Alternatives

Ko alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Build and deploy Go applications

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Podman

Similarity 148Trust 86Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman

Trivy

Similarity 148Trust 85Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

38K starsSep 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy

Rancher

Similarity 148Trust 86Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add rancher/rancher

Gvisor

Similarity 147Trust 86Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add google/gvisor

Kind

Similarity 147Trust 86Excellent 100

Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/kind

Kompose

Similarity 146Trust 85Excellent 100

Convert Compose to Kubernetes

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kompose

Minikube

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube

Harbor

Similarity 140Trust 88Excellent 100

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor

Kubernetes

Similarity 140Trust 86Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes

#10

Traefik

Similarity 140Trust 86Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

64K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add traefik/traefik

#11

Kops

Similarity 140Trust 90Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops

#12

K9s

Similarity 140Trust 83Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add derailed/k9s

#13

Containerd

Similarity 140Trust 86Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add containerd/containerd

#14

Linkerd2

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 100

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2

#15

Fission

Similarity 138Trust 86Excellent 99

Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

8.9K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add fission/fission

#16

Woodpecker

Similarity 138Trust 86Excellent 100

Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

7.6K starsJul 30, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add woodpecker-ci/woodpecker

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