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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#1

Harbor

Similarity 141Trust 89Excellent 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
#2

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
#3

Minikube

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

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

Meshery

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Meshery, the cloud native manager

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add meshery/meshery
#5

Kubernetes

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

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

Pulumi

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language ๐Ÿš€

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add pulumi/pulumi
#7

Cilium

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cilium/cilium
#8

Falco

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 99

Cloud Native Runtime Security

9.1K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add falcosecurity/falco
#9

Kops

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#10

Containerd

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd
#11

Rook

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 100

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rook/rook
#12

Fission

Similarity 130Trust 86Excellent 99

Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

8.9K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add fission/fission
#13

Terraform

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

49K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoTerraform
$ npx skills add hashicorp/terraform
#14

WasmEdge

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

11K starsJul 22, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add WasmEdge/WasmEdge
#15

Etcd

Similarity 125Trust 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

Dapr

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 100

Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.

26K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dapr/dapr

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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