Open-source cloud-computing software
1556 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged cloud-computing, ranked by how closely cloud-computing is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1556 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wasmer Wasmer is a high‑performance WebAssembly runtime that provides fast, secure sandboxes for running applications. It can be used via a CLI, e… | 98 | 21118 | active |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo Online Boutique is a cloud-first microservices demo application: a web-based e-commerce app composed of 11 polyglot microservices communica… | 89 | 21055 | active |
| Teleport Teleport is a self‑hosted identity‑aware access proxy that provides secure, short‑lived certificate authentication for SSH, Kubernetes, dat… | 88 | 20995 | active |
| Apache ShardingSphere Apache ShardingSphere is an open‑source distributed database ecosystem that provides sharding, read/write splitting, encryption, and distri… | 77 | 20808 | active |
| ahmetb/kubectx kubectx and kubens are small command‑line utilities written in Go that simplify switching Kubernetes contexts and namespaces. They provide … | 88 | 20030 | active |
| gVisor gVisor is an open‑source application kernel that provides a Linux‑compatible sandbox for containers, running entirely in userspace. It incl… | 100 | 19696 | active |
| lexmount/moli Moli is a production‑ready headless browser written in Rust, optimized for AI agents and lightweight web automation. It can be accessed via… | 81 | 19690 | active |
| google/cadvisor cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is a running daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, processes, and exports resource usage and performan… | 98 | 19477 | active |
| labring/sealos Sealos is an AI-native cloud operating system built on Kubernetes that lets developers deploy applications from a GitHub repo, Docker image… | 82 | 18372 | active |
| Apache APISIX Apache APISIX is a dynamic, high-performance cloud-native API gateway and AI gateway built on NGINX and etcd, offering load balancing, dyna… | 94 | 17201 | stable |
| Wazuh Wazuh is a free, open source security platform that unifies XDR and SIEM capabilities for threat prevention, detection, and response across… | 98 | 17197 | stable |
| Coder Coder is a self-hosted platform for provisioning cloud development environments (workspaces) defined with Terraform, accessible via VS Code… | 95 | 17074 | active |
| Coder code-server is an open‑source server that runs Visual Studio Code in a web browser. It enables self‑hosted, cloud‑based development environ… | 95 | 17074 | active |
| kubesphere/kubesphere KubeSphere is an open-source container platform built on Kubernetes that provides a web console for managing multi-cloud, datacenter, and e… | 72 | 17058 | active |
| argoproj/argo-workflows Argo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes, implemented as a Kubernet… | 93 | 17024 | stable |
| Nomad HashiCorp Nomad is a flexible, single-binary workload orchestrator that deploys and manages containers, non-containerized applications, bat… | 94 | 17012 | stable |
| kubernetes/kops kOps (Kubernetes Operations) is a CLI tool for creating, upgrading, and maintaining production-grade, highly available Kubernetes clusters,… | 96 | 16692 | active |
| Dagger Dagger is a programmable automation engine for building, testing, and shipping software, replacing YAML pipelines with real code via SDKs i… | 94 | 16334 | active |
| vercel/vercel The open-source Vercel CLI and supporting packages for deploying web applications and AI agents to the Vercel cloud platform. It enables gi… | 90 | 16334 | active |
| opensandbox-group/OpenSandbox OpenSandbox is a general-purpose sandbox platform for AI applications that securely runs commands, code interpreters, browsers, and develop… | 80 | 15952 | active |
| GoogleContainerTools/skaffold Skaffold is a command-line tool from Google that automates the build, push, test, and deploy workflow for containerized Kubernetes applicat… | 98 | 15898 | active |
| hashicorp/packer HashiCorp Packer is a CLI tool that builds identical machine images (AMIs, VMDK, Docker images, etc.) for multiple platforms in parallel fr… | 94 | 15807 | stable |
| saltstack/salt Salt is a Python-based, event-driven automation framework for deploying, configuring, and managing IT infrastructure at scale using a maste… | 94 | 15678 | stable |
| kubernetes-sigs/kind kind (Kubernetes IN Docker) is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container 'nodes', bootstrapped with kubeadm. It w… | 93 | 15561 | active |
