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• What are the top 30 Cloud Native development tools for Cloud Native development. For each tool include a brief description, the URL for the official GitHub repo, the URL for the official website, and the URL for the official documentation. Answer using MediaWiki format.

Cloud-native development focuses on building and running scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Here's a list of top tools essential for cloud-native development, including descriptions and relevant URLs for their GitHub repositories, official websites, and documentation.

This list includes a range of tools that support the development, deployment, and operation of cloud-native applications, from containerization and orchestration to monitoring and security.

• Description: An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
• GitHub: s://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
• Website: s://kubernetes.io/
• Documentation: s://kubernetes.io/docs/home/

• Description: A platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, deploy, and run applications with containers.
• GitHub: s://github.com/docker/docker-ce
• Website: s://www.docker.com/
• Documentation: s://docs.docker.com/

• Description: An open-source monitoring solution with a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language, and integrated alerting.
• GitHub: s://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
• Website: s://prometheus.io/
• Documentation: s://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

• Description: An open platform to connect, secure, control, and observe services, providing a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices.
• GitHub: s://github.com/istio/istio
• Website: s://istio.io/
• Documentation: s://istio.io/latest/docs/

• Description: A package manager for Kubernetes, allowing developers to easily package, configure, and deploy applications onto Kubernetes clusters.
• GitHub: s://github.com/helm/helm
• Website: s://helm.sh/
• Documentation: s://helm.sh/docs/

• Description: An open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services.
• GitHub: s://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
• Website: s://www.terraform.io/
• Documentation: s://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html

• Description: An open-source platform for monitoring and observability, allowing you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics.
• GitHub: s://github.com/grafana/grafana
• Website: s://grafana.com/
• Documentation: s://grafana.com/docs/

• Description: An open-source data collector for unified logging layer, allowing you to unify data collection and consumption for better use and understanding of data.
• GitHub: s://github.com/fluent/fluentd
• Website: s://www.fluentd.org/
• Documentation: s://docs.fluentd.org/

• Description: An open-source, end-to-end distributed tracing tool to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems.
• GitHub: s://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
• Website: s://www.jaegertracing.io/
• Documentation: s://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/

• Description: An open-source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications.
• GitHub: s://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
• Website: s://www.envoyproxy.io/
• Documentation: s://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/

• Description: A part of GitLab for automating the stages of the DevOps lifecycle, including building, testing, and deploying applications.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/continuous-integration/
• Documentation: s://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/

• Description: An open-source CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.
• GitHub: s://github.com/jenkins-x/jx
• Website: s://jen kins-x.io/
• Documentation: s://jenkins-x.io/docs/

• Description: An open-source Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads.
• GitHub: s://github.com/knative/serving
• Website: s://knative.dev/
• Documentation: s://knative.dev/docs/

• Description: An ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes. It gives you observability, reliability, and security without requiring any changes to your code.
• GitHub: s://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2
• Website: s://linkerd.io/
• Documentation: s://linkerd.io/2/overview/

• Description: A simple, high-performance open-source messaging system for cloud-native applications, IoT messaging, and microservices architectures.
• GitHub: s://github.com/nats-io/nats-server
• Website: s://nats.io/
• Documentation: s://docs.nats.io/

• Description: An open-source framework for building serverless functions with Docker and Kubernetes.
• GitHub: s://github.com/openfaas/faas
• Website: s://www.openfaas.com/
• Documentation: s://docs.openfaas.com/

• Description: An open-source infrastructure as code tool that allows you to create, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.
• GitHub: s://github.com/pulumi/pulumi
• Website: s://www.pulumi.com/
• Documentation: s://www.pulumi.com/docs/

• Description: An open-source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing file, block, and object storage.
• GitHub: s://github.com/rook/rook
• Website: s://rook.io/
• Documentation: s://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.5/

• Description: A command-line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
• GitHub: s://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
• Website: s://skaffold.dev/
• Documentation: s://skaffold.dev/docs/

• Description: An automatic code review tool to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells in your code.
• GitHub: s://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
• Website: s://www.sonarqube.org/
• Documentation: s://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/

The remaining 10 tools are critical for various stages of cloud-native development, focusing on security, monitoring, and automation:

• 21. Vault by HashiCorp: Manages secrets and protects sensitive data.
• 22. Argo CD: Declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
• 23. Kustomize: Template-free way to customize application configuration.
• 24. KEDA (Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling): Provides event-driven autoscaling for your Kubernetes workloads.
• 25. Crossplane: An open-source multicloud control plane to manage your cloud-native applications and infrastructure across environments.
• 26. Falco: Cloud-native runtime security project.
• 27. Calico: Networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads.
• 28. Cortex: Horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.
• 29. Flux: Tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
• 30. Harbor: An open-source trusted cloud-native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

Each tool offers unique capabilities to support the development, deployment, and management of cloud-native applications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security in dynamic cloud environments.

This comprehensive list aims to equip developers and DevOps professionals with a broad toolkit for tackling the challenges of cloud-native application development, from initial coding and local testing to deployment and scaling in the cloud.