Kubernetes
How vibe coders and indie builders use Kubernetes: 38 projects built with it and 9 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
38
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
9
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
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What's built with it
Latest projects built with Kubernetes
- Ramen — Deploys git-hosted Python MCP tools as canary-rolled workers on Kubernetes behind one load balancer, with OAuth sign-in, group roles, secrets and an audit log.“My side project: a self-hosted MCP server that deploys your AI agent tools across zones on Kubernetes”
- Shortspan — Brokers access to secrets, SSH servers, databases, AWS and Kubernetes so users request short-lived, logged credentials instead of holding them.“I built a credential broker so nobody on the team holds prod keys. Would love brutal feedback on whether this makes sense”
- Basable — Generates web apps, APIs and full-stack apps from plain-language descriptions and deploys them to isolated containers with a GitHub repository.“I built Basable: describe an app, it's built and deployed to its own isolated environment, and the code stays in your GitHub. Looking for alpha testers and honest feedback”
- Nodyra — Runs self-hosted workflow automations where each node is a Python script, built visually or via an AI agent over MCP.“Nodyra: self-hosted Python workflows with a visual editor, MCP, and Docker workers”
- setu-ts — Provides a set of 48 decoupled, plugin-aware TypeScript packages for building full-stack services across Node, Deno, and Bun.“Looking for alpha testers for setu-ts: An open-source, plugin-aware TypeScript development framework”
- RunAway — Flags upcoming and past end-of-life and end-of-support deadlines across an organization's IT inventory and can open Jira remediation tickets.“Selling RunAway — a self-built IT asset EOL/EOS monitoring platform (pre-revenue, open to offers)”
- netwrth — Tracks net worth and spending across linked bank accounts and shows the figures as cards on a Home Assistant dashboard.“I built netwrth: a net-worth and spending tracker that lives on a Home Assistant dashboard, censored until you enter a PIN”
- Shaide — Deploys and runs multiple LLMs on Kubernetes with independent scaling, replica routing, and an OpenAI-compatible API.“Open sourced our k8s-native AI platform for distributed multi-model inference at scale”
- TokenTimer — Inventories expiring items such as certificates, API keys, secrets, licenses and subscriptions, and automates certificate renewal and deployment inside the user's infrastructure.“We built an open-source platform for tracking everything that expires”
- Warpforge — Runs a desktop workspace where coding agents share local dev services, port-forwards, and a memory store, orchestrated through configurable YAML pipelines.“Warpforge - open-source workspace for running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on the same project [MIT]”
- NoCoder — Builds an app from a prompt in an AI agent workspace that pauses before each file write and shows a diff for approval.“[NoCoder] We shipped the feature our product is named for. It was off by default, so nobody ever saw it.”
- Stackdome — Lets users deploy apps from GitHub onto self-hosted Kubernetes infrastructure with a Railway/Render-style interface, including managed databases, preview environments and rollbacks.“Stackdome - An opensource self-hosted Railway/Render-style platform”
- ZeroSketch — Lets users draw system architecture diagrams on a drag-and-drop canvas using cloud and Kubernetes icon libraries, with PNG and SVG export.“made a zero-bloat, open source system design and architecture diagramming tool”
- Echo — Provides a Slack-style team chat with workspaces, channels, and direct messages with file sharing, using Postgres as the realtime message bus.“Built a Slack-style chat app — no Redis, and Postgres handles the realtime backplane”
- OpenChoreo — Provides an open-source internal developer platform on Kubernetes covering deployments, environments, observability, policies, and access control.“Anyone here into DevOps or platform engineering? We’re building an open-source developer platform on Kubernetes”
Latest add-ons built for Kubernetes
- Scope Kube — Browses Kubernetes cluster workloads, metrics and logs and runs read-only AI investigations that save evidence-backed reports.“i built scope, a kubernetes desktop app with read-only ai investigations”
- stackradar — Scans the images running in a Kubernetes cluster against OSV and CISA data to report which pods have exploited vulnerabilities.“I built a free CLI tool that let you know which of your K8s pods are running exploited CVEs”
- InfraLens — Uses eBPF to discover and visualize service-to-service TCP and UDP traffic on Kubernetes clusters and Linux servers as a live map.“InfraLens v2.0.0: see what’s actually talking to what in your cluster, via eBPF”
- Kubagachi — Provides a web-based Kubernetes cluster visualizer and management UI, with a pipeline that generates animated pixel-style character sprites using Gemini.“Kubagachi, Kubernetes UI”
- Kubewall — Provides a single-binary web dashboard for viewing and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, logs, and resources.“I Built Lightweight Open-Source Kubernetes Dashboard”
- Kubetable — Connects to databases running inside a Kubernetes cluster through existing kubeconfigs, auto-detecting them so they can be browsed without manual port forwarding.“Kubetable - Desktop client for managing databases running in Kubernetes”
- tor-gateway — Exposes in-cluster Kubernetes Services as Tor v3 onion addresses through a declarative Gateway API operator.“[tor-gateway] A k8s operator I built to expose Services as .onion URLs declaratively”
- cronwiz — Converts plain-English schedules into cron expressions for several platforms, and explains, validates, and previews runs of existing cron expressions.“I built a free AI cron expression generator that covers 7 platforms (Linux, AWS, K8s, GitHub Actions, etc.)”
- Rune — Provides a native macOS GUI for managing Kubernetes clusters with customizable keyboard shortcuts.“Looking for feedback on my Swift native Kubernetes client app”
Pitched as alternatives to Kubernetes
- Kheeper — Manages servers as versioned images as an alternative to Kubernetes and cloud platforms.“Landing Page Redesign for GitHub Alternative”
- not-k8s — Runs a lightweight Rust node agent in place of the kubelet to manage containers on a cluster node.“not-k8s: replaced kubelet with a 15MB Rust agent, profiled on x86 and a phone”
- Rune — Provides a native macOS GUI for managing Kubernetes clusters with customizable keyboard shortcuts.“Looking for feedback on my Swift native Kubernetes client app”