function: container-orchestration
312 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| portainer/portainer Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight, self-hosted web UI and API for managing Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and Azure ACI conta… | 95 | 38350 | stable |
| docker/compose Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications using the Compose file format (compose.yaml). It lets… | 99 | 38065 | stable |
| K3s K3s is a fully conformant, production-ready lightweight Kubernetes distribution packaged as a single binary under 100MB. It bundles contain… | 94 | 33828 | stable |
| kubernetes/minikube minikube is a tool that runs a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows, aimed at application development and learning Kuberne… | 81 | 32069 | stable |
| abiosoft/colima Colima is a CLI tool that provides container runtimes (Docker, Containerd, Incus) on macOS and Linux with minimal setup, built on Lima. It … | 95 | 30526 | active |
| rancher/rancher Rancher is an open-source container management platform for deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters across datacenters, clouds, and edg… | 95 | 25873 | stable |
| eip-work/kuboard-press Kuboard is a free, self-hosted web-based management interface for Kubernetes, supporting multi-cluster management, RBAC, monitoring and log… | 77 | 25187 | active |
| louislam/dockge Dockge is a self-hosted web application for managing Docker Compose stacks via a fancy, reactive UI. It lets you create, edit, start, stop,… | 53 | 24173 | 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… | 73 | 18325 | 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… | 75 | 17028 | active |
| hashicorp/nomad HashiCorp Nomad is a flexible, single-binary workload orchestrator that deploys and manages containers, non-containerized applications, bat… | 94 | 16837 | stable |
| kubernetes/kops kOps (Kubernetes Operations) is a CLI tool for creating, upgrading, and maintaining production-grade, highly available Kubernetes clusters,… | 98 | 16669 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/kind kind (Kubernetes IN Docker) is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container 'nodes', bootstrapped with kubeadm. It w… | 95 | 15448 | active |
| caprover/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 | 15141 | stable |
| opensandbox-group/OpenSandbox OpenSandbox is a general-purpose sandbox platform for AI applications that securely runs commands, code interpreters, browsers, and develop… | 79 | 14737 | active |
| crossplane/crossplane Crossplane is a CNCF framework for building cloud native control planes on top of Kubernetes without writing code. It lets platform teams d… | 95 | 11979 | stable |
| getumbrel/umbrel 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… | 89 | 11797 | active |
| vCluster vCluster is an open-source tool that creates fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters, each running inside a namespace of an underlying… | 94 | 11275 | 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… | 99 | 11024 | stable |
| kubernetes/kompose Kompose is an official Kubernetes CLI tool that converts Docker Compose files into Kubernetes (or OpenShift) resource manifests such as Dep… | 79 | 10614 | active |
| tilt-dev/tilt Tilt is a CLI tool that defines your microservice development environment as code (via a Tiltfile) and automates the loop from code change … | 98 | 10019 | active |
| runtipi/runtipi Runtipi is an open-source personal homeserver orchestrator built on Docker that lets users install and manage nearly 300 self-hosted apps w… | 95 | 9637 | active |
| canonical/microk8s MicroK8s is a lightweight, single-package, fully conformant Kubernetes distribution from Canonical that installs via snap on Linux. It scal… | 86 | 9357 | stable |
| orbstack/orbstack OrbStack is a fast, lightweight macOS application for running Docker containers, Kubernetes, and full Linux virtual machines. It serves as … | 47 | 9241 | active |
| Kata Containers Kata Containers is an open source container runtime that builds lightweight virtual machines which plug seamlessly into the container ecosy… | 99 | 8606 | stable |
| aws/karpenter-provider-aws Karpenter is an open-source Kubernetes node autoscaler that watches for unschedulable pods, provisions right-sized nodes to meet their sche… | 95 | 7706 | active |
| kubeedge/kubeedge KubeEdge is a CNCF-graduated open-source framework built on Kubernetes that extends containerized application orchestration and device mana… | 97 | 7558 | stable |
