Open source cloud-native projects
Every project in the registry tagged cloud-native, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Lightning-fast analytics for massive datasets
High-performance vector database for GenAI applications
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
Scale-out SQL database for real-time analytics
Time-series database and historian for industrial data
Collect, transform, and route logs and metrics in one tool
High-performance API gateway with built-in LLM support
Apache DolphinScheduler is the modern data orchestration platform. Agile to create high performance workflow with low-code
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
Accelerate backend development with effortless scalability
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
The Cloud Native Control Plane
eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via MCP and hu
Meshery, the cloud native manager
Lightning-fast search for massive datasets
High-performance distributed database for all workloads
Cloud-native data warehouse for lightning-fast analytics
🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway
A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible
Unified observability database for metrics, logs, and traces
🏖️ A serverless, open-source file hosting solution built on Cloudflare. Supports image hosting, secure file storage, and personal cloud drive capabilities.
Build scalable authorization in minutes, not months
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Free IDE for Kubernetes
Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
Open-Source Personal Cloud OS for Always-On Agents
🦀 event stream processing for developers to collect and transform data in motion to power responsive data intensive applications.
Fullstack Workspace for Humans & Machines
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
The missing open-source Kubernetes UI with a built-in MCP server for AI agents. See what's broken, why, and what changed. Issues, Topology, event timeline, Helm
Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage
A powerful and easy-to-use Go development framework that enables you to effortlessly build stable, reliable, and high-performance backend services with a "low-c
Blazing-fast API gateway with linear scalability
KCL Programming Language Core and API (CNCF Sandbox Project). https://kcl-lang.io
Cloud-native framework for infrastructure from code
kubewall - Kubernetes Dashboard for Multi-Cluster Management Real-Time, Self-Hosted, Single Binary, AI-powered. Manage, monitor & debug K8s clusters in your bro
A QoS-based scheduling system brings optimal layout and status to workloads such as microservices, web services, big data jobs, AI jobs, etc.
Intelligence for Kubernetes. World's most promising Kubernetes Visualization Tool for Developer and Platform Engineering teams.
Kubevious - Kubernetes without disasters
The Stack Overflow clone for your team (self-hosted or hosted)
Cloud-agnostic managed Kubernetes
Kuvasz (pronounce as [ˈkuvɒs]) is an open-source uptime and SSL monitoring service, with multiple notification channels, status pages, IAC support via YAML, Pro
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source cloud-native projects are there?
This registry tracks 43 projects tagged cloud-native, with 471,072 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is ClickHouse at 49,951 stars.
Are these cloud-native projects free to use?
Yes — 42 of the 43 carry an explicit open-source licence across 5 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which cloud-native project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these cloud-native projects still maintained?
39 of the 43 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.