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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| fabric8 fabric8 was an open-source integrated development platform for building and deploying microservices on Kubernetes and OpenShift, built on D… | 10 | 1749 | abandoned |
| docker-archive-public/docker.app Docker App is a CLI plugin and packaging framework that lets developers build, share, and run multi-service Docker Compose applications as … | 10 | 1569 | abandoned |
| docker-archive-public/docker.compose-on-kubernetes Compose on Kubernetes is a Go-based controller that deploys applications described in Docker Compose files onto Kubernetes clusters via a c… | 10 | 1412 | abandoned |
| Deis Workflow Deis Workflow is an open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that adds a Heroku-like developer experience on top of any Kubernetes cluster,… | 10 | 1305 | abandoned |
| kubernetes-retired/bootkube Bootkube is a Go CLI tool for launching self-hosted Kubernetes clusters by running a temporary control plane that bootstraps a permanent, s… | 10 | 1145 | abandoned |
| kelseyhightower/kube-cert-manager A Kubernetes controller that automatically manages Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, storing them as Kubernetes secrets via ACME dns-01 chall… | 32 | 1111 | abandoned |
| kubernetes-retired/kubeadm-dind-cluster A shell-based tool that spins up multi-node Kubernetes test clusters using kubeadm and Docker-in-Docker, aimed at Kubernetes developers and… | 10 | 1095 | abandoned |
| kubernetes-retired/kube-batch kube-batch is a batch scheduler for Kubernetes designed for high-performance workloads such as AI/ML, Big Data, and HPC jobs. It was the pr… | 10 | 1091 | abandoned |
| Gravity Gravity is a Kubernetes packaging toolkit that creates portable 'cluster images' (tar files) containing Kubernetes binaries, a built-in reg… | 10 | 1077 | abandoned |
| paz-sh/paz Paz is an open-source, self-hosted service platform with a PaaS-like workflow for continuous deployment, built on Docker, CoreOS, etcd and … | 32 | 1075 | abandoned |
| loft-sh/kiosk Kiosk is a multi-tenancy extension for Kubernetes that lets cluster admins securely share a single cluster among multiple tenants. It provi… | 10 | 1071 | abandoned |
| Azure Container Service AKS Engine is a deprecated command-line tool that generated ARM templates and provisioned self-managed Kubernetes clusters on Azure. The re… | 10 | 1018 | abandoned |
| Kubernetes Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized a… | 94 | 128491 | stable |
| Coolify Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify, and Railway that deploys static sites, databases, ful… | 95 | 62835 | active |
| Harness Open Source Platform Harness Open Source is an end-to-end self-hosted developer platform combining Git source control management, CI/CD pipelines, hosted cloud … | 91 | 38546 | active |
| Dokploy Dokploy is a free, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies deploying and managing applications and databases on your own… | 87 | 37756 | active |
| OpenFaaS OpenFaaS is a serverless functions platform that lets developers deploy event-driven functions and microservices packaged as OCI/Docker con… | 71 | 26245 | stable |
| Argo CD Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that keeps Git repositories as the source of truth for desired appl… | 94 | 24341 | stable |
| jina-ai/serve Jina-serve is a Python framework for building and deploying multimodal AI services that communicate via gRPC, HTTP, and WebSockets. It prov… | 36 | 21854 | active |
| Vitess Vitess is a cloud-native database clustering system that horizontally scales MySQL through transparent, generalized sharding. It provides q… | 98 | 21365 | stable |
| 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 |
| Quarkus Quarkus is a cloud-native Java framework optimized for containers and Kubernetes, offering fast startup, low memory footprint, and GraalVM … | 94 | 15944 | stable |
| kubeflow/kubeflow Kubeflow is a CNCF-graduated, Kubernetes-native toolkit for building AI/ML platforms, comprising subprojects like Pipelines, Notebooks, Tra… | 78 | 15915 | stable |
| mailcow mailcow: dockerized is a full-featured, self-hosted mail server suite delivered as a set of Docker containers, bundling Postfix, Dovecot, S… | 99 | 13632 | stable |
