kube-tools
A lightweight Docker image (based on Alpine) that comes with all the tools you need to work with Kubernetes, Helm charts, AWS (awscli), AWS EKS, and Digital Ocean Kubernetes. Intended to be a flexible foundation of tools for CI/CD workflows.
Included Tools
- kubectl - https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/overview/
- Helm 3 - https://github.com/kubernetes/helm
- Helm S3 plugin - https://github.com/hypnoglow/helm-s3
- awscli https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
- aws-iam-authenticator https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator
- doctl https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/
- yamllint - https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint
- yq (YAML parser based on
jq) - https://github.com/kislyuk/yq
Example Usage
# start up an image
docker run -it \
-e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<AWS key>" \
-e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<AWS secret>" \
-e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1" \
jshimko/kube-tools-aws:latest
# the above command drops into a bash shell with
# all of the tooling for the following commands...
# configure kubectl auth for an existing EKS cluster named "my-cluster"
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster
# confirm it worked by listing your pods
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
# or list your helm deployments
helm ls --all-namespaces
# now do stuff for your CI/CD process...