Kubernetes Addons

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/addons/

• GKE: GKE Config Connector addon
• AWS EKS Addons: vpc-cni, kube-proxy, coredns, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-guardduty-agent

tEKS addons

https://github.com/particuleio/terraform-kubernetes-addons

• admiralty: A system of Kubernetes controllers that intelligently schedules workloads across clusters
• aws-ebs-csi-driver: Enable feature and the use of gp3 volumes
• aws-efs-csi-driver: Enable EFS Support
• aws-for-fluent-bit: Cloudwatch logging with fluent bit instead of fluentd
• aws-load-balancer-controller: Use AWS ALB/NLB for ingress and services
• aws-node-termination-handler: Manage spot instance lifecyle
• aws-calico: Use calico for network policy
• secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws: AWS Secret Store and Parameter store driver for secret store CSI driver
• cert-manager: Automatically generate TLS certificates, supports ACME v2
• cluster-autoscaler: Scale worker nodes based on workload
• cni-metrics-helper: Provides cloudwatch metrics for VPC CNI plugins
• external-dns sync ingress and service records in route53
• flux2: Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit
• ingress-nginx: Processes Ingress object and acts as a HTTP/HTTPS proxy (compatible with cert-manager)
• istio-operator:Service mesh for Kubernetes
• k8gb: A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer
• karma: An alertmanager dashboard
• keda: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling
• keycloak: Identity and access management
• kong: API Gateway ingress controller
• kube-prometheus-stack: Monitoring / Alerting / Dashboards
• Kyverno: Kubernetes Native Policy Management
• loki-stack: Grafana Loki logging stack
• promtail: Ship log to loki from other cluster (eg. mTLS)
• prometheus-adapter: Prometheus metrics for use with the autoscaling/v2 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler in Kubernetes 1.6+
• prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter: An exporter for Amazon CloudWatch, for Prometheus.
• prometheus-blackbox-exporter: The blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP.
• rabbitmq-cluster-operator: The RabbitMQ Cluster Operator automates provisioning, management of RabbitMQ clusters.
• metrics-server: Enable metrics API and horizontal pod scaling (HPA)
• node-problem-detector: Forwards node problems to Kubernetes events
• secrets-store-csi-driver: Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.
• sealed-secrets: Technology agnostic, store secrets on git
• strimzi-kafka-operator Apache Kafka running on Kubernetes
• thanos: Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities
• thanos-memcached Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities
• thanos-storegateway: Additional storegateway to query multiple object stores
• thanos-tls-querier: Thanos TLS querier for cross cluster collection
• vault: A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

Related

• GKE Config Connector addon
• Terraform EKS module
• AWS EKS Addons

See also

• AWS EKS Addons: best practices, vpc-cni, kube-proxy, coredns, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-guardduty-agent, amazon-cloudwatch-observability, aws eks describe-addon-versions, aws eks create-addon, aws eks list-addons
• Kubernetes Addons, tEKS: [ admiralty | kubecost ]
• Kubernetes Components, kube-proxy, kube-scheduler, kube-apiserver, kubelet, kubectl, kubeadm, Kubernetes controller manager, Kubernetes controllers, Kubernetes Addons, Kubernetes Topology Manager