Open source kubernetes projects
Every project in the registry tagged kubernetes, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Real-time monitoring for systems and applications
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
Build internal tools rapidly without coding
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access
Self-hosted mini-PaaS for deploying applications easily
Secure secret management for modern development teams
The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.
Take control of your identity with a secure, flexible solution
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
Complete container management platform
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
High-performance time series database for metrics and logs
High-performance API gateway with built-in LLM support
Scalable open-source distributed storage system
Secure, Fast, and Extensible Sandbox runtime for AI agents.
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.
mall-swarm是一套微服务商城系统,采用了 Spring Cloud Alibaba、Spring Boot 3.5、Sa-Token、MyBatis、Elasticsearch、Docker、Kubernetes等核心技术,同时提供了基于Vue的管理后台方便快速搭建系统。mall-swarm在电商业务的基础集成
Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM servic
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
OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Universal API management for REST, GraphQL, gRPC & async
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
Full-stack observability without the enterprise price tag
Fully automated homelab from empty disk to running services with a single command.
The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL backup tool with Point-In-Time-Recovery and restore verification
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by
Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Unified Policy as Code
Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone
Open-source cloud communications platform for developers
Simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility
The Modern Application Platform.
A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible
Cloud native networking and network security
Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data
Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute
Build scalable authorization in minutes, not months
Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)
Free IDE for Kubernetes
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source kubernetes projects are there?
This registry tracks 165 projects tagged kubernetes, with 1,434,745 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is kubernetes at 128,842 stars.
Are these kubernetes projects free to use?
Yes — 160 of the 165 carry an explicit open-source licence across 6 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 kubernetes 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 kubernetes projects still maintained?
151 of the 165 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.