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Open Application Model (OAM).

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#1

Dapr

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 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
#2

Quarkus

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaKubernetes
$ npx skills add quarkusio/quarkus
#3

Linkerd2

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

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

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2
#4

Keda

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 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
#5

K3s

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#6

Minikube

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

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

Harbor

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 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
#8

Helm

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#9

Kubernetes

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#10

Podman

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

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

Kubectx

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

20K starsAug 2, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add ahmetb/kubectx
#12

K9s

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

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

Rancher

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

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

Consul

Similarity 118Trust 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
#15

Kops

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#16

Vitess

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

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

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

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