Open-source container-orchestration software
310 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged container-orchestration, ranked by how closely container-orchestration 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.
310 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenYurt OpenYurt is a CNCF incubating open-source platform that extends upstream Kubernetes to edge computing environments without modifying the Ku… | 91 | 2004 | stable |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/scion Scion is a multi-agent orchestration platform that runs 'deep agents' like Claude Code and Gemini CLI in isolated containers, each with its… | 69 | 1997 | active |
| opencmit/pangee-cluster PangeeCluster is a self-hosted web application providing a graphical interface for offline installation, maintenance, and upgrading of high… | 60 | 1970 | active |
| basecamp/once ONCE is a Go-based platform for installing and managing Docker-based web applications with a focus on easy self-hosting. It provides a TUI … | 82 | 1963 | active |
| Yuan-lab-LLM/ClawManager ClawManager is a Kubernetes-native control plane for managing AI agent instances at cluster scale, providing governed AI access through an … | 81 | 1900 | active |
| Baetyl Baetyl is an open-source edge computing framework from Linux Foundation Edge that extends cloud computing, data, and services to edge devic… | 23 | 1900 | active |
| Convox Convox Rack is an open-source private Platform-as-a-Service that installs into your own AWS account, providing Heroku-style app deployment,… | 98 | 1890 | active |
| dyrector-io/dyrectorio dyrector.io is a self-hosted continuous delivery and deployment platform for OCI containers with version management, offering low-code depl… | 79 | 1848 | active |
| kvaps/kubectl-node-shell A kubectl plugin that starts a root shell on a Kubernetes node's host OS using a privileged pod with nsenter (Linux) or a HostProcess pod (… | 34 | 1834 | active |
| antrea-io/antrea Antrea is a Kubernetes-native CNI plugin that provides pod networking and NetworkPolicy enforcement using Open vSwitch as the data plane. I… | 96 | 1813 | stable |
| weaveworks/weave Weave Net is a container networking solution that creates a virtual overlay network connecting Docker containers across multiple hosts, clo… | 10 | 6610 | maintenance |
| koordinator-sh/koordinator Koordinator is a QoS-based scheduling system for Kubernetes that colocates latency-sensitive microservices with batch, big data, and AI wor… | 81 | 1764 | active |
| OpenNebula/one OpenNebula is an open-source cloud management platform for building and operating private clouds, edge infrastructures, distributed deploym… | 75 | 1748 | stable |
| Yelp/paasta PaaSTA is an open-source, distributed platform-as-a-service from Yelp for building, deploying, and monitoring containerized services on Kub… | 94 | 1734 | stable |
| Fleet Fleet is a GitOps and HelmOps deployment engine for Kubernetes, built as CRDs and controllers that deploy workloads from Git repositories (… | 92 | 1730 | active |
| argoproj-labs/argocd-image-updater Argo CD Image Updater is a tool that automatically updates container image versions for Kubernetes workloads managed by Argo CD. It tracks … | 95 | 1721 | active |
| emberstack/kubernetes-reflector Reflector is a Kubernetes controller that monitors secrets, configmaps, and certificates and automatically replicates them across namespace… | 92 | 1683 | active |
| spotahome/redis-operator A Kubernetes operator written in Go that creates, configures, and manages highly available Redis deployments with Sentinel-based automatic … | 10 | 1667 | active |
| flow.ci flow.ci is an open-source, self-hosted CI/CD automation server written in Java. It offers high availability, parallel job execution, dynami… | 26 | 1641 | active |
| andrew-waters/orchard Orchard is a native Swift macOS GUI for Apple's container tooling, serving as a Docker Desktop replacement for managing containers, Linux V… | 85 | 1627 | active |
| GZTimeWalker/GZCTF GZ::CTF is an open-source Capture The Flag (CTF) competition platform built on ASP.NET Core with a React frontend. It supports static and d… | 99 | 1613 | active |
| Augani/dory Dory is a free, open-source native macOS app providing a Docker and Linux container runtime, an alternative to Docker Desktop and OrbStack.… | 77 | 1601 | active |
| Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes An MCP server written in TypeScript that lets AI assistants like Claude and Codex connect to and manage Kubernetes clusters via kubectl and… | 83 | 1596 | active |
| Ceph CSI Ceph CSI is the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for Ceph, providing plugins for RBD and CephFS backed volumes. It enables containe… | 95 | 1578 | stable |
| kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver A Kubernetes CSI driver that mounts secrets, keys, and certificates from external secrets stores (Vault, Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manag… | 94 | 1565 | stable |
| openshift/installer The official installer CLI for provisioning OpenShift 4.x Kubernetes clusters across many platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, bare metal, … | 68 | 1559 | active |
| Quenary/tugtainer Tugtainer is a self-hosted web application for automating Docker container image updates, with a web UI, per-container configuration, and m… | 80 | 1541 | active |
| kubermatic/kubeone KubeOne is an open-source CLI tool by Kubermatic that automates the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters—provisioning, upgrading, repairin… | 99 | 1527 | active |
| databricks/click Click is a command-line REPL for Kubernetes written in Rust that manages clusters and objects interactively. It maintains an active context… | 52 | 1510 | active |
| Azure IoT Edge Azure IoT Edge is Microsoft's open-source edge runtime that moves cloud analytics and business logic to IoT devices by deploying containeri… | 93 | 1508 | active |
| pluralsh/plural Plural is an enterprise Kubernetes management platform that provides fleet-scale GitOps deployments, infrastructure-as-code management, and… | 93 | 1506 | active |
| serversideup/spin Spin is a bash-based CLI utility that wraps Docker and Docker Compose to replicate production environments locally and on servers with a si… | 96 | 1490 | active |
| apache/mesos Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications and frameworks. It… | 66 | 5365 | maintenance |
| OT-CONTAINER-KIT/redis-operator A Golang-based Kubernetes operator that provisions and manages Redis standalone, cluster, replication, and sentinel deployments via custom … | 90 | 1472 | active |
| clusternet/clusternet Clusternet is a CNCF Sandbox open-source add-on for managing large fleets of Kubernetes clusters across public, private, hybrid, and edge e… | 92 | 1455 | active |
| dotnet/tye Tye is a .NET developer tool that simplifies developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications. It provides a l… | 10 | 5194 | maintenance |
| siderolabs/omni Omni is a Kubernetes management platform by Sidero Labs that provides SaaS-simple deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters on your o… | 86 | 1389 | active |
| zane-ops/zane-ops ZaneOps is a self-hosted, open-source PaaS for deploying and managing web apps, databases, static sites, and services, built on Docker Swar… | 91 | 1384 | active |
| kube-green/kube-green kube-green is a Kubernetes operator that automatically shuts down or scales down cluster resources (like dev and preview pods) during off-h… | 67 | 1383 | active |
| casosorg/casos CasOS is a cloud operating system built on Kubernetes that embeds the full Kubernetes control plane (API server, controller manager, schedu… | 93 | 1374 | active |
| senthilrch/kube-fledged kube-fledged is a Kubernetes operator that creates and manages a cache of container images directly on cluster worker nodes. By pre-pulling… | 82 | 1374 | active |
| Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) is an open-source central management platform for automating the lifecycle of thousands of Kubernetes … | 95 | 1338 | stable |
| democratic-csi/democratic-csi democratic-csi implements the Container Storage Interface (CSI) spec to provide dynamic storage provisioning for container orchestration sy… | 85 | 1336 | active |
| kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-nfs A Kubernetes CSI driver that lets clusters mount and dynamically provision persistent volumes from an existing NFSv3 or NFSv4 server. It cr… | 95 | 1333 | stable |
| kubernetes-sigs/scheduler-plugins A collection of out-of-tree scheduler plugins for Kubernetes built on the scheduler framework, including capacity scheduling, coscheduling … | 88 | 1326 | active |
| openBalena OpenBalena is an open-source platform for deploying and managing fleets of connected IoT devices running balenaOS, composed of backend serv… | 94 | 1275 | active |
| project-akri/akri Akri is a Kubernetes Resource Interface, a CNCF Sandbox project written in Rust, that exposes heterogeneous edge leaf devices (IP cameras, … | 84 | 1264 | active |
| overhangio/tutor Tutor is the official Docker-based distribution of Open edX, providing a CLI for one-click installation, configuration, customization, upgr… | 96 | 1126 | active |
| Draft Draft is a Go CLI tool that helps developers containerize applications and deploy them to Kubernetes quickly. It generates Dockerfiles and … | 10 | 3889 | maintenance |
| Open Cluster Management Open Cluster Management (OCM) is a CNCF sandbox project providing core components for managing fleets of Kubernetes clusters across multicl… | 95 | 1104 | active |
