Best Open Source containers Libraries
A curated list of the most popular GitHub repositories tagged with containers. Select any project to visualize its architecture and dive into the codebase using RepoMind's AI engine.
#1kubernetes/kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
#2bregman-arie/devops-exercises
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
#3moby/moby
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
#4aquasecurity/trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
#5firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
#6dokku/dokku
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
#7kubernetes/minikube
Run Kubernetes locally
#8containers/podman
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
#9MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps
This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the community. We have 3 years under our belt covering all things DevOps, including Principles, Processes, Tooling and Use Cases surrounding this vast topic.
#10goharbor/harbor
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
#11abiosoft/colima
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#12dapr/dapr
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
#13rancher/rancher
Complete container management platform
#14pulumi/pulumi
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
#15cilium/cilium
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
#16google/gvisor
Application Kernel for Containers
#17bcicen/ctop
Top-like interface for container metrics
#18kubernetes/kops
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
#19GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
#20dagger/dagger
Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud
#21caprover/caprover
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
#22moby/buildkit
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
#23johnthagen/min-sized-rust
🦀 How to minimize Rust binary size 📦 https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
#24bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
An operating system designed for hosting containers
#25bregman-arie/devops-resources
DevOps resources - Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP
#26replicate/cog
Containers for machine learning
#27Tikam02/DevOps-Guide
DevOps Guide - Development to Production all configurations with basic notes to debug efficiently.
#28fission/fission
Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
#29falcosecurity/falco
Cloud Native Runtime Security
#30containers/buildah
A tool that facilitates building OCI images.
#31openshift/origin
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
#32linuxkit/linuxkit
A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
#33getarcaneapp/arcane
Modern Docker Management, Designed for Everyone
#34NilsIrl/dockerc
container image to single executable compiler
#35psviderski/uncloud
A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨
#36parca-dev/parca
Continuous profiling for analysis of CPU and memory usage, down to the line number and throughout time. Saving infrastructure cost, improving performance, and increasing reliability.
#37bitnami/containers
Bitnami container images
#38container-storage-interface/spec
Container Storage Interface (CSI) Specification.
#39stackrox/stackrox
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
#40lablup/backend.ai
Backend.AI is a streamlined, container-based computing cluster platform that hosts popular computing/ML frameworks and diverse programming languages, with pluggable heterogeneous accelerator support including CUDA GPU, ROCm GPU, Gaudi NPU, Google TPU, GraphCore IPU and other NPUs.
#41arcboxlabs/arcbox
Run AI agents on real and isolated machines — own kernel, filesystem, and network — with <200ms boot. Local first, OCI compatible, pure Rust.
#42vpsfreecz/vpsadminos
Host for Linux system containers based on NixOS, ZFS and LXC
#43canonical/workshop
Workshops are secure, fast, and composable development environments that come agent-ready.
#44arcboxlabs/arcbox-desktop
Native macOS GUI for ArcBox — containers, VMs, and sandboxes at your fingertips. Open Source alternative to OrbStack.