| loft-sh/devpod DevPod is an open-source, client-only tool for creating reproducible developer environments defined by devcontainer.json, runnable locally,… | 53 | 15282 | active |
| CapRover CapRover is a free, self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that automates app deployment using Docker Swarm and nginx under the hood, wit… | 98 | 15188 | stable |
| DaoCloud/public-image-mirror A public container image mirror service by DaoCloud that accelerates pulling images from foreign registries like gcr.io, ghcr.io, quay.io, … | 77 | 15186 | active |
| duplicati/duplicati Duplicati is a free, open-source backup client that stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote … | 95 | 15085 | active |
| Prowler Prowler is an open-source cloud security platform that performs security best-practice assessments, audits, continuous monitoring, hardenin… | 93 | 14863 | active |
| oblien/openship Openship is an open-source, self-hostable deployment platform with built-in CI/CD that builds, ships, routes, and TLS-terminates apps from … | 83 | 14813 | active |
| Kamal Kamal is a Ruby-based CLI tool that deploys containerized web apps to any server (bare metal or cloud VMs) over SSH with zero-downtime swit… | 92 | 14635 | active |
| JuiceFS JuiceFS is a high-performance, POSIX-compatible distributed file system that stores file data in object storage (e.g., Amazon S3) and metad… | 96 | 14549 | stable |
| Apache DolphinScheduler Apache DolphinScheduler is a modern data orchestration platform for building high-performance workflows with low-code drag-and-drop tooling… | 92 | 14510 | stable |
| Jib Jib builds optimized Docker and OCI container images for Java applications without requiring a Docker daemon, available as Maven and Gradle… | 88 | 14454 | stable |
| kopia/kopia Kopia is a fast, open-source backup and restore tool that creates encrypted, compressed, and deduplicated snapshots of files and directorie… | 93 | 14386 | stable |
| CoreDNS CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server and forwarder written in Go that chains plugins, each performing a DNS function. It is a CNCF gra… | 92 | 14365 | stable |
| E2B E2B is a platform that provides isolated, on‑demand Linux sandboxes for AI agents to safely execute code, process data, and run tools. It o… | 94 | 14303 | active |
| thanos-io/thanos Thanos is a set of composable components that turn existing Prometheus deployments into a highly available metrics system with unlimited lo… | 94 | 14226 | stable |
| semaphoreui/semaphore Semaphore UI is an open-source, self-hosted web UI and API for running Ansible playbooks, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, Bash, PowerShell, … | 92 | 14201 | active |
| cert-manager cert-manager is a Kubernetes controller that adds Certificate and Issuer resource types to clusters and automates obtaining, renewing, and … | 98 | 14111 | stable |
| OpenNHP/opennhp OpenNHP is a lightweight, cryptography-powered open-source toolkit written in Go that implements the Cloud Security Alliance's Network-infr… | 97 | 13936 | active |
| Fluentd Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log and event collection from many sources and routes them to files, databases, cloud… | 94 | 13606 | stable |
| opencontainers/runc runc is a command-line tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtime specifica… | 97 | 13470 | stable |
| AWS CDK The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code using familiar programming langua… | 95 | 12941 | stable |
| abraunegg/onedrive A free, actively maintained Microsoft OneDrive client for Linux and BSD written in D, supporting OneDrive Personal, Business, Microsoft 365… | 89 | 12887 | active |
| TencentCloud/CubeSandbox CubeSandbox is a high-performance sandbox service for AI agents built on RustVMM and KVM, creating hardware-isolated MicroVM sandboxes in u… | 81 | 12853 | active |
| Infracost Infracost is a cloud cost intelligence tool that estimates monthly costs and flags FinOps best practices for Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFo… | 90 | 12565 | active |
| Encore Encore is an open-source infrastructure SDK and backend framework for TypeScript and Go that lets developers declare resources like databas… | 95 | 12446 | active |
| umbrelOS umbrelOS is a home server operating system for self-hosting apps on your own hardware, with an app store of 300+ one-click installable appl… | 93 | 12376 | active |
| ubicloud/ubicloud Ubicloud is an open-source IaaS cloud platform that provides elastic compute (VMs), block storage, networking, load balancing, managed Post… | 76 | 12316 | active |
