Open-source container-runtime software
396 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged container-runtime, ranked by how closely container-runtime 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.
396 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| oracle/railcar RailCar is a Rust implementation of the OCI container runtime specification, similar to runc, built for memory safety without garbage colle… | 10 | 1120 | abandoned |
| theia-ide/theia-apps A collection of example cloud and desktop IDE applications built on the Eclipse Theia platform, packaged as Docker images and Electron apps… | 10 | 1036 | abandoned |
| julien-duponchelle/docker-osx A shell script that installs and manages Docker on OS X via a Vagrant/VirtualBox virtual machine, acting as both installer and VM manager. … | 10 | 1013 | abandoned |
| LocalStack LocalStack is a fully functional local AWS cloud stack that emulates dozens of AWS services. It lets developers build, test, and debug clou… | 10 | 65143 | active |
| nanocoai/nanoclaw NanoClaw is a lightweight AI assistant that runs each agent in an isolated Docker container. It connects to multiple messaging platforms an… | 81 | 30874 | active |
| modular/modular Modular Platform is an open‑source stack that includes the Mojo systems programming language and the MAX framework for building, optimizing… | 90 | 29847 | active |
| Floci Floci is a free, open-source local AWS emulator that runs 83 AWS services (S3, SQS, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, and more) on your machine via Do… | 83 | 26923 | active |
| rancher/rancher Rancher is an open‑source container management platform that simplifies deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters across any environment.… | 93 | 25935 | active |
| JHipster JHipster is a Yeoman-based CLI tool that generates complete modern web applications and microservice architectures. It supports multiple fr… | 94 | 22465 | active |
| oracle/graal GraalVM is a high‑performance polyglot virtual machine that can compile Java (and other languages) ahead‑of‑time into native executables. I… | 66 | 21715 | active |
| nginx-proxy nginx-proxy is an automated Nginx reverse proxy for Docker that uses docker-gen to generate Nginx configuration and reload it as containers… | 93 | 19917 | 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 |
| passteque/gluetun Gluetun is a lightweight VPN client packaged as a thin Alpine Docker container, written in Go, supporting many VPN providers via OpenVPN or… | 94 | 15598 | active |
| Cockpit Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for administering Linux servers, interacting directly with the operating system through real sys… | 95 | 15200 | stable |
| 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 |
| XPipe XPipe is a desktop connection hub for managing entire server infrastructures from a local machine, integrating SSH, Docker, Kubernetes, hyp… | 94 | 14584 | active |
| jetify-com/devbox Devbox is a command-line tool that creates isolated, reproducible development environments by declaring packages in a devbox. file, powered… | 99 | 12415 | 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 |
| telekom-security/tpotce T-Pot is an all-in-one, optionally distributed honeypot platform that bundles 20+ honeypots with the Elastic Stack for visualization, live … | 66 | 9547 | active |
| FreeBSD The official publish-only Git mirror of the FreeBSD source tree, containing the complete kernel, userland, libraries, boot loader, and buil… | 77 | 9398 | stable |
| ublue-os/bazzite Bazzite is a gaming-focused Fedora Atomic (Kinoite/Silverblue) custom operating system image built with OCI tooling, pre-installed with Ste… | 95 | 9201 | active |
| BentoML BentoML is a Python framework for building online serving systems for AI apps and model inference, turning model inference scripts into RES… | 91 | 8909 | stable |
| HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools A collection of 1200+ DevOps Bash scripts covering cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD systems, databases, and pac… | 67 | 8430 | active |
| MightyMoud/sidekick Sidekick is a Go CLI tool that turns a bare Ubuntu VPS into a production-ready application hosting platform, similar to fly.io or Heroku bu… | 40 | 7594 | active |
| Sandstorm Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager. It lets users install and r… | 76 | 7077 | active |
