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kubernetes/kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cncf #containers #go #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-06-06
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,251 open

128,314

stars

Forks: 47,285
Commits: 142,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +53 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +249 +0.2%

Website GitHub

netdata/netdata

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

AI dev

Stack

Go Axum gRPC Go pytest Starlette Cargo CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai #alerting #cncf #data-visualization #database #devops

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-17
History: 53 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 444 open

80,979

stars

Forks: 6,676
Commits: 23,809 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +105 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +108 +0.5%

Website GitHub

etcd-io/etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cncf #consensus #database #distributed-database #distributed-systems #etcd

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-07
History: 17 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 385 open

52,367

stars

Forks: 10,539
Commits: 25,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +21 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +20 +0.1%

Website GitHub

goharbor/harbor

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

Stack

Go Angular Express gRPC Go pytest Go modules npm Pipenv

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #cncf-project #container #container-management #container-registry

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-01
History: 18 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 951 open

29,560

stars

Forks: 5,385
Commits: 12,901 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +31 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +16 +0.1%

Website GitHub

cilium/cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Tornado Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#bpf #cncf #cni #containers #ebpf #k8s

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-16
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,095 open

25,671

stars

Forks: 4,165
Commits: 45,134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +43 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +177 +0.4%

Website GitHub

jaegertracing/jaeger

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go pytest Go modules npm uv

GitHub topics

#cncf #distributed-tracing #hacktoberfest #jaeger #observability #opentelemetry

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-18
History: 15 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 560 open

23,300

stars

Forks: 3,174
Commits: 4,912 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +28 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +14 +0.3%

Website GitHub

jina-ai/serve

☁️ Build multimodal AI applications with cloud-native stack

Stack

Python gRPC Go pytest Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #deep-learning #docker #fastapi #framework

Updated: 2025-03-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

21,864

stars

Forks: 2,241
Commits: 8,644 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

containerd/containerd

An open and reliable container runtime

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cncf #containerd #containers #cri #docker #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-05
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 513 open

21,398

stars

Forks: 4,153
Commits: 17,448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

kubesphere/kubesphere

The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#agent-skills #ai #cloud-native #cncf #devops #ebpf

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 354 open

17,051

stars

Forks: 2,757
Commits: 3,301 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

argoproj/argo-workflows

Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Echo gRPC Go React Go modules Maven npm

GitHub topics

#airflow #argo #argo-workflows #batch-processing #cloud-native #cncf

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-17
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,292 open

16,988

stars

Forks: 3,662
Commits: 6,813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tikv/tikv

Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cncf #consensus #distributed-transactions #hacktoberfest #key-value #raft

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-07
History: 155 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,887 open

16,909

stars

Forks: 2,363
Commits: 8,530 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +1 0.0%

Website GitHub

kubernetes/kops

Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#cncf #containers #go #kops #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 131 open

16,674

stars

Forks: 4,716
Commits: 24,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coredns/coredns

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cncf #coredns #dns-server #go #plugin #service-discovery

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 280 open

14,322

stars

Forks: 2,531
Commits: 5,112 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thanos-io/thanos

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

Stack

Go gRPC Go React Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cncf #go #google-cloud-storage #hacktoberfest #high-availability #metrics

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-01
History: 148 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 930 open

14,238

stars

Forks: 2,391
Commits: 5,100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +9 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fluent/fluentd

Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cncf #data-collector #fluentd #logging #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-06-18
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 134 open

13,595

stars

Forks: 1,403
Commits: 7,243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

meshery/meshery

Meshery, the cloud native manager

Stack

TypeScript

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #control-plane #gitops #golang #gsoc

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-14
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,992 open

11,802

stars

Forks: 3,841
Commits: 59,883 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

distribution/distribution

The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cncf #containers #distribution #oci #oci-specification #registry

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-15
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 525 open

10,650

stars

Forks: 2,804
Commits: 6,025 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +19 +0.3%

Website GitHub

cncf/landscape

🌄 The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape filters and sorts hundreds of projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding, first and last commits, contributor counts and headquarters location.

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #crunchbase #landscape #logo #serverless

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-04
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 66 open

10,007

stars

Forks: 2,210
Commits: 6,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

falcosecurity/falco

Cloud Native Runtime Security

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #cncf-project #containers #ebpf #falco

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-20
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 46 open

9,473

stars

Forks: 1,091
Commits: 5,494 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bfenetworks/bfe

A modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bfe #cncf #golang #load-balancer #reverse-proxy

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-31
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 28 open

6,263

stars

Forks: 949
Commits: 1,436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cortexproject/cortex

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#cncf #hacktoberfest #kubernetes #monitoring #prometheus

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-22
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 337 open

5,878

stars

Forks: 875
Commits: 6,418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

kserve/kserve

Standardized Distributed Generative and Predictive AI Inference Platform for Scalable, Multi-Framework Deployment on Kubernetes

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra FastAPI Gin gRPC Go Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #cncf #genai #hacktoberfest #istio #k8s

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-27
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 214 open

5,868

stars

Forks: 1,658
Commits: 2,574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openkruise/kruise

Automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes (incubating project under CNCF)

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cloudnative #cncf #container #k8s #kruise

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-05
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 87 open

5,343

stars

Forks: 920
Commits: 1,165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Project-HAMi/HAMi

Heterogeneous GPU Sharing on Kubernetes

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#ascend #cambricon #cncf #device-plugin #gpu-acceleration #gpu-management

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-08
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 57 open

4,545

stars

Forks: 812
Commits: 1,735 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

llm-d/llm-d

Achieve state of the art inference performance with modern accelerators on Kubernetes

Stack

Shell pip

GitHub topics

#ai #cncf #distributed-inference #gpu #inference #intelligent-routing

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-04-29
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 228 open

4,473

stars

Forks: 753
Commits: 1,410 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dragonflyoss/dragonfly

Delivers efficient, stable, and secure data distribution and acceleration powered by P2P technology, with an optional content‑addressable filesystem that accelerates OCI container launch.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #containers #docker-image #nydus #p2p

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-26
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

3,346

stars

Forks: 431
Commits: 3,291 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

linkerd/linkerd2-proxy

A purpose-built proxy for the Linkerd service mesh. Written in Rust.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#cncf #linkerd #rust #service-mesh

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-05
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,146

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 4,141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gocrane/crane

Crane is a FinOps Platform for Cloud Resource Analytics and Economics in Kubernetes clusters. The goal is not only to help users to manage cloud cost easier but also ensure the quality of applications.

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go React Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#analytics #autoscaling #cloud-computing #cloud-native #cncf #cost-control

Updated: 2024-12-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-10
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 140 open

2,056

stars

Forks: 408
Commits: 1,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

envoyproxy/ai-gateway

Manages Unified Access to Generative AI Services built on Envoy Gateway

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra FastAPI gRPC Go React Go modules npm pip

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-gateway #api-gateway #cncf #inference #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-10-21
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 282 open

2,003

stars

Forks: 363
Commits: 1,570 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pipe-cd/pipecd

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

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go React Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cd #ci-cd #cicd #cloudrun #cncf #cncf-project

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-09
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 232 open

1,355

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 5,376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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