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Gateway API alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.

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#1

Aws Load Balancer Controller

Similarity 138Trust 91Excellent 100

A Kubernetes controller for Elastic Load Balancers

4.3K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes-sigs/aws-load-balancer-controller
#2

Retina

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

3.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add microsoft/retina
#3

Gateway

Similarity 137Trust 91Excellent 100

Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway

2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add envoyproxy/gateway
#4

Antrea

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch

1.8K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add antrea-io/antrea
#5

Cni

Similarity 136Trust 87Excellent 91

Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers

6.0K starsDec 15, 2025 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containernetworking/cni
#6

Minikube

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#7

Helm

Similarity 134Trust 96Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#8

Kubernetes

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#9

K3s

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#10

Podman

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#11

Kops

Similarity 133Trust 99Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#12

K9s

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

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

Rancher

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher
#14

Consul

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 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
#15

Vitess

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

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

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

Kubectx

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

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

How 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 Gateway API if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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