kaimaster/alpine-tools repository overview

⁠Alpine Linux with connectivity tools

This container image is built on Alpine Linux and includes a comprehensive set of networking tools for debugging and testing connectivity within Kubernetes pods and clusters. It provides essential utilities for network troubleshooting, including:

⁠Included Tools

• busybox-extras: Provides additional utilities beyond the default BusyBox package, including enhanced networking tools.
• traceroute: A network diagnostic tool used to trace the route packets take to a destination.
• curl: Command-line tool for transferring data using URLs, supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
• bind-tools: A collection of DNS utilities from the BIND package, including dig, nslookup, and host.
• nginx: A high-performance web server and reverse proxy server.
• bash: GNU Bash shell, used for scripting and interactive terminal use.
• iproute2: A set of networking utilities for managing network interfaces, routing, and traffic control.
• sslscan: A tool to test SSL/TLS services for supported ciphers, protocols, and vulnerabilities.
• openssh: OpenSSH suite for secure remote login, includes ssh, scp, and sftp.
• openssl: A command-line tool for managing SSL/TLS encryption, generating certificates, and testing connections.
• tcpdump: A packet analyzer that captures and inspects network traffic.
• python3: Python 3 programming language interpreter.
• py3-pip: Package manager for Python, used to install and manage Python packages.
• ca-certificates: SSL/TLS certificates required to verify the authenticity of websites and services.

⁠Advance Tools

• gcloud cli: version 412.0.0
• gcloud cli: version v1.32.2

⁠Usage

Deploy an interactive debug pod in Kubernetes:

docker run --rm -it --name alpine-tools kaimaster/alpine-tools:<container-image-tag>