kube-linter
Static analysis tool that scans Kubernetes YAML manifests and Helm charts for misconfigurations before they're ever deployed.
- Actively maintained
- Well documented
- Permissive license
Overview
kube-linter checks Kubernetes manifests against a set of best-practice rules - missing resource limits, containers running as root, missing health checks, and more - directly in a CI pipeline or locally, catching configuration mistakes before a resource is ever applied to a cluster. It's built to plug into existing CI workflows with minimal setup.
kube-linter is a fit for teams that want to catch Kubernetes misconfigurations at review time rather than in production, a pre-deployment complement to Kubescape and kube-bench (also in this catalog), which assess clusters that are already running.
Why it's in this catalog
Catalog rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2/5)
Static analysis for Kubernetes YAML, a narrow niche overlapping with Kyverno/Kubescape.
- Mature
- Vendor-backed
- Categories
- DevOps
- Languages
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
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