Top 15 Kubectl plugins for security engineers in 2025

This article is a 2025 roundup of kubectl plugins useful to security teams, covering categories such as RBAC auditing, runtime observability (eBPF/syscall tracing), network traffic capture and visualization, secrets management, and identity helpers. For each plugin it summarizes security use cases, examples, Kubernetes version support, and maintenance status, and it includes guidance on safely evaluating and deploying plugins in environments.