AI agent tools for DevOps
Short answer: Our top pick for DevOps: Netdata, with the highest AgentPick Score (92/100) among tools tagged "devops". Runners-up: Kestra (89) and kong (85). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Netdata | The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | 92/100 | ★ 81k | GPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | Kestra | Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications | 89/100 | ★ 30k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | kong | 🦍 The API and AI Gateway | 85/100 | ★ 44k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #4 | kubeshark | eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via … | 80/100 | ★ 12k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | kagent | Cloud Native Agentic AI | Discord: https://bit.ly/kagentdiscord | 79/100 | ★ 4k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | mcp-context-forge | An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guar… | 77/100 | ★ 4.6k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #7 | holmesgpt | SRE Agent - CNCF Sandbox Project | 77/100 | ★ 3.6k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #8 | xonsh | 🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-friendly. | 76/100 | ★ 9.7k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #9 | tons-of-skills-marketplace | Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com… | 74/100 | ★ 2.8k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | faraday | Open-source and AI-powered cybersecurity tools for offensive security, vulnerability management, and autonomous pentesting. Built by hackers in Latin … | 72/100 | ★ 6.8k | GPL-3.0 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| #11 | openchoreo | OpenChoreo is an internal developer platform for Kubernetes | 71/100 | ★ 1.6k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #12 | agentdock | Secure MCP runtime for AI agents to operate local machines, servers, and containers with multi-device orchestration. | 70/100 | ★ 1.2k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #13 | testkube | ☸️ The Open Testing Platform for AI-Driven Engineering Teams | 69/100 | ★ 1.7k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #14 | ongrid | An ops AI Agent that understands your infrastructure, finds the root cause, and fixes it — right from Slack, Telegram, Lark or DingTalk. | 69/100 | ★ 1.2k | AGPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #15 | temps | AI-native open-source alternative to Vercel + Sentry + PostHog + Pingdom + Resend + E2B. 440+ CLI operations with drop-in skills for Claude Code, Code… | 69/100 | ★ 843 | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #16 | versus-incident | Versus Incident is the self-hosted AI SRE agent. It learns what your system normally look like and escalates only what is new or unexpected issues; ro… | 67/100 | ★ 842 | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #17 | console | Secrets management for teams and AI agents. | 64/100 | ★ 930 | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #18 | golive-skill | Take your agent-built product live: hosting, database, domain, email, payments — on your own accounts. Open-source Agent Skill + zero-dependency Node … | 63/100 | ★ 1.3k | MIT | 11 Oct 2026 |
| #19 | OpenSwarm | OpenSwarm — Autonomous AI dev team orchestrator powered by Claude Code CLI. Discord control, Linear integration, cognitive memory. | 62/100 | ★ 864 | MIT | 8 Oct 2026 |
| #20 | veritas-kanban | Lightweight orchestration harness built for your AI agents. The unfiltered truth about where your project stands. | 62/100 | ★ 840 | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #21 | formae | Open-source Infrastructure As Code that starts from what already runs. formae discovers your estate, versions drift and hands back current code. A Ter… | 60/100 | ★ 775 | See repo | 8 Oct 2026 |
| #22 | kubefwd | Bulk port forwarding Kubernetes services for local development. | 59/100 | ★ 4.2k | Apache-2.0 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| #23 | loonflow | A Intelligent and Visual Process Automation System, ticket, workflow, MCP | 50/100 | ★ 2.1k | AGPL-3.0 | 20 Sept 2026 |
| #24 | agent | Ship your code, on autopilot. An open source agent that lives on your machines 24/7 and keeps your apps running. 🦀 | 49/100 | ★ 1.8k | Apache-2.0 | 6 Jul 2026 |
| #25 | itops-agent-platform | China's 1st enterprise multi-agent IT ops platform. LLM-powered auto-remediation for Zabbix/Prometheus. Docker deploy. | 49/100 | ★ 941 | See repo | 12 Oct 2026 |
| #26 | terraform-skill | Terraform & OpenTofu Skill for AI Agents - testing, modules, CI/CD, and production patterns | 42/100 | ★ 2.4k | See repo | 3 Jul 2026 |
| #27 | OpenDerisk | AI-Native Risk Intelligence Systems, OpenDeRisk——Your application system risk intelligent manager provides 7* 24-hour comprehensive and in-depth prote… | 40/100 | ★ 972 | MIT | 17 Sept 2026 |
| #28 | shellfirm | Safety guardrails for ai coding agents and human terminal commands | 37/100 | ★ 945 | Apache-2.0 | 15 May 2026 |
| #29 | DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills | Agent-ready DevOps, security, infrastructure, and compliance knowledge base with 80+ skills across Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/Azure/GCP, AI platform o… | 28/100 | ★ 1.2k | MIT | 22 May 2026 |
| #30 | kubectl-mcp-server | Published in CNCF Landscape: A MCP server for Kubernetes. | 28/100 | ★ 964 | MIT | 8 Apr 2026 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
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