| open-policy-agent/opa Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a general-purpose, open-source policy engine that unifies policy enforcement across the stack using a high-level… | 96 | 12264 | stable |
| kubernetes-sigs/kustomize kustomize is a template-free tool for customizing raw Kubernetes YAML configuration files, letting users declare overlays, patches, and com… | 99 | 12186 | stable |
| Crossplane Crossplane is a CNCF framework for building cloud native control planes on top of Kubernetes without writing code. It lets platform teams d… | 94 | 12137 | stable |
| Meshery Meshery is an open-source, self-service engineering platform for collaboratively designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes and cloud na… | 95 | 12014 | active |
| Kubescape Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform (a CNCF incubating project) offering misconfiguration scanning, vulnerability asse… | 100 | 11815 | active |
| quickwit-oss/quickwit Quickwit is an open-source, cloud-native search engine written in Rust and powered by Tantivy, designed to run sub-second search and analyt… | 93 | 11676 | active |
| vCluster vCluster is an open-source tool that creates fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters, each running inside a namespace of an underlying… | 96 | 11351 | stable |
| podman-container-tools/skopeo Skopeo is a command line utility for performing operations on container images and image registries, such as copying, inspecting, deleting,… | 98 | 11313 | stable |
| siderolabs/talos Talos Linux is a minimal, immutable, API-managed Linux distribution purpose-built for running Kubernetes. It ships no shell, SSH, or packag… | 96 | 11246 | stable |
| dexidp/dex Dex is a federated OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 identity provider that issues signed ID tokens (JWTs) for applications. It acts as a… | 94 | 11183 | stable |
| hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws The official Terraform provider plugin for Amazon Web Services, written in Go and maintained by HashiCorp. It enables Terraform to define, … | 95 | 11115 | stable |
| aws/chalice AWS Chalice is a Python serverless microframework for building and deploying applications on AWS Lambda. It provides a CLI for scaffolding … | 77 | 11056 | stable |
| nicolaka/netshoot A Docker image packed with network troubleshooting tools (tcpdump, nsenter, dig, curl, and more) designed to be attached to any container, … | 75 | 11008 | active |
| AutoMQ/automq AutoMQ is a cloud-native, 100% Apache Kafka-compatible streaming platform that replaces broker-local disks with S3-compatible object storag… | 94 | 10909 | active |
| dotnet/orleans Microsoft Orleans is a cross-platform .NET framework for building robust, scalable distributed applications using the Virtual Actor Model. … | 99 | 10906 | stable |
| WasmEdge WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, extensible WebAssembly runtime hosted by CNCF, designed for cloud native, edge, and decentrali… | 98 | 10811 | active |
| SkyPilot SkyPilot is an open-source AI compute platform that unifies fragmented infrastructure (Kubernetes, Slurm, VMs, 20+ clouds) into a single po… | 100 | 10724 | active |
| distribution/distribution The CNCF Distribution project provides the open-source Registry, a stateless, scalable server-side application implementing the OCI Distrib… | 90 | 10655 | stable |
| kubernetes/kompose Kompose is an official Kubernetes CLI tool that converts Docker Compose files into Kubernetes (or OpenShift) resource manifests such as Dep… | 77 | 10644 | active |
| KEDA KEDA is a Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaler that scales any container workload based on the number of events needing processing, usi… | 94 | 10643 | stable |
| yugabyte/yugabyte-db YugabyteDB is an open-source, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database built for cloud-native, mission-critical OLTP applications. It… | 95 | 10613 | stable |
| Activiti Activiti is a lightweight, open-source Business Process Management (BPM) platform whose core is a fast BPMN 2.0 process engine for Java. It… | 92 | 10543 | active |
| stakater/Reloader Reloader is a Kubernetes controller written in Go that watches for changes to ConfigMaps, Secrets, and CSI-mounted secrets, and automatical… | 97 | 10448 | active |
| containerd/nerdctl nerdctl is a Docker-compatible command-line interface for containerd, supporting the same UI/UX as docker including Compose, BuildKit build… | 99 | 10432 | active |
| Velero Velero is an open-source tool (formerly Heptio Ark) that backs up and restores Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes, support… | 94 | 10337 | stable |
