Azure Kubernetes Service Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service

Managed Kubernetes platform

kubectl

Primary Kubernetes CLI management tool

Helm

Kubernetes package and application deployment manager

Azure Portal

GUI-based AKS administration

Azure CLI

Azure command-line management

Azure PowerShell

PowerShell-based Azure administration

Kubernetes Dashboard

Kubernetes graphical dashboard

Lens

Kubernetes desktop GUI management tool

Azure Monitor

Central monitoring platform

Container Insights

AKS monitoring and observability

Log Analytics

Centralized logging and querying

Prometheus

Metrics collection

Grafana

Metrics dashboards and visualization

Azure Managed Grafana

Microsoft-managed Grafana platform

Application Insights

Application telemetry and monitoring

Kusto Query Language

Log Analytics query language

OpenTelemetry

Observability framework

Terraform

Infrastructure-as-Code

Bicep

Azure Infrastructure-as-Code

ARM Templates

Azure deployment templates

GitHub Actions

CI/CD automation

Azure DevOps

CI/CD and DevOps pipelines

Jenkins

CI/CD automation server

GitLab

Source control and CI/CD

Argo CD

GitOps continuous deployment

Flux CD

GitOps automation

Kustomize

Kubernetes manifest customization

Azure Container Registry

Private container image registry

Docker

Container image build platform

Podman

Container engine

Buildah

Container image build tool

Harbor

Enterprise container registry

JFrog Artifactory

Artifact and image repository

NGINX Ingress Controller

Ingress traffic routing

Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller

Azure-native ingress controller

Traefik

Kubernetes ingress and reverse proxy

Istio

Service mesh

Linkerd

Lightweight service mesh

Calico

Kubernetes network policy engine

Cilium

eBPF-based networking and security

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

AKS security monitoring

Microsoft Entra ID

Identity and authentication

Azure Policy

Governance and compliance

OPA Gatekeeper

Kubernetes policy enforcement

Kyverno

Kubernetes policy engine

Cert-Manager

Certificate lifecycle management

HashiCorp Vault

Secrets management

Sealed Secrets

Kubernetes secret encryption

Azure Disk CSI Driver

Azure Disk Kubernetes integration

Azure Files CSI Driver

Azure Files Kubernetes integration

Velero

Kubernetes backup and restore

Azure Backup

Backup platform

Azure NetApp Files

Enterprise shared storage

Longhorn

Kubernetes distributed storage

kubectl logs

Container log inspection

kubectl exec

Interactive container access

kubectl describe

Resource diagnostics

kubectl top

Resource usage metrics

Stern

Multi-pod log tailing

K9s

Terminal-based Kubernetes UI