Alternatives

Crossplane alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Harbor

Similarity 142Trust 97Excellent 100

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor

Karmada

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

5.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add karmada-io/karmada

Kuma

Similarity 138Trust 95Excellent 100

🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.

4.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kumahq/kuma

Trivy

Similarity 134Trust 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

Minikube

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube

Kubernetes

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes

Meshery

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 100

Meshery, the cloud native manager

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes

$ npx skills add meshery/meshery

Falco

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Cloud Native Runtime Security

9.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes

$ npx skills add falcosecurity/falco

Pulumi

Similarity 133Trust 95Excellent 100

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add pulumi/pulumi

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Cilium

Similarity 133Trust 95Excellent 100

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add cilium/cilium

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Kops

Similarity 133Trust 99Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops

#12

Containerd

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add containerd/containerd

#13

Rook

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 100

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add rook/rook

#14

Fission

Similarity 131Trust 93Excellent 100

Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

8.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add fission/fission

#15

Kubevela

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

The Modern Application Platform.

7.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubevela/kubevela

#16

Chaos Mesh

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.

7.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh

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

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