| alexellis/k3sup k3sup is a lightweight Go CLI tool that bootstraps a K3s Kubernetes cluster on any local or remote VM over SSH, getting you a working KUBEC… | 85 | 7424 | active |
| eclipse-che/che Eclipse Che is a Kubernetes-native platform that provides cloud development environments (workspaces) running in containers, with browser-b… | 98 | 7161 | active |
| kubevirt/kubevirt KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes that extends the Kubernetes API with virtualization resource types (like the… | 98 | 7030 | stable |
| agones-dev/agones Agones is an open-source Kubernetes controller and custom resource definitions (GameServers, Fleets) for hosting, running, and scaling dedi… | 94 | 6995 | stable |
| k3d-io/k3d k3d is a CLI tool written in Go that runs Rancher's lightweight k3s Kubernetes distribution inside Docker containers. It lets you spin up m… | 90 | 6536 | active |
| k0sproject/k0s k0s is an open-source, all-inclusive CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution packaged as a single binary with zero host OS dependencies beyo… | 94 | 6452 | active |
| goodrain/rainbond Rainbond is an open-source, application-centric container management platform built on Kubernetes that lets teams build, deploy, and operat… | 99 | 6256 | active |
| Knative Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform providing middleware components for building, deploying, and managing serverless workloads, comprisi… | 98 | 6086 | stable |
| lxc/incus Incus is a system container, application container, and virtual machine manager that provides a public-cloud-like experience for running Li… | 94 | 6025 | stable |
| volcano-sh/volcano Volcano is a CNCF-hosted, Kubernetes-native batch scheduling system that extends kube-scheduler for high-performance workloads like AI/ML t… | 98 | 5899 | stable |
| dockersamples/example-voting-app A sample distributed voting application composed of multiple containers (Python front-end, .NET worker, Node.js results app, Redis, Postgre… | 32 | 5791 | stable |
| cri-o/cri-o CRI-O is a lightweight, OCI-compliant container runtime that implements the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI). It lets Kubernete… | 95 | 5654 | stable |
| karmada-io/karmada Karmada is an open-source Kubernetes management system that orchestrates cloud-native applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters and … | 94 | 5576 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/descheduler Descheduler is a Kubernetes component that evicts pods whose original scheduling decisions no longer make sense, such as pods on under- or … | 94 | 5497 | stable |
| freelensapp/freelens Freelens is a free, open-source graphical IDE for managing and monitoring Kubernetes clusters. It provides a desktop UI available for macOS… | 88 | 5488 | active |
| psviderski/uncloud Uncloud is a lightweight, decentralised container orchestration tool that deploys and manages containerised applications across a network o… | 87 | 5468 | active |
| openkruise/kruise OpenKruise is a CNCF incubating suite of Kubernetes controllers and CRDs that extends core workload management with advanced capabilities l… | 98 | 5324 | active |
| tsuru/tsuru Tsuru is an open-source, extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies application deployment and management on top of Kubernetes… | 99 | 5305 | active |
| eksctl-io/eksctl eksctl is the official command-line tool for creating and managing Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) clusters, written in Go and buil… | 98 | 5213 | active |
| harvester/harvester Harvester is an open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built on Kubernetes that runs on bare metal servers, providing int… | 94 | 5140 | stable |
| vllm-project/aibrix AIBrix is an open-source, cloud-native framework from the vLLM project providing essential building blocks for scalable, cost-efficient Gen… | 83 | 5038 | active |
| virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet Virtual Kubelet is an open-source Kubernetes kubelet implementation that masquerades as a kubelet to connect Kubernetes clusters to other A… | 87 | 4560 | active |
| Project-HAMi/HAMi HAMi (Heterogeneous AI Computing Virtualization Middleware) is a CNCF Incubating, Kubernetes-native GPU virtualization and scheduling middl… | 95 | 4438 | active |
| kubero-dev/kubero Kubero is a free, self-hosted Platform as a Service (PaaS) that lets developers deploy applications to Kubernetes without needing specializ… | 80 | 4396 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject providing declarative APIs and tooling for provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernete… | 94 | 4288 | stable |
