Open-source go software
3291 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged go, ranked by how closely go 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.
3291 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubeshark/kubeshark Kubeshark is an eBPF-powered network observability tool for Kubernetes that indexes cluster-wide L4/L7 traffic with full Kubernetes context… | 99 | 12101 | active |
| Meshery Meshery is an open-source, self-service engineering platform for collaboratively designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes and cloud na… | 95 | 12014 | active |
| BishopFox/sliver Sliver is an open-source cross-platform adversary emulation and red team framework written in Go. It generates dynamically compiled implant… | 98 | 11996 | active |
| shirou/gopsutil gopsutil is a Go port of Python's psutil library for retrieving system information such as CPU, memory, disk, network, and process metrics.… | 98 | 11931 | stable |
| Bubble Tea Lip Gloss is a Go library for styling and laying out terminal output with a declarative, CSS-like API. It handles colors (ANSI through true… | 92 | 11912 | active |
| Netmaker Netmaker is an open-source platform that automates the creation and management of WireGuard-based virtual mesh networks, from homelab to en… | 93 | 11826 | active |
| Kubescape Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform (a CNCF incubating project) offering misconfiguration scanning, vulnerability asse… | 100 | 11815 | active |
| go-resty/resty Resty is a simple HTTP, REST, and SSE client library for Go with a fluent API. It provides middleware, retries with backoff, circuit breaki… | 93 | 11814 | active |
| quic-go/quic-go quic-go is a production-ready, pure Go implementation of the QUIC transport protocol (RFC 9000/9001/9002) with support for HTTP/3, datagram… | 98 | 11794 | stable |
| PipedreamHQ/pipedream Pipedream is a hosted integration platform for developers to connect APIs and build event-driven automations using pre-built components plu… | 75 | 11707 | active |
| Pyroscope Grafana Pyroscope is an open-source continuous profiling platform and database that aggregates, stores, and queries profiling data (CPU, me… | 99 | 11699 | active |
| 0xJacky/nginx-ui Nginx UI is a self-hosted web interface for managing Nginx servers and clusters, built with Go and Vue. It offers online config editing wit… | 95 | 11636 | active |
| owncast/owncast Owncast is a self-hosted, single-user live video streaming and chat server written in Go, offering an alternative to mainstream streaming p… | 89 | 11584 | active |
| pressly/goose goose is a database migration tool available both as a CLI binary and a Go library. It manages schema changes through incremental SQL files… | 92 | 11499 | stable |
| bufbuild/buf Buf is a modern CLI toolchain for Protocol Buffers that replaces protoc with a fast compiler plus linting, formatting, breaking-change dete… | 97 | 11477 | active |
| php/frankenphp FrankenPHP is a modern PHP application server built on top of the Caddy web server, embedding the official PHP executor in a Go binary. It … | 94 | 11361 | active |
| vCluster vCluster is an open-source tool that creates fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters, each running inside a namespace of an underlying… | 96 | 11351 | stable |
| google/go-github go-github is a Go client library for accessing the GitHub REST API v3, maintained by Google. It provides typed services for repositories, i… | 98 | 11320 | stable |
| siderolabs/talos Talos Linux is a minimal, immutable, API-managed Linux distribution purpose-built for running Kubernetes. It ships no shell, SSH, or packag… | 96 | 11246 | stable |
| bleve Bleve is a full-text indexing and search library for Go supporting text, numeric, datetime, geo-spatial, and vector fields. It provides ric… | 92 | 11230 | active |
| google/osv-scanner OSV-Scanner is Google's official CLI and Go library frontend to the OSV.dev vulnerability database, scanning project dependencies across ma… | 99 | 11184 | active |
| dexidp/dex Dex is a federated OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 identity provider that issues signed ID tokens (JWTs) for applications. It acts as a… | 94 | 11183 | stable |
| 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 |
| hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws The official Terraform provider plugin for Amazon Web Services, written in Go and maintained by HashiCorp. It enables Terraform to define, … | 95 | 11115 | stable |
