Alternatives

Starboard alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Starboard

Superseded by https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator

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#1

Linkerd2

Similarity 141Trust 98Excellent 100

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2
#2

Kubescape

Similarity 140Trust 97Excellent 100

Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubescape/kubescape
#3

Karmada

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

5.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add karmada-io/karmada
#4

Cerbos

Similarity 138Trust 94Excellent 100

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

4.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cerbos/cerbos
#5

ContainerSSH

Similarity 137Trust 91Excellent 100

ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand

3.1K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH
#6

Koordinator

Similarity 137Trust 95Excellent 100

A QoS-based scheduling system brings optimal layout and status to workloads such as microservices, web services, big data jobs, AI jobs, etc.

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add koordinator-sh/koordinator
#7

Openyurt

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenYurt - Extending your native Kubernetes to edge(project under CNCF)

2.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add openyurtio/openyurt
#8

Antrea

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch

1.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add antrea-io/antrea
#9

Logging Operator

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Logging operator for Kubernetes

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kube-logging/logging-operator
#10

Tidb Operator

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

TiDB operator creates and manages TiDB clusters running in Kubernetes.

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add pingcap/tidb-operator
#11

Stackrox

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add stackrox/stackrox
#12

Kyma

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 97

Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.

1.6K starsMay 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kyma-project/kyma
#13

Minikube

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#14

Helm

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#15

Kubernetes

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#16

K3s

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s

How to choose

When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Starboard if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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