| lando/lando Lando is a free, open-source, cross-platform local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology. It lets de… | 98 | 4237 | active |
| donknap/dpanel DPanel is a lightweight web-based management panel for Docker and Podman containers, built in Go with a React frontend. It supports contain… | 92 | 4097 | active |
| kubernetes/kubeadm Kubeadm is a CLI tool that provides best-practice fast paths for creating Kubernetes clusters, bootstrapping control-plane and worker nodes… | 75 | 3997 | stable |
| Yacht-sh/Yacht Yacht is a web-based UI for managing Docker containers with an emphasis on templates that enable 1-click deployments, like a decentralized … | 67 | 3869 | active |
| NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin NVIDIA's official Kubernetes device plugin that exposes NVIDIA GPUs as schedulable resources in Kubernetes clusters. It supports GPU sharin… | 95 | 3859 | stable |
| Gloridust/WechatOnCloud A self-hosted panel that runs 'server-side WeChat' and Chromium browser instances in Docker containers on a NAS or server, streaming their … | 77 | 3671 | active |
| vitobotta/hetzner-k3s hetzner-k3s is a CLI tool written in Crystal that creates production-ready Kubernetes (k3s) clusters on Hetzner Cloud from a single YAML co… | 96 | 3667 | active |
| moby/swarmkit SwarmKit is a Go toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems, providing Raft-based consensus, node discovery, task scheduling, and servic… | 81 | 3647 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox Agent Sandbox is a Kubernetes SIG project providing a Sandbox Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and controller for managing isolated, statef… | 84 | 3640 | active |
| okteto/okteto Okteto is an open-source CLI and platform for developing, testing, and running applications directly inside Kubernetes clusters with produc… | 98 | 3534 | active |
| gardener/gardener Gardener is a Kubernetes-native system for managing the full lifecycle of homogeneous Kubernetes clusters at scale across any cloud or infr… | 95 | 3432 | active |
| wowu/docker-rollout docker-rollout is a Docker CLI plugin (a single bash script) that updates Docker Compose services with zero downtime. It scales the service… | 88 | 3320 | active |
| apecloud/kubeblocks KubeBlocks is an open-source Kubernetes operator and control plane that manages 35+ database and streaming engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redi… | 85 | 3114 | active |
| asobti/kube-monkey kube-monkey is a Kubernetes implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey that randomly deletes pods in a cluster to encourage and validate fail… | 86 | 3071 | active |
| microsoft/service-fabric Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful microservices and containers… | 76 | 3065 | active |
| k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni Multus CNI is a CNI meta-plugin for Kubernetes that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods, creating multi-homed pods. It wo… | 91 | 2938 | active |
| rancher/local-path-provisioner Local Path Provisioner is a Kubernetes storage provisioner that dynamically creates hostPath or local persistent volumes from node-local st… | 94 | 2927 | active |
| CanineHQ/canine Canine is an open-source, self-hosted PaaS that turns any Kubernetes cluster into a Heroku-like deployment platform. It provides git-push d… | 67 | 2917 | active |
| firecracker-microvm/firecracker-containerd firecracker-containerd is a set of components that lets containerd manage containers running inside Firecracker microVMs, combining fast co… | 76 | 2910 | active |
| kubesphere/kubekey KubeKey (kk) is a lightweight task-flow execution tool written in Go for installing and managing Kubernetes clusters, supporting all-in-one… | 95 | 2860 | active |
| elastic/cloud-on-k8s Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) is a Kubernetes operator that automates deployment, provisioning, management, and orchestration of the El… | 94 | 2845 | active |
| srl-labs/containerlab Containerlab is a CLI tool for orchestrating container-based networking labs. It deploys containerized Network Operating Systems, wires the… | 99 | 2778 | active |
| badtuxx/girus-cli GIRUS is an open-source CLI-driven platform for running interactive, hands-on learning labs for DevOps technologies like Linux, Docker, Kub… | 55 | 2745 | active |
| keel-hq/keel Keel is a lightweight, stateless Kubernetes operator that automatically updates Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, and Helm releases wh… | 94 | 2725 | active |