| FerretDB/FerretDB FerretDB is an open-source MongoDB alternative that acts as a proxy translating the MongoDB 5.0+ wire protocol into SQL, backed by PostgreS… | 72 | 11097 | active |
| quay/clair Clair is an open-source service for static analysis of vulnerabilities in container images (OCI and Docker). It indexes image contents via … | 71 | 11065 | 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 |
| go-vgo/robotgo RobotGo is a native cross-platform Go library for desktop automation, RPA, and AI computer use. It controls the mouse and keyboard, reads t… | 98 | 10871 | active |
| Centrifugo Centrifugo is an open-source, language-agnostic real-time messaging (PUB/SUB) server written in Go that delivers messages to online users o… | 98 | 10843 | stable |
| Tyk API Gateway Tyk Gateway is a cloud-native, open-source API Gateway written in Go that supports REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC protocols. It provides rate… | 93 | 10840 | stable |
| fsnotify/fsnotify fsnotify is a Go library providing cross-platform filesystem notifications using native OS backends like inotify, kqueue, and ReadDirectory… | 71 | 10793 | stable |
| sashabaranov/go-openai An unofficial Go client library for the OpenAI API covering chat completions, the Responses API, embeddings, image generation, audio transc… | 96 | 10778 | active |
| gqlgen gqlgen is a Go library for building GraphQL servers using a schema-first approach with code generation. It generates type-safe resolvers an… | 100 | 10767 | stable |
| screego/server Screego is a self-hosted screen sharing server for developers that streams screens with low latency and high resolution over WebRTC. It sup… | 93 | 10718 | active |
| Lago Lago is an open-source metering and usage-based billing platform that ingests usage events, manages subscriptions and pricing, and generate… | 95 | 10699 | active |
| joho/godotenv A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library that loads environment variables from .env files into the process environment. It can be used as a Go li… | 81 | 10666 | stable |
| distribution/distribution The CNCF Distribution project provides the open-source Registry, a stateless, scalable server-side application implementing the OCI Distrib… | 90 | 10655 | stable |
| kubernetes/kompose Kompose is an official Kubernetes CLI tool that converts Docker Compose files into Kubernetes (or OpenShift) resource manifests such as Dep… | 77 | 10644 | 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 |
| a-h/templ templ is a typed HTML templating language for Go that compiles components into performant Go code for server-side or static rendering. It s… | 98 | 10570 | active |
| GitHub Copilot SDK A multi-platform SDK exposing the GitHub Copilot CLI agent runtime for programmatic use, with official SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, .NE… | 79 | 10557 | active |
| tylertreat/comcast Comcast is a Go CLI tool that simulates poor network conditions such as latency, bandwidth limits, and packet loss by wrapping system tools… | 25 | 10516 | stable |
| projectdiscovery/httpx httpx is a fast, multi-purpose HTTP toolkit written in Go that runs multiple probes (status codes, titles, TLS certificates, tech detection… | 94 | 10500 | active |
| esimov/caire Caire is a content-aware image resize library written in Go, based on the seam carving algorithm. It intelligently shrinks or enlarges imag… | 28 | 10461 | active |
| 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 |
| containerd/nerdctl nerdctl is a Docker-compatible command-line interface for containerd, supporting the same UI/UX as docker including Compose, BuildKit build… | 99 | 10432 | active |
| sourcegraph/conc conc is a Go library providing better structured concurrency primitives, including a panic-safe WaitGroup and concurrency-limited task pool… | 64 | 10432 | stable |
| Velero Velero is an open-source tool (formerly Heptio Ark) that backs up and restores Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes, support… | 94 | 10337 | stable |
| Nezha Monitoring Nezha Monitoring is a self-hosted, lightweight server and website monitoring and O&M platform consisting of a central dashboard and lightwe… | 92 | 10329 | active |
| Moby BuildKit is a concurrent, cache-efficient toolkit for converting source code into build artifacts such as OCI container images. It powers D… | 94 | 10307 | stable |
