Kubernetes & Platform Engineering Toolkit

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66 Tools11 Playbooks39 Comparisons22 Cheat Sheets3 Roadmaps

TLS/SSL Cheat Sheet

Compare cipher suites, key sizes, and protocol versions.

Nginx Directives

Commonly used Nginx snippets for proxying and caching.

Linux Networking

ss, netstat, tcpdump, and traceroute quick refs.

PromQL

Common PromQL query patterns for latency and errors.

Dockerfile Best Practices

Layering, caching, and security guidance for production images.

Kubectl Quick Reference

Essential kubectl commands for day-to-day Kubernetes operations.

Advanced Git

Powerful Git commands for serious troubleshooting and productivity.

HTTP Headers

Essential HTTP headers for security, caching, and performance.

nftables

Tables, chains, rules, NAT, sets, and iptables migration commands.

k9s

Keyboard shortcuts, resource commands, and config for the k9s Kubernetes TUI.

Podman

Containers, pods, Kubernetes integration, rootless ops, and systemd.

Helm

Install, upgrade, rollback, debug, and manage Helm chart releases.

Terraform

Core workflow, state management, imports, workspaces, and debugging.

AWS CLI

EKS, ECR, S3, IAM, EC2, SSM, and Secrets Manager quick reference.

jq

JSON slicing, filtering, mapping, and kubectl output processing.

curl

HTTP requests, headers, auth, TLS, downloads, and timing breakdowns.

OpenSSL

Inspect certificates, generate keys and CSRs, test TLS, and convert formats.

systemd

systemctl, journalctl, unit files, timers, targets, and overrides.

Kustomize

Base and overlay structure, patches, generators, and CLI commands.

Linux Commands Cheat Sheet (DevOps)

Files, processes, networking, logs, permissions, and transfer — the incident-day essentials.

Docker CLI Cheat Sheet

Containers, images, volumes, networks, Compose, and cleanup commands.

Kubernetes YAML Cheat Sheet

Manifest skeletons for Deployment, Service, Ingress, PVC, HPA, CronJob, and NetworkPolicy.

ArgoCD vs Flux CD

Detailed comparison of the two leading GitOps controllers for Kubernetes.

Terraform vs Pulumi

Comparing industry-standard HCL with modern code-first Infrastructure as Code.

Prometheus vs Datadog

Deep dive into open-source monitoring vs. enterprise SaaS observability.

GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI

Comparing the most dominant CI/CD platforms for modern DevOps teams.

The CI/CD Trinity

Comprehensive 3-way comparison: GitHub Actions vs GitLab vs Jenkins.

Vercel vs AWS Amplify

The DX king vs the AWS code-first powerhouse. Detailed feature and pricing breakdown.

Tailscale vs WireGuard

Comparing the ease of Tailscale with the raw performance of WireGuard.

Istio vs Linkerd

The battle of Kubernetes service meshes: Feature-rich vs. Simplicity-first.

Helm vs Kustomize

Templates vs. Overlays. Which one should you use for your K8s manifests?

EKS vs GKE vs AKS

Which cloud provider has the best managed Kubernetes service?

Docker vs Podman

The industry standard vs the daemonless, rootless alternative.

Next.js vs Remix

Deep dive into the two most popular React frameworks for the edge.

Backstage vs Port

Battle of the Internal Developer Portals: Open-source flexibility vs SaaS speed.

Podscape vs Lens vs k9s

Security-first desktop GUI vs the most mature K8s workbench vs the fastest terminal UI.

Kubecost vs Vantage vs Infracost

The ultimate FinOps showdown: Pre-deployment estimates vs runtime visibility vs unified cloud billing.

EKS vs GKE

Amazon EKS vs Google GKE: provisioning speed, networking, autoscaling, and cost compared.

EKS vs AKS

Amazon EKS vs Azure AKS: IAM, networking, Windows support, and cost compared for 2026.

Vault vs External Secrets

Full secrets platform vs. Kubernetes-native secret sync: which fits your team?

vLLM vs Ollama

Production LLM serving vs local developer inference: PagedAttention throughput vs pull-and-run simplicity.

Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler

Direct node provisioning vs ASG-based scaling — which Kubernetes autoscaler fits your cluster?

Loki vs Elasticsearch

Label-based cheap log storage vs full-text indexed search power for Kubernetes logging.

Fluentd vs Fluentbit vs Vector

Three-way log pipeline comparison: ecosystem breadth vs K8s-native efficiency vs Rust-powered throughput.

Pulumi vs CDK vs CDKTF

Cloud-agnostic SDK vs AWS L2 constructs vs Terraform provider ecosystem — three modern IaC approaches compared.

Rancher vs OpenShift vs Tanzu

Enterprise Kubernetes platforms: open-source multi-cluster management vs security-first developer platform vs VMware integration.

cert-manager vs Cloud Certs

In-cluster TLS automation vs cloud-managed certificates — when to use each for your Kubernetes PKI strategy.

ArgoCD vs Jenkins X

GitOps pull-based delivery vs opinionated cloud-native CI/CD — which fits modern platform teams.

EKS Fargate vs EC2 Nodes

Serverless Kubernetes compute vs managed EC2 instances — cost, scalability, and operational trade-offs on AWS.

Terraform vs OpenTofu

BUSL-licensed incumbent vs the Linux Foundation fork — license, governance, state encryption, and migration trade-offs.

NGINX Ingress vs Gateway API

The retiring default ingress controller vs its role-oriented successor — traffic features, ownership model, and migration path.

Cilium vs Calico

eBPF-native networking vs the battle-tested policy engine — L7 policy, observability, BGP, and operational trade-offs.

GitHub Actions vs Jenkins

Managed, GitHub-native CI/CD vs the self-hosted automation server you run yourself — setup, scaling, maintenance, and cost.

containerd vs Docker vs CRI-O

Kubernetes container runtimes compared — what each is for, why Kubernetes moved off Docker, and which belongs on your nodes.

Terraform vs Ansible

Infrastructure provisioning vs configuration management — declarative state vs playbooks, and why most teams use both.

Kafka vs RabbitMQ vs SQS

Event streaming vs message broker vs managed queue — ordering, replay, throughput, and operational cost for async messaging.

NGINX vs HAProxy vs Traefik

Reverse proxies and load balancers compared — static vs dynamic config, raw performance, TLS automation, and Kubernetes ingress fit.

gRPC vs REST

Binary contract-first RPC vs resource-oriented HTTP APIs — performance, streaming, browser support, and where each fits.

OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus

A telemetry framework vs a metrics backend — why these aren't really competitors, and how they fit together.

Thanos vs Cortex vs Mimir

Long-term, scalable Prometheus compared — sidecar augmentation vs multi-tenant TSDBs, and which to pick for global metrics at scale.

Apple container vs OrbStack vs Colima

Docker Desktop alternatives on the Mac — Apple's VM-per-container tool vs the polished shared-VM incumbent vs the free Lima-based workhorse.

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