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Container projects on GitHub
Containerization and OS-level virtualization
As of , the most-starred Container projects on GitHub are laravel (85.2K stars), Docker-OSX (53K stars) and searxng (38.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 19 Container repositories with 426.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was laravel, with +68 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18
laravel
laravel/laravel · ★ 85.2KLaravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive syntax that handles routing, dependency injection, sessions/caching, database ORM, schema migrations, background jobs, and real-time event broadcasting so you can focus on building your app.
+51searxng
searxng/searxng · ★ 38.6KSearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine: it aggregates results from various search services and databases into one results page, and users are neither tracked nor profiled.
+15open-compute
elliothux/open-compute · ★ 2Kopen-compute is a self-hosted platform that runs Cloudflare Workers code unchanged on hardware you control, reimplementing Workers, KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Cron, Cache, Images, Vectorize and AI Search as a single Rust binary.
+11ProxmoxVE
community-scripts/ProxmoxVE · ★ 29.9KA community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.
The all-time top
19 projects · by stars
- 85.2K
#1 · laravel/laravel
laravel
Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive syntax that handles routing, dependency injection, sessions/caching, database ORM, schema migrations, background jobs, and real-time event broadcasting so you can focus on building your app.
- 53K
#2 · sickcodes/Docker-OSX
Docker-OSX
Docker-OSX lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM, giving near-native performance for security research, CI/CD, and development without owning a real Mac.
- 38.6K
#3 · searxng/searxngsearxng
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine: it aggregates results from various search services and databases into one results page, and users are neither tracked nor profiled.
- 4

awesome-docker
37.1Kveggiemonk/awesome-dockerA curated ('awesome list') index of Docker-related projects and resources: engines, image builders, registries, orchestration tools, networking/security tooling, desktop/terminal UIs and learning materials.
- 5

ProxmoxVE
29.9Kcommunity-scripts/ProxmoxVE · ShellA community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.
- 6

harbor
29.6Kgoharbor/harbor · GoHarbor is an open source trusted cloud native registry that stores, signs, and scans content — mainly container images and Helm charts. It is a CNCF-hosted project.
- 7

docker_practice
26.3Kyeasy/docker_practice · GoAn open-source Chinese book that takes you from zero to real DevOps practice with Docker: core concepts, internals and hands-on skills for developers, ops engineers and architects.
- 8

docker-mailserver
19.6Kdocker-mailserver/docker-mailserver · ShellA production-ready, fullstack but simple mail server — SMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, anti-spam and anti-virus — that runs entirely inside a single Docker container.
- 9

sealos
18.4Klabring/sealos · GoSealos is an AI-native cloud operating system built on Kubernetes. It unifies the whole application lifecycle — from development in cloud IDEs to production deployment and management — targeting AI apps, SaaS platforms and microservices.
- 10

awesome-kubernetes
16.1Kramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes · ShellA curated list of the best Kubernetes resources — links, guides, and books — inspired by Sindre Sorhus' awesome lists and maintained by the community since 2015.
- 11

docker-minecraft-server
14.4Kitzg/docker-minecraft-server · ShellA Docker image that runs a Minecraft Java Edition server — at startup it automatically installs and upgrades the server version, modloaders, and modpacks for you.
- 12

CubeSandbox
13KTencentCloud/CubeSandbox · GoCubeSandbox is a high-performance, secure sandbox service for running untrusted AI agent code, built on RustVMM and KVM with hardware-isolated MicroVMs.
- 13

gatus
12.3KTwiN/gatus · GoGatus is an open-source, developer-oriented status page and health dashboard: it actively probes your services over HTTP, TCP, ICMP or DNS, shows the results on a web dashboard, and can alert you when checks fail.
- 14

WasmEdge
10.8KWasmEdge/WasmEdge · C++WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, extensible WebAssembly runtime built for cloud-native, edge, and decentralized applications, powering serverless apps, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.
- 15

tilt
10.1Ktilt-dev/tilt · GoTilt is a dev tool for microservice apps on Kubernetes: it automates the whole path from a code change to an updated process in your dev environment, so your services behave during development.
- 16

container
10Kphp-fig/container · PHPThe official PHP-FIG repository of interfaces for PSR-11, the Container Interface standard. It defines the abstractions that describe the components of a Dependency Injection Container.
- 17

open-compute
2Kelliothux/open-compute · Rustopen-compute is a self-hosted platform that runs Cloudflare Workers code unchanged on hardware you control, reimplementing Workers, KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Cron, Cache, Images, Vectorize and AI Search as a single Rust binary.
- 18

microdnf
251rpm-software-management/microdnf · Cmicrodnf is a minimal, lightweight implementation of dnf — the RPM package manager used on Fedora and RHEL — written in C and aimed mostly at Docker containers.
- 19

omnibin
145fzakaria/omnibin · Pythonomnibin is a FUSE-based lazy filesystem that puts every binary ever published across 13+ years of nixpkgs on your PATH, fetching each package's bytes from cache.nixos.org only when a file inside it is actually read.
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