| moghtech/komodo Komodo is a self-hosted web application for building and deploying software across many servers, managing Docker containers, compose stacks… | 95 | 12393 | 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 |
| Kubescape Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform (a CNCF incubating project) offering misconfiguration scanning, vulnerability asse… | 100 | 11815 | active |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fission Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework for deploying functions as a service (FaaS). Developers write functions i… | 89 | 8933 | active |
| OpenShift Origin The openshift/origin repository now primarily maintains the openshift-tests binary, the conformance and end-to-end test suite for OpenShift… | 67 | 8696 | active |
| Flux v2 Flux v2 is an open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes that keeps clusters in sync with Git repositories and OCI art… | 99 | 8445 | stable |
| chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh Chaos Mesh is an open-source, cloud-native chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes that injects controlled faults (pod, network, DNS, HTT… | 92 | 7938 | active |
| ChaosBlade ChaosBlade is an open-source chaos engineering toolkit from Alibaba for injecting faults into hosts, applications, and Kubernetes clusters … | 98 | 6461 | active |
| Aspire Aspire is a multi-language, code-first toolchain from Microsoft for composing, running, debugging, and deploying distributed applications. … | 96 | 6381 | active |
| Pachyderm Pachyderm is a data-centric pipeline platform that automates data transformations with built-in data versioning and lineage tracking. It ru… | 30 | 6309 | active |
| KServe KServe is a CNCF incubating, Kubernetes-native platform for serving both generative and predictive AI models at scale. It provides a standa… | 94 | 6133 | stable |
| GPUStack GPUStack is an open-source GPU cluster manager for AI model serving that orchestrates inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM… | 88 | 5844 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| LitmusChaos LitmusChaos is an open-source, CNCF-hosted chaos engineering platform for cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure. It provides a ChaosCenter… | 100 | 5730 | stable |
| QuipNetwork/quip-node-manager Quip Node Manager is a cross-platform desktop GUI application for running, configuring, and monitoring Quip Network nodes. It orchestrates … | 60 | 5489 | active |
| dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers eShopOnContainers is a reference .NET application that demonstrates a microservices‑based e‑commerce system using Docker containers and Kub… | 10 | 24296 | maintenance |
| ThreatMapper Deepfence ThreatMapper is an open-source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that hunts threats in production cloud, Kuber… | 78 | 5324 | active |
| beclab/Olares Olares is an open-source personal cloud operating system built on Kubernetes that turns your own hardware into a self-hosted AI platform fo… | 90 | 5299 | active |
| llm-d llm-d is a Kubernetes-native distributed LLM inference serving stack that orchestrates model servers like vLLM and SGLang across clusters. … | 83 | 4891 | active |
| SeldonIO/seldon-core Seldon Core 2 is an MLOps and LLMOps framework for deploying, managing, and scaling machine learning models and modular AI applications on … | 66 | 4782 | active |
| Jenkins X (JayeX) Jenkins X (jx) is a modular command-line CLI for Jenkins X 3.x, providing automated CI/CD on Kubernetes using Cloud Native Tekton pipelines… | 95 | 4690 | active |
| apache/rocketmq-externals The Apache RocketMQ externals repository is the community home for incubating ecosystem projects around the RocketMQ message broker, such a… | 74 | 4593 | active |
| octelium/octelium Octelium is a free, open-source, self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform built on Kubernetes. It can operate as a remote acce… | 87 | 4107 | active |
| Polyaxon Polyaxon is an open-source AI engineering control plane that teams self-host on their own Kubernetes clusters to schedule, track, and gover… | 75 | 3735 | active |
| garden-io/garden Garden is a DevOps automation CLI for developing and testing Kubernetes applications faster. It spins up production-like environments on de… | 93 | 3620 | active |
