Open source containers projects
Every project in the registry tagged containers, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Self-hosted mini-PaaS for deploying applications easily
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
Complete container management platform
Infrastructure as code in your favorite language
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime
Free IDE for Kubernetes
A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨
Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
Open source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Continuous profiling for analysis of CPU and memory usage, down to the line number and throughout time. Saving infrastructure cost, improving performance, and i
Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start
Better Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes - smart grouping, AI enrichment, and automatic remediation
Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large
An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes.
Docker environment for developing, deploying, and running Frappe applications (ERPNext and custom apps) in production and development
GPU orchestration across clouds, Kubernetes, and on-prem
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
Simplify container deployment across environments
Kubevious - Kubernetes without disasters
🧵 CLI tool for directly patching container images!
Automatic Tailscale reverse proxy for Docker containers. Zero sidecars. Label-based config. Automatic HTTPS.
Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂
An application for automated Docker container updates with a web UI
Qtap: An eBPF agent that captures pre-encrypted network traffic, providing rich context about egress connections and their originating processes.
Expose Docker containers as Tailscale Services using label-based configuration.
OWASP dep-scan is a next-generation security and risk audit tool based on known vulnerabilities, advisories, and license limitations for project dependencies. B
Deploy, use, and share web apps on a server you control. Your apps, data, and infrastructure stay yours.
Browse the sample apps demonstrating Aspire integration across C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, containers, databases, cloud, AI, and observability scena
Creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate in your CI
🚀 Geodesic is a DevOps Linux Toolbox in Docker
Give the agent a machine. Just not yours. Each AI coding agent gets its own isolated machine with root, Docker, and systemd - active defense detects and stops t
Give each AI agent its own isolated machine with root, Docker, and systemd. Active defense detects and stops threats automatically.
Simplify server management with an intuitive interface
Backend.AI is a streamlined, container-based computing cluster platform that hosts popular computing/ML frameworks and diverse programming languages, with plugg
A lightweight container-based network emulation system.
🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes
vArmor is a cloud-native container hardening system that leverages AppArmor/BPF/Seccomp and NetworkProxy technologies to enforce access control from system call
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source containers projects are there?
This registry tracks 48 projects tagged containers, with 551,594 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is kubernetes at 128,825 stars.
Are these containers projects free to use?
Yes — 47 of the 48 carry an explicit open-source licence across 7 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 containers 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 containers projects still maintained?
46 of the 48 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.