Awesome Cloud Native

A curated list of open-source cloud native tools, software, and tutorials.

Cloud Native is a behavior and design philosophy. At its essence, any behavior or approach that improves resource utilization and application delivery efficiency in the cloud is called Cloud Native.

Contents

• AI
• API Gateway
• Application Delivery
• Big Data
• Database
• Edge Computing
• Kubernetes Operators
• Logging
• Message Broker
• Miscellaneous
• Monitoring
• Network
• Observability
• Orchestration and Scheduler
• Proxy and Load Balancer
• RPC
• Runtime
• Security and Audit
• Service Mesh
• Service Registry and Discovery
• Serverless
• Stability
• Storage
• Tools
• Tracing
• Tutorials
• UI
• Community

AI

• allennlp - An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch.
• caffe2 - Caffe2 is a lightweight, modular, and scalable deep learning framework.
• elasticdl - Kubernetes-native Deep Learning Framework.
• h2o-3 - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning API For Smarter Applications (Deep Learning, Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, Generalized Linear Modeling (Logistic Regression, Elastic Net), K-Means, PCA, Stacked Ensembles.)
• jina - Cloud-native neural search framework for 𝙖𝙣𝙮 kind of data.
• keras - Keras is a high-level neural networks API, written in Python and capable of running on top of TensorFlow, CNTK, or Theano.
• kserve - Standardized Serverless ML Inference Platform on Kubernetes.
• kubedl - Run your deep learning workloads on Kubernetes more easily and efficiently.
• kubeflow - Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes.
• leaf - Open Machine Intelligence Framework for Hackers. (GPU/CPU).
• paddlepaddle - PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning: Machine Learning Framework from Industrial Practice （『飞桨』核心框架，深度学习&机器学习高性能单机、分布式训练和跨平台部署）.
• predictionio - PredictionIO, a machine learning server for developers and ML engineers.
• pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
• seldon-core - A framework to deploy, manage and scale your production machine learning to thousands of models.
• sqlflow - Brings SQL and AI together.
• tensorflow - Computation using data flow graphs for scalable machine learning.

API Gateway

• alb - ALB (Another Load Balancer) is a Kubernetes Gateway powered by OpenResty with years of production experience from Alauda.
• apisix - The Cloud-Native API Gateway.
• batch-processing-gateway - The gateway component to make Spark on K8s much easier for Spark users.
• bricksllm - Enterprise-grade API gateway that helps you monitor and impose cost or rate limits per API key. Get fine-grained access control and monitoring per user, application, or environment. Supports OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, vLLM, and open-source LLMs.
• easegress - A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system.
• emissary-gateway - Open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy.
• express-gateway - A microservices API Gateway built on top of ExpressJS.
• gateway - Manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway.
• gloo - The Feature-rich, Kubernetes-native, Next-Generation API Gateway Built on Envoy.
• hango-gateway - Hango API Gateway, build on Envoy & Istio.
• haproxy-ingress - HaProxy Ingress.
• higress - Next-generation Cloud Native Gateway.
• kong - The Microservice API Gateway.
• lura - Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation.
• nginx-gateway-fabric - NGINX Gateway Fabric provides an implementation for the Gateway API using NGINX as the data plane.
• orange - OpenResty/Nginx Gateway for API Monitoring and Management.
• ocelot - .NET core API Gateway.
• tyk - Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols.