| xataio/xata Xata is an open-source, cloud-native Postgres platform for self-hosting many Postgres instances on Kubernetes, with copy-on-write branching… | 58 | 1080 | stable |
| openkruise/kruise-game OpenKruiseGame (OKG) is a CNCF OpenKruise sub-project providing a custom Kubernetes workload (CRDs and controllers) specialized for game se… | 77 | 1079 | active |
| ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes OVN-Kubernetes is an open-source CNI plugin that provides a robust networking solution for Kubernetes clusters, built on OVN (Open Virtual … | 87 | 1066 | active |
| VolSync VolSync is a Kubernetes operator that asynchronously replicates persistent volumes between clusters using rsync or rclone, and creates volu… | 85 | 1036 | active |
| apache/flink-kubernetes-operator A Kubernetes operator for Apache Flink, implemented in Java, that manages the full lifecycle of Flink Application, Session, and Job deploym… | 76 | 1033 | stable |
| Apache YuniKorn Apache YuniKorn Core is the core scheduling engine of a lightweight, universal resource scheduler for container orchestrators, primarily de… | 94 | 1032 | active |
| mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator A Kubernetes operator that runs and operates MariaDB declaratively using CRDs instead of imperative commands. It provisions standalone serv… | 94 | 1027 | active |
| dockersamples/docker-swarm-visualizer A demo web application that visualizes Docker Swarm mode clusters, showing services, tasks, and nodes in a D3-based diagram using the Docke… | 32 | 3339 | maintenance |
| rancher/rke Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) is a CLI tool that installs and manages Kubernetes clusters entirely within Docker containers, using a simp… | 10 | 3292 | maintenance |
| microsoft/pai OpenPAI is an open-source AI platform from Microsoft that provides resource scheduling and cluster management for machine learning workload… | 68 | 2700 | maintenance |
| remind101/empire Empire is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) control layer built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku-like workf… | 23 | 2676 | maintenance |
| Choerodon Choerodon is an open-source multi-cloud agile collaboration platform built on Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, GitLab, and Spring Cloud. It prov… | 23 | 2397 | maintenance |
| gocircuit/circuit Circuit is a programmable PaaS/IaaS platform written in Go for managing, discovering, synchronizing, and orchestrating services and hosts a… | 32 | 1976 | maintenance |
| aws/amazon-ecs-cli The Amazon ECS CLI is a Go-based command-line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service that lets users create, update, and monitor ECS/Far… | 10 | 1805 | maintenance |
| gpushare A Kubernetes scheduler extender that enables multiple pods to share the same NVIDIA GPU device, increasing GPU utilization for inference an… | 32 | 1532 | maintenance |
| tkestack/tke TKEStack is an open-source container management platform built on Kubernetes for organizations running containers in production. It provide… | 23 | 1532 | maintenance |
| Banzai Cloud Pipeline Banzai Cloud Pipeline is a solution-oriented application platform for developing, deploying, and securely scaling container-based applicati… | 23 | 1503 | maintenance |
| sfx101/deck DECK is a cross-platform desktop application that provides a GUI for spinning up and managing local web development environments using Dock… | 10 | 1483 | maintenance |
| maguowei/k8s-docker-desktop-for-mac A set of shell scripts and GitHub Actions automation that syncs Kubernetes images from k8s.gcr.io to Docker Hub so Docker Desktop for Mac u… | 32 | 1476 | maintenance |
| tensorflow/ecosystem A collection of templates and connectors for integrating TensorFlow with other open-source frameworks such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Spark, … | 10 | 1377 | maintenance |
| TritonDataCenter/triton Triton DataCenter is an open-source cloud management platform (formerly SmartDataCenter) that delivers container-based infrastructure acros… | 41 | 1371 | maintenance |
| mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator A Kubernetes operator written in Go that deploys and manages MongoDB Community Edition inside Kubernetes clusters. This repository is depre… | 10 | 1358 | maintenance |
| khast3x/Redcloud Redcloud is a Python-based toolbox that automates deployment of red team attack infrastructure using Docker, deployable locally or remotely… | 23 | 1278 | maintenance |
| munnerz/kube-plex kube-plex is a scalable Plex Media Server deployment for Kubernetes that offloads transcoding work to ephemeral pods across the cluster. It… | 32 | 1244 | maintenance |
