Alternatives

Cri O alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Cri O

Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

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#1

Containerd

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd
#2

Node Feature Discovery

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Node feature discovery for Kubernetes

1.0K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery
#3

Trivy

Similarity 126Trust 96Excellent 100

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

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy
#4

Podman

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#5

Gvisor

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add google/gvisor
#6

Cert Manager

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cert-manager/cert-manager
#7

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 124Trust 97Excellent 100

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
#8

Keda

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 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
#9

Velero

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

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

Kube Bench

Similarity 124Trust 97Excellent 100

Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark

8.1K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/kube-bench
#11

Metallb

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 100

A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

8.2K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add metallb/metallb
#12

Pipeline

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

9.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add tektoncd/pipeline
#13

Dex

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 100

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

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

External Secrets

Similarity 123Trust 97Excellent 100

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
#15

Kubevela

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

The Modern Application Platform.

7.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubevela/kubevela
#16

Kubevirt

Similarity 123Trust 95Excellent 100

Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

6.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubevirt/kubevirt

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