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Infrastructure projects on GitHub

Platforms and tooling for managing infrastructure and internal developer services.

As of , the most-starred Infrastructure projects on GitHub are kubernetes (128.3K stars), daytona (71.5K stars) and ansible (71K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 90 Infrastructure repositories with 1.7M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was SPACE, with +529 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+529

SPACE

perplexityai/SPACE · ★ 1.1K

SPACE (Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution) is a sandbox platform that runs agent and user code inside isolated Firecracker microVMs, controlled through an HTTP API.

+34

kryvora-node

kryvora-network/kryvora-node · ★ 1.4K

It's the official client daemon for Kryvora Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN). Running it turns your machine into a verification worker that connects to the Kryvora Hub, executes telemetry probes, verifies peer state, and reports proof of availability.

+21

open-compute

elliothux/open-compute · ★ 2K

open-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.

+20

kubernetes

kubernetes/kubernetes · ★ 128.3K

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, handling the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of those applications.

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90 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · kubernetes/kubernetes

    kubernetes

    Kubernetes (K8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, handling the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of those applications.

    128.3K
  2. #2 · daytonaio/daytona

    daytona

    Daytona is a secure, elastic infrastructure runtime for running AI-generated code inside isolated sandboxes, used by agents and developers through SDKs, an API, and a CLI.

    71.5K
  3. #3 · ansible/ansible

    ansible

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system for configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc tasks, network automation, and multi-node orchestration.

    71K
  1. 4

    node

    68.3Kbase/node · Shell

    A Docker build for running a Base node. Base is a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly Ethereum L2 built on Optimism's OP Stack, with base-reth-node as the execution client and base-consensus as the consensus client.

  2. 5

    etcd

    52.4Ketcd-io/etcd · Go

    A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system, written in Go and kept consistent across machines with the Raft consensus algorithm.

  3. 6

    kubernetes-the-hard-way

    50.4Kkelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

    A step-by-step tutorial that walks you through bootstrapping a Kubernetes cluster manually, without any automation scripts, so you learn how every component actually works.

  4. 7

    diagrams

    42.7Kmingrammer/diagrams · Python

    Diagrams is a Python library that draws cloud system architecture as code: you describe your AWS, Azure, GCP or Kubernetes setup in Python and get a rendered diagram. It was built for prototyping architecture designs without design tools.

  5. 8

    novu

    40.2Knovuhq/novu · TypeScript

    Novu is open-source communication infrastructure that lets products and AI agents send messages to users across Inbox, Email, SMS, Push, Chat, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp and more through one API and one unified conversation model.

  6. 9

    compose

    38.4Kdocker/compose · Go

    Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications, configured through a single Compose file (compose.yaml).

  7. 10

    firecracker

    37.4Kfirecracker-microvm/firecracker · Rust

    Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant microVMs for container and function-based serverless workloads.

  8. 11

    og-aws

    36.5Kopen-guides/og-aws · Shell

    A free, community-maintained practical guide to Amazon Web Services — a living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices, written by engineers who use AWS.

  9. 12

    k9s

    34.8Kderailed/k9s · Go

    K9s is a terminal UI that lets you navigate, observe and manage Kubernetes clusters in real time instead of typing raw kubectl commands.

  10. 13

    backstage

    34.6Kbackstage/backstage · TypeScript

    An open source framework for building developer portals — one centralized place for your microservices, infrastructure tooling and documentation. Originally built at Spotify, now hosted by the CNCF.

  11. 14

    k3s

    34.2Kk3s-io/k3s · Go

    K3s is a lightweight, fully conformant, production-ready Kubernetes distribution packed into a single binary under 100 MB that runs with roughly half the memory of standard Kubernetes.

  12. 15

    kafka

    34Kapache/kafka · Java

    Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

  13. 16

    signoz

    32.4KSigNoz/signoz · TypeScript

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards in one tool for debugging production apps and monitoring AI agents.

  14. 17

    minikube

    32.2Kkubernetes/minikube · Go

    Minikube runs a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, or Windows so developers can build and test Kubernetes applications on their own machine.