| swarmpit/swarmpit Swarmpit is a lightweight, self-hosted web UI for managing Docker Swarm clusters, covering stacks, services, secrets, volumes, and networks… | 74 | 3495 | active |
| Glasskube Glasskube is an open-source package manager for Kubernetes that installs, updates, and configures cluster packages via a CLI and a local we… | 10 | 3491 | active |
| Harbor Harbor is a CLI tool that spins up a complete, pre-wired local LLM stack with a single command, using Docker Compose to orchestrate hundred… | 84 | 3241 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/kueue Kueue is a Kubernetes-native job queueing system providing APIs and controllers that decide when batch, HPC, and AI/ML workloads should be … | 95 | 3086 | active |
| Cloudpods Cloudpods is an open-source, Golang-based cloud-native unified multi/hybrid-cloud platform ('a cloud on clouds') that manages on-premise KV… | 77 | 2958 | active |
| Erda Erda is an enterprise-grade cloud-native application platform built on Kubernetes that provides DevOps, microservice governance, and multi-… | 67 | 2756 | active |
| vllm-project/production-stack vLLM Production Stack is a reference implementation for deploying vLLM LLM inference at scale on Kubernetes, distributed via Helm charts. I… | 88 | 2667 | active |
| GhostWriters/DockSTARTer DockSTARTer is a shell-based tool that helps users quickly set up and manage self-hosted applications in Docker using Docker Compose. It pr… | 93 | 2574 | active |
| data-infra/cube-studio CubeStudio is an open-source, cloud-native, all-in-one AI platform covering the full machine learning lifecycle (MLOps/MaaS/LLMOps), includ… | 75 | 2546 | active |
| learnhouse/learnhouse LearnHouse is a next-generation open-source learning management system (LMS) for creating, sharing, and selling educational content. It com… | 100 | 2404 | active |
| beam-cloud/beta9 Beam (beta9) is an open-source serverless runtime for AI workloads, providing GPU inference endpoints, isolated sandboxes for running untru… | 91 | 1827 | active |
| openelb/openelb OpenELB is an open-source load balancer implementation for exposing Kubernetes LoadBalancer-type Services in bare-metal, edge, and virtuali… | 30 | 1774 | active |
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator A Kubernetes Operator written in Go that manages the lifecycle of OpenTelemetry Collector instances and auto-instrumentation of workloads v… | 100 | 1770 | active |
| kimdre/doco-cd Doco-CD is a lightweight GitOps continuous deployment tool written in Go that automatically deploys and updates Docker Compose projects and… | 87 | 1741 | active |
| intelligent-machine-learning/dlrover DLRover is an automatic distributed deep learning system that manages training of large AI models on Kubernetes and Ray clusters. It provid… | 80 | 1689 | active |
| OpenFunction/OpenFunction OpenFunction is a cloud-native, open-source Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform built on Kubernetes that lets developers deploy business … | 23 | 1654 | active |
| agola-io/agola Agola is a self-hosted, distributed CI/CD platform written in Go that executes containerized, reproducible build and deployment workflows t… | 50 | 1627 | active |
| dnsjia/luban LuBan is a self-hosted Kubernetes multi-cluster management and operations platform built with Go (Gin/Gorm) and Vue 3, integrating CMDB ass… | 32 | 1506 | active |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/bank-of-anthos Bank of Anthos is a sample HTTP-based web application that simulates a retail bank's payment processing network, letting users create accou… | 89 | 1463 | active |
| Safe3/openresty-manager OpenResty Manager is a modern, web-based server control panel for managing OpenResty/Nginx reverse proxies, free SSL certificates, security… | 80 | 1463 | active |
| Edgenesis/shifu Shifu is a Kubernetes-native, protocol- and vendor-agnostic IoT gateway that represents physical devices as CRDs and device microservices (… | 99 | 1437 | active |
| Metarget/metarget Metarget is a Python-based framework that automatically builds vulnerable cloud-native infrastructures, installing vulnerable versions of D… | 61 | 1419 | active |
| Booking Sample Application A practical .NET 10 booking microservices reference application demonstrating Vertical Slice Architecture, CQRS, DDD, and Event Sourcing wi… | 62 | 1393 | active |
