Open-source microservices software
250 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged microservices, ranked by how closely microservices 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.
250 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open‑source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of hos… | 94 | 128491 | active |
| Firecracker Firecracker is an open‑source virtual machine monitor that runs lightweight microVMs using KVM. It provides VM‑level isolation with contain… | 97 | 37354 | active |
| Anoma Anoma is a reference implementation of the Anoma protocol, a distributed operating system for blockchain interoperability. It provides a no… | 78 | 33575 | active |
| Conductor Conductor is an open-source durable execution and workflow orchestration engine for microservices, event-driven workflows, and AI agents, o… | 93 | 32278 | active |
| Consul Consul is a distributed service networking platform that provides service discovery, health checking, and a service mesh. It offers a contr… | 94 | 30087 | active |
| Apollo Apollo is a reliable, centralized configuration management system for microservices, built on Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. It provides a w… | 90 | 29817 | stable |
| Apache Seata Apache Seata (incubating) is an open-source, high-performance distributed transaction solution for microservices architectures. It provides… | 77 | 26008 | stable |
| Cilium Cilium is an eBPF‑based networking, security, and observability solution for Kubernetes clusters. It provides a flat L3 network, L7‑aware p… | 94 | 25622 | stable |
| temporalio/temporal Temporal is an open‑source durable execution platform that runs workflows and activities with built‑in fault tolerance. It provides a serve… | 100 | 23810 | active |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo Online Boutique is a cloud-first microservices demo application: a web-based e-commerce app composed of 11 polyglot microservices communica… | 89 | 21055 | active |
| iii iii is an open‑source engine that lets you compose, extend, and observe any service or AI agent as a worker in real time. It provides a uni… | 85 | 18844 | active |
| Quarkus Quarkus is a cloud-native Java framework optimized for containers and Kubernetes, offering fast startup, low memory footprint, and GraalVM … | 94 | 15944 | stable |
| 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 | 12853 | active |
| imgproxy imgproxy is a fast, secure standalone HTTP server written in Go (built on libvips) that resizes, processes, converts, and optimizes images … | 99 | 11126 | stable |
| dotnet/eShop A reference .NET e-commerce web application from Microsoft demonstrating a services-based architecture using .NET Aspire. It serves as an e… | 62 | 10949 | active |
| DTM DTM is a distributed transaction framework that provides cross-service eventual data consistency using saga, TCC, XA, 2-phase message, outb… | 46 | 10919 | stable |
| dotnet/orleans Microsoft Orleans is a cross-platform .NET framework for building robust, scalable distributed applications using the Virtual Actor Model. … | 99 | 10906 | stable |
| 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 |
| Activiti Activiti is a lightweight, open-source Business Process Management (BPM) platform whose core is a fast BPMN 2.0 process engine for Java. It… | 92 | 10543 | active |
| TARS Tars is a high-performance RPC framework based on name service and the Tars protocol, with an integrated administration platform and flexib… | 61 | 10084 | stable |
| Cadence Cadence is an open-source, CNCF-hosted durable execution and workflow orchestration engine originally developed at Uber. It lets developers… | 98 | 9482 | stable |
| rpcx rpcx is a high-performance distributed RPC framework for Go, comparable to Alibaba Dubbo but designed natively for Go without requiring pro… | 75 | 8319 | active |
| dotnetcore/CAP CAP is a .NET library providing a lightweight event bus and a distributed transaction solution based on the Outbox pattern (local message t… | 91 | 7112 | active |
| Rainbond Rainbond is an open-source, application-centric container management platform built on Kubernetes that lets teams build, deploy, and operat… | 99 | 6272 | active |
| Motan Motan is a cross-language remote procedure call (RPC) framework for rapidly building high-performance distributed services, originally deve… | 46 | 5865 | 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 |
| changmingxie/tcc-transaction tcc-transaction is a Java framework implementing TCC (Try-Confirm-Cancel) distributed transactions for microservice architectures. It coord… | 23 | 5758 | stable |
| Discovery Nepxion Discovery is a cloud-native microservice governance framework for Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Alibaba. It provides blue-green and… | 46 | 5752 | active |
| Mikaelemmmm/go-zero-looklook A full-stack microservices reference project built on the go-zero framework in Go, demonstrating best practices with API/RPC/MQ services an… | 66 | 5205 | active |
| sofastack/sofa-boot SOFABoot is an open-source Java framework built on top of Spring Boot, fully compatible with it, that adds production-grade enhancements su… | 61 | 5069 | active |
| Jupiter Jupiter is a governance-oriented microservice framework for Go, developed and used in production at Douyu. It bundles web/gRPC servers, con… | 72 | 4567 | active |
| Restate Restate is a lightweight distributed runtime that turns backend services, workflows, and AI agents into durable processes with automatic re… | 98 | 4536 | active |
| camunda/camunda Camunda 8 is a process orchestration framework whose orchestration cluster includes the Zeebe cloud-native BPMN/DMN engine, plus Tasklist, … | 96 | 4327 | active |
