Alternatives

Nelm alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Nelm

Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide a modern alternative to Helm, with long-standing issues fixed and many new major features introduced.

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#1

Argo Cd

Similarity 157Trust 95Excellent 100

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add argoproj/argo-cd
#2

Gocd

Similarity 141Trust 94Excellent 100

GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository

7.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add gocd/gocd
#3

Harness

Similarity 134Trust 97Excellent 100

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.

37K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add harness/harness
#4

Gitleaks

Similarity 133Trust 93Excellent 100

Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

28K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add gitleaks/gitleaks
#5

Dagger

Similarity 133Trust 98Excellent 100

Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add dagger/dagger
#6

Concourse

Similarity 132Trust 96Excellent 100

Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD.

7.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add concourse/concourse
#7

Earthly

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 96

Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.

12K starsOct 23, 2025 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add earthly/earthly
#8

Werf

Similarity 130Trust 94Excellent 100

A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.

4.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add werf/werf
#9

Database Lab Engine

Similarity 129Trust 95Excellent 100

DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. Follow to stay updated.

2.5K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
#10

Devops Basics

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

🚀 Practical and document place for DevOps toolchain

1.9K starsJun 2, 2026 pushdevopsHCLCI/CD
$ npx skills add tungbq/devops-basics
#11

Gitkube

Similarity 123Trust 78Strong 76

Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push

3.8K starsAug 31, 2023 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add hasura/gitkube
#12

Pipecd

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

The One CD for All {applications, platforms, operations}

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add pipe-cd/pipecd
#13

Erda

Similarity 121Trust 92Excellent 100

An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes.

2.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add erda-project/erda
#14

Onedev

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add theonedev/onedev
#15

Branch Deploy

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 85

Enabling Branch Deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions - If you find this project useful, give it a star! ⭐️

553 starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaScriptDevOps
$ npx skills add github/branch-deploy
#16

Agola

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 85

Agola: CI/CD Redefined

1.6K starsSep 24, 2025 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add agola-io/agola

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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 Nelm if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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