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External Secrets alternatives for AI agents.

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External Secrets

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.

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#1

Cert Manager

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 100

Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cert-manager/cert-manager
#2

Keda

Similarity 139Trust 89Excellent 100

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kedacore/keda
#3

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 139Trust 89Excellent 100

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
#4

Velero

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 100

Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add velero-io/velero
#5

Sealed Secrets

Similarity 138Trust 87Excellent 100

A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

9.2K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets
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Sealed Secrets

Similarity 138Trust 87Excellent 100

A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

9.2K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add bitnami/sealed-secrets
#7

Pipeline

Similarity 138Trust 87Excellent 100

A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

9.0K starsJun 29, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add tektoncd/pipeline
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Dex

Similarity 138Trust 85Excellent 100

OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dexidp/dex
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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
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K3s

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#11

Minikube

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#12

Helm

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#13

Kubernetes

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#14

Podman

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#15

K9s

Similarity 132Trust 85Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add derailed/k9s
#16

Rancher

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

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

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