manage complex distributed applications. Using a simple drag and drop interface, ShuttleOps allows teams and organizations to quickly adopt and scale their DevOps practices. ShuttleOps supports Chef Habitat, Docker Container registries and custom build configurations. That means out-of-the box YAML free deployments, Persistent Volume Claims, Ingress rules, and log management. Define custom workflows with built-in collaboration including acknowledgement and approval gates, as well as real-time notifications to Slack, email and our in-app notification centre.

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Spinnaker

Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers. Deploy across multiple cloud providers including AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, Openstack, Cloud Foundry, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with DC/OS coming soon. Create deployment pipelines that run integration and system tests, spin up and down server groups, and monitor your rollouts. Trigger pipelines via git events, Jenkins, Travis CI, Docker, CRON, or other Spinnaker pipelines. Create and deploy immutable images for faster rollouts, easier rollbacks, and the elimination of hard to debug configuration drift issues.

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Linkerd

Buoyant

Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability features to your Kubernetes stack—no code change required. Linkerd is 100% Apache-licensed, with an incredibly fast-growing, active, and friendly community. Built in Rust, Linkerd's data plane proxies are incredibly small (<10 mb) and blazing fast (p99 < 1ms). No complex APIs or configuration. For most applications, Linkerd will “just work” out of the box. Linkerd's control plane installs into a single namespace, and services can be safely added to the mesh, one at a time. Get a comprehensive suite of diagnostic tools, including automatic service dependency maps and live traffic samples. Best-in-class observability allows you to monitor golden metrics—success rate, request volume, and latency—for every service.

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Apache OpenWhisk

The Apache Software Foundation

Apache OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless platform that executes functions (fx) in response to events at any scale. OpenWhisk manages the infrastructure, servers and scaling using Docker containers so you can focus on building amazing and efficient applications. The OpenWhisk platform supports a programming model in which developers write functional logic (called Actions), in any supported programming language, that can be dynamically scheduled and run in response to associated events (via Triggers) from external sources (Feeds) or from HTTP requests. The project includes a REST API-based Command Line Interface (CLI) along with other tooling to support packaging, catalog services and many popular container deployment options. Since Apache OpenWhisk builds its components using containers it easily supports many deployment options both locally and within Cloud infrastructures. Options include many of today's popular Container frameworks.

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Jtest

Parasoft

Meet Agile development cycles while maintaining high-quality code. Use Jtest’s comprehensive set of Java testing tools to ensure defect-free coding through every stage of software development in the Java environment. Streamline Compliance With Security Standards. Ensure your Java code complies with industry security standards. Have compliance verification documentation automatically generated. Release Quality Software, Faster. Integrate Java testing tools to find defects faster and earlier. Save time and money by mitigating complicated and expensive problems down the line. Increase Your Return From Unit Testing. Achieve code coverage targets by creating a maintainable and optimized suite of JUnit tests. Get faster feedback from CI and within your IDE using smart test execution. Parasoft Jtest integrates tightly into your development ecosystem and CI/CD pipeline for real-time, intelligent feedback on your testing and compliance progress.

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Best Application Development Software for Kubernetes - Page 9

Compare the Top Application Development Software that integrates with Kubernetes as of November 2025 - Page 9

Argo