AMD have just released V-EZ, a library aimed at making Vulkan graphics development easier by handling much of the complexities for you. The V-EZ library is available for Windows and Linux and should work on all GPUs, not just AMD’s. V-EZ abstracts away the following components of Vulkan development:
Memory management
Swapchain management
Render Passes
Pipeline permutations
Pipeline layouts
Pipeline barriers
Descriptor pools
Descriptor sets
Descriptor set layouts
Image layouts
GLSL compilation
The library is hosted on GitHub available here. There is complete documentation available here. Oddly, there doesn’t seem to be a license attached to the source code, so I am not sure what open source license this was released under.