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Kruise alternatives for AI agents.

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Automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes (incubating project under CNCF)

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#1

Harbor

Similarity 141Trust 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
#2

Kubeedge

Similarity 138Trust 86Excellent 100

Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)

7.5K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubeedge/kubeedge
#3

WasmEdge

Similarity 133Trust 90Excellent 100

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
#4

Cilium

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cilium/cilium
#5

Vcluster

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 100

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/vcluster
#6

Rook

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 100

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rook/rook
#7

Crossplane

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Control Plane

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add crossplane/crossplane
#8

Tyk

Similarity 130Trust 85Excellent 99

Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add TykTechnologies/tyk
#9

Kubevela

Similarity 130Trust 87Excellent 100

The Modern Application Platform.

7.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubevela/kubevela
#10

Chaos Mesh

Similarity 130Trust 87Excellent 100

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.

7.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh
#11

Etcd

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

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
#12

K3s

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#13

Minikube

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#14

Meshery

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Meshery, the cloud native manager

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add meshery/meshery
#15

Helm

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#16

Kubernetes

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

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

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