Alternatives

Pinniped alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Pinniped

Pinniped is the easy, secure way to log in to your Kubernetes clusters.

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#1

Dex

Similarity 140Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors

11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dexidp/dex
#2

Infra

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 98

Infra provides authentication and access management to servers and Kubernetes clusters.

1.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add infrahq/infra
#3

Authelia

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

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

28K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add authelia/authelia
#4

Kubelogin

Similarity 129Trust 96Excellent 100

kubectl plugin for Kubernetes OpenID Connect authentication (kubectl oidc-login)

2.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add int128/kubelogin
#5

Authentik

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 100

The authentication glue you need.

22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsPythonKubernetes
$ npx skills add goauthentik/authentik
#6

Etcd

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 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
#7

Trivy

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy
#8

K3s

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#9

Minikube

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#10

Helm

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#11

Kubernetes

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#12

Traefik

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

64K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add traefik/traefik
#13

Podman

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#14

Kops

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

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

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

K9s

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

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

Teleport

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 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

How to choose

When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Pinniped if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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