Best Open Source k8s Libraries
A curated list of the most popular GitHub repositories tagged with k8s. Select any project to visualize its architecture and dive into the codebase using RepoMind's AI engine.
#1derailed/k9s
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
#2k3s-io/k3s
Lightweight Kubernetes
#3abiosoft/colima
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#4openfaas/faas
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
#5eip-work/kuboard-press
Kuboard 是基于 Kubernetes 的微服务管理界面。同时提供 Kubernetes 免费中文教程，入门教程，最新版本的 Kubernetes v1.23.4 安装手册，(k8s install) 在线答疑，持续更新。
#6cilium/cilium
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
#7kubesphere/kubesphere
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️
#8argoproj/argo-workflows
Workflow Engine for Kubernetes
#9stakater/Reloader
A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!
#10openebs/openebs
A popular & widely deployed Open Source Container Native Storage platform for Stateful Persistent Applications on Kubernetes.
#11canonical/microk8s
MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
#12karmada-io/karmada
Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
#13nginx/kubernetes-ingress
NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes
#14kcp-dev/kcp
Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads.
#15kubernetes-sigs/kueue
Kubernetes-native Job Queueing
#16skyhook-io/radar
The missing open source Kubernetes UI. Topology, event timeline, and service traffic — plus resource browsing and Helm management.
#17dstackai/dstack
Vendor-agnostic orchestration for training, inference and agentic workloads across NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, and Tenstorrent on clouds, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
#18Yelp/paasta
An open, distributed platform as a service
#19rancher/fleet
Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters
#20stackrox/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.
#21ccfos/huatuo
The cloud-native operating system observability project based on eBPF.
#22helixml/helix
♾️ Private Agent Fleet with Spec Coding. Each agent gets their own GPU-accelerated desktop. Run Claude, Codex, Gemini and open models on a full private AI Stack ♾️
#23