| OSv OSv is an open-source modular unikernel operating system designed to run single unmodified Linux applications securely as microVMs on top o… | 67 | 4262 | active |
| dromara/hmily Hmily is a financial-grade flexible distributed transaction framework for Java, supporting TCC, TAC, and XA transaction patterns. It integr… | 32 | 4159 | active |
| hashicorp/memberlist A Go library implementing gossip-based cluster membership and node failure detection, based on the SWIM protocol with Lifeguard extensions.… | 89 | 4117 | stable |
| sofastack/sofa-rpc SOFARPC is a high-performance, highly extensible, production-grade Java RPC framework developed and battle-tested at Ant Financial for over… | 88 | 3920 | stable |
| helidon-io/helidon Helidon is an open-source Java framework of libraries for writing cloud-native microservices, offering both a lightweight Helidon SE API an… | 99 | 3837 | active |
| TARS TarsGo is a high-performance RPC and microservice framework for Go built on the Tars protocol, part of the Linux Foundation's Tars project.… | 35 | 3371 | stable |
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed e-commerce demo system illustrating OpenTelemetry instrumentation across… | 92 | 3364 | active |
| sqshq/piggymetrics PiggyMetrics is a personal financial advisor application built as a reference implementation of the microservice architecture pattern using… | 23 | 13965 | maintenance |
| Tencent/spring-cloud-tencent Spring Cloud Tencent is a Spring Cloud-based service governance framework from Tencent that implements the standard Spring Cloud SPI and in… | 95 | 3297 | active |
| Azure Service Fabric Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful microservices and containers… | 75 | 3065 | active |
| originjs/vite-plugin-federation A Vite and Rollup plugin that implements Module Federation, allowing multiple frontend applications to share code and modules at runtime. I… | 40 | 3046 | active |
| kcp-dev/kcp kcp is a horizontally scalable, Kubernetes-like control plane that provides many isolated 'workspaces', each acting as its own lightweight … | 99 | 2841 | active |
| lovoo/goka Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go. It extends Kafka consumer groups by bi… | 88 | 2548 | active |
| wasmCloud wasmCloud is a CNCF incubating cloud native platform for building, deploying, and orchestrating WebAssembly component workloads across clou… | 100 | 2460 | active |
| dashersw/cote cote is a Node.js library for building zero-configuration microservices with automatic service discovery. It provides Responder/Requester, … | 57 | 2386 | stable |
| free5GC free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G mobile core network (5GC) compliant with 3GPP Release 15/17, developed as a Linux Founda… | 93 | 2358 | active |
| Spring Petclinic Microservices A distributed version of the Spring PetClinic sample application built with Spring Cloud, demonstrating microservices architecture with ser… | 66 | 2207 | active |
| Particular/NServiceBus NServiceBus is a .NET messaging framework for building distributed systems and async microservices, providing abstractions over message que… | 96 | 2171 | stable |
| bitwalker/libcluster An Elixir library that automatically forms and heals clusters of Erlang nodes using pluggable strategies such as EPMD, multicast UDP gossip… | 32 | 2160 | stable |
| Kamaji Kamaji is a Kubernetes operator that manages hosted Kubernetes control planes, running control plane components as pods inside a management… | 95 | 2046 | active |
| Apache Seata Seata-go is the Go implementation of Apache Seata, a distributed transaction framework for microservices architectures. It interoperates wi… | 79 | 1738 | active |
| TraceMachina/nativelink NativeLink is a high-performance remote build cache and remote execution server written in Rust, speaking the open Remote Execution API. It… | 100 | 1621 | active |
| Kyma Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks for developing and running enterprise-grade cloud-native application… | 66 | 1561 | active |
| EdgeX Foundry EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open source framework for IoT edge computing, and this repository contains the Go implementation of its c… | 81 | 1548 | active |
| liquidmetal-dev/flintlock Flintlock is a Go service for creating and managing the lifecycle of microVMs on a host machine, backed by containerd and supporting Firecr… | 99 | 1518 | active |
| elixir-horde/horde Horde is an Elixir library providing a distributed supervisor (Horde.DynamicSupervisor) and distributed registry (Horde.Registry) built on … | 69 | 1506 | 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 |
| MultiPaper/MultiPaper MultiPaper is a fork of Purpur (Paper) for Minecraft that lets a single world run across multiple coordinated Minecraft servers, with a Mul… | 29 | 1477 | 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 |
| 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 |
| DBOS Transact DBOS Transact is an open-source library (Python and TypeScript SDKs) that adds lightweight durable workflows to applications by checkpointi… | 96 | 1389 | active |
| Spring Cloud Microservices Demo A demo/sample project showcasing Spring Boot and Spring Cloud microservices patterns including service discovery, API gateway, distributed … | 75 | 1389 | active |
| spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix Spring Cloud Netflix provides Spring Boot autoconfiguration and integrations for Netflix OSS components such as Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Ribb… | 92 | 4967 | maintenance |
