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The Cloud Native Control Plane
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add crossplane/crossplaneAlternatives
Kuma alternatives for AI agents.
Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.
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Kuma
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
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#2
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor#3
Meshery, the cloud native manager
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add meshery/meshery#4
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rook/rook#5
WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.
11K starsJul 22, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add WasmEdge/WasmEdge#6
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
52K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add etcd-io/etcd#7
Run Kubernetes locally
32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube#8
The Kubernetes Package Manager
30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm#9
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes#10
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add istio/istio#11
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cilium/cilium#12
Cloud Native Runtime Security
9.1K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add falcosecurity/falco#13
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops#14
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add vitessio/vitess#15
An open and reliable container runtime
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd#16
vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add loft-sh/vclusterHow 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 Kuma if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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