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#1

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
#2

K3s

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#3

Minikube

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#4

Helm

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#5

Kubernetes

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#6

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
#7

K9s

Similarity 132Trust 85Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add derailed/k9s
#8

Rancher

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher
#9

Consul

Similarity 132Trust 85Excellent 100

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

30K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add hashicorp/consul
#10

Kops

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#11

Opentelemetry Collector

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
#12

Kubectx

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

20K starsMay 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add ahmetb/kubectx
#13

Vitess

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add vitessio/vitess
#14

VictoriaMetrics

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
#15

Gvisor

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

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

Kubescape

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 100

Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubescape/kubescape

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