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Containerization projects on GitHub

Packaging applications and environments into containers

As of , the most-starred Containerization projects on GitHub are awesome-compose (46.6K stars), cua (30.1K stars) and slim (23.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Containerization repositories with 204.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was cua, with +123 stars in a day.

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204.9KStars in total
+162Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+123

cua

trycua/cua · ★ 30.1K

An open-source stack for computer-use AI agents: desktop automation drivers, isolated cloud desktops, local macOS VMs, small specialist decision models, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation.

+11

awesome-compose

docker/awesome-compose · ★ 46.6K

Awesome Compose is a curated list of Docker Compose samples: ready-made project setups showing how to integrate different services via a Compose file and manage their deployment with Docker Compose.

+8

slim

slimtoolkit/slim · ★ 23.4K

SlimToolkit (formerly DockerSlim) is a free, open-source CLI toolkit that inspects, optimizes and debugs container images. It can shrink an image by up to 30x without you changing anything in your Dockerfile — and makes the result more secure too.

+6

docker-minecraft-server

itzg/docker-minecraft-server · ★ 14.4K

A Docker image that runs a Minecraft Java Edition server — at startup it automatically installs and upgrades the server version, modloaders, and modpacks for you.

The all-time top

10 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · docker/awesome-compose

    awesome-compose

    Awesome Compose is a curated list of Docker Compose samples: ready-made project setups showing how to integrate different services via a Compose file and manage their deployment with Docker Compose.

    46.6K
  2. #2 · trycua/cua

    cua

    An open-source stack for computer-use AI agents: desktop automation drivers, isolated cloud desktops, local macOS VMs, small specialist decision models, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation.

    30.1K
  3. #3 · slimtoolkit/slim

    slim

    SlimToolkit (formerly DockerSlim) is a free, open-source CLI toolkit that inspects, optimizes and debugs container images. It can shrink an image by up to 30x without you changing anything in your Dockerfile — and makes the result more secure too.

    23.4K
  1. 4

    distroless

    23.1KGoogleContainerTools/distroless · Starlark

    A set of minimal container base images that contain only your application and its runtime dependencies — no package managers, shells or other programs you would expect in a normal Linux distribution.

  2. 5

    containerd

    21.4Kcontainerd/containerd · Go

    containerd is an industry-standard container runtime — a daemon for Linux and Windows that manages the complete container lifecycle of its host: image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision, and low-level storage and network attachments. It's a CNCF graduated project.

  3. 6

    kaniko

    15.8KGoogleContainerTools/kaniko · Go

    It builds container images from a Dockerfile inside a container or Kubernetes cluster, without needing a Docker daemon — handy in places where a daemon can't run securely, like a standard Kubernetes cluster.

  4. 7

    docker-minecraft-server

    14.4Kitzg/docker-minecraft-server · Shell

    A Docker image that runs a Minecraft Java Edition server — at startup it automatically installs and upgrades the server version, modloaders, and modpacks for you.

  5. 8

    bocker

    12.7Kp8952/bocker · Shell

    Bocker is a minimal reimplementation of Docker written in roughly 100 lines of bash, built to demonstrate how core container functionality works under the hood.

  6. 9

    skopeo

    11.3Kpodman-container-tools/skopeo · Go

    Skopeo is a command-line tool for working with remote container image registries: inspecting, copying, deleting, and syncing images without needing to pull them to the host.

  7. 10

    emdash

    6Kgeneralaction/emdash · TypeScript

    Emdash is an open-source desktop app for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel, each isolated in its own Git worktree so you can compare diffs and merge what works.

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