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 132Trust 87Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

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

Trivy

Similarity 125Trust 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
#3

Podman

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#4

Gvisor

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add google/gvisor
#5

Cert Manager

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cert-manager/cert-manager
#6

Keda

Similarity 123Trust 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
#7

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

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

Velero

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add velero-io/velero
#9

Metallb

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

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

8.3K starsJul 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add metallb/metallb
#10

Kube Bench

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

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

8.1K starsJul 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/kube-bench
#11

Pipeline

Similarity 122Trust 87Excellent 100

A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

9.0K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add tektoncd/pipeline
#12

Dex

Similarity 122Trust 85Excellent 100

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

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dexidp/dex
#13

Kubevela

Similarity 122Trust 87Excellent 100

The Modern Application Platform.

7.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubevela/kubevela
#14

Generator Jhipster

Similarity 118Trust 89Excellent 100

JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures.

22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add jhipster/generator-jhipster
#15

Kubespray

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJinjaKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
#16

Quarkus

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaKubernetes
$ npx skills add quarkusio/quarkus

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