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Kubernetes based Cloud Development Environments for Enterprise Teams

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#1

Rancher Desktop

Similarity 139Trust 93Excellent 100

Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop
#2

Garden

Similarity 138Trust 96Excellent 100

Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching

3.6K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add garden-io/garden
#3

Freelens

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Free IDE for Kubernetes

5.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptDevOps
$ npx skills add freelensapp/freelens
#4

Helm Dashboard

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

The missing UI for Helm - visualize your releases

5.7K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add komodorio/helm-dashboard
#5

Hub

Similarity 129Trust 95Excellent 100

Find, install and publish Cloud Native packages

2.0K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add artifacthub/hub
#6

Minikube

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#7

Kubernetes

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#8

Podman

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#9

Kops

Similarity 128Trust 100Excellent 100

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

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

Pulumi

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add pulumi/pulumi
#11

Rancher

Similarity 127Trust 94Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher
#12

Gvisor

Similarity 127Trust 94Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add google/gvisor
#13

90DaysOfDevOps

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 100

This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the community. We have 3 years under our belt covering all things DevOps, including Principles, Processes, Tooling and Use Cases surrounding this vast topic.

30K starsApr 12, 2026 pushdevopsShellKubernetes
$ npx skills add MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps
#14

Kompose

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Convert Compose to Kubernetes

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kompose
#15

Generator Jhipster

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 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
#16

Ko

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

Build and deploy Go applications

8.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add ko-build/ko

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