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Cortex alternatives for AI agents.

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Cortex

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

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#1

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 155Trust 89Excellent 100

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
#2

Thanos

Similarity 142Trust 90Excellent 100

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos
#3

Minikube

Similarity 141Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#4

Helm

Similarity 141Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#5

Kubernetes

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#6

Kops

Similarity 140Trust 91Excellent 100

Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#7

Vitess

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add vitessio/vitess
#8

Containerd

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd
#9

Cert Manager

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 100

Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cert-manager/cert-manager
#10

Keda

Similarity 139Trust 89Excellent 100

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
#11

Velero

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 100

Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add velero-io/velero
#12

Pipeline

Similarity 138Trust 87Excellent 100

A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

9.0K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add tektoncd/pipeline
#13

Dex

Similarity 138Trust 85Excellent 100

OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dexidp/dex
#14

Jaeger

Similarity 134Trust 88Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger
#15

Etcd

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

52K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add etcd-io/etcd
#16

Trivy

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy

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