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Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative
14K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevopsJavaDevOps
$ npx skills add floci-io/flociAlternatives
Surf alternatives for AI agents.
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Surf
CLI Text Search across your infrastructure platforms, Universal Ctrl+F for infra
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#2
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
22K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add getsops/sops#3
$ npx skills add pranshuparmar/witr#4
The personal information dashboard for your terminal
17K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add wtfutil/wtf#5
The infrastructure platform for the intelligence era
12K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add encoredev/encore#6
Automated developer-oriented status page with alerting and incident support
11K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add TwiN/gatus#7
The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™
29K starsSep 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add authelia/authelia#8
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
64K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add traefik/traefik#9
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
38K starsSep 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy#10
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add pulumi/pulumi#11
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add derailed/k9s#12
A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.
13K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add gogf/gf#13
Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes
15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/kind#14
Cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD 💰📉 Shift FinOps Left!
12K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsGoTerraform
$ npx skills add infracost/infracost#15
Secure environments for developers and their agents
14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoTerraform
$ npx skills add coder/coder#16
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2How 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 Surf if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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