Best Microservices Tools for Kubernetes
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This a list of Microservices tools that integrate with Kubernetes. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Kubernetes. View the products that work with Kubernetes in the table below.
What are Microservices Tools for Kubernetes?
Microservices tools and frameworks are comprehensive platforms and libraries that assist in the development and management of microservices-based applications. These tools and frameworks offer essential features such as service discovery, fault tolerance, load balancing, and API management to streamline the design of microservices architectures. They support developers in creating services that are decoupled, independently deployable, and scalable. Additionally, these frameworks often come with built-in support for integrating with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes and Docker. By using these tools and frameworks, teams can enhance the resilience, scalability, and maintainability of their applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Microservices tools for Kubernetes currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Run advanced apps on a secured and managed Kubernetes service. GKE is an enterprise-grade platform for containerized applications, including stateful and stateless, AI and ML, Linux and Windows, complex and simple web apps, API, and backend services. Leverage industry-first features like four-way auto-scaling and no-stress management. Optimize GPU and TPU provisioning, use integrated developer tools, and get multi-cluster support from SREs. Start quickly with single-click clusters. Leverage a high-availability control plane including multi-zonal and regional clusters. Eliminate operational overhead with auto-repair, auto-upgrade, and release channels. Secure by default, including vulnerability scanning of container images and data encryption. Integrated Cloud Monitoring with infrastructure, application, and Kubernetes-specific views. Speed up app development without sacrificing security.
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Portainer Business
Portainer
Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.Starting Price: Free -
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Tyk
Tyk Technologies
Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.Starting Price: $600/month -
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Istio
Istio
Connect, secure, control, and observe services. Istio’s traffic routing rules let you easily control the flow of traffic and API calls between services. Istio simplifies configuration of service-level properties like circuit breakers, timeouts, and retries, and makes it easy to set up important tasks like A/B testing, canary rollouts, and staged rollouts with percentage-based traffic splits. It also provides out-of-box failure recovery features that help make your application more robust against failures of dependent services or the network. Istio Security provides a comprehensive security solution to solve these issues. This page gives an overview on how you can use Istio security features to secure your services, wherever you run them. In particular, Istio security mitigates both insider and external threats against your data, endpoints, communication, and platform. Istio generates detailed telemetry for all service communications within a mesh. -
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Kong Konnect
Kong
Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform brokers an organization’s information across all services. Built on top of Kong’s battle-tested core, Kong Konnect Enterprise enables customers to simplify management of APIs and microservices across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. With Kong Konnect Enterprise, customers can proactively identify anomalies and threats, automate tasks, and improve visibility across their entire organization. Stop managing your applications and services, and start owning them with the Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform. Kong Konnect Enterprise provides the industry’s lowest latency and highest scalability to ensure your services always perform at their best. Kong Konnect has a lightweight, open source core that allows you to optimize performance across all your services, no matter where they run. -
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Styra
Styra
The fastest and easiest way to operationalize Open Policy Agent across Kubernetes, Microservices or Custom APIs, whether you're a developer, an admin, or a bit of both. Need to limit which folks can access your pipeline, based on who is currently on call? Simple. Want to define which microservices can access PCI data? We got you. Have to prove compliance with regulations across your clusters? No sweat. Built on open-source, and declarative by design, Styra Declarative Authorization Service gives you a turnkey OPA control plane to mitigate risk, reduce human error, and accelerate development. A built-in library of policies. Built on our OPA project let you implement and customize authorization policy-as-code. Pre-running lets you monitor and validate policy changes before committing, to mitigate risk before deployment. Declarative model defines desired state to prevent security drift and eliminate errors, before they can occur.Starting Price: $70 per month -
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ServiceNow Cloud Observability
ServiceNow
ServiceNow Cloud Observability is a solution that provides real-time monitoring and visibility into cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. It enables organizations to proactively identify and resolve performance issues by integrating data from various cloud environments into a unified dashboard. With advanced analytics and alerting capabilities, ServiceNow Cloud Observability helps IT and DevOps teams detect anomalies, troubleshoot problems, and ensure optimal system performance. The platform also supports automation and AI-driven insights, allowing teams to respond quickly to incidents and prevent potential disruptions. Overall, it improves operational efficiency and ensures a seamless user experience across cloud environments.Starting Price: $275 per month -
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Gloo Gateway
Solo.io
Gloo Gateway by Solo.io is a cloud-native API management solution that provides comprehensive management across external, internal, and third-party APIs. Built on the industry-leading Envoy Proxy, Gloo Gateway supports both Layer 4 and Layer 7 protocols, ensuring flexibility and scalability for modern API architectures. It offers advanced features such as multi-cluster support, real-time analytics, and developer portal capabilities. The platform also ensures enhanced security with zero-trust policies, including automatic authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit for all API traffic. Gloo Gateway is designed for organizations looking to streamline API connectivity, optimize performance, and scale efficiently. -
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Macaw
Macaw Software
Macaw is an enterprise grade platform optimized for building and transforming applications for digital age. Macaw provides an unique approach to modernize traditional applications to utilize containers and microservices technologies. It also offers a turn-key approach for enterprises to design, develop, build, publish, run and operate microservices based application in a holistic manner irrespective of the underlying infrastructure and clouds. Macaw is meant for enterprises looking to accelerate their modernization journey with hybrid-cloud strategy and cloud native applications. Thanks to its many built-in foundational services ,turnkey operational capabilities and kubernetes integration. Macaw provides the necessary run time environment, services and tools to build, deploy and manage Microservices based application. It provides various built-in and readily usable core application services like database, security, messaging, load-balancing for accelerated development and turn-key ops. -