| Moby BuildKit is a concurrent, cache-efficient toolkit for converting source code into build artifacts such as OCI container images. It powers D… | 94 | 10307 | stable |
| Tilt Tilt is a CLI tool that defines your microservice development environment as code (via a Tiltfile) and automates the loop from code change … | 99 | 10114 | active |
| s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse s3fs is a FUSE-based file system that lets you mount an Amazon S3 bucket (or any S3-compatible object store) as a local directory on Linux,… | 71 | 10000 | active |
| kubernetes/client-go The official Go client library for the Kubernetes API, providing typed clientsets, a dynamic client, API discovery, authentication plugins,… | 77 | 9908 | stable |
| Boto3 Boto3 is the official Amazon Web Services SDK for Python, providing idiomatic Python APIs for AWS services such as S3, EC2, and DynamoDB. I… | 67 | 9908 | stable |
| Terragrunt Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that lets Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform scale, adding a configuration an… | 94 | 9883 | stable |
| Spinnaker Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform created at Netflix that combines flexible pipeline management with in… | 98 | 9802 | active |
| awslabs/mcp A suite of open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from AWS Labs that expose AWS services, documentation, and best practices to LL… | 84 | 9794 | active |
| messense/aliyundrive-webdav A Rust-based WebDAV server that exposes AliyunDrive (阿里云盘) cloud storage as a WebDAV share, allowing WebDAV-compatible clients like Infuse … | 10 | 9758 | active |
| AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) transform is a CloudFormation macro, published as the aws-sam-translator Python package, that co… | 94 | 9574 | active |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog A collection of tools, agents, and samples for Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex), an AI-powered data catalog and metadat… | 60 | 9505 | active |
| Rocky Linux Rocky Linux is a community-driven, open-source enterprise Linux distribution built to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterpris… | 10 | 9481 | stable |
| Falco Falco is a CNCF-graduated cloud native runtime security tool for Linux that monitors kernel events (syscalls) via eBPF or kernel modules an… | 94 | 9478 | stable |
| CloudNativePG CloudNativePG is an open-source Kubernetes operator that manages the full lifecycle of highly available PostgreSQL clusters using native st… | 98 | 9440 | stable |
| canonical/microk8s MicroK8s is a lightweight, single-package, fully conformant Kubernetes distribution from Canonical that installs via snap on Linux. It scal… | 83 | 9381 | stable |
| kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder Kubebuilder is an SDK and scaffolding framework for building Kubernetes APIs and controllers in Go using custom resource definitions (CRDs)… | 94 | 9351 | stable |
| bitnami/sealed-secrets A Kubernetes controller plus the kubeseal CLI that lets you encrypt Kubernetes Secrets into one-way encrypted SealedSecrets that are safe t… | 97 | 9300 | active |
| LXD Multipass is a lightweight VM manager from Canonical that orchestrates Ubuntu virtual machines on Linux, Windows, and macOS using native hy… | 96 | 9284 | active |
| cmliu/CF-Workers-docker.io A Docker registry mirror/proxy deployed on Cloudflare Workers or Pages that forwards requests to Docker Hub and other registries. It helps … | 10 | 9208 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/external-dns ExternalDNS is a Kubernetes controller that synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with external DNS providers such as AWS … | 99 | 9125 | stable |
| tektoncd/pipeline Tekton Pipelines is a Kubernetes-native framework that provides CRD-style resources for declaring CI/CD pipelines, using containers as buil… | 93 | 9074 | stable |
| Checkov Checkov is a static code analysis tool for infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, Dockerfile, and more) that … | 94 | 9060 | stable |
| podman-container-tools/buildah Buildah is a command-line tool for building OCI and Docker container images, either from Dockerfiles/Containerfiles or programmatically via… | 97 | 9054 | stable |
| cloudflare/workerd workerd is the open-source JavaScript/Wasm server runtime based on the same code that powers Cloudflare Workers. It can be used as an appli… | 96 | 9034 | active |
| kubernetes/autoscaler The official Kubernetes autoscaling repository containing the Cluster Autoscaler, Vertical Pod Autoscaler, and Addon Resizer components. It… | 95 | 8998 | stable |