  15. 18

    dokku

    32.2Kdokku/dokku · Go

    Dokku is a Docker-powered PaaS (Platform as a Service) - a self-hosted, minimal Heroku alternative that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications on your own server.

  16. 19

    linera-protocol

    32.1Klinera-io/linera-protocol · Rust

    Linera is a decentralized blockchain infrastructure built for highly scalable, secure, low-latency Web3 applications, using a microchain architecture where each user can own their own chain.

  17. 20

    consul

    30.1Khashicorp/consul · Go

    Consul is a distributed, highly available, data center aware solution for connecting and configuring applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. It is built to be datacenter aware and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

  18. 21

    envoy

    29.1Kenvoyproxy/envoy · C++

    Envoy is a cloud-native, high-performance proxy for edge, middle, and service-to-service traffic. It is an open-source project hosted by the CNCF.

  19. 22

    nixpkgs

    26.5KNixOS/nixpkgs · Nix

    Nixpkgs is a collection of over 140,000 software packages that can be installed using the Nix package manager, and it also implements NixOS, a purely-functional Linux distribution built on top of those packages.

  20. 23

    prefect

    24KPrefectHQ/prefect · Python

    Prefect is a Python workflow orchestration framework for turning ordinary scripts into resilient, production-grade data pipelines with scheduling, retries, caching, and event-based automations.

  21. 24

    netbox

    21.7Knetbox-community/netbox · Python

    NetBox is the open-source source of truth for network infrastructure: it models and documents everything networked — racks, cables, IP addresses — and serves that data to your automation tools.

  22. 25

    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.

  23. 26

    sonic

    21.4Kvaleriansaliou/sonic · Rust

    Sonic is a fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend written in Rust — a simple alternative to heavyweight systems like Elasticsearch, built to answer search queries in microseconds.

  24. 27

    teleport

    21Kgravitational/teleport · Go

    Teleport is an open-source access platform for infrastructure: connectivity, authentication, access controls and audit for servers, Kubernetes, databases, desktops and web apps — without long-lived keys or passwords.

  25. 28

    ingress-nginx

    19.5Kkubernetes/ingress-nginx · Go

    ingress-nginx was an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that used NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route traffic into clusters. The project is now retired.

  26. 29

    cat

    18.9Kdianping/cat · Java

    CAT is an open-source real-time application monitoring platform (APM) written in Java at Meituan-Dianping. It collects performance metrics, health status and alerts from your services and turns them into live reports.

  27. 30

    kubespray

    18.8Kkubernetes-sigs/kubespray · Jinja

    Kubespray is a set of Ansible playbooks that deploys a production-ready, highly available Kubernetes cluster on cloud VMs or your own bare-metal servers.

  28. 31

    telegraf

    17.9Kinfluxdata/telegraf · Go

    Telegraf is an open-source agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data. It ships with 300+ plugins covering system monitoring, cloud services, and messaging.

  29. 32

    ctop

    17.8Kbcicen/ctop · Go

    ctop is a terminal tool that shows a top-like, real-time overview of metrics for all your running containers, plus a detailed single-container view.

  30. 33

    chaosmonkey

    17.2KNetflix/chaosmonkey · Go

    Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool from Netflix that randomly terminates virtual machine instances and containers in your production environment, so engineers face failures often enough that they build services able to tolerate them.

  31. 34

    ceph

    17.1Kceph/ceph · C++

    Ceph is an open-source distributed storage platform: it pools a cluster of servers into one scalable storage system that serves object, block, and file storage at the same time.

  32. 35

    coder

    17.1Kcoder/coder · Go

    Coder is a self-hosted platform for creating cloud development environments and running AI coding agents on your own infrastructure.

  33. 36

    nomad

    17Khashicorp/nomad · Go

    Nomad is a workload orchestrator from HashiCorp that deploys and manages containers, non-containerized apps, and virtual machines across on-prem and cloud infrastructure at scale.

  34. 37

    postal

    16.9Kpostalserver/postal · Ruby

    Postal is a complete, fully featured mail server and delivery platform for websites and web servers, handling both incoming and outgoing e-mail.