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OpsLevel
OpsLevel
OpsLevel is the fastest, most flexible Internal Developer Portal, giving your teams complete visibility and control over services, teams, and tech stacks—all in one place. Unlike rigid, DIY solutions, OpsLevel automates catalog creation and maintenance so your developers can spend less time managing metadata and more time shipping great software. With built-in AI-powered insights, automation, and customizable workflows, OpsLevel helps engineering leaders enforce standards, drive migrations, and improve reliability—without friction. From onboarding to incident response, from self-service to security, OpsLevel brings everything together so your teams can move faster with confidence. -
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Wallarm API Security Platform
Wallarm
Built by security practitioners for practitioners, Wallarm's API security platform provides robust protection for APIs, web apps, microservices, and serverless workloads in cloud-native, multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments. It delivers coverage against OWASP API Top-10 risks and advanced threats, ensuring visibility and rapid vulnerability remediation. The Wallarm platform is a best-in-class API security solution that supports multiple deployment options. Trusted by security teams globally, Wallarm's API security platform is the fastest, easiest, and most effective way to stop API attacks. Customers choose Wallarm to protect their applications and AI agents because the platform delivers a complete inventory of APIs, patented AI/ML-based abuse detection, real-time blocking, and an API SOC-as-a-service. -
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effx
effx
The simplest way to navigate and operate your microservices. Whether you only have two or thousands of microservices, effx will track and guide you regardless of orchestration system, public cloud, or on-premise environment. Incidents across a fleet of microservices are rarely simple. effx provides context to help you orient around the potential causes of every outage in real-time. You’ve invested in your ability to know when production breaks. We help you proactively prepare for those moments by scoring services on key attributes that ensure they’re ready. -
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Temporal
Temporal
Temporal is the open source microservices orchestration platform for running mission critical code at any scale. It guarantees workflow completion of any size and complexity, has built-in support for exponential activity retries, and simplifies defining workflow compensation logic with native Saga pattern support. You can define retries, rollbacks, cleanup, and even human intervention steps in the case of failure. Workflows are defined in general-purpose programming languages that bring the ultimate flexibility for defining workflows of any complexity, especially when compared to markup-based DSLs. Temporal provides full visibility into end-to-end workflows that can span multiple services. It makes complex microservices orchestration manageable by providing a high level of insight into each workflow's state. Contrast this with ad-hoc orchestration based on queues where gaining visibility of your workflows is virtually impossible. -
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Spring Cloud Data Flow
Spring
Microservice-based streaming and batch data processing for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Spring Cloud Data Flow provides tools to create complex topologies for streaming and batch data pipelines. The data pipelines consist of Spring Boot apps, built using the Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task microservice frameworks. Spring Cloud Data Flow supports a range of data processing use cases, from ETL to import/export, event streaming, and predictive analytics. The Spring Cloud Data Flow server uses Spring Cloud Deployer, to deploy data pipelines made of Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task applications onto modern platforms such as Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. A selection of pre-built stream and task/batch starter apps for various data integration and processing scenarios facilitate learning and experimentation. Custom stream and task applications, targeting different middleware or data services, can be built using the familiar Spring Boot style programming model. -
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OpenFaaS
OpenFaaS
Serverless functions, made simple. OpenFaaS® makes it simple to deploy both functions and existing code to Kubernetes. Avoid lock-in through the use of Docker. Run-on any public or private cloud. Build both microservices & functions in any language. Legacy code and binaries. Auto-scale for demand or to zero when idle. Bring your laptop, your own on-prem hardware, or create a cluster in the cloud. Let Kubernetes do the heavy lifting enabling you to build a scalable, fault-tolerant event-driven serverless platform for your applications. You can try out OpenFaaS in 60 seconds or write and deploy your first Python function in around 10-15 minutes. From there you can take the OpenFaaS workshop, a series of tried-and-tested self-paced labs which teach you everything you need to know about functions, and more. An ecosystem for sharing, reusing, and collaborating on functions. Reduce boilerplate code, and share code in the templates store. -
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JHipster
JHipster
JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, and deploy modern web applications and microservice architectures. We support many frontend technologies, including Angular, React, and Vue. We even have mobile app support for Ionic and React Native! On the backend, we support Spring Boot (with Java or Kotlin), Micronaut, Quarkus, Node.js, and . NET. For deployment, we embrace cloud-native principles with Docker and Kubernetes. Deployment support exists for AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, and OpenShift. Our goal is to generate a complete and modern web app or microservice architecture. A high-performance and robust server-side stack with excellent test coverage. A sleek, modern, mobile-first UI with Angular, React, or Vue + Bootstrap for CSS. A powerful workflow to build your application with Webpack and Maven or Gradle. Resilient microservice architecture with cloud-native principles in mind. -
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Control Plane
Control Plane
Control Plane is a modern, multicloud-native app platform (PaaS) built on Kubernetes that enables you to build, deploy, and run microservices apps faster and easier, with ultra high availability and ultra low latency. Unlike other app platforms, Control Plane is: Multicloud and Multi-Region: Your workloads run agnostically across the combined computing power and geographic regions of AWS, GCP, Azure and Private Clouds. You choose which regions of which clouds run your app and as long as one region of one cloud is up, so is your endpoint. Flexible: Microservices have as-if-native access to ANY service on ANY cloud (BigQuery on GCP, AD on Azure, SQS on AWS) without embedding credentials. Fast: Running on the best of the cloud-native ops stack for secrets management, metrics, logging, software-defined VPN, geo-intelligent DNS and more - integrated, pre-configured, and easy to use. Efficient: Cloud consumption elastically optimized to run with the exact resources required. -
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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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