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Kubernetes projects on GitHub
Container orchestration platform for deploying, scaling, and managing workloads in clusters.
As of , the most-starred Kubernetes projects on GitHub are open-webui (155.9K stars), kubernetes (128.3K stars) and Stirling-PDF (94.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 316 Kubernetes repositories with 6.6M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was SPACE, with +529 stars in a day.
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+529SPACE
perplexityai/SPACE · ★ 1.1KSPACE (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.
+461ruflo
ruvnet/ruflo · ★ 75.8KRuflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.
+441hindsight
vectorize-io/hindsight · ★ 50.7KHindsight is an agent memory system that helps AI agents learn over time instead of just recalling raw conversation history, aiming to outperform RAG and knowledge-graph approaches on long-term memory tasks.
ax
google/ax · ★ 13.9KAX is Google's open agentic orchestration runtime — a declarative, high-throughput orchestrator that runs billions of autonomous agent workloads in a Kubernetes cluster, sandboxing each task and fencing its network.
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- 155.9K
#1 · open-webui/open-webuiopen-webui
Open WebUI is a self-hosted AI platform that gives you a chat-style web interface for Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API, built to run entirely offline if you want.
- 128.3K
#2 · kubernetes/kuberneteskubernetes
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, handling the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of those applications.
- 94.4K
#3 · Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDFStirling-PDF
Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF editing platform with over 50 tools for editing, merging, splitting, signing, redacting, converting, OCR-ing, and compressing PDFs.
- 4

devops-exercises
84.9Kbregman-arie/devops-exercises · PythonA massive collection of over 2600 DevOps and SRE interview questions and exercises covering Linux, networking, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and many other technical topics.
- 5

netdata
81Knetdata/netdata · GoNetdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform that collects per-second metrics, visualizes them, and detects anomalies with machine learning.
- 6

ruflo
75.8Kruvnet/ruflo · TypeScriptRuflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.
- 7

awesome-scalability
74.8Kbinhnguyennus/awesome-scalabilityA curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.
- 8

traefik
65.3Ktraefik/traefik · GoTraefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer built to make deploying and exposing microservices easy, with automatic configuration based on your infrastructure.
- 9
pathway
62.1Kpathwaycom/pathway · PythonPathway is a Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG, with the same code usable for batch jobs, CI/CD tests, and live data streams.
- 10
minio
61.3Kminio/minio · GoMinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server, built to power AI/ML, analytics, and other data-intensive workloads.
- 11

plane
61Kmakeplane/plane · TypeScriptPlane is an open-source project management platform that replaces Jira, Linear, Monday, or ClickUp, letting teams track issues, run cycles (sprints), manage docs, and build roadmaps.
- 12
appwrite
57.7Kappwrite/appwrite · TypeScriptAppwrite is an open-source, all-in-one backend platform for building web, mobile, and AI apps, bundling authentication, databases, storage, serverless functions, messaging, realtime, and web hosting in one place.
- 13

fuel-core
56.8KFuelLabs/fuel-core · RustFuel-core is the official Rust implementation of a full node for the Fuel v2 blockchain protocol, used to run and participate in Fuel networks such as Ignition, Testnet, and Devnet.
- 14

windows
53.6Kdockur/windows · Shelldockur/windows runs a full, real Windows installation inside a Docker container, automatically downloading and installing it with no manual steps.
- 15

multica
53Kmultica-ai/multica · GoMultica is a self-hostable workspace where you assign issues to AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others) the way you'd assign work to a teammate — they pick up the task, report progress, and hand it back for review.
- 16
etcd
52.4Ketcd-io/etcd · GoA 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.
- 17

professional-programming
51.6Kcharlax/professional-programming · PythonIt's a curated collection of learning resources (articles, books, talks, papers) meant to make software engineers more well-rounded professionals, covering everything from algorithms to career growth to system architecture.
- 18

hindsight
50.7Kvectorize-io/hindsight · PythonHindsight is an agent memory system that helps AI agents learn over time instead of just recalling raw conversation history, aiming to outperform RAG and knowledge-graph approaches on long-term memory tasks.
- 19

kubernetes-the-hard-way
50.4Kkelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-wayA 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.
- 20

