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Ess Helm alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Homelab

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

Fully automated homelab from empty disk to running services with a single command.

9.3K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevopsPythonKubernetes
$ npx skills add khuedoan/homelab
#2

KubeDiagrams

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

Generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from Kubernetes manifest files, kustomization files, Helm charts, helmfiles, and actual cluster state

2.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add philippemerle/KubeDiagrams
#3

Helm Secrets

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 100

A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere

2.0K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsShellKubernetes
$ npx skills add jkroepke/helm-secrets
#4

Helm Unittest

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

BDD styled unit test framework for Kubernetes Helm charts as a Helm plugin.

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm-unittest/helm-unittest
#5

Helm

Similarity 120Trust 96Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#6

Verdaccio

Similarity 119Trust 94Excellent 100

A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry

18K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add verdaccio/verdaccio
#7

Vcluster

Similarity 118Trust 97Excellent 100

vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add loft-sh/vcluster
#8

Flux2

Similarity 118Trust 96Excellent 100

Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.

8.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add fluxcd/flux2
#9

Kubevela

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

The Modern Application Platform.

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

Recommenders

Similarity 117Trust 95Excellent 100

Best Practices on Recommendation Systems

22K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsPythonKubernetes
$ npx skills add recommenders-team/recommenders
#11

Helm Charts

Similarity 117Trust 95Excellent 100

Prometheus community Helm charts

6.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsMustacheKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-community/helm-charts
#12

Helmfile

Similarity 117Trust 96Excellent 100

Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD.

5.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helmfile/helmfile
#13

Authentik

Similarity 117Trust 92Excellent 100

The authentication glue you need.

22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsPythonKubernetes
$ npx skills add goauthentik/authentik
#14

Helm Dashboard

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

The missing UI for Helm - visualize your releases

5.7K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add komodorio/helm-dashboard
#15

Consul K8s

Similarity 117Trust 84Excellent 86

First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes

704 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add hashicorp/consul-k8s
#16

Devops Exercises

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions

83K starsDec 27, 2025 pushdevopsPythonKubernetes
$ npx skills add bregman-arie/devops-exercises

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