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CKSS Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist alternatives for AI agents.

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CKSS Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

This repository is a collection of resources to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS) exam.

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Minikube

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube

Harbor

Similarity 127Trust 93Excellent 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

Crossplane

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Control Plane

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add crossplane/crossplane

Rook

Similarity 126Trust 90Excellent 100

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add rook/rook

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 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes

$ npx skills add WasmEdge/WasmEdge

Meshery

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 100

Meshery, the cloud native manager

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes

$ npx skills add meshery/meshery

Falco

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

Cloud Native Runtime Security

9.1K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes

$ npx skills add falcosecurity/falco

Chaos Mesh

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.

7.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh

Kubeedge

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 100

Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)

7.5K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubeedge/kubeedge

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Etcd

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 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

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Helm

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add helm/helm

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Kubernetes

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes

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Cilium

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add cilium/cilium

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Kops

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops

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Teleport

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.

20K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add gravitational/teleport

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Vitess

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 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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