LocalAI
49.6Kmudler/LocalAI · GoLocalAI is an open-source, self-hosted AI engine that lets you run LLMs, vision, voice, image and video models on your own hardware, including CPU-only setups, through an OpenAI/Anthropic/ElevenLabs-compatible API.
- 21

awesome-design-patterns
49.4KDovAmir/awesome-design-patternsA curated list of links to resources about software and architecture design patterns, covering everything from language-specific patterns to cloud, serverless, microservices, IoT, big data, ML, databases, DevOps, mobile, front-end and security.
- 22

awesome-java
49.3Kakullpp/awesome-javaA curated list of frameworks, libraries, tools and resources for the Java programming language, organized into categories like AI, build tools, caching, CLI, bytecode manipulation and more.
- 23

JeecgBoot
48.2Kjeecgboot/JeecgBoot · JavaJeecgBoot is an enterprise AI low-code platform: you describe what you need in natural language and it generates the front-end, back-end CRUD code, database tables and menu permissions, while also bundling a Dify-like AI app module with chat, RAG knowledge bases, flow orchestration and MCP plugins.
- 24

GitHubDaily
48.2KGitHubDaily/GitHubDailyGitHubDaily is a curated Chinese-language collection of interesting and useful open-source projects, developer tools, tutorials and tech news discovered on GitHub, shared daily since October 2015.
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airflow
47.2Kapache/airflow · PythonApache Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows, defined as code using Python.
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awesome-cheatsheets
46.6KLeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets · JavaScriptA curated collection of cheatsheets covering popular programming languages, frameworks, databases, and development tools, each condensed into a single reference file.
- 27

Rocket.Chat
46.3KRocketChat/Rocket.Chat · TypeScriptRocket.Chat is an open-source, self-hostable team communications platform for real-time chat, voice calls, and federation, aimed at organizations with high data protection requirements.
- 28
hyperswitch
45.3Kjuspay/hyperswitch · RustHyperswitch is an open-source, composable payments platform that lets businesses route, retry, vault, and reconcile payments across 120+ payment processors like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and Worldpay, either self-hosted or as a SaaS.
- 29

kong
44.3KKong/kong · LuaKong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.
- 30

spark
44.2Kapache/spark · ScalaApache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing, offering high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R on top of an optimized execution engine.
- 31

ray
44.1Kray-project/ray · PythonRay is an open-source framework for scaling AI and Python applications: a core distributed runtime plus a set of AI libraries that simplify ML compute.
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diagrams
42.7Kmingrammer/diagrams · PythonDiagrams 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.
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dubbo
41.6Kapache/dubbo · JavaApache Dubbo is an RPC and microservices framework — this repository is its Java implementation. It covers communication, service discovery, traffic management, observability, security, and tooling for building enterprise-grade microservices.
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ToolJet
41.1KToolJet/ToolJet · HTMLToolJet is an open-source platform for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, and business apps on top of your existing databases, APIs, and SaaS systems. You can build apps visually, from a text prompt, or via coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) through its MCP server.
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appsmith
41.1Kappsmithorg/appsmith · TypeScriptAppsmith is an open-source low-code platform for building admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards that connect to 25+ databases and any API.
- 36

tidb
40.6Kpingcap/tidb · GoTiDB is an open-source, cloud-native distributed SQL database written in Go — MySQL-compatible and built for high availability, horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and mixing transactions with analytics.
- 37

portainer
38.7Kportainer/portainer · TypeScriptPortainer is a lightweight management platform for Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments, letting you manage containers, images, volumes and networks through a web GUI or API.
- 38

harness
38.6Kharness/harness · GoHarness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform combining source code hosting, CI/CD pipelines, hosted dev environments (Gitspaces), and artifact registries in one self-hosted application.
- 39

trivy
38.5Kaquasecurity/trivy · GoTrivy is an all-in-one security scanner that finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and software licenses across container images, filesystems, git repositories, VM images, and Kubernetes clusters.
- 40
istio
38.4Kistio/istio · GoIstio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, giving you a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices with few or no code changes.
- 41

compose
38.4Kdocker/compose · GoDocker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications, configured through a single Compose file (compose.yaml).
- 42

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.
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langfuse
35.9Klangfuse/langfuse · TypeScriptLangfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLM and agent applications, with prompt management and a playground built in.
- 44

seaweedfs
35.5Kseaweedfs/seaweedfs · GoSeaweedFS is a distributed storage system that serves billions of small and large files with O(1) disk access, exposing the same data as an S3 object store, a POSIX file system, and an Iceberg/Lance data lakehouse through one binary.
- 45

awesome-sysadmin
35.4Kawesome-foss/awesome-sysadminA curated list of free and open-source sysadmin tools, covering everything from backups and configuration management to monitoring, CI/CD, virtualization, and VPNs.
- 46
rustfs
35Krustfs/rustfs · RustAn open-source, high-performance distributed object storage system written in Rust. It speaks the S3 API, is optimized for data lakes, AI and big data workloads, and supports migration and coexistence with MinIO and Ceph.
- 47