| ehazlett/stellar Stellar is a simplified container runtime cluster system built on containerd, written in Go. It joins one or more nodes into an eventually … | 23 | 1131 | maintenance |
| acorn-io/runtime Acorn is a simple application deployment framework for Kubernetes that packages apps into a single artifact usable across dev, test, and pr… | 10 | 1123 | maintenance |
| rigdev/rig Rig is a self-hosted, open-source service-lifecycle platform for Kubernetes that provides a developer-friendly deployment engine, dashboard… | 10 | 1064 | maintenance |
| lework/kainstall A single-file shell script that installs Kubernetes high-availability clusters based on kubeadm with one command, including server initiali… | 23 | 1056 | maintenance |
| lapce/lapdev Lapdev is a platform that creates production-accurate development environments for Kubernetes apps by reading existing cluster manifests an… | 40 | 1967 | experimental |
| ngrok/webernetes Webernetes is a TypeScript port of a subset of Kubernetes that runs entirely in the browser without backend servers. It lets developers boo… | 73 | 1299 | experimental |
| lllllllillllllillll/DweebUI DweebUI is a free, open-source web UI for managing Docker and Podman containers, with a live-updating dashboard of server and container met… | 27 | 1063 | experimental |
| ehazlett/shipyard Shipyard is a composable web-based management application for Docker, providing a UI to manage containers, images, and hosts across multipl… | 10 | 6316 | abandoned |
| docker-archive/classicswarm Docker Swarm Classic is a Docker-native clustering system that turns a pool of Docker hosts into a single virtual host via an API proxy. It… | 10 | 5724 | abandoned |
| kevana/ui-for-docker UI For Docker is a pure client-side web interface for the Docker Remote API, allowing users to manage Docker containers through a browser. … | 23 | 5059 | abandoned |
| KubeOperator KubeOperator is an open-source lightweight Kubernetes distribution that helps enterprises plan (Day 0), deploy (Day 1), and operate (Day 2)… | 10 | 4970 | abandoned |
| Marathon Marathon is a production-proven Apache Mesos framework for deploying and managing containers (including Docker) at scale, exposing a REST A… | 10 | 4025 | abandoned |
| Sock Shop Demo Sock Shop is a demo microservices application simulating the user-facing part of an online sock shop, built with Spring Boot, Go kit, and N… | 10 | 3783 | abandoned |
| krustlet/krustlet Krustlet is a Kubernetes kubelet written in Rust that runs WebAssembly (WASI) workloads instead of containers, using a wasmtime-based runti… | 23 | 3600 | abandoned |
| rancher/k3os k3OS is a minimal Linux distribution purpose-built to run Kubernetes via k3s, designed so the entire OS is managed and upgraded through kub… | 10 | 3477 | abandoned |
| ClusterHQ/flocker Flocker is an open-source container data volume manager for Dockerized applications, providing portable datasets that follow containers as … | 32 | 3383 | abandoned |
| external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets A Kubernetes controller that syncs secrets from external secret management systems like AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault into native… | 10 | 2579 | abandoned |
| kubernetes-retired/contrib A retired collection of miscellaneous Kubernetes ecosystem components that were not part of the Kubernetes core, written in Go. The reposit… | 10 | 2439 | abandoned |
| coreos/fleet fleet is a distributed init system that ties together systemd and etcd to schedule systemd units across a cluster of Linux machines. It is … | 10 | 2413 | abandoned |
| zalando/zalenium Zalenium is a container-based Selenium Grid that scales dynamically using Docker (and works on Kubernetes), with video recording, live prev… | 10 | 2361 | abandoned |
| aylei/kubectl-debug A kubectl plugin that lets you run a new debugging container inside a running Kubernetes pod, joining its pid, network, user, and ipc names… | 23 | 2303 | abandoned |
| rancher/rio Rio is an application deployment engine for Kubernetes that layers custom resources and a CLI on top of any standard cluster to provide con… | 10 | 2253 | abandoned |
| spotify/helios Helios is Spotify's Docker container orchestration platform for deploying and managing containers across a fleet of servers, with an HTTP A… | 10 | 2134 | abandoned |
| Spread Spread is a Go command-line tool that deploys Docker containers to Kubernetes in one command and versions Kubernetes clusters like Git vers… | 23 | 1822 | abandoned |
| coreos/etcd-operator A Kubernetes operator that creates, configures, and manages etcd clusters on Kubernetes, automating cluster lifecycle tasks. It handles cre… | 10 | 1758 | abandoned |
| coreos/torus Torus is a distributed storage system written in Go that pools resources across multiple nodes, coordinated consistently through etcd using… | 10 | 1753 | abandoned |