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Cortex alternatives for AI agents.

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Apisix

Similarity 103Trust 86Excellent 100

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

17K starsAug 24, 2026 pushdevopsLuaKubernetes

$ npx skills add apache/apisix

Oneuptime

Similarity 102Trust 85Excellent 100

Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.

7.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability

$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime

Tyk

Similarity 101Trust 84Excellent 96

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

Openwhisk

Similarity 100Trust 86Excellent 100

Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform

6.8K starsAug 24, 2026 pushdevopsScalaKubernetes

$ npx skills add apache/openwhisk

Seaweedfs

Similarity 97Trust 88Excellent 100

SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.

33K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add seaweedfs/seaweedfs

Argo Cd

Similarity 97Trust 90Excellent 100

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

24K starsSep 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD

$ npx skills add argoproj/argo-cd

Authelia

Similarity 97Trust 88Excellent 100

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

29K starsSep 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add authelia/authelia

Etcd

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 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

K3s

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s

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Minikube

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube

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Harbor

Similarity 96Trust 88Excellent 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

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Dapr

Similarity 96Trust 89Excellent 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

#13

Colima

Similarity 96Trust 87Excellent 100

Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

30K starsJul 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add abiosoft/colima

#14

Helm

Similarity 96Trust 87Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add helm/helm

#15

Kubernetes

Similarity 96Trust 86Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes

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Traefik

Similarity 96Trust 86Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

64K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add traefik/traefik

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