k9s
34.8Kderailed/k9s · GoK9s is a terminal UI that lets you navigate, observe and manage Kubernetes clusters in real time instead of typing raw kubectl commands.
- 48
k3s
34.2Kk3s-io/k3s · GoK3s 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.
- 49

nacos
33.5Kalibaba/nacos · JavaNacos is a platform from Alibaba for dynamic service discovery, configuration management, and service management, aimed at building cloud-native microservices and AI applications.
- 50
agentscope
33.4Kagentscope-ai/agentscope · PythonAgentScope 2.0 is a production-ready, easy-to-use Python framework for building and running LLM agents. It leans on the model's own reasoning and tool use instead of boxing it in with strict prompts and opinionated orchestration.
- 51

podman
33.1Kpodman-container-tools/podman · GoPodman (the POD MANager) is a tool for managing OCI containers and images, volumes, and pods — groups of containers managed together. It is built on libpod, a container lifecycle management library included in the same repo.
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onyx
32.5Konyx-dot-app/onyx · PythonOnyx is an open source AI platform that gives you a full-featured chat interface on top of any LLM, with built-in RAG, web search, agents, and more.
- 53

signoz
32.4KSigNoz/signoz · TypeScriptSigNoz 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.
- 54

minikube
32.2Kkubernetes/minikube · GoMinikube runs a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, or Windows so developers can build and test Kubernetes applications on their own machine.
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dokku
32.2Kdokku/dokku · GoDokku 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.
- 56
k6
32Kgrafana/k6 · Gok6 is a modern load-testing tool: you write test scripts that simulate real user traffic against your application to see how it performs. It is built for developers and testers in the DevOps era — like unit testing, but for performance.
- 57
jumpserver
31.8Kjumpserver/jumpserver · PythonJumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform — a bastion host that gives DevOps and IT teams secure, on-demand access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, database, RemoteApp and other endpoints through a web browser.
- 58

colima
31.2Kabiosoft/colima · GoColima 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.
- 59
helm
30.3Khelm/helm · GoHelm 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.
- 60
consul
30.1Khashicorp/consul · GoConsul 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.
- 61

90DaysOfDevOps
29.8KMichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps · ShellA structured learning curriculum for DevOps that grew out of a personal 90-day public learning challenge, now covering principles, processes, tooling, and real-world use cases like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.
- 62

sim
29.8Ksimstudioai/sim · TypeScriptSim is a collaborative workspace for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agents and workflows, used by 100,000+ builders. Agents can be built visually, in chat, or with code.
- 63
infisical
29.8KInfisical/infisical · TypeScriptInfisical is an open-source security platform teams use to centralize secrets, certificates, and privileged access, with syncing, rotation, and leak prevention built in.
- 64

kestra
29.7Kkestra-io/kestra · JavaKestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for building data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. You describe them in declarative YAML and manage everything from a built-in web UI.
- 65

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.
- 66
authelia
29.3Kauthelia/authelia · GoAn open-source authentication and authorization server that adds single sign-on and two-factor authentication to your web apps via a web portal. It is OpenID Certified and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.
- 67
wiki
29Krequarks/wiki · TypeScriptWiki.js is an open-source wiki application built on Node.js — a self-hosted web app for writing and organizing documentation and team knowledge.
- 68

loki
29Kgrafana/loki · GoLoki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system from Grafana — like Prometheus, but for logs.
- 69

xgboost
28.9Kdmlc/xgboost · C++XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed to be highly efficient, flexible and portable — it implements machine learning algorithms under the Gradient Boosting framework.
- 70
mlflow
28.4Kmlflow/mlflow · PythonMLflow is an open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLM apps, and classic ML models: one place to trace, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production AI while controlling costs. It is widely adopted, with over 60 million monthly downloads.
- 71
budibase
28.3KBudibase/budibase · TypeScriptBudibase is an open-source operations platform where you build AI agents, automations and web apps that handle everyday operations — requests, approvals, issues — in one place.
- 72

