Topics / #k8s

K8S projects on GitHub

Short-form tag for Kubernetes tooling and distributions.

As of , the most-starred K8S projects on GitHub are minio (61.3K stars), k9s (34.8K stars) and k3s (34.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 32 K8S repositories with 602.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was colima, with +15 stars in a day.

32Projects
602.2KStars in total
+82Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+15

colima

abiosoft/colima · ★ 31.2K

Colima provides container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup: it starts a Linux VM running Docker, Containerd or Incus, all managed through one simple command.

+10

cilium

cilium/cilium · ★ 25.7K

Cilium is open-source networking, security, and observability software built on an eBPF dataplane, used mainly as the networking layer of Kubernetes clusters.

+10

sofka

nklmilojevic/sofka · ★ 1.8K

Sofka is a terminal UI (TUI) for managing Kubernetes clusters, written in Rust on top of kube-rs and ratatui, with an async-first design so the UI never freezes while talking to the cluster.

+6

helm

helm/helm · ★ 30.3K

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. It manages Charts — packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources — so installing and managing applications in a cluster works like apt, yum or homebrew on your system.

The all-time top

32 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · minio/minio

    minio

    MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server, built to power AI/ML, analytics, and other data-intensive workloads.

    61.3K
  2. #2 · derailed/k9s

    k9s

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

    34.8K
  3. #3 · k3s-io/k3s

    k3s

    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.

    34.2K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    colima

    31.2Kabiosoft/colima · Go

    Colima provides container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup: it starts a Linux VM running Docker, Containerd or Incus, all managed through one simple command.

  3. 6

    helm

    30.3Khelm/helm · Go

    Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. It manages Charts — packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources — so installing and managing applications in a cluster works like apt, yum or homebrew on your system.

  4. 7

    faas

    26.3Kopenfaas/faas · Go

    An open-source serverless platform for Kubernetes: package your code or an existing binary as an OCI/Docker image and get a scalable, auto-scaling HTTP endpoint with metrics, without boilerplate.

  5. 8

    rancher

    26Krancher/rancher · Go

    Rancher is an open-source container management platform for organizations that run containers in production — it makes it easy to run Kubernetes anywhere and manage it from a web UI.

  6. 9

    cilium

    25.7Kcilium/cilium · Go

    Cilium is open-source networking, security, and observability software built on an eBPF dataplane, used mainly as the networking layer of Kubernetes clusters.

  7. 10

    kuboard-press

    25.3Keip-work/kuboard-press · Shell

    Kuboard is a free management interface built for Kubernetes (compatible with K8s 1.13+) that turns cluster management into a visual web dashboard. This repo holds the source of its v4 documentation site.

  8. 11

    lens

    23.2Klensapp/lens

    Lens is a desktop IDE for Kubernetes — one context-aware UI for managing and troubleshooting clusters and workloads, and the most popular one out there, with over 1 million users.

  9. 12

    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.

  10. 13

    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.

  11. 14

    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.

  12. 15

    sealos

    18.4Klabring/sealos · Go

    Sealos 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.

  13. 16

    argo-workflows

    17Kargoproj/argo-workflows · Go

    An open source, container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes: it orchestrates parallel jobs where every step of your workflow runs as a container. It is a CNCF graduated project.

  14. 17

    awesome-kubernetes

    16.1Kramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes · Shell

    A curated list of the best Kubernetes resources — links, guides, and books — inspired by Sindre Sorhus' awesome lists and maintained by the community since 2015.

  15. 18

    dozzle

    14.7Kamir20/dozzle · Go

    Dozzle is a lightweight, web-based application for monitoring Docker container logs in real time, with support for Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes.

  16. 19

    xpipe

    14.6Kxpipe-io/xpipe

    XPipe is a connection hub that lets you access your entire server infrastructure (SSH hosts, Docker, Kubernetes, VMs, cloud servers, WSL, and more) from one local desktop app, without installing any agent on the remote systems.

  17. 20

    mall-swarm

    13.2Kmacrozheng/mall-swarm · Java

    mall-swarm is a microservices-based e-commerce platform built with Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Alibaba, bundling a storefront, mobile app backend, and an admin panel with full infrastructure like a registry, config center, monitoring, and gateway.

  18. 21

    kustomize

    12.2Kkubernetes-sigs/kustomize · Go

    Kustomize lets you customize raw, template-free Kubernetes YAML files for multiple purposes while leaving the original YAML untouched and usable as is.

  19. 22

    netmaker

    11.8Kgravitl/netmaker · Go

    Netmaker is a tool that automates creating and managing virtual networks (mesh VPNs, remote access gateways, site-to-site links) using WireGuard.

  20. 23

    kubernetes-handbook

    11.6Krootsongjc/kubernetes-handbook · Mermaid

    This is a free Chinese-language ebook/handbook that teaches Kubernetes architecture and the cloud-native ecosystem, from container orchestration basics up through service mesh, serverless, and AI-native infrastructure.

  21. 24

    kubeasz

    11.4Keaszlab/kubeasz · Jinja

    kubeasz is a set of Ansible playbooks that install a full Kubernetes cluster on your own Linux servers, with docs explaining how the components interact. It is packaged to install cleanly from inside mainland China's network.

  22. 25

    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.

  23. 26

    tyk

    10.9KTykTechnologies/tyk · Go

    Tyk is an open-source, cloud-native API Gateway that lets you manage REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol) traffic in one place, adding authentication, rate limiting, quotas and analytics to your APIs.

  24. 27

    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.

  25. 28

    tilt

    10.1Ktilt-dev/tilt · Go

    Tilt 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.

  26. 29

    litmus

    5.7Klitmuschaos/litmus · Go

    LitmusChaos is an open source, cloud-native chaos engineering platform built for Kubernetes that lets SREs and developers run controlled chaos experiments to find weaknesses before a real outage does.

  27. 30

    sofka

    1.8Knklmilojevic/sofka · Rust

    Sofka is a terminal UI (TUI) for managing Kubernetes clusters, written in Rust on top of kube-rs and ratatui, with an async-first design so the UI never freezes while talking to the cluster.

  28. 31

    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'.

  29. 32

    k10s

    319p10node/k10s · Go

    k10s is a mouse-clickable terminal UI (TUI) for managing Kubernetes clusters, built as a mouse-first alternative to k9s with instant cross-resource search, one-key logs/exec/port-forward, 8 themes, and a built-in AI assistant that already knows your current context, namespace and selected object.

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