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August 2, 2022

Testkube v1.4 Release: UI Redesign, TestSuites, Chocolatey, and a lot more!

Check out the 1.4 version of Testkube, including a new UI design, the ability to create TestSuites, Github Actions, Chocolatey installer, and much more.

Bruno Lopes

Product Leader, Testkube

Tracetest 0.6 Release - gRPC, Postman and More

Tracetest released v0.6 introducing the ability to create tests based on gRPC or Postman Collections in addition to other new features.

Creating a Custom Language Code Editor Using React

See how Tracetest developed a code editor for adding advanced selectors in our UI. Discusses the business need, requirements, and React implementation utilizing the Code Mirror editor & Lezer parser.

Leverage OPA Security Practices with Monokle

Leverage Monokle to inspect existing cluster resources, Helm and Kustomize outputs, and vanilla manifests for OPA errors before deployment.

Cortney Nickerson

Developer Advocate, Monokle

Kubeshop Acquires Kubefirst - GitOps Infrastructure & Application Delivery Platform

Kubefirst, an open-source, gitops-driven, Kubernetes-centric infrastructure and application delivery ecosystem is acquired by the Kubernetes open-source accelerator Kubeshop.

John Dietz

Co-Founder, Kubefirst

Automatic Request Validation with OpenAPI

Let's explore how you can use OpenAPI with Kusk Gateway to ensure that all the request bodies sent to your cluster a properly validated!

Abdallah Abedraba

Technical Developer Advocate

Integration Tests: Pros and Cons of Doubles vs. Trace-Based Testing

A look at utilizing doubles in tests, full system integration tests, and trace based tests when developing test suites and the pros and cons of each technique.

Matheus Nogueira

Back-End Software Engineer

Monokle 1.9.0 Release Notes

Monokle v1.9.0 is here! Our team is proud to share the latest features and updates including the new Search & Replace panel, UX updates, and more!

Cortney Nickerson

Developer Advocate, Monokle

Kubernetes Helm Tutorial: A Better Way to Define Kubernetes Objects

Learn how to preview, navigate, edit, and validate Helm Outputs with Monokle. Gain visibility and control of the exact resources being deployed to your Kubernetes cluster via Helm charts.

Julia Melnychenko

Software Engineer - Monokle

Testkube v1.3 Release - Slack, ArgoCD and More!

Welcome to v.1.3 from Testkube, which features an updated UI to add Basic and Secret variables to Tests and Test Suites, ARM64 support, Slack Integration, ArgoCD integration and much more.

Vladislav Sukhin

Senior Software Engineer

Detect & Fix Performance Issues Using Tracetest

Tracetest can spot anomalies in code before users or developers encounter them. Learn more about how to use it in a Test-Driven Development (TDD) flow.

Kubeshop Acquires InfraCloud’s BotKube - ChatOps for Kubernetes

Kubeshop acquires InfraCloud's BotKube, an open source collaborative management platform that monitors Kubernetes clusters and helps with interactive debugging. Read more about the future plans.

Blair Rampling

Product Leader, Botkube

Kusk Gateway 1.1.0 Release - Authentication support and more!

The Kusk team is proud to announce the v1.1.0 release of Kusk Gateway, which adds Header Based Authentication, Rate limiting, Caching and Post-processed OpenAPI definitions

Christopher Jones

Product Manager, Kusk

A Faster Kustomize Workflow in Kubernetes with Monokle

Wito walks through how to introduce variations and adjust Kustomize packages in Kubernetes using Monokle.

Integrating Tracetest with GitHub Actions in a CI pipeline

See the challenges faced & approach taken in designing a CI pipeline using Github actions to run integration tests against an actual Tracetest deployment using Cypress and Tracetest.

Rapidly prototype your APIs on Kubernetes with Kusk Gateway

We will explore how to use Kusk Gateway and OpenAPI to generate automatic mocks of your APIs that will allow for rapid prototyping between your teams

Abdallah Abedraba

Technical Developer Advocate

Tracetest — Assertions, Versioning & CI/CD

Tracetest released v0.5 with new capabilities to enable you to create trace-based tests for your microservice based system. The release includes better assertions, versioning, & CI/CD capability.

Monokle 1.8.0 Release Notes

Team Monokle is proud to announce version 1.8.0 - featuring Compare Anything (fka Cluster Compare), instant visibility, updated Helm support, and more.

Christian Lete

Product Leader, Monokle

Testkube 1.2 Release—Now with a better UI

The latest release from the Testkube team features an updated UI to create and run tests easily, Slack integration, new SoapUI & Artillery executors, and more.

Nicolae Fortuna

Back-End Software Engineer

Load Testing in Kubernetes with k6 and Testkube

Learn how to harness the power of k6 load testing in Kubernetes with Testkube's CLI and API.

Bruno Lopes

Product Leader, Testkube

Tracing the History of Distributed Tracing & OpenTelemetry

A history of the birth of OpenTelemetry Tracing. From Dapper in 2010 to Zipkin, Jaeger, OpenTracing & OpenCensus, we discuss how the industry coalesced around OpenTelemetry over the last 14 years.

Run Kubernetes Tests with SoapUI and Testkube

Learn how to run functional tests in Kubernetes with SoapUI and Testkube.

The APIOps Lifecycle: Managing API workflows through the OpenAPI Definition

What is APIOps and how can we use the OpenAPI standard as a way to implement an API-First & Design-first approach to development of modern REST APIs deployed to Kubernetes.

Christopher Jones

Product Manager, Kusk

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...

Christian Lete

Product Leader, Monokle

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.

Bruno Lopes

Product Leader, Testkube

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: 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.

Christopher Jones

Product Manager, Kusk

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.

Christian Lete

Product Leader, Monokle

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

Manage and run end-to-end Cypress testing in Kubernetes and access Cypress recorded videos easily with Testkube!

Abdallah Abedraba

Technical Developer Advocate

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.

Abdallah Abedraba

Technical Developer Advocate

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.

Bruno Lopes

Product Leader, Testkube

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.

Christian Lete

Product Leader, Monokle

Kusk-gateway OpenAPI-driven Kubernetes Ingress Controller Beta

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.

Christian Lete

Product Leader, Monokle

GitOps-Powered Kubernetes Testing Machine: ArgoCD + Testkube

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

Abdallah Abedraba

Technical Developer Advocate

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.

Bruno Lopes

Product Leader, Testkube

Dogfooding Testkube - Part1 - How to Test a Testing Framework

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

Jacek Wysocki

Principal Software Engineer

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.

Abdallah Abedraba

Technical Developer Advocate

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.

Andrei Vinaga

Full Stack Software Engineer

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.

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!

Nicolae Fortuna

Back-End Software Engineer

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 OpenAPI-Driven Kubernetes Gateway Alpha 2

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.

Jasmin Gacić

Principal Software Engineer

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.

Kusk Gateway: An OpenAPI-first Kubernetes Ingress Controller

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...