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.
- 73

faas
26.3Kopenfaas/faas · GoAn 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.
- 74
dapr
26.2Kdapr/dapr · GoDapr is an open-source, CNCF-graduated runtime for building distributed applications, workflows, and AI agents. It packages durable execution, secure service-to-service communication, state management, and event-driven messaging behind one consistent set of APIs.
- 75

incubator-seata
26Kapache/incubator-seata · JavaApache Seata is an open source distributed transaction solution for microservices, designed to be high-performance and easy to use.
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authentik
26Kgoauthentik/authentik · Pythonauthentik is an open-source Identity Provider (IdP) for modern single sign-on: one service that handles login for your other applications, so users sign in once instead of per-app.
- 77

rancher
26Krancher/rancher · GoRancher 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.
- 78
pulumi
25.8Kpulumi/pulumi · GoPulumi is open source Infrastructure as Code: you write ordinary programming code, and the Pulumi CLI automatically provisions and manages your resources across clouds.
- 79

cilium
25.7Kcilium/cilium · GoCilium is open-source networking, security, and observability software built on an eBPF dataplane, used mainly as the networking layer of Kubernetes clusters.
- 80
kuboard-press
25.3Keip-work/kuboard-press · ShellKuboard 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.
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TDengine
25.2Ktaosdata/TDengine · CTDengine is an open-source, high-performance, cloud-native, AI-powered time-series database built for IoT, Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT workloads, handling TB-to-PB scale data from billions of sensors.
- 82

skywalking
25Kapache/skywalking · JavaApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system for monitoring, tracing and diagnosing distributed systems. It is built for microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures.
- 83

firefly-iii
24.9Kfirefly-iii/firefly-iii · PHPFirefly III is a free, open-source personal finance manager that helps you track income and expenses, set budgets, and generate financial reports.
- 84

fhevm
24.8Kzama-ai/fhevm · RustFHEVM is a full-stack framework from Zama for confidential smart contracts: it integrates Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with EVM-compatible blockchains so encrypted data can be processed directly onchain.
- 85

argo-cd
24.4Kargoproj/argo-cd · GoArgo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that keeps your cluster state synced with a Git repository.
- 86

ngrok
24.4Kinconshreveable/ngrok · Gongrok is a globally distributed reverse proxy that secures, protects and accelerates applications and network services wherever they run, combining a reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway and global load balancer into one tool.
- 87

eShopOnContainers
24.3Kdotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers · C#A cross-platform .NET sample app demonstrating a microservices, container-based architecture: it runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, powered by .NET 7, Docker containers and Azure Kubernetes Services.
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windows95
24.3Kfelixrieseberg/windows95 · TypeScriptThe complete Windows 95 operating system, packaged as a desktop app that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux — the whole thing, boots and all.
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jaeger
23.3Kjaegertracing/jaeger · GoJaeger is a distributed tracing platform that helps you monitor and troubleshoot requests as they flow through microservices-based systems.
- 90
lens
23.2Klensapp/lensLens 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.
- 91

distroless
23.1KGoogleContainerTools/distroless · StarlarkA 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.
- 92

stackedit
23.1Kbenweet/stackedit · JavaScriptStackEdit is a full-featured, open-source Markdown editor that runs entirely in your browser, built on PageDown, the same Markdown library Stack Overflow uses.
- 93

SafeLine
22.8Kchaitin/SafeLine · GoSafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy that protects your web apps from attacks and exploits by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic.
- 94
vector
22.7Kvectordotdev/vector · RustAn open-source, high-performance observability data pipeline: it collects, transforms, and routes your logs and metrics to any vendors you choose, so you keep control of your observability data. It is maintained by Datadog's Community Open Source Engineering team.
- 95
witr
22.7Kpranshuparmar/witr · Gowitr answers one question: 'why is this running?' Point it at a process, port, container, or file, and it traces the exact chain of supervisors, services, and shells that started it.
- 96
opik
22.7Kcomet-ml/opik · PythonOpik is an open-source platform for debugging, evaluating, and monitoring LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows, with tracing, automated evaluation, and production dashboards.
- 97

rocketmq
22.6Kapache/rocketmq · JavaApache RocketMQ is an open-source distributed messaging and streaming platform for building event-driven applications, with low latency, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability.
- 98

generator-jhipster
22.5Kjhipster/generator-jhipster · TypeScriptAn open-source development platform for quickly generating, developing, and deploying modern web applications and microservice architectures: you answer its prompts, and it hands you a complete full-stack codebase.
- 99
lima
22.1Klima-vm/lima · GoLima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, similar to WSL2. It was originally created to bring containerd and nerdctl to Mac users but is not limited to containers.
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recommenders
22Krecommenders-team/recommenders · PythonAn open-source Python library and notebook collection with best practices for building, evaluating and deploying recommendation systems — a Linux Foundation of AI & Data project that started at Microsoft.
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