| OnlineJudge A self-hosted online judge system for hosting programming contests and problem sets, built with Django (backend), Vue (frontend), and a Doc… | 23 | 6542 | stable |
| Cosmos Cosmos-Server is a self-hosted home server platform that acts as a secure gateway and server manager for your applications. It bundles auth… | 92 | 6178 | 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 |
| Nuclio Nuclio is a high-performance open-source serverless (FaaS) platform for real-time event and data processing, deployable standalone via Dock… | 92 | 5760 | stable |
| ZenML ZenML is an open-source MLOps framework for building, deploying, and managing production ML pipelines, LLM workflows, and AI agents on any … | 97 | 5601 | active |
| docker-easyconnect/docker-easyconnect A Docker/Podman image that runs Sangfor's proprietary EasyConnect and aTrust VPN clients inside containers, exposing socks5 and HTTP proxie… | 61 | 5546 | active |
| ThreatMapper Deepfence ThreatMapper is an open-source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that hunts threats in production cloud, Kuber… | 78 | 5324 | active |
| devspace-sh/devspace DevSpace is a client-only, open-source CLI tool for Kubernetes that automates image building and deployment workflows and lets developers b… | 85 | 5198 | active |
| gnmyt/Nexterm Nexterm is an open-source, self-hosted server management application providing SSH, VNC, and RDP remote access through a web interface. It … | 86 | 5084 | active |
| MCSManager MCSManager is a web-based control panel for managing Minecraft, Steam, and other game servers such as Terraria and Palworld. It features a … | 96 | 4975 | active |
| ministackorg/ministack MiniStack is a free, MIT-licensed local AWS emulator that mimics 60+ AWS services (S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Lambda, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, E… | 77 | 4774 | active |
| bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager A free and open-source Flutter-based GUI application for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. It lets users install, u… | 98 | 4027 | active |
| Dragonfly Dragonfly is a CNCF Graduated P2P-based file and container image distribution system that accelerates large-scale delivery of images, OCI a… | 94 | 3346 | stable |
| kubernetes-sigs/kwok KWOK (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet) is a toolkit for simulating Kubernetes clusters with thousands of fake nodes and pods at very low resourc… | 82 | 3205 | active |
| Exegol Exegol is a container-based, community-driven hacking environment for offensive security professionals, managed through a Python CLI wrappe… | 98 | 3101 | active |
| ContainerSSH ContainerSSH is an SSH server written in Go that launches on-demand containers in Docker or Kubernetes for each connecting user. It support… | 77 | 3087 | active |
| containers/ramalama RamaLama is a Python CLI tool that simplifies serving and running AI/LLM models locally by leveraging OCI containers (Podman/Docker). It au… | 86 | 3079 | active |
| aaPanel/aaPanel aaPanel is a free, web-based hosting control panel for Linux servers that lets administrators manage websites, databases, FTP, Docker, SSL … | 82 | 3063 | active |
| IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS ZimaOS is an open-source, simplified NAS operating system evolved from CasaOS, built with Buildroot for x86-64 UEFI hardware and Zima devic… | 96 | 3031 | active |
| acepanel/panel AcePanel is a fully open-source, enterprise-grade server operation and maintenance management panel written in Go with a Vue 3 frontend. It… | 96 | 2991 | active |
| ljlm0402/typescript-express-starter An interactive CLI generator that scaffolds production-ready TypeScript Express REST API projects with a configurable stack. It offers 10+ … | 85 | 2871 | active |
| project-zot/zot zot is a production-ready, vendor-neutral container image and artifact registry built purely on the OCI image format and OCI Distribution S… | 92 | 2802 | active |
| Habitat Chef Habitat is an open-source application automation framework that packages applications with their dependencies and built-in automation … | 89 | 2750 | active |
| KubeArmor KubeArmor is a cloud-native runtime security enforcement system that restricts process execution, file access, and networking behavior of p… | 100 | 2631 | active |