  35. 38

    kubeflow

    15.9Kkubeflow/kubeflow

    Kubeflow is the foundation of tools for building AI platforms on Kubernetes, covering every stage of the AI lifecycle through a set of composable, Kubernetes-native subprojects.

  36. 39

    packer

    15.8Khashicorp/packer · Go

    Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. It is lightweight, runs on every major OS, and builds images for multiple platforms in parallel.

  37. 40

    salt

    15.7Ksaltstack/salt · Python

    Salt is an event-driven automation engine built on Python to deploy, configure and manage complex IT systems at scale — and keep every component of your infrastructure in a consistent desired state.

  38. 41

    xg2xg

    15.7Kjhuangtw/xg2xg

    A cheatsheet-style lookup table mapping Google internal technologies and services to their open source, cloud or SaaS equivalents, built by an ex-Googler to help ex-Googlers survive the real world.

  39. 42

    fabric

    15.5Kfabric/fabric · Python

    Fabric is a high-level Python library for executing shell commands on remote servers over SSH and getting back useful Python objects, built for automation and deployment tasks.

  40. 43

    zitadel

    15.3Kzitadel/zitadel · Go

    ZITADEL is an open-source identity and access management platform: a single server that handles sign-in, SSO, MFA, passkeys and permissions for your apps, self-hosted or as a cloud service.

  41. 44

    kamal

    14.6Kbasecamp/kamal · Ruby

    Kamal is a deployment tool that lets you ship web apps packaged as Docker containers to any server, from bare metal machines to cloud VMs, with zero downtime.

  42. 45

    thanos

    14.2Kthanos-io/thanos · Go

    Thanos is a set of components that turn existing Prometheus deployments into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity. It is a CNCF Incubating project written in Go.

  43. 46

    cert-manager

    14.1Kcert-manager/cert-manager · Go

    cert-manager adds certificates and certificate issuers as resource types in Kubernetes, automating the process of obtaining, renewing, and using TLS certificates for workloads in a cluster.

  44. 47

    nginx-rtmp-module

    14Karut/nginx-rtmp-module · C

    nginx-rtmp-module turns NGINX into a media streaming server, adding RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming plus RTMP video-on-demand playback of FLV/MP4 files.

  45. 48

    opennhp

    13.9KOpenNHP/opennhp · Go

    OpenNHP is a lightweight, cryptography-powered, open-source Zero Trust toolkit: it hides server ports, IP addresses, and domain names so your infrastructure stays invisible until a client is cryptographically authorized.

  46. 49

    node_exporter

    13.8Kprometheus/node_exporter · Go

    node_exporter is a Prometheus exporter that exposes hardware and OS metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, filesystem, etc.) from Unix-like kernels so Prometheus can scrape and monitor them.

  47. 50

    rook

    13.7Krook/rook · Go

    Rook is an open-source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes: it deploys and manages Ceph inside your cluster, turning Kubernetes itself into your storage platform.

  48. 51

    fluentd

    13.6Kfluent/fluentd · Ruby

    Fluentd is an open-source log collector that sits at the center of your logging setup: it gathers events from many data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and more.

  49. 52

    runc

    13.5Kopencontainers/runc · Go

    runc is a command-line tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initiative) specification.

  50. 53

    runner-images

    13.5Kactions/runner-images · PowerShell

    It's the source code GitHub uses to build the VM images behind GitHub-hosted Actions runners and Microsoft-hosted Azure Pipelines agents — Ubuntu, macOS and Windows machines pre-loaded with development tools.

  51. 54

    komodo

    12.7Kmoghtech/komodo · Rust

    Komodo is a self-hosted platform for building and deploying software across many servers, giving teams a central dashboard to manage builds, deployments and server automation with no hard limit on scale.

  52. 55

    ubicloud

    12.3Kubicloud/ubicloud · Ruby

    Ubicloud is an open source cloud platform that runs on bare metal servers, offering elastic compute, non-replicated block storage, firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, Kubernetes, AI inference, and IAM services as an open alternative to AWS.

  53. 56

    crossplane

    12.2Kcrossplane/crossplane · Go

    Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes without writing code. It orchestrates applications and infrastructure across any environment through a declarative, Kubernetes-style API.

