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Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operatorAlternatives
Cortex alternatives for AI agents.
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A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
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Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway
2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add envoyproxy/gateway#3
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#4
Run Kubernetes locally
32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube#5
The Kubernetes Package Manager
30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm#6
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes#7
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops#8
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add vitessio/vitess#9
An open and reliable container runtime
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd#10
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cert-manager/cert-manager#11
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes
10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kedacore/keda#12
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add velero-io/velero#13
OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dexidp/dex#14
A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
9.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add tektoncd/pipeline#15
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
6.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add external-secrets/external-secrets#16
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
6.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubevirt/kubevirtHow 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 Cortex if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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