| sermant-io/Sermant Sermant is a CNCF Sandbox proxyless service mesh built on Java bytecode enhancement (JavaAgent) technology. It adds service governance capa… | 56 | 1345 | active |
| XTXMarkets/ternfs TernFS is an exabyte-scale, multi-region distributed file system written in C++, designed for storing large immutable files on commodity ha… | 60 | 1342 | active |
| VirtoCommerce/vc-platform Virto Commerce is an open-source, headless ecommerce platform for building extensible B2B, B2C, and B2B2C digital commerce solutions, marke… | 94 | 1312 | stable |
| AElfProject/AElf aelf is a cloud-native layer-1 blockchain network written in C# that achieves scalability through a mainchain plus multi-dAppChain (sidecha… | 83 | 1268 | active |
| Open Liberty Open Liberty is a lightweight, composable Java application server runtime for building cloud-native microservices with MicroProfile and Jak… | 96 | 1267 | active |
| Coffeeshop Demo A practical event-driven microservices demo application for a coffee shop, written in Go with services for products, counter, barista, and … | 23 | 4358 | maintenance |
| trpc-group/trpc-go tRPC-Go is the Go implementation of the tRPC framework, a pluggable, high-performance RPC framework for building microservices. It supports… | 75 | 1208 | active |
| Netflix/dynomite Dynomite is a thin distributed Dynamo layer that adds sharding, multi-datacenter replication, and high availability to storage engines like… | 23 | 4215 | maintenance |
| Temporal Python SDK The official Temporal SDK for Python, a framework for authoring durable workflows and activities that execute as fault-tolerant, long-runni… | 98 | 1205 | active |
| EdwinVW/pitstop Pitstop is a sample Garage Management System application demonstrating software-architecture concepts such as microservices, CQRS, event so… | 76 | 1162 | active |
| somta/Juggle Juggle is a zero-code/low-code API orchestration and system integration platform for composing microservice interfaces into complex flows v… | 87 | 1150 | active |
| Seneca Seneca is a microservices toolkit for Node.js that lets you organize business logic as message-based commands selected by JSON pattern matc… | 63 | 3956 | maintenance |
| apache/celeborn Apache Celeborn is an elastic, high-performance intermediate data service for big data compute engines, focused on managing shuffle and spi… | 90 | 1066 | 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 |
| mehdihadeli/food-delivery-microservices A practical, cloud-native food delivery application built with .NET Aspire and .NET 10, demonstrating microservices architecture using Doma… | 77 | 1010 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Bastion Bastion is a highly-available, fault-tolerant runtime for Rust that provides actor-model-like concurrency with lightweight processes, super… | 23 | 2918 | maintenance |
| liuyangming/ByteTCC ByteTCC is a distributed transaction manager for Java based on the Try-Confirm-Cancel (TCC) compensating transaction mechanism, compatible … | 23 | 2863 | maintenance |
| notadd/notadd Notadd is an open-source microservice development architecture built on Nest.js, using TypeScript, GraphQL, TypeORM, gRPC, and Redis. It pr… | 10 | 2827 | maintenance |
| 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 |
| Project Flogo Project Flogo is an ultra-light, Go-based open source ecosystem for building event-driven applications using triggers and actions. It suppo… | 23 | 2489 | maintenance |
| AppScale/gts AppScale GTS is an open-source serverless platform for building and running scalable web and mobile applications on any infrastructure. It … | 23 | 2421 | 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 |
| Atomix Atomix is a cloud native runtime and toolkit for building stateful, scalable distributed applications on Kubernetes. It exposes high-level … | 23 | 2359 | maintenance |
| QNJR-GROUP/EasyTransaction EasyTransaction is a Java/Spring framework providing a unified solution for distributed transactions across microservices and SOA systems. … | 23 | 2348 | maintenance |
| lipp/login-with A stateless microservice that handles 'login-with' OAuth authentication for providers like Twitter, Google, GitHub, and Facebook. On succes… | 32 | 2344 | maintenance |
| bz51/SpringBoot-Dubbo-Docker-Jenkins A SpringBoot + Dubbo microservices framework scaffold demonstrating containerized deployment with Docker and automated builds with Jenkins.… | 32 | 2234 | maintenance |
| zhangxd1989/spring-boot-cloud A microservices reference project built on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring OAuth2, and Spring Cloud Netflix (Eureka, Zuul, Hystrix, Ribbo… | 32 | 2125 | maintenance |
| traefik/mesh Traefik Mesh is a simple, full-featured service mesh for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification. It uses… | 52 | 2102 | maintenance |
| dromara/raincat Raincat is a strongly consistent distributed transaction framework for Java, implementing TCC-style transactions across RPC frameworks. It … | 32 | 1905 | maintenance |
| nocalhost/nocalhost Nocalhost is a cloud-native development tool consisting of a CLI (nhctl) and IDE extensions for VS Code and JetBrains that lets developers … | 76 | 1893 | maintenance |
| bilibili/discovery Discovery is Bilibili's production-ready service registry used for locating middle-tier servers to enable resilient load balancing and fail… | 23 | 1803 | maintenance |
| orbit/orbit Orbit is a virtual actor framework for the JVM (Java/Kotlin) for building distributed systems, originally developed by Electronic Arts. It … | 23 | 1730 | maintenance |
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