| CoderLuii/HolyClaude HolyClaude is a Docker-based AI coding workstation that bundles Claude Code, a web UI, eight AI coding CLIs (Gemini, OpenAI Codex, Cursor A… | 81 | 2579 | active |
| mag37/dockcheck dockcheck is a Bash CLI tool that checks running Docker containers for newer image versions and can update them automatically, without pre-… | 95 | 2522 | active |
| C‑Shopping C-Shopping is an open-source e-commerce shopping platform built with Next.js 14, Tailwind CSS, Headless UI, Redux Toolkit with RTK Query, J… | 22 | 2420 | 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 |
| kylemanna/docker-openvpn A Docker image and shell tooling that runs an OpenVPN server in a container, bundled with an EasyRSA PKI certificate authority. It automate… | 29 | 9086 | maintenance |
| sabamdarif/termux-desktop A shell-script-based installer that sets up a full native Linux desktop environment (Xfce, LXQt, Openbox, etc.) on Android via Termux with … | 90 | 2286 | active |
| wemake-services/wemake-django-template A bleeding-edge Cookiecutter template for scaffolding Django projects with a strong focus on code quality, security, and scalability. It sh… | 66 | 2275 | active |
| fsquillace/junest JuNest (Jailed User Nest) is a lightweight Arch Linux-based distribution that runs on top of any other GNU/Linux host without root privileg… | 32 | 2231 | active |
| Start9Labs/start-technologies Start Technologies is the monorepo for Start9's products, headlined by StartOS, an open-source Linux distribution that turns any PC into a … | 96 | 1994 | active |
| regclient/regclient regclient is a Go client library and set of CLI tools (regctl, regsync, regbot) for interacting with Docker and OCI conformant container re… | 96 | 1956 | active |
| Heavrnl/nexus-terminal Nexus Terminal is a modern web-based SSH/RDP/VNC client with a self-hosted Node.js backend and an optional standalone desktop app. It offer… | 88 | 1797 | active |
| containers/podlet Podlet is a Rust CLI tool that generates Podman Quadlet (systemd unit) files from Podman commands, Docker Compose files, or existing Podman… | 81 | 1661 | active |
| docker/mcp-gateway A Docker CLI plugin (docker-mcp) that provides the Docker MCP Gateway for securely running and deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) serve… | 72 | 1593 | active |
| pockethost/pockethost PocketHost is an open-source, multi-tenant hosting platform for PocketBase that can run hundreds or thousands of isolated PocketBase instan… | 77 | 1444 | active |
| kitops-ml/kitops KitOps is a CNCF open-source DevOps tool (Kit CLI, written in Go) that packages AI/ML models, datasets, code, prompts, agent skills, and MC… | 92 | 1430 | active |
| getporter/porter Porter is a CNCF Sandbox CLI tool that packages applications, client tools, configuration, and deployment logic into CNAB-based installers … | 86 | 1429 | active |
| lerd-env/lerd Lerd is an open-source, Herd-like local PHP development environment for Linux and macOS (Windows via WSL2 beta) that runs Nginx, PHP-FPM, a… | 79 | 1419 | active |
| Metarget/metarget Metarget is a Python-based framework that automatically builds vulnerable cloud-native infrastructures, installing vulnerable versions of D… | 61 | 1419 | active |
| DavHau/nix-portable nix-portable is a static, self-contained executable that lets users run the Nix package manager on any Linux distribution without root priv… | 67 | 1416 | active |
| NeuVector NeuVector is an open-source full lifecycle container security platform providing vulnerability management and automated runtime security wi… | 94 | 1346 | active |
| claritylab/lucida Lucida is an open-source speech and vision based intelligent personal assistant inspired by Sirius. It orchestrates modular back-end micros… | 32 | 4784 | maintenance |
| mpgirro/docker-pihole-unbound A Docker image that runs Pi-hole (network-wide ad blocker) with an integrated Unbound recursive DNS resolver in a single container. It is t… | 96 | 1338 | active |
| StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform StackRox is a Kubernetes security platform that performs risk analysis of container environments, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, a… | 96 | 1314 | active |
| solo-io/bumblebee BumbleBee is a CLI tool ('bee') that builds, runs, and distributes eBPF programs as OCI images, automatically generating the userspace comp… | 27 | 1302 | active |
