Alternatives

Dagger alternatives for AI agents.

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

Current skill

Dagger

Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud

100
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Trust
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#1

Concourse

Similarity 139Trust 95Excellent 100

Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD.

7.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add concourse/concourse
#2

Harness

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.

37K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add harness/harness
#3

Argo Cd

Similarity 133Trust 96Excellent 100

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add argoproj/argo-cd
#4

Gocd

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository

7.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add gocd/gocd
#5

Werf

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.

4.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add werf/werf
#6

Erda

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 100

An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes.

2.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add erda-project/erda
#7

Nelm

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 97

Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide a modern alternative to Helm, with long-standing issues fixed and many new major features introduced.

1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add werf/nelm
#8

Origin

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Conformance test suite for OpenShift

8.7K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add openshift/origin
#9

Gitleaks

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

28K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add gitleaks/gitleaks
#10

Gitkube

Similarity 123Trust 81Strong 76

Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push

3.8K starsAug 31, 2023 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add hasura/gitkube
#11

Earthly

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 96

Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.

12K starsOct 23, 2025 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add earthly/earthly
#12

Database Lab Engine

Similarity 121Trust 93Excellent 100

DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. Follow to stay updated.

2.5K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
#13

Habitus

Similarity 120Trust 81Strong 72

A build flow tool for Docker.

1.4K starsFeb 5, 2020 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add cloud66-oss/habitus
#14

Onedev

Similarity 119Trust 97Excellent 100

Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add theonedev/onedev
#15

YaraHunter

Similarity 118Trust 89Excellent 93

🔍🔍 Malware scanner for cloud-native, as part of CI/CD and at Runtime 🔍🔍

1.3K starsMar 7, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add deepfence/YaraHunter
#16

Cds

Similarity 116Trust 93Excellent 100

Enterprise-Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform

4.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add ovh/cds

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

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