| pinchtab/pinchtab PinchTab is a standalone Go HTTP server that gives AI agents direct control over Chrome via CDP, with stealth injection and multi-instance … | 79 | 10299 | active |
| gwuhaolin/livego Livego is a simple, high-performance live video streaming server written in pure Go. It accepts RTMP pushes and serves playback over RTMP, … | 44 | 10183 | active |
| graphql-go graphql-go/graphql is a Go implementation of the GraphQL specification, following the official graphql-js reference implementation. It supp… | 59 | 10142 | stable |
| go-swagger/go-swagger A Go implementation of the Swagger 2.0 (OpenAPI 2.0) specification with a CLI tool for working with swagger specs. It generates servers, cl… | 97 | 10006 | active |
| lib/pq lib/pq is a pure Go PostgreSQL driver for the standard database/sql package. It supports all maintained PostgreSQL versions and libpq-compa… | 85 | 9967 | stable |
| go-acme/lego Lego is an ACME client and Go library for obtaining, renewing, and revoking TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and other ACME CAs. It supp… | 98 | 9938 | active |
| ltaoo/wx_channels_download A small desktop application that downloads videos from WeChat Channels (视频号) by injecting a download button into the WeChat PC client via a… | 88 | 9927 | active |
| Watermill Watermill is a Go library for building event-driven and message-driven applications over a unified Pub/Sub API. It supports Kafka, RabbitMQ… | 89 | 9910 | active |
| kubernetes/client-go The official Go client library for the Kubernetes API, providing typed clientsets, a dynamic client, API discovery, authentication plugins,… | 77 | 9908 | stable |
| Terragrunt Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that lets Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform scale, adding a configuration an… | 94 | 9883 | stable |
| gorse-io/gorse Gorse is an AI-powered open-source recommender system engine written in Go that ingests items, users, and interaction feedback and automati… | 95 | 9876 | active |
| gomodule/redigo Redigo is a Go client library for the Redis and Valkey databases, providing a Print-like API supporting all Redis commands. It includes con… | 43 | 9848 | stable |
| Miniflux Miniflux is a minimalist, opinionated, self-hosted RSS/Atom/JSON Feed reader written in Go with PostgreSQL as its only dependency. It empha… | 100 | 9810 | stable |
| etcd-io/bbolt bbolt is an embedded, pure-Go key/value database forked from Ben Johnson's Bolt, maintained by the etcd-io project for reliability and stab… | 89 | 9779 | stable |
| tidwall/tile38 Tile38 is an open-source, in-memory geospatial database and real-time geofencing server written in Go. It supports spatial indexing of poin… | 89 | 9739 | active |
| tmc/langchaingo Langchaingo is the Go language port of LangChain, providing composable building blocks for writing LLM-powered applications in Go. It offer… | 87 | 9712 | active |
| anchore/syft Syft is a CLI tool and Go library that generates Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) documents from container images, filesystems, and archiv… | 99 | 9663 | active |
| pocket-id/pocket-id Pocket ID is a self-hosted, OpenID Connect Certified identity provider that lets users sign in to applications using passkeys instead of pa… | 86 | 9626 | active |
| bytedance/sonic Sonic is a high-performance JSON serialization and deserialization library for Go, accelerated by JIT compilation and SIMD instructions. It… | 96 | 9615 | active |
| Higress Higress is a CNCF Sandbox, cloud-native AI-native API gateway built on Istio and Envoy, extensible with Wasm plugins written in Go, Rust, o… | 99 | 9568 | active |
| CFSSL CFSSL is Cloudflare's PKI/TLS toolkit for signing, verifying, and bundling TLS certificates, available as both a command line tool and an H… | 98 | 9483 | stable |
| Model Context Protocol (MCP) Reference implementations of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers demonstrating how AI applications can securely access tools and data sour… | 82 | 9483 | active |
| Cadence Cadence is an open-source, CNCF-hosted durable execution and workflow orchestration engine originally developed at Uber. It lets developers… | 98 | 9482 | stable |
| goplus/xgo XGo is a programming language that reads like plain English while remaining fully compatible with Go, allowing Go/XGo code to be mixed in t… | 95 | 9481 | active |
