Oci projects on GitHub

Open Container Initiative standards for container images and runtimes.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Oci projects on GitHub are dive (54.6K stars), container (50.7K stars) and podman (33.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 15 Oci repositories with 277.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was container, with +18 stars in a day.

15Projects

277.6KStars in total

+89Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+18

container

apple/container · ★ 50.7K

A tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac, optimized for Apple silicon.

+18

docker-agent

docker/docker-agent · ★ 4.5K

Docker Agent is a tool for building, running, and sharing AI agents using a declarative YAML config, with built-in tools and multi-agent orchestration — no code required.

gvisor

google/gvisor · ★ 19.7K

An application kernel for containers: it wraps running applications in a strong isolation layer from the host OS, implementing a Linux-like interface in memory-safe Go, entirely in userspace.

smolvm

smol-machines/smolvm · ★ 6.8K

smolvm is a CLI tool for running embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machines so you can safely run AI agents and untrusted code locally, with sub-second cold start on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

The all-time top

15 projects · by stars

#1 · wagoodman/dive
dive
dive is a CLI tool that breaks a Docker or OCI image into its layers, shows what each layer contains, and points out where the image wastes space so you can shrink it.
54.6K
#2 · apple/container
container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac, optimized for Apple silicon.
50.7K
#3 · podman-container-tools/podman
podman
Podman (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.
33.1K

4
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.
5
gvisor
19.7Kgoogle/gvisor · Go
An application kernel for containers: it wraps running applications in a strong isolation layer from the host OS, implementing a Linux-like interface in memory-safe Go, entirely in userspace.
6
jib
14.5KGoogleContainerTools/jib · Java
Jib builds optimized Docker and OCI container images for Java applications without needing a Docker daemon or deep Docker expertise.
7
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.
8
grype
13Kanchore/grype · Go
Grype is a command-line vulnerability scanner that checks container images, filesystems, and SBOMs for known security vulnerabilities.
9
clair
11.1Kquay/clair · Go
Clair is an open source tool for static analysis of vulnerabilities in application container images, covering both OCI and Docker image formats.
10
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.
11
buildkit
10.3Kmoby/buildkit · Go
BuildKit is a Go toolkit for turning source code into build artifacts efficiently and repeatably — concurrent, cache-efficient and Dockerfile-agnostic. It is the engine docker build uses by default since Docker Engine 23.0.
12
nasiko
9.5KNasiko-Labs/nasiko · Rust
Nasiko is a single control-plane server that deploys, routes, secures, and observes AI agents built on the A2A protocol, acting as the one checkpoint every agent-to-agent call passes through.
13
smolvm
6.8Ksmol-machines/smolvm · Rust
smolvm is a CLI tool for running embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machines so you can safely run AI agents and untrusted code locally, with sub-second cold start on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
14
docker-agent
4.5Kdocker/docker-agent · Go
Docker Agent is a tool for building, running, and sharing AI agents using a declarative YAML config, with built-in tools and multi-agent orchestration — no code required.
15
arcbox
4.2Karcboxlabs/arcbox · Rust
ArcBox is a fast, open-source container and VM runtime for macOS, built from scratch in Rust, that acts as a drop-in Docker replacement while also offering disposable sandboxes for AI agents, native Kubernetes, and full Linux and macOS VMs.