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Cri Tools alternatives for AI agents.

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CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI) .

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#1

Minikube

Similarity 141Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#2

Kubernetes

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#3

Podman

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#4

Rancher

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher
#5

Kops

Similarity 140Trust 91Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#6

Gvisor

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add google/gvisor
#7

Kompose

Similarity 139Trust 87Excellent 100

Convert Compose to Kubernetes

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kompose
#8

Ko

Similarity 138Trust 87Excellent 100

Build and deploy Go applications

8.5K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add ko-build/ko
#9

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
#10

K3s

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

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

Helm

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#12

K9s

Similarity 132Trust 85Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add derailed/k9s
#13

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
#14

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
#15

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
#16

Containerd

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd

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