  54. 57

    LMCache

    12.1KLMCache/LMCache · Python

    LMCache is a KV cache management layer for LLM inference that turns the KV cache from a temporary, per-process state into reusable, persistent 'AI-native knowledge' that can be shared across serving engines, reducing time-to-first-token and boosting throughput for long-context, multi-turn, and RAG workloads.

  55. 58

    linkerd2

    11.5Klinkerd/linkerd2 · Go

    Linkerd is an ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes that adds encryption, observability, and reliability features to your cluster's traffic without requiring any code changes to your apps.

  56. 59

    wireguard-install

    11.4Kangristan/wireguard-install · Shell

    A bash script that sets up a WireGuard VPN on a Linux server, forwarding all your traffic through an encrypted tunnel and NATing it so you appear to browse with the server's IP.

  57. 60

    talos

    11.4Ksiderolabs/talos · Go

    Talos is a modern Linux-based operating system built specifically for running Kubernetes: secure, immutable, and minimal, with all system management done through an API instead of a shell.

  58. 61

    vcluster

    11.4Kloft-sh/vcluster · Go

    vCluster creates Tenant Clusters: fully isolated virtual Kubernetes clusters, each with its own API server, CRDs, and RBAC, running on top of an existing Kubernetes cluster or standalone on bare metal.

  59. 62

    chalice

    11.1Kaws/chalice · Python

    Chalice is a Python framework for writing serverless apps: you write ordinary Python functions, and it creates and deploys the AWS Lambda functions and REST APIs behind them.

  60. 63

    Checkmate

    11Kbluewave-labs/Checkmate · TypeScript

    Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool that monitors server uptime, response times, hardware (CPU, RAM, disk), and incidents in real time with dashboards and status pages.

  61. 64

    distribution

    10.7Kdistribution/distribution · Go

    The open source registry implementation for storing and distributing container images and other content — the toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content, built on the OCI Distribution Specification.

  62. 65

    Reloader

    10.5Kstakater/Reloader · Go

    Reloader is a Kubernetes controller that watches ConfigMaps and Secrets and automatically triggers rolling restarts of the workloads that reference them — Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets and more.

  63. 66

    nezha

    10.4Knezhahq/nezha · Go

    Nezha Monitoring is a self-hosted, lightweight tool for monitoring your servers and websites and handling O&M from one dashboard: status checks, alerts, scheduled tasks and a web terminal.

  64. 67

    metaflow

    10.3KNetflix/metaflow · Python

    Metaflow is an open-source Python framework for building, managing and deploying real-life AI and ML systems — from quick prototyping in notebooks to reliable production deployments.

  65. 68

    3FS

    10.3Kdeepseek-ai/3FS · C++

    3FS (Fire-Flyer File System) is a high-performance distributed file system built by DeepSeek to handle AI training and inference storage workloads at scale, pooling thousands of SSDs and hundreds of storage nodes behind RDMA networking into one shared storage layer.

  66. 69

    CKAD-exercises

    10.2Kdgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises

    A curated set of hands-on exercises to help you prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

  67. 70

    openbao

    8.5Kopenbao/openbao · Go

    OpenBao is a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data such as secrets, certificates, and keys, including on-demand generation of dynamic credentials and encryption-as-a-service.

  68. 71

    tart

    7.5Kopenai/tart · Swift

    Tart lets you create and run macOS and Linux virtual machines directly on Apple Silicon Macs, built specifically for use in CI pipelines and other automated workflows.

  69. 72

    awesome-opensource-ai

    4.9Kalvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai · Python

    A curated, daily-updated list of truly open-source AI projects, models, tools, and infrastructure.

  70. 73

    fleetbase

    4.4Kfleetbase/fleetbase · JavaScript

    Fleetbase is an open-source, modular operating system for logistics and supply chain operations. It covers dispatch, fleet management, live tracking, commerce, warehousing, and finance in one platform, with a REST API, webhooks, and an extension system.

