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The Kubernetes Manifest Life Cycle Too Often Overlooked

The growing cloud native ecosystem means tools with bigger manifests to manage, alongside an explosion of code with differing syntaxes, which has become challenging for engineers. Let’s have a look...

The Cloud-Native Community Needs to Talk about Testing

It struck us that there is only ONE talk about Testing among 100+ presentations at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, one of the largest engineer-focused events in the entire cloud-native ecosystem.

Tracetest is released. What’s next?

We released Tracetest to the public last week. Learn more about how we'll go from MVPrototype to MVProduct as we inch closer to our next release.

Kusk-gateway 1.0 Released  —  OpenAPI driven Kubernetes Ingress Controller

The Kusk team is proud to announce the 1.0 release of Kusk-gateway, which adds API mocking capabilities, a CLI tool, auto-deployments, an interactive dashboard, and HTTP/SSL-related improvements.

Monokle 1.7.0 Release

It’s not enough to have your Kubernetes manifest syntax error free. Security and following best practices, are a vital part of a healthy and reliable application deployment.

End-to-end tests of your Kubernetes applications with Cypress

Manage and run your Cypress tests in Kubernetes and access Cypress recorded videos easily with Testkube!

Kubernetes Home Server Using Monokle

Learn how to create your own Kubernetes home server and expose it to the internet with the help of Monokle, a Kubernetes manifest IDE.

Introducing Tracetest - Trace-based Testing with OpenTelemetry

Introducing Tracetest, a tool which allows easy creation of end-to-end tests via a simple user interface. Leverages your current investment in OpenTelemetry based tracing to make deep testing simple.

From Design-First to Automated Deployment with OpenAPI

Use OpenAPI to drive the functional and operational aspects of your APIs with a Design-First approach and automated deployment.

Testkube: A Cloud Native Testing Framework for Kubernetes

Testkube is a framework that natively integrates test orchestration and execution into Kubernetes and your CI/CD/GitOps pipeline.

Common Errors Found in Kubernetes Manifests

Learn about the common errors in Kubernetes manifests and how Monokle can help you identify and fix errors instantly.

Beta 1 release of Kusk-Gateway  —  OpenAPI driven Kubernetes Ingress Controller

The Kusk team is proud to announce the beta release of Kusk Gateway, which adds API mocking capabilities, a CLI tool, and HTTP/SSL-related improvements.

Monokle 1.6 Released

The Monokle Team at Kubeshop is proud to announce version 1.6.0 of Monokle, our open-source desktop tool to help you with all-things-related to Kubernetes manifests. 

A GitOps-Powered Kubernetes Testing Machine with ArgoCD and Testkube

Adopt the GitOps development process when creating tests for your cloud native application using Testkube and ArgoCD!

Top 5 Challenges in Modern Kubernetes Testing

We like to think of Testkube turning your cluster into a modern car. Modern cars run diagnostic tests on themselves to show the driver what’s wrong.

Dogfooding Testkube - Part1 - How to Test a Testing Framework

Learn how we utilized our own testing framework during the development of Testkube.

Monokle 101 - Managing Your Kubernetes Manifests

Managing Kubernetes manifests can be a difficult, time consuming task if you don’t have an easy way to manage them at scale. That is, if you don’t have Monokle.

How to Create a YAML Manifest Template in Monokle

Monokle is a great tool to inspect your manifests with an easy and intuitive interface showing you how your manifests are connected to each other and how they translate to your existing cluster.

Testing Electron Apps with Playwright

Monokle is built using Electron, which is used to build desktop applications across multiple platforms using a web framework like react.

Testkube v0.8 - Better for Testers

Learn about the latests features like adding grouping of different test scripts, tests/scripts tagging, filtering tests, a local dashboard for test managers, and much more!

Monokle 1.5.0 Release

The Monokle Team at Kubeshop is proud to announce version 1.5.0 of Monokle, our open-source desktop tool to help you with all-thing-related to Kubernetes manifests.

Can You GitOps Your APIs?

Kusk automates generation of resources for various ingress controllers by treating your OpenAPI Specification as the source of truth for configuration.

Kusk-gateway Alpha 2 Release - OpenAPI Driven Kubernetes Gateway

Kusk-gateway v0.0.0.alpha.2 was released today with lots of enhancements, new features and bug fixes.

TestKube: A New Approach to Cloud Native Testing

TestKube, an open source lightweight testing framework for Kubernetes, takes a somewhat opinionated approach to bring testing into the cloud native era.

From YAML Engineer to YAML Herder

If you are looking to improve your cloud native OpX, give Monokle a try. It will make you a happier YAML engineer.

Monokle 1.4.0

Another month - another release for Monokle - our open source desktop tool for making the lives of all dedicated kubernetes manifest/yaml herders out there a little/lot easier!

Testkube 0.7.0 - Spit and polish and then some...

Hear ye, hear ye, Testkube has a new release out - with something to show off.

Cloud Native Hackathon - Guide to Kubeshop Tools

Kubeshop is excited to sponsor the first Cloud Native Hackathon by Community Classroom. Check out our guide to Monokle, TestKube, and Monokle to get started with the tools before the Hackathon.

An OpenAPI-first Ingress Controller for Kubernetes -  Kusk Gateway

An Argument for using OpenAPI (Swagger) to configure Ingress in Kubernetes.

Monokle 1.3.0 — Cluster Compare

Monokle version 1.3.0 — our open source tool for managing Kubernetes manifests — with some truly exciting new functionality and requested features to make developers lives easier like...

Testkube 0.6.0

We're happy to announce the version 0.6.0 of Testkube - an open-source test execution framework for Kubernetes.

Monokle 1.2.0 is out

Another Monokle release fresh out of the Kubeshop bakery, packed with a bunch of improvements:

Kusk 0.2.0 released with Traefik support and more

Today the Kubeshop team released Kusk version 0.2.0 featuring Traefik V2 support, further improvements on x-kusk OpenAPI extension and…

Design-first APIs meets DevOps — Automated Configuration for the masses!

APIs are everywhere. APIs are a standardized way for applications to expose their functionality. API functionality often supersedes that…

Kusk: Configuring your Ingress Controller for CORS with OpenAPI

Monokle 1.1.0

Your best k8s friend Monokle is friendlier than ever! After our initial release we’ve focused on fixing bugs and improving core…

Hello Testkube — Power to Testers on K8s!

Hello Kusk — OpenAPI for Kubernetes

Hello Monokle!

Ever since I started working with k8s I’ve been struggling with deployment artefacts; manifests, kustomize, helm-charts, yaml-syntax, you…