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The Cloud Native Control Plane
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add crossplane/crossplaneAlternatives
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Crane is a FinOps Platform for Cloud Resource Analytics and Economics in Kubernetes clusters. The goal is not only to help users to manage cloud cost easier but also ensure the quality of applications.
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An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor#3
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rook/rook#4
A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.
7.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh#5
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
5.4K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add litmuschaos/litmus#6
Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)
7.5K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubeedge/kubeedge#7
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
6.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add opencost/opencost#8
Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
5.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add karmada-io/karmada#9
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
4.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kumahq/kuma#10
Automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes (incubating project under CNCF)
5.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add openkruise/kruise#11
A QoS-based scheduling system brings optimal layout and status to workloads such as microservices, web services, big data jobs, AI jobs, etc.
1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add koordinator-sh/koordinator#12
A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer
1.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k8gb-io/k8gb#13
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 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add WasmEdge/WasmEdge#14
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#15
Run Kubernetes locally
32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube#16
Meshery, the cloud native manager
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add meshery/mesheryHow 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 Crane if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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