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24 alternatives to Mininet-YAML – Create complex virtual networks through small YAML files

Mininet-YAML is a powerful tool that simplifies the creation of virtual networks through YAML-configured topologies. By defining hosts, routers, and their interfaces in a YAML file, users can deploy complex network topologies directly on their machines within seconds. This tool integrates with Mininet and Open vSwitch to emulate network environments, allowing users to manage virtual nodes with the same granularity as physical hardware. Moreover, Mininet-YAML empowers users with advanced traffic engineering capabilities. They can effortlessly specify maximum transmission rates (goodput)…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Mininet-YAML – Create complex virtual networks through small YAML files launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    LLM Gatewayfree tier▲296

    I built an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, vLLM, llama-server, SGLang... anything that speaks /v1/chat/completions. Single Go binary, one YAML config file, no infrastructure. It does the things you'd expect from this kind of gateway... semantic routing via a three-layer cascade (keyword heuristics, embedding similarity, LLM classifier) that picks the best model when clients omit the model field, weighted round-robin load balancing across local inference servers with health checks and failover. The part I think is most…

    2025 · llmgateway.io · its alternatives →

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    We're excited to announce Lowdefy V4, a full-stack web framework built on top of Next.js that simplifies building web applications, internal tools, admin panels, BI dashboards, and CRUD apps using YAML or JSON configuration files. New in V4: Next.js: Lowdefy now runs on top of the Next.js framework. All of Auth.js: App auth is now handled by Auth.js supported providers, adapters and callbacks and events, easy to configure, but all of which can be customized. Plugin extensibility: Apps can now be extended with any npm or pnpm workspace plugins. Our story: We have developed a simple…

    2021 · lowdefy.com · its alternatives →

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    End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds

    2019 · yggdrasil-network.github.io · its alternatives →

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    PrismML builds 1-bit and ternary Bonsai models that pack advanced reasoning, tool use, and multimodal AI into phones, laptops, and efficient data centers.

    Mar 2026 · prismml.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, About a year ago I shared a first MVP of a visual node-based system for CI/CD pipelines that I've been very passionate about. I've been building on it since, and it's now live. I've always liked building pipelines and workflows, but I've never liked writing YAML for anything more than simple linear tasks. Branching, conditions, loops, or trying to just run certain things in parallel always gets messy. So I built Actionforge, a visual node system to tackle some of these pain points. Instead of writing YAML yourself, you build workflows as graphs. While Actionforge still uses YAML…

    Feb 2026 · actionforge.dev · its alternatives →

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    CRML▲130

    CRML is a declaritive language for writing cyberrisk as code

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Brandon, a solo dev, and I built KubeForge - a visual editor for Kubernetes deployments that helps you build and validate YAML configs. Origin Story: Over the past couple weeks, I got fed up manually writing Kubernetes YAMLs, especially when working with nested structures like containers, env, and volumeMounts. Even small typos or misaligned fields added lost time to broken deploys. So I started hacking together a tool to visualize the structure of Kubernetes objects based on the OpenAPI schema. That prototype quickly turned into a full manifest builder. What KubeForge does: -…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Signadot▲187

    Hi again HN, we’re Arjun and Anirudh, founders of Signadot (YC W20). Signadot helps teams developing microservices test their changes using lightweight environments called “Sandboxes”. We use a relatively new approach, using traffic labeling (using OpenTelemetry) and request routing (using a Service Mesh) to isolate environments in a shared Kubernetes cluster. Today, we’re launching a new feature to help developers with local testing of microservices during the iterative development process. When we initially launched in September last year…

    2022 · signadot.com · its alternatives →

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    "interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build your own high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA - a smaller version of vLLM - jmaczan/tiny-vllm

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimalist, dependency-free virtual machine sandbox for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Single C file, no dynamic memory allocations, asynchronous design, pure C99 - ringtailsoftware/uvm32

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The open source LLM router that connects your AI agents and harnesses to any provider in seconds. Subscriptions, pay-per-token, local models, and custom providers.

    2024 · manifest.build · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’m excited to share Holos, a Go command line tool we wrote to fill the configuration management gap in Kubernetes. Holos uses CUE to configure software distributed with Helm and Kustomize using a well defined, type safe language eliminating the need to template YAML. You probably know (or are) someone who has suffered with the complexity of plain text YAML templates and merging multiple values.yaml files together to configure software running in Kubernetes. We built Holos so we don’t have to template YAML but we can still integrate software distributed with Helm and Kustomize…

    2024 · holos.run · its alternatives →

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    The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized). Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/

    Jun 2026 · minipcs.zip · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone! I am Jan, CTO and one of the creators of Pathway, the real-time data processing framework. I’m excited to share Pathway’s ready-to-use AI Pipelines, configurable with just YAML! These frameworks offer out-of-the-box solutions for AI search, RAG, and more—optimized for real-time indexing and in-memory processing. What makes it simple? YAML templates! The pipeline templates are fully customizable using YAMLs to fit your needs, from changing the data sources to the choice of the LLM model, all without touching Pathway’s Python code. Thanks to the Pathway data processing engine,…

    2024 · pathway.com · its alternatives →

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    You build LLM applications with YAML files, that define an execution graph. Nodes can be either LLM API calls, regular function executions or other graphs themselves. Because you can nest graphs easily, building complex applications is not an issue, but at the same time you don't lose control. The YAML basically states what are the tasks that need to be done and how they connect. Other than that, you only write individual python functions to be called during the execution. No new classes and abstractions to learn.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple Ethernet network simulator with text-based topology and virtual hosts - wkoszek/kmnsim

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Embedded graph memory for AI agents, mobile apps, and the browser. - project-minigraf/minigraf

    18d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    a minimalist toolkit for building scalable, fault tolerant and eventually-consistent microservices - dot-microservices/dot-rest

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    devo.ps▲11

    Simple Infrastructure management using Git and YAML

    2016 · devo.ps · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're Jon and Kristiane, and we're building Orloj (https://orloj.dev), an open-source orchestration runtime for multi-agent AI systems. You define agents, tools, policies, and workflows in declarative YAML manifests, and Orloj handles scheduling, execution, governance, and reliability. Over the past year we tried to use many different platforms/frameworks to build out agent systems and while building we hit some sort of problem with all of them, so we decided to have a go at it. Jon has worked with kubernettes and terraform for years and always liked the declarative…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An Erlang library for generating adversarial network conditions for QAing distributed applications/systems on a single Linux box. - lostcolony/damocles

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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