Application Delivery

• argo-cd - Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.
• argo - Get stuff done with container-native workflows for Kubernetes.
• arkade - Kubernetes apps for developers.
• armada - A python orchestrator for a installing, upgrading, and managing a collection of helm charts, dependencies, and values overrides.
• autoapply - Automatically apply changes from a git repository to Kubernetes.
• ballerina-lang - Ballerina is a new programming language for integration built on a sequence diagram metaphor.
• beetle - Kubernetes multi-cluster deployment automation service.
• binderhub - Run your code in the cloud, with technology so advanced, it feels like magic!
• build - A Kubernetes-native Build resource.
• capact - A framework to manage applications and infrastructure in a unified way.
• carvel - Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. This repo contains information regarding the Carvel open-source community.
• cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming.
• cds - Enterprise-Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform.
• charitify - Generate Helm Charts from Kubernetes objects.
• circleci - Continuous Integration and Deployment.
• cloudbase-framework - 🚀 A front-end and back-end integrated deployment tool 🔥 One-click deploy to serverless architecture. 云原生一体化部署工具 CloudBase Framework.
• cnab-spec - Cloud Native Application Bundle Specification.
• commandeer - Cloud management desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• containerops - DevOps Orchestration Platform.
• couler - Unified Interface for Constructing and Managing Workflows
• crane - Yet another control plane based on docker built-in swarmkit.
• crossplane - An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane.
• cross-cloud - Cross Cloud Continuous Integration.
• cue - Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration.
• cyclone - Powerful workflow engine and end-to-end pipeline solutions implemented with native Kubernetes resources.
• dagger - A programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers.
• devstream - DevStream: the open-source DevOps toolchain manager (DTM).
• devtron - Software Delivery Workflow For Kubernetes
• draft - A tool for developers to create cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.
• drone - Drone is a Continuous Delivery platform built on Docker, written in Go.
• fabric8 - fabric8 is an open source microservices platform based on Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins.
• flagger - Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments) .
• flux - A tool for turning container images into running Kubernetes services.
• gitkube - Gitkube: Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push.
• gockerize - Package golang service into minimal docker containers.
• habitus - A build flow tool for Docker.
• heighliner - An app development platform using cloud native stacks.
• helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.
• helm-dashboard - The missing UI for Helm - visualize your releases.
• helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts.
• helmsman - Helm Charts as Code.
• hiboot - Hiboot is a high performance web and cli application framework with dependency injection support.
• hygieia - CapitalOne DevOps Dashboard.
• hyscale - All things HyScale.
• jenkins - Jenkins automation server.
• jib - Build container images for your Java applications.
• jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language.
• jx - A command line tool for installing and working with Jenkins X.
• kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes.
• kapp - kapp is a simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label.
• kcl - KCL is a constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios. (CNCF Sandbox Project).
• kd - Minimalistic kubernetes resources deployment tool with templating.
• kdo - Deployless Development on Kubernetes.
• kedge - Kedge - Concise Application Definition for Kubernetes.
• kenyata - Automated Canary Service.
• keptn - Keptn is a control-plane for continuous delivery and operations enable cloud-native applications to run autonomously.
• kismatic - Kismatic Enterprise Toolkit: Fully-Automated, Production-Grade Kubernetes Operations.
• ko - Build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes.
• kompose - Go from Docker Compose to Kubernetes.
• kpt - Kpt is a toolkit to help you manage, manipulate, customize, and apply Kubernetes Resource configuration data files.
• kubeapps - A web-based UI for deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes clusters.
• kubegen - Kubegen – simple way to describe Kubernetes resources.
• kubernetes-deploy - A command-line tool that helps you ship changes to a Kubernetes namespace and understand the result.
• kubevela - Make shipping applications more enjoyable.
• kusion - A compile-to-cloud technology stack with tool chains and engine.
• kustomize - Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations.
• lastbackend - Container orchestration with CI&CD, cli and amazing UI.
• mkit - MKIT is a Managed Kubernetes Inspection Tool that validates several common security-related configuration settings of managed Kubernetes cluster objects and the workloads/resources running inside the cluster.
• move2kube - A tool to help users migrate their apps from legacy platforms like Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes and Openshift. Analyses the application source code and generates Kubernetes YAMLs, Helm Charts, Tekton Pipelines, etc. The analysis and generation can be heavily customized to produce the exact output that you want.
• opencompose - A higher level abstraction for Kubernetes Resource.
• opentofu - OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.
• pipeline - REST API to provision or reuse managed Kubernetes clusters in the cloud and deploy cloud native apps.
• pipeline - A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
• pipecd - The One CD for All {applications, platforms, operations} - Complete and unified CD to deploy any application to any platform
• pulumi - A multi-language, multi-cloud development platform -- your code, your cloud, your team.
• qbec - Configure kubernetes objects on multiple clusters using jsonnet.
• radius - Radius is a cloud-native, portable application platform that makes app development easier for teams building cloud-native apps.
• sealer - Seal your applications all dependencies and kubernetes into CloudImage! Build Deliver and Run user-defined clusters in one command.
• skaffold - Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development.
• smith - Smith: A microcontainer builder.
• source-to-image - A tool for building/building artifacts from source and injecting into docker images.
• spec - The Open Application Model specification.