No. 4 of 26 ·Kubernetes Management Platforms

kOps

Windows · Mac · Linux

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Three barsScore 6.5

kOps is ranked #4 of 26 in Kubernetes management platforms on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

kOps plans and pricing

kOps Free No paid plans or price listed on the official pages reviewed kops.sigs.k8s.io · 8 Oct 2026

Purpose: kOps creates, destroys, upgrades, and maintains production grade, highly available Kubernetes clusters and provisions the required cloud infrastructure.
Cloud providers: AWS and Google Cloud are officially supported; DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and OpenStack are in beta, and Azure is in alpha.
State management: Its state sync model supports dry runs and automatic idempotency.
Infrastructure output: kOps can generate Terraform.
Configuration: It provides a YAML manifest based API, templating, and dry run modes for creating manifests.
Networking: It offers popular CNI networking providers out of the box.
Architecture: kOps supports ARM64 architectures.
Installation requirement: kubectl is required to install and use kOps.
Security: SSH: SSH access to masters and nodes is allowed from any address by default, though no public key is installed by default; SSH sources can be restricted in cluster configuration or with a command option.
Security: IAM: The security documentation says all Pods running on a cluster have access to the underlying instance IAM role and that the permission scope is currently quite broad.
Support: kOps maintainers hold public office hours for developers and users, and the project points users to Kubernetes Slack channels for help.
License: The kubernetes/kops repository lists the Apache-2.0 license.
Price from: Free

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