  71. 74

    zsvirt

    2KZSvirt/zsvirt · Java

    ZSvirt is an open-source IaaS virtualization engine that brings ZStack's enterprise ZSphere technology to the community, letting you run and manage virtual machines on KVM-based hosts without vendor lock-in.

  72. 75

    open-compute

    2Kelliothux/open-compute · Rust

    open-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.

  73. 76

    kryvora-node

    1.4Kkryvora-network/kryvora-node · Go

    It's the official client daemon for Kryvora Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN). Running it turns your machine into a verification worker that connects to the Kryvora Hub, executes telemetry probes, verifies peer state, and reports proof of availability.

  74. 77

    golive-skill

    1.3Kmikehasa/golive-skill · TypeScript

    GoLive is an open-source Agent Skill plus a zero-dependency Node CLI that takes an agent-built app live by detecting what it needs, planning the exact changes, asking for your approval, applying them with your own accounts, and verifying what actually works - covering hosting, databases, domains, email and payments.

  75. 78

    SPACE

    1.1Kperplexityai/SPACE · Rust

    SPACE (Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution) is a sandbox platform that runs agent and user code inside isolated Firecracker microVMs, controlled through an HTTP API.

  76. 79

    awesome-hosting

    943dalisoft/awesome-hosting

    A curated directory of hosting providers — from VPS and static hosts to databases, GPU clouds and AI inference — comparing each one by the price of its cheapest plan.

  77. 80

    openframe-cli

    907flamingo-stack/openframe-cli · Go

    An interactive command-line tool for managing OpenFrame Kubernetes clusters and development workflows — cluster lifecycle, chart installs via ArgoCD, service intercepts and scaffolding.

  78. 81

    memcode

    603memcode-in/memcode · TypeScript

    MemCode is memory infrastructure for AI: it gives agents, copilots, applications and workflows persistent memory that survives sessions, context windows, and even model changes.

  79. 82

    openclaw-enterprise

    415openclaw/openclaw-enterprise · JavaScript

    OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE) is an open-source, vendor-neutral control plane for deploying and managing AI agents, described by its authors as being like 'Kubernetes for agents'.

  80. 83

    allox-os

    313AlloxOrg/allox-os · Python

    A dedicated runtime for AI agents: it runs multiple agents and sessions inside a Kata-isolated VM and adds workspace isolation, checkpointing, rollback and observability on top of it.

  81. 84

    labtether

    249labtether/labtether · Go

    LabTether is a self-hosted control plane that unifies monitoring and control of your homelab (Proxmox, TrueNAS, Docker, Home Assistant, etc.) into one dashboard with remote terminal, remote desktop, alerts, and an AI-operable interface.

  82. 85

    walshadow

    242ClickHouse/walshadow · Rust

    walshadow replicates PostgreSQL rows into ClickHouse by reading the physical WAL — initial load, continuous changes, schema evolution, restarts, and planned source switchover are all part of the flow.

  83. 86

    nodelume

    203chenb1522/nodelume · Go

    NodeLume is a lightweight multi-node Linux server monitoring and management tool made up of a static Go Server, a static Go Agent, and a native Web UI, built for low resource usage, simple deployment, and strict remote-control boundaries.

  84. 87

    busbar

    194GetBusbar/busbar · Rust

    Busbar is a self-hosted execution control plane that sits between AI applications and the AI providers they call, letting operators verify, govern, route, and record every model request, MCP tool call, and A2A agent delegation before it reaches its destination.

  85. 88

    marzban-node

    171x4gpanell/marzban-node · Dockerfile

    A Dockerfile that builds and deploys the 'Marzban-node' VPN node service on Railway, patching it at build time so it fits Railway's networking model instead of shipping a copied fork of the source.

  86. 89

    walgithub

    134rgodha24/walgithub · Rust

    walgit is a self-hosted git server that runs as a single binary in front of an S3 or GCS bucket instead of a database or local disk. The bucket is the repository, and every running instance is just a disposable cache, so you can add or kill servers without coordination.

  87. 90

    BloomBeacon

    83vinamega/BloomBeacon · Python

    BloomBeacon is a Python tool for real-time data processing and auto-scaling of cloud-based systems, built to be cloud-agnostic rather than tied to one provider.

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