Alternatives

Cerbos alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Cerbos

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.

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K9s

Similarity 141Trust 92Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add derailed/k9s

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

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

Kind

Similarity 140Trust 94Excellent 100

Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/kind

Ko

Similarity 139Trust 93Excellent 100

Build and deploy Go applications

8.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add ko-build/ko

Kubernetes Ingress

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes

5.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add nginx/kubernetes-ingress

Tracee

Similarity 138Trust 92Excellent 100

Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF

4.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add aquasecurity/tracee

Unregistry

Similarity 138Trust 91Excellent 100

Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry

4.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add psviderski/unregistry

Open Match

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

Flexible, extensible, and scalable video game matchmaking.

3.4K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add googleforgames/open-match

#10

Dockle

Similarity 137Trust 92Excellent 100

Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start

3.3K starsApr 4, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add goodwithtech/dockle

#11

Kwok

Similarity 137Trust 91Excellent 100

Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Nodes and Clusters.

3.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/kwok

#12

Kubelogin

Similarity 137Trust 94Excellent 100

kubectl plugin for Kubernetes OpenID Connect authentication (kubectl oidc-login)

2.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add int128/kubelogin

#13

ContainerSSH

Similarity 137Trust 91Excellent 100

ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand

3.1K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH

#14

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

#15

Antrea

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch

1.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add antrea-io/antrea

#16

Aws Node Termination Handler

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown within Kubernetes

1.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add aws/aws-node-termination-handler

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 Cerbos if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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