function: container-runtime
380 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moby Moby is an open-source collaborative project created by Docker that provides a modular toolkit of components for assembling container-based… | 94 | 72002 | active |
| nektos/act act is a Go CLI tool that runs GitHub Actions workflows locally by reading .github/workflows files and executing jobs in Docker containers.… | 93 | 71649 | active |
| wagoodman/dive Dive is a Go-based CLI/TUI tool for exploring Docker and OCI image layers, showing each layer's file contents and changes. It estimates ima… | 60 | 54503 | active |
| dockur/windows A Docker image that runs a full Windows virtual machine inside a container, with automatic download and hands-free installation of modern a… | 88 | 53037 | active |
| sickcodes/Docker-OSX Docker-OSX is a Docker-based tool that runs macOS virtual machines with near-native performance using KVM and QEMU, built on top of OSX-KVM… | 55 | 52887 | active |
| jesseduffield/lazydocker A simple terminal UI for managing Docker containers, images, volumes, and docker-compose services, written in Go with the gocui library. It… | 79 | 52623 | active |
| container Apple's tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on Macs with Apple silicon, written in Swift. It con… | 86 | 49427 | active |
| IceWhaleTech/CasaOS CasaOS is an open-source personal cloud operating system built around the Docker ecosystem, providing a web dashboard for managing self-hos… | 46 | 37147 | active |
| firecracker-microvm/firecracker Firecracker is an open-source virtual machine monitor (VMM) that uses Linux KVM to create and manage lightweight microVMs for secure multi-… | 92 | 36300 | 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 |
| podman-container-tools/podman Podman is an open-source, daemonless tool for managing OCI containers, images, volumes, and pods, built on the libpod library. It runs nati… | 98 | 32704 | stable |
| dokku/dokku Dokku is a Docker-powered, open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on a single server, letting you deploy apps via git push usin… | 94 | 32111 | 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 |
| slimtoolkit/slim SlimToolkit is a CLI tool that inspects, optimizes, and debugs container images, minifying them by up to 30x without changing the applicati… | 66 | 23408 | active |
| winboat-org/winboat WinBoat is an Electron application that runs Windows apps on Linux by running Windows as a VM inside a Docker/Podman container and composit… | 86 | 22551 | active |
| lima-vm/lima Lima is a CLI tool that launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, Linux, and other hosts with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, s… | 97 | 21764 | active |
| dockur/macos A Docker container that runs a full macOS virtual machine on Linux hosts with KVM acceleration. It automatically downloads macOS installati… | 90 | 21468 | active |
| containerd/containerd containerd is an industry-standard container runtime daemon that manages the complete container lifecycle of a host system, including image… | 98 | 21187 | stable |
| Wasmer Wasmer is a high-performance WebAssembly runtime that runs lightweight, secure, sandboxed containers anywhere from desktops to cloud, edge,… | 99 | 20973 | active |
| gVisor gVisor is an application kernel written in Go that implements a Linux-compatible syscall interface in userspace, providing strong isolation… | 88 | 19163 | stable |
| dagger/dagger Dagger is a programmable automation engine for building, testing, and shipping software, replacing YAML pipelines with real code via SDKs i… | 95 | 16203 | active |
| budtmo/docker-android Docker-Android is a Docker image that runs Android emulators with configurable device profiles, noVNC screen viewing, log sharing, and vide… | 97 | 15784 | active |
| loft-sh/devpod DevPod is an open-source, client-only tool for creating reproducible developer environments defined by devcontainer.json, runnable locally,… | 56 | 15092 | active |
| 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 |
| 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… | 94 | 14534 | active |
| GoogleContainerTools/jib Jib builds optimized Docker and OCI container images for Java applications without requiring a Docker daemon, available as Maven and Gradle… | 94 | 14440 | 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 | 13415 | stable |
| 89luca89/distrobox Distrobox is a command-line tool that uses podman, docker, or lilipod to create tightly integrated containers of any Linux distribution ins… | 92 | 12906 | stable |
| waydroid/waydroid Waydroid is a container-based tool that boots a full Android system inside Linux namespaces (LXC) on GNU/Linux systems running Wayland. It … | 89 | 12045 | 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 | 11354 | active |
| krallin/tini Tini is a tiny init system written in C designed to run as PID 1 inside containers. It spawns a single child process, reaps zombie processe… | 32 | 11220 | 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 | 11194 | stable |
| WasmEdge/WasmEdge WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, extensible WebAssembly runtime hosted by CNCF, designed for cloud native, edge, and decentrali… | 97 | 10787 | active |
| distribution/distribution The CNCF Distribution project provides the open-source Registry, a stateless, scalable server-side application implementing the OCI Distrib… | 82 | 10583 | stable |
| containerd/nerdctl nerdctl is a Docker-compatible command-line interface for containerd, supporting the same UI/UX as docker including Compose, BuildKit build… | 97 | 10333 | active |
