Alternatives

Spec alternatives for AI agents.

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

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#1

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

Similarity 132Trust 95Excellent 100

Kubernetes integration with Spring Cloud Discovery Client, Configuration, etc...

3.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaKubernetes
$ npx skills add spring-cloud/spring-cloud-kubernetes
#2

Dapr

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 100

Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.

26K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dapr/dapr
#3

Quarkus

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaKubernetes
$ npx skills add quarkusio/quarkus
#4

Linkerd2

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

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

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2
#5

Keda

Similarity 126Trust 96Excellent 100

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes

10K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kedacore/keda
#6

Karmada

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

5.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add karmada-io/karmada
#7

Nuclio

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

High-Performance Serverless event and data processing platform

5.7K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add nuclio/nuclio
#8

Dubbo Admin

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

The ops and reference implementation for Apache Dubbo.

4.0K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add apache/dubbo-admin
#9

OpenFunction

Similarity 123Trust 84Strong 73

Cloud Native Function-as-a-Service Platform (CNCF Sandbox Project)

1.7K starsJun 19, 2024 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add OpenFunction/OpenFunction
#10

Lens

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 86

Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

23K starsFeb 11, 2025 pushdevopsKubernetesClaude Code
$ npx skills add lensapp/lens
#11

Hub

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

Find, install and publish Cloud Native packages

2.0K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add artifacthub/hub
#12

Koordinator

Similarity 123Trust 95Excellent 100

A QoS-based scheduling system brings optimal layout and status to workloads such as microservices, web services, big data jobs, AI jobs, etc.

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add koordinator-sh/koordinator
#13

Openyurt

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenYurt - Extending your native Kubernetes to edge(project under CNCF)

2.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add openyurtio/openyurt
#14

Logging Operator

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

Logging operator for Kubernetes

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kube-logging/logging-operator
#15

Tidb Operator

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

TiDB operator creates and manages TiDB clusters running in Kubernetes.

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add pingcap/tidb-operator
#16

Starboard

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

Superseded by https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator

1.4K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/starboard

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