1. portal-tunnel
291 stars+4 this week
Expose local services through self-hosted or public relays.No port forwarding.
apple-container alternatives: 12 Claude Code plugins like apple/container
apple-container has 50,938 stars, gained 128 in 7 days and was last pushed Oct 28, 2026; the top pick, portal-tunnel, has 291 stars and gained 4 in 7 days.
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How they compare
Flowy lists 28 other Cloud & Infrastructure plugins like apple-container, ranked by shared technologies, then GitHub stars; nothing in this list is paid.
| Plugin | Stars | 7 days | Updated | License | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apple-containerThis page | 50,938 | +128 | Oct 28, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 1 skill |
| 1portal-tunnel | 291 | +4 | Oct 27, 2026 | MIT | 3 skills |
| 2keirouter | 155 | not available | Oct 20, 2026 | MIT | 8 skills |
| 3reolink-cli | 117 | not available | Oct 13, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 1 skill, 7 commands |
| 4kubesphere | 17,068 | +6 | Jul 15, 2026 | not available | 32 skills |
| 5aws-agent-skills | 1,169 | +1 | Oct 19, 2026 | MIT | 18 skills |
| 6docker-skills | 599 | +15 | Oct 23, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 12 skills |
| 7sample-well-architected-skills-and-steering | 276 | 0 | Oct 26, 2026 | MIT-0 | 6 skills, 1 agent, 11 commands |
| 8alibabacloud-aiops-skills | 275 | +11 | Oct 27, 2026 | not available | 200 skills |
| 9defang | 167 | 0 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | 1 skill, 1 MCP server |
| 10azure-diagrams-skill | 153 | not available | Jun 22, 2026 | MIT | 1 skill |
| 11terraform-skill | 2,430 | +9 | Oct 24, 2026 | not available | 1 skill |
| 12dstack | 2,291 | +9 | Oct 24, 2026 | MPL-2.0 | 3 skills |
The 12 closest alternatives
2. keirouter
155 stars
Your friendly, blazing-fast, self-hostable AI gateway
3. reolink-cli
117 stars
Official command-line tool for Reolink IP cameras, doorbells and NVRs — LAN only, no cloud.
4. kubesphere
17,068 stars+6 this week
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️
5. aws-agent-skills
1,169 stars+1 this week
Supercharge Claude Code with AWS cloud engineering skills across 18 core AWS services.
6. docker-skills
599 stars+15 this week
Docker-authored knowledge skills that improve AI coding agent output for Docker-related tasks.
7. sample-well-architected-skills-and-steering
276 stars0 this week
Reusable skills and steering that teach AI coding agents how to apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
8. alibabacloud-aiops-skills
275 stars+11 this week
Official Alibaba Cloud Agent Skills collection, providing AI agents with rich Alibaba Cloud product capabilities and general-purpose…
9. defang
167 stars0 this week
Defang Deploy CLI.
10. azure-diagrams-skill
153 stars
A comprehensive technical diagramming toolkit for solutions architects, presales engineers, and developers.
11. terraform-skill
2,430 stars+9 this week
A best-practices skill for Terraform and OpenTofu, for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Codex, Kiro…
12. dstack
2,291 stars+9 this week
A unified orchestration layer for heterogeneous AI compute.
Questions about apple-container alternatives
What is the best alternative to apple-container?
portal-tunnel is the first of 12 alternatives to apple-container by shared technologies: it has 291 stars (behind apple-container), gained 4 stars this week and ships 3 skills against 1 for apple-container.
Which apple-container alternative has the most skills?
alibabacloud-aiops-skills has the most, with 200 skills of the 12 alternatives listed. apple-container has 1.
Is apple-container free?
Yes. apple-container is published under the Apache-2.0 license, so it is free to use.