Awesome Open Source K8s And Container Tools

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1 - Kubernetes ⭐️ 109.2K 🚀 39.1K 💥 2.5K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

2 - Netdata ⭐️ 70.1K 🚀 5.8K 💥 215 🪪 GNU General Public License v3.0

The open-source observability platfrom everyone needs!

3 - Grafana ⭐️ 63.3K 🚀 11.8K 💥 4.1K 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

4 - Prometheus ⭐️ 54.3K 🚀 8.9K 💥 906 🪪 Apache License 2.0

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

5 - Act ⭐️ 53.3K 🚀 1.3K 💥 198 🪪 MIT License

Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

6 - Traefik ⭐️ 49.6K 🚀 4.9K 💥 660 🪪 MIT License

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

7 - Etcd ⭐️ 47.1K 🚀 9.6K 💥 368 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

8 - Minio ⭐️ 46.1K 🚀 5.3K 💥 34 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.

9 - Dive ⭐️ 45.0K 🚀 1.7K 💥 197 🪪 MIT License

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

10 - Lazydocker ⭐️ 35.8K 🚀 1.1K 💥 157 🪪 MIT License

The lazier way to manage everything docker

11 - Istio ⭐️ 35.5K 🚀 7.6K 💥 576 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

12 - Compose ⭐️ 33.3K 🚀 5.1K 💥 251 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

13 - Portainer ⭐️ 30.1K 🚀 2.4K 💥 642 🪪 zlib License

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

14 - Nacos ⭐️ 29.8K 🚀 12.7K 💥 244 🪪 Apache License 2.0

an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications.

15 - Minikube ⭐️ 29.0K 🚀 4.8K 💥 721 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Run Kubernetes locally

16 - Consul ⭐️ 28.1K 🚀 4.4K 💥 1.2K 🪪 Other

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

17 - K3s ⭐️ 27.3K 🚀 2.3K 💥 138 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Lightweight Kubernetes

18 - Helm ⭐️ 26.6K 🚀 7.0K 💥 710 🪪 Apache License 2.0

The Kubernetes Package Manager

19 - Dokku ⭐️ 26.5K 🚀 1.8K 💥 53 🪪 MIT License

A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

20 - K9s ⭐️ 26.1K 🚀 1.6K 💥 557 🪪 Apache License 2.0

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

21 - Faas ⭐️ 24.8K 🚀 1.9K 💥 37 🪪 MIT License

OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple

22 - Envoy ⭐️ 24.4K 🚀 4.7K 💥 1.6K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

23 - K6 ⭐️ 24.2K 🚀 1.2K 💥 390 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - https://k6.io

24 - Dapr ⭐️ 23.7K 🚀 1.8K 💥 408 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

25 - Harbor ⭐️ 23.3K 🚀 4.6K 💥 639 🪪 Apache License 2.0

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

26 - Loki ⭐️ 23.1K 🚀 3.3K 💥 1.7K 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Like Prometheus, but for logs.

27 - Rancher ⭐️ 23.1K 🚀 2.9K 💥 2.9K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Complete container management platform

28 - Podman ⭐️ 22.7K 🚀 2.3K 💥 633 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

29 - Trivy ⭐️ 22.5K 🚀 2.2K 💥 213 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

30 - Lens ⭐️ 22.3K 🚀 1.4K 💥 1.0K 🪪 MIT License

Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

31 - Opentofu ⭐️ 22.2K 🚀 836 💥 206 🪪 Mozilla Public License 2.0

OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.

32 - Pulumi ⭐️ 20.7K 🚀 1.0K 💥 2.0K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

33 - Jaeger ⭐️ 20.0K 🚀 2.3K 💥 269 🪪 Apache License 2.0

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

34 - Cilium ⭐️ 19.5K 🚀 2.8K 💥 1.1K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

35 - Slim ⭐️ 19.1K 🚀 711 💥 181 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)