What is kops?
It helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is currently officially supported, with GCE in beta support , and VMware vSphere in alpha, and other platforms planned.
kops is a tool in the Cluster Management category of a tech stack.
kops is an open source tool with 16K GitHub stars and 4.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to kops's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses kops?
Companies
27 companies reportedly use kops in their tech stacks, including Backend, Tech-Stack, and Postmates.
Developers
59 developers on StackShare have stated that they use kops.
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What are some alternatives to kops?
Amazon EKS
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Helm
Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes.
minikube
It implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Its goal is to be the tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit.