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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

bregman-arie/devops-exercises

Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions

Stack

Python Flask pip

GitHub topics

#ansible #aws #azure #coding #containers #devops

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-03
History: 41 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 56 open

84,412

stars

Forks: 20,273
Commits: 796 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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moby/moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #go #golang

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-01-19
History: 53 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,939 open

72,193

stars

Forks: 19,235
Commits: 58,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +26 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +102 +0.2%

Website GitHub

aquasecurity/trivy

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

Stack

Go Celery Cobra Django Django REST Framework Bun Bundler Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #devsecops #docker #go #golang #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-27
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 261 open

38,368

stars

Forks: 755
Commits: 4,273 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo PEP 517 Poetry

GitHub topics

#containers #minimalist #open-source #oversubscription #rust #sandbox

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-23
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 94 open

37,266

stars

Forks: 2,664
Commits: 8,448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

podman-container-tools/podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go pytest Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kubernetes #linux #oci

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-01
History: 128 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,017 open

33,056

stars

Forks: 3,410
Commits: 28,627 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +32 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +47 +0.2%

Website GitHub

dokku/dokku

A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go Go modules npm pip

GitHub topics

#buildpack #containers #devops #docker #dokku #heroku

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-08
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

32,178

stars

Forks: 2,090
Commits: 14,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

containers/podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kubernetes #linux #oci

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-01
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,098 open

31,837

stars

Forks: 3,133
Commits: 27,386 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

abiosoft/colima

Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#containerd #containerd-compose #containers #docker #docker-compose #incus

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-09-04
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 401 open

31,166

stars

Forks: 630
Commits: 721 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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

rancher/rancher

Complete container management platform

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#cattle #containers #docker #kubernetes #orchestration #rancher

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-14
History: 17 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,389 open

25,983

stars

Forks: 3,224
Commits: 15,238 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +59 +0.4%

Website GitHub

pulumi/pulumi

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

Stack

GitHub topics

#aws #azure #cloud #cloud-computing #containers #csharp

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-08
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,461 open

25,760

stars

Forks: 1,446
Commits: 16,622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

slimtoolkit/slim

Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#apparmor #containers #docker #go #golang #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-09-09
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 212 open

23,420

stars

Forks: 845
Commits: 1,140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

lensapp/lens

Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #containers #devops #kubernetes #kubernetes-dashboard #kubernetes-ui

Updated: 2025-02-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,172 open

23,232

stars

Forks: 1,475
Commits: 4,120 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

google/gvisor

Application Kernel for Containers

AI dev

Stack

Go Express gRPC Go Sinatra Bundler Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kernel #kubernetes #linux #oci

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-27
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 958 open

19,645

stars

Forks: 2,045
Commits: 12,589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +16 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bcicen/ctop

Top-like interface for container metrics

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #commandline #containers #docker #monitoring #runc

Updated: 2024-07-08
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 120 open

17,845

stars

Forks: 590
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 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

dagger/dagger

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

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go pytest React Cargo Composer .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#agents #caching #ci-cd #containers #continuous-deployment #continuous-integration

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-12-30
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 152 open

16,246

stars

Forks: 921
Commits: 12,883 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Express Flask gRPC Go Bundler Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#containers #developer-tools #docker #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-03
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 909 open

15,891

stars

Forks: 1,701
Commits: 9,246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

Build Container Images In Kubernetes

Archived

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#containers #developer-tools #docker #kubernetes

Updated: 2025-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 760 open

15,768

stars

Forks: 1,532
Commits: 2,263 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

caprover/caprover

Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#aws #azure #caprover #captainduckduck #containers #deployment

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-25
History: 46 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 179 open

15,186

stars

Forks: 1,005
Commits: 2,068 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jessfraz/dockerfiles

Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.

Stack

Dockerfile

GitHub topics

#bash #containers #docker #dockerfile #dockerfiles #linux

Updated: 2024-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

13,940

stars

Forks: 2,500
Commits: 1,596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

opencontainers/runc

CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #oci

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 213 open

13,484

stars

Forks: 2,341
Commits: 8,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

anchore/grype

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Ruby on Rails Bundler Mix Go modules

GitHub topics

#container-image #containers #cyclonedx #docker #go #golang

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-26
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 417 open

13,010

stars

Forks: 913
Commits: 2,404 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

docker-archive-public/docker.labs

This is a collection of tutorials for learning how to use Docker with various tools. Contributions welcome.

Archived

Stack

PHP Express Flask .NET SDK Maven npm

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #docker-compose #docker-tutorial #dotnet #java

Updated: 2023-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-21
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 140 open

11,887

stars

Forks: 5,164
Commits: 718 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

quay/clair

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#clair #containers #docker #go #kubernetes #oci

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-13
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 61 open

11,072

stars

Forks: 1,217
Commits: 2,223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nicolaka/netshoot

a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container

AI dev

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kubernetes #network #network-namespace #troubleshooting

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-23
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 44 open

11,029

stars

Forks: 1,102
Commits: 218 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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

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