| ixrjog/opscloud4 OpsCloud4 is a self-hosted cloud operations platform built with Spring Boot that provides a bastion host with web/SSH terminals, Kubernetes… | 55 | 1388 | active |
| kubeai-project/kubeai KubeAI is a Kubernetes operator for serving machine learning models in production, supporting LLMs via vLLM and Ollama, vector embeddings, … | 95 | 1284 | active |
| cytopia/devilbox The Devilbox is a zero-configuration Docker-based development stack for PHP supporting full LAMP, LEMP and MEAN setups with swappable versi… | 23 | 4471 | maintenance |
| distr-sh/distr Distr is an open-source software distribution platform (control plane) for delivering applications to self-hosted, BYOC, on-premises, air-g… | 86 | 1238 | active |
| pytorch/serve TorchServe is a flexible, production-ready model server for serving, optimizing, and scaling PyTorch models over HTTP with support for CPU,… | 10 | 4344 | maintenance |
| run-house/kubetorch Kubetorch is a Python library that lets you distribute and run ML workloads (training, inference, data processing) on Kubernetes directly f… | 76 | 1225 | active |
| EdwinVW/pitstop Pitstop is a sample Garage Management System application demonstrating software-architecture concepts such as microservices, CQRS, event so… | 76 | 1162 | active |
| AlchemillaHQ/Sylve Sylve is an open-source web-based management platform for FreeBSD that unifies Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, ZFS storage, networki… | 86 | 1124 | active |
| mittwald/kubernetes-replicator A custom Kubernetes controller written in Go that synchronizes Secrets, ConfigMaps, Roles, RoleBindings, and ServiceAccounts across namespa… | 78 | 1116 | active |
| QQ3221197721/cloudai-fusion CloudAI Fusion is a Go-based cloud-native platform that unifies multi-cloud infrastructure management with AI-assisted GPU scheduling acros… | 59 | 1110 | active |
| aws/copilot-cli AWS Copilot CLI is an open-source command-line tool for developers to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized applicatio… | 10 | 3732 | maintenance |
| Qihoo360/wayne Wayne is a web-based Kubernetes multi-cluster management and publishing platform developed by Qihoo360. It provides visualized Kubernetes o… | 23 | 3697 | maintenance |
| hashicorp/terraform-provider-helm The official Terraform provider for Helm, written in Go, enabling installation and management of Helm chart releases on Kubernetes clusters… | 90 | 1076 | active |
| jonwiggins/optio Optio is a self-hosted workflow orchestration platform for AI coding agents that runs on Kubernetes. It drives tickets from GitHub, Linear,… | 83 | 1066 | active |
| kaito-project/kaito KAITO is a Kubernetes operator suite that automates LLM inference, fine-tuning, and RAG engine deployment using simplified CRD APIs. It aut… | 93 | 1028 | active |
| cisagov/thorium Thorium is a scalable, distributed file analysis and data generation platform that orchestrates arbitrary Docker, VM, or shell-based tools … | 85 | 1024 | active |
| Instana Tracing SDK Stan's Robot Shop is a sample polyglot microservices application (NodeJS, Java, Python, Go, PHP) simulating an e-commerce shop, built to se… | 10 | 1016 | active |
| googleforgames/open-match Open Match is an open-source game matchmaking framework from Google that simplifies building scalable and extensible matchmakers for multip… | 61 | 3422 | maintenance |
| controlplaneio/simulator A distributed systems and infrastructure security training platform that provisions a Kubernetes cluster in your AWS account and runs scena… | 23 | 1007 | active |
| google/ax AX (Agent Executor) is a distributed agent runtime from Google that provisions isolated, suspendable/resumable environments to execute AI a… | 81 | 13629 | experimental |
| vietnam-devs/coolstore-microservices CoolStore is a containerized .NET Core microservices reference application built on Dapr and Tye, demonstrating microservice architecture p… | 23 | 2533 | maintenance |
| mistio/mist-ce Mist CE is an open-source multicloud management platform providing a unified web interface, RESTful API, and CLI to manage public clouds, p… | 29 | 1912 | maintenance |
| lastbackend/lastbackend Last.Backend is an open-source container management platform written in Go that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containeri… | 23 | 1659 | maintenance |