| moby/buildkit BuildKit is a concurrent, cache-efficient toolkit for converting source code into build artifacts such as OCI container images. It powers D… | 94 | 10211 | stable |
| replicate/cog Cog is an open-source CLI tool that packages machine learning models into production-ready Docker containers using a simple cog.yaml config… | 94 | 9463 | active |
| 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 |
| Pterodactyl Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. It runs game servers in isolated Docker cont… | 98 | 9178 | active |
| podman-container-tools/buildah Buildah is a command-line tool for building OCI and Docker container images, either from Dockerfiles/Containerfiles or programmatically via… | 98 | 8995 | stable |
| Testcontainers Testcontainers is a family of libraries (Java, Go, .NET, Rust, and more) that provides lightweight, throwaway Docker containers for use in … | 93 | 8720 | stable |
| 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 |
| ko-build/ko ko is a fast, simple container image builder for Go applications that runs go build locally without requiring Docker. It supports multi-pla… | 85 | 8511 | stable |
| containers/bubblewrap Bubblewrap is a low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux that uses user namespaces to let any user run processes in isolated contai… | 91 | 8490 | active |
| podman-desktop/podman-desktop Podman Desktop is a free, open-source graphical desktop application for building, managing, and deploying containers and Kubernetes workloa… | 98 | 7965 | active |
| superradcompany/microsandbox Microsandbox is a local-first microVM runtime and library for running untrusted workloads (AI agents, user code, plugins, CI jobs) inside f… | 89 | 7943 | active |
| concourse/concourse Concourse is an open-source, container-based automation system written in Go, primarily used for CI/CD. Pipelines are defined declaratively… | 98 | 7893 | active |
| woodpecker-ci/woodpecker Woodpecker is an open-source, community-driven CI/CD engine forked from Drone 0.8, designed to be lightweight, simple, and fast. It execute… | 99 | 7753 | active |
| mattpocock/sandcastle A TypeScript library for orchestrating AI coding agents (like Claude Code) inside isolated sandboxes via a single sandcastle.run() call. It… | 74 | 7674 | active |
| youki-dev/youki youki is an implementation of the OCI container runtime specification written in Rust, serving as a low-level container runtime similar to … | 94 | 7566 | active |
| home-assistant/operating-system Home Assistant Operating System is a Buildroot-based Linux distribution optimized to run Home Assistant and its add-ons via Docker containe… | 94 | 7433 | active |
| rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop Rancher Desktop is an open-source Electron application that provides container management and a local Kubernetes cluster (via k3s) on macOS… | 98 | 7297 | active |
| docker/docker-py The official Docker SDK for Python, a client library for the Docker Engine API. It lets Python applications run and manage containers, imag… | 86 | 7211 | stable |
| getarcaneapp/arcane Arcane is a modern, self-hosted web UI for managing Docker containers and Docker Compose stacks, built with a Go backend and SvelteKit fron… | 82 | 7147 | active |
| remote-android/redroid-doc redroid (Remote-Android) is a GPU-accelerated Android In Cloud (AIC) solution that boots many Android instances as containers on Linux host… | 69 | 6728 | active |
| mviereck/x11docker x11docker is a shell-based CLI tool that runs graphical applications and entire desktop environments inside Docker, podman, or nerdctl cont… | 84 | 6303 | stable |
| containers/podman-compose A single-file Python CLI that implements the Compose Spec, running docker-compose.yml files with Podman as the backend. It emphasizes a roo… | 90 | 6204 | active |
| CNI (Container Network Interface) CNI (Container Network Interface) is a CNF project consisting of a specification and Go libraries for writing plugins that configure networ… | 66 | 6102 | 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 |
| docker/cli The official Docker command-line interface, written in Go, used to build, run, and manage Docker containers, images, and related resources.… | 77 | 6025 | stable |
| smol-machines/smolvm smolvm is an open-source CLI and runtime for running lightweight, hardware-isolated Linux microVMs locally on macOS, Linux, and Windows, bu… | 79 | 5756 | active |
| 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 |
| docker/build-push-action A GitHub Action that builds and pushes Docker images using Buildx with full BuildKit feature support, including multi-platform builds, secr… | 96 | 5378 | stable |
| microsoft/azurelinux Azure Linux is an open-source, general-purpose Linux distribution built and optimized for Microsoft Azure, with sources derived from Fedora… | 98 | 5330 | active |
| lxc/lxc LXC is a low-level Linux container runtime providing a userspace interface to kernel containment features like namespaces, cgroups, and man… | 84 | 5248 | stable |
| flatpak/flatpak Flatpak is a framework for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. It lets developers package an app o… | 94 | 5050 | stable |
| apocas/dockerode dockerode is a Node.js client library for Docker's Remote API, providing entity-based interfaces for containers, images, and execs with ful… | 91 | 4940 | active |
| NilsIrl/dockerc dockerc is a CLI tool written in Zig that compiles Docker/OCI container images into standalone portable Linux binaries. The resulting execu… | 16 | 4915 | active |
| psviderski/unregistry Unregistry is a lightweight container image registry that stores and serves images directly from a Docker daemon's storage. Its `docker pus… | 79 | 4861 | active |
