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Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist alternatives for AI agents.

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Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Curated resources help you prepare for the CNCF/Linux Foundation CKS 2021 "Kubernetes Certified Security Specialist" Certification exam. Please provide feedback or requests by raising issues, or making a pull request. All feedback for improvements are welcome. thank you.

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#1

CKAD Exercises

Similarity 118Trust 96Excellent 100

A set of exercises to prepare for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer exam by Cloud Native Computing Foundation

10K starsApr 21, 2026 pushdevopsKubernetesClaude Code
$ npx skills add dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises
#2

Kubernetes Certified Administrator

Similarity 118Trust 83Strong 77

Online resources that will help you prepare for taking the CNCF CKA 2020 "Kubernetes Certified Administrator" Certification exam. with time, This is not likely the comprehensive up to date list - please make a pull request if there something that should be added here.

4.4K starsJan 5, 2025 pushdevopsShellKubernetes
$ npx skills add walidshaari/Kubernetes-Certified-Administrator
#3

Kube Bench

Similarity 118Trust 97Excellent 100

Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark

8.1K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/kube-bench
#4

Falco

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Cloud Native Runtime Security

9.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add falcosecurity/falco
#5

DCA

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 97

Docker Certified Associate Exam Preparation Guide

1.4K starsApr 26, 2026 pushdevopsKubernetesClaude Code
$ npx skills add Evalle/DCA
#6

Seaweedfs

Similarity 112Trust 98Excellent 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
#7

Etcd

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 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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Trivy

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 100

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

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy
#9

Minikube

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

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

Harbor

Similarity 112Trust 97Excellent 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
#11

Dapr

Similarity 112Trust 98Excellent 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
#12

Helm

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#13

Kubernetes

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#14

Traefik

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

64K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add traefik/traefik
#15

K3s

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#16

Istio

Similarity 112Trust 94Excellent 100

Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add istio/istio

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