| jupyterhub/binderhub BinderHub builds Docker images from Git repositories using repo2docker and connects them to JupyterHub, serving live, interactive Jupyter n… | 66 | 2669 | active |
| juju/juju Juju is Canonical's open-source orchestration engine for deploying, integrating, and managing the lifecycle of applications at any scale us… | 99 | 2658 | stable |
| aws-controllers-k8s/community AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a collection of Kubernetes custom resource definitions and controllers that let you define and mana… | 77 | 2632 | active |
| Altinity/clickhouse-operator The Altinity Kubernetes Operator for ClickHouse is a Go-based Kubernetes operator that creates, configures, and manages ClickHouse clusters… | 98 | 2558 | active |
| Qovery/engine Qovery Engine is the Rust orchestration runtime behind Qovery's Kubernetes control plane, turning API operations into reproducible infrastr… | 77 | 2458 | active |
| aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s The AWS VPC CNI plugin is a Kubernetes networking plugin that assigns VPC IP addresses to pods using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS. It … | 98 | 2453 | active |
| wasmCloud/wasmCloud wasmCloud is a CNCF incubating cloud native platform for building, deploying, and orchestrating WebAssembly component workloads across clou… | 99 | 2421 | active |
| rancher/rke2 RKE2 (RKE Government) is Rancher's fully conformant, next-generation Kubernetes distribution focused on security and compliance, particular… | 94 | 2325 | active |
| jenkinsci/kubernetes-plugin A Jenkins plugin that runs dynamic build agents in a Kubernetes cluster by creating a Pod for each agent and tearing it down after each bui… | 98 | 2309 | active |
| linode/apl-core App Platform for LKE is a pre-built, self-hosted Kubernetes developer platform that bundles an integrated CNCF open-source stack with a sel… | 95 | 2258 | active |
| livecycle/preevy Preevy is an open-source CLI tool that provisions, manages, and exposes ephemeral preview environments for Docker Compose applications in t… | 58 | 2226 | active |
| dstackai/dstack dstack is an open-source, vendor-agnostic control plane for GPU provisioning and orchestration that works across GPU clouds, Kubernetes, an… | 95 | 2221 | active |
| aws/amazon-ecs-agent The Amazon ECS Container Agent manages containers on EC2 instances on behalf of Amazon Elastic Container Service, handling task lifecycle, … | 99 | 2178 | active |
| storax/kubedoom Kubedoom is a novelty chaos-engineering tool that lets you kill Kubernetes pods (or namespaces) by shooting them as monsters in a modified … | 32 | 2166 | active |
| Azure/AKS Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is Microsoft's managed Kubernetes offering on Azure. This repository serves as the public issue tracker and … | 98 | 2137 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/karpenter Karpenter is a Kubernetes node autoscaler that watches for unschedulable pods, provisions right-sized nodes to meet their scheduling constr… | 95 | 2126 | active |
| Websoft9/websoft9 Websoft9 is a self-hosted, web-based PaaS and server panel for deploying and managing 300+ open source applications on a single Linux serve… | 94 | 2126 | active |
| okd-project/okd OKD is the community distribution of Kubernetes that powers Red Hat OpenShift, adding developer and operations tooling, a web console, moni… | 94 | 2110 | active |
| aws/eks-anywhere Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source tool for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure, built on Amazon EKS D… | 98 | 2097 | active |
| konstructio/kubefirst Kubefirst is a CLI that provisions instant GitOps-based Kubernetes platforms, integrating tools like Argo CD, Atlantis, Vault, and external… | 75 | 2057 | active |
| containers/kubernetes-mcp-server A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster operations to LLM clients. It supports generic resource… | 82 | 2028 | active |
| jamsocket/plane Plane is a distributed system for running stateful WebSocket backends at scale, acting like a distributed hashmap of running processes keye… | 58 | 2023 | active |
| zarf-dev/zarf Zarf is a free, open-source CLI package manager for declaratively packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications and cloud-native workload… | 95 | 2019 | active |
| clastix/kamaji Kamaji is a Kubernetes operator that manages hosted Kubernetes control planes, running control plane components as pods inside a management… | 95 | 2013 | active |
page 1 / 4 next →