| nginxinc/NGINX-Demos A collection of demo configurations and scripts from NGINX showing load balancing, service discovery, autoscaling, and deployment patterns … | 75 | 1286 | active |
| wukongdaily/OrangePiShell A collection of one-click shell scripts for quickly deploying useful Docker projects on Linux, originally built for the OrangePi Zero 3 sin… | 41 | 1228 | active |
| Truss Truss is a Python CLI and packaging framework for deploying and serving AI/ML models in production, primarily on the Baseten platform. It h… | 94 | 1214 | active |
| cloudflare/flan Flan Scan is a lightweight network vulnerability scanner from Cloudflare that wraps Nmap and the vulners script to detect open ports, servi… | 10 | 4162 | maintenance |
| Akash Network The source code for the Akash Network blockchain node, a Tendermint/CometBFT-powered node implementing a decentralized cloud computing mark… | 97 | 1116 | active |
| manaflow-ai/manaflow Manaflow is an open-source application for orchestrating multiple AI coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, etc… | 69 | 1115 | active |
| raskrebs/sonar Sonar is a Go-based CLI tool that shows all services listening on localhost ports, enriched with Docker container names, Compose projects, … | 80 | 1095 | active |
| secureblue/secureblue secureblue is a security-focused desktop and server Linux operating system built as OCI bootable container images on top of Fedora Atomic D… | 93 | 1088 | active |
| Ansible Runner Ansible Runner is a Python library and CLI tool that provides a stable, consistent interface for running Ansible programmatically, standalo… | 84 | 1086 | stable |
| cdxgen/cdxgen cdxgen is a CLI tool, library, and server that creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (SBOM) documents from source code and container images, … | 95 | 1085 | active |
| GSManagerXZ/GameServerManager GameServerManager (GSM3) is a self-hosted web panel for one-click deployment, management, and monitoring of game servers, with special focu… | 86 | 1068 | active |
| aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login A GitHub Actions action that authenticates the local Docker client to Amazon ECR Private or Public registries. It exposes registry and cred… | 97 | 1062 | active |
| AliyunContainerService/image-syncer A Go CLI tool that synchronizes Docker images between registries supporting Docker Registry V2, such as Docker Hub, Quay.io, Harbor, and Al… | 23 | 1021 | active |
| iron-io/functions IronFunctions is an open source Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform written in Go that you can run anywhere, on public, private, or hybr… | 23 | 3215 | maintenance |
| OpenShell NVIDIA OpenShell is an open-source runtime for executing autonomous AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI) inside sandboxed … | 79 | 16462 | experimental |
| bz51/SpringBoot-Dubbo-Docker-Jenkins A SpringBoot + Dubbo microservices framework scaffold demonstrating containerized deployment with Docker and automated builds with Jenkins.… | 32 | 2234 | maintenance |
| ianmiell/shutit ShutIt is a Python-based automation framework that models a user's terminal actions, acting as a modular wrapper around pexpect. Originally… | 32 | 2138 | maintenance |
| cloud66-oss/habitus Habitus is a standalone command-line build flow tool for Docker that orchestrates chained, multi-step Docker image builds defined in a buil… | 23 | 1401 | maintenance |
| coreos/rpm-ostree rpm-ostree is a hybrid image/package system for RPM-based Linux distributions that combines libostree's checksummed, transactional image mo… | 92 | 1027 | maintenance |
| susiai/susi_device SUSI Device provides sources to install the SUSI AI assistant stack on a Raspberry Pi, combining microphone/speaker, a small display, a loc… | 32 | 1000 | maintenance |
| semanser/codel Codel is a self-hosted, fully autonomous AI agent that executes complex tasks using a sandboxed Docker environment with terminal, browser, … | 16 | 2476 | experimental |
| Coding WebIDE Coding WebIDE is a self-hosted, cloud-based IDE that runs workspaces in Docker Ubuntu containers and integrates with Git providers like Git… | 23 | 1726 | abandoned |
| amitds1997/remote-nvim.nvim A Neovim plugin that adds VSCode-style remote development and devcontainer support to Neovim over SSH or Docker. It automatically installs … | 10 | 1325 | abandoned |
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