| hybridgroup/gobot Gobot is a Go framework for robotics, physical computing, drones, and IoT, supporting 35+ hardware platforms including Arduino, Raspberry P… | 51 | 9476 | active |
| CloudNativePG CloudNativePG is an open-source Kubernetes operator that manages the full lifecycle of highly available PostgreSQL clusters using native st… | 98 | 9440 | stable |
| highlight/highlight highlight.io is an open-source, full-stack monitoring platform combining session replay, error monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing… | 79 | 9384 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder Kubebuilder is an SDK and scaffolding framework for building Kubernetes APIs and controllers in Go using custom resource definitions (CRDs)… | 94 | 9351 | stable |
| Atlantis Atlantis is a self-hosted Go application that automates Terraform workflows through pull requests. It listens for webhook events from GitHu… | 100 | 9332 | stable |
| CoAI.Dev (Chat Nio) CoAI.Dev is a self-hostable, multi-tenant AI platform combining a ChatGPT-style chat UI with an enterprise-grade unified LLM gateway suppor… | 50 | 9323 | active |
| Berty Berty is an open-source, peer-to-peer messaging app with end-to-end encryption that works with or without internet access, using libp2p, IP… | 93 | 9314 | active |
| pprof pprof is a tool for visualization and analysis of profiling data stored in profile.proto format. It generates text and graphical reports (f… | 77 | 9301 | active |
| bitnami/sealed-secrets A Kubernetes controller plus the kubeseal CLI that lets you encrypt Kubernetes Secrets into one-way encrypted SealedSecrets that are safe t… | 97 | 9300 | 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… | 96 | 9285 | active |
| mattn/go-sqlite3 A SQLite3 driver for Go that conforms to the built-in database/sql interface, implemented as a cgo package bundling the SQLite amalgamation… | 96 | 9242 | stable |
| golang-jwt/jwt A Go library for creating, signing, parsing, and verifying JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) per RFC 7519. It is the community-maintained successor to… | 75 | 9241 | stable |
| everywall/ladder Ladder is a self-hosted Go web proxy that removes CORS and other headers (like CSP) and modifies HTML/CSS/JS in responses, serving as an al… | 84 | 9173 | active |
| Raft A Go library implementing the Raft consensus protocol for managing a replicated log and replicated state machines. It enables building cons… | 87 | 9146 | stable |
| mark3labs/mcp-go A Go SDK implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting developers build MCP servers that expose tools, resources, and prompts to L… | 82 | 9132 | active |
| kubernetes-sigs/external-dns ExternalDNS is a Kubernetes controller that synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with external DNS providers such as AWS … | 99 | 9125 | stable |
| 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 |
| mvdan/sh A Go library and CLI tool (shfmt) that parses, formats, and interprets shell scripts supporting POSIX Shell, Bash, Zsh, and mksh. It expose… | 86 | 9072 | active |
| onsi/ginkgo Ginkgo is a mature BDD-style testing framework for Go that builds on Go's native testing package. It provides an expressive DSL for structu… | 96 | 9058 | stable |
| podman-container-tools/buildah Buildah is a command-line tool for building OCI and Docker container images, either from Dockerfiles/Containerfiles or programmatically via… | 97 | 9054 | stable |
| immudb immudb is an open-source immutable database written in Go that stores data in SQL, key-value, or document models while guaranteeing tamper-… | 92 | 9042 | stable |
| teamhanko/hanko Hanko is an open-source authentication and user management platform built in Go, offering passwords, passkeys (WebAuthn/FIDO2), MFA, OAuth … | 95 | 9041 | active |
| GoAdmin GoAdmin is a Go framework for rapidly building data visualization and admin panel applications, inspired by laravel-admin. It provides an o… | 32 | 9012 | active |
| kubernetes/autoscaler The official Kubernetes autoscaling repository containing the Cluster Autoscaler, Vertical Pod Autoscaler, and Addon Resizer components. It… | 95 | 8998 | stable |
| Bubble Tea Bubbles is a collection of ready-made TUI components (spinner, text input, textarea, table, and more) for building terminal applications wi… | 96 | 8984 | active |
| Yearning Yearning is a self-hosted web-based SQL audit platform for MySQL, providing audit tickets with approval workflows, automated syntax checkin… | 75 | 8969 | active |