| canonical/lxd LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager that provides a unified, cloud-like experience for running full Linux systems in LXC … | 99 | 4816 | stable |
| Steam-Headless/docker-steam-headless A headless Steam Docker image that runs a full Steam client and Xfce4 desktop on Linux with NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel GPU support. It enables r… | 58 | 4726 | active |
| werf werf is a CNCF Sandbox CLI tool that implements full-cycle CI/CD for Kubernetes, integrating with your CI system to build, publish, test, a… | 94 | 4717 | stable |
| ory/dockertest A Go library that spins up ephemeral Docker containers (e.g., databases, message queues) for integration tests and tears them down automati… | 78 | 4522 | active |
| docker/buildx Docker Buildx is a Docker CLI plugin that provides extended image build capabilities powered by BuildKit. It supports multiple builder inst… | 98 | 4491 | stable |
| opencontainers/image-spec The Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image Format Specification, defining the standard layout and metadata for container images including ma… | 64 | 4453 | stable |
| linuxserver/docker-webtop Docker images from LinuxServer.io that run a full Linux desktop environment (KDE, XFCE, MATE, i3, etc.) accessible from a web browser, base… | 95 | 4352 | active |
| nicholas-fedor/watchtower Watchtower is a Go application that runs as a Docker container and automatically updates running containers when new images are pushed to a… | 88 | 4333 | active |
| whalebrew/whalebrew Whalebrew is a package manager that installs Docker images as native command-line tools by creating aliases, like Homebrew but backed by Do… | 25 | 4244 | active |
| microsoft/vscode-remote-release Microsoft's VS Code Remote Development extension pack, which lets you open any folder in WSL, a Docker container, or on a remote machine ov… | 61 | 4159 | 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 |
| containers/crun crun is a fast, lightweight OCI container runtime written entirely in C, conforming to the Open Container Initiative runtime specification.… | 94 | 4082 | active |
| runfinch/finch Finch is an open-source CLI client for local container development that bundles nerdctl, containerd, BuildKit, and a Lima-managed virtual m… | 99 | 4053 | active |
| lirantal/dockly Dockly is an immersive terminal UI (built with Node.js and blessed) for managing Docker containers, images, and Swarm services. It connects… | 72 | 4032 | active |
| Cateners/tiny_container An Android app that provides a one-click, no-root Debian 13 Linux desktop environment via proot, with built-in VNC and Termux:X11 frontends… | 89 | 4030 | active |
| google/go-containerregistry A Go library and set of CLI tools (like crane) for interacting with OCI container registries and images. It provides immutable views of ima… | 99 | 4026 | active |
| vdsm/virtual-dsm A Docker container that runs Synology DSM (DiskStation Manager) as a virtual machine using QEMU/KVM. It automates the DSM installation and … | 97 | 3973 | active |
| checkpoint-restore/criu CRIU (Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace) is a Linux utility that freezes running applications and checkpoints their state to disk, then resto… | 77 | 3965 | active |
| nestybox/sysbox Sysbox is an open-source container runtime (a specialized runc) that improves container isolation via Linux user-namespaces and procfs/sysf… | 89 | 3840 | active |
| unikraft/unikraft Unikraft is an open-source Unikernel Development Kit for building custom, specialized operating system kernels tailored to individual appli… | 86 | 3832 | active |
| spegel-org/spegel Spegel is a stateless cluster-local OCI registry mirror for Kubernetes that lets every node share container images peer-to-peer via contain… | 96 | 3753 | active |
| ddev/ddev DDEV is an open-source CLI tool that provisions Docker-based local development environments for PHP and Node.js web projects with sensible … | 93 | 3746 | active |
| getwud/wud WUD (What's up Docker?) is a self-hosted service that continuously monitors Docker containers, detects newer image versions across many reg… | 98 | 3743 | active |
| Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher umu-launcher is a unified launcher for running Windows games on Linux using Proton outside of Steam. It replicates Valve's Steam Runtime To… | 91 | 3619 | active |
| fofapro/vulfocus Vulfocus is a self-hosted vulnerability integration platform that runs vulnerability environments as Docker images with one-click startup. … | 41 | 3492 | active |
| containers/toolbox Toolbx is a Linux command-line tool for creating interactive containerized command line environments on top of Podman and OCI technologies.… | 83 | 3478 | active |
| nextflow-io/nextflow Nextflow is an open-source DSL and runtime for building scalable, portable, and reproducible data-driven computational pipelines, based on … | 97 | 3475 | stable |
| termux/proot-distro A Python CLI utility for managing rootless Linux containers using proot, in Termux on Android or on regular Linux hosts. It can pull Docker… | 99 | 3436 | active |
| tech-shrimp/docker_installer A repository that periodically mirrors official Docker install scripts and packages via GitHub Actions so users in China can download and i… | 26 | 3401 | active |
| vmware/photon Photon OS is an open-source, security-hardened minimal Linux distribution purpose-built as a container host for cloud-native applications, … | 67 | 3178 | active |
| thijsvanloef/palworld-server-docker A Docker container image that makes it easy to run a Palworld dedicated game server. It supports x64 and ARM64 architectures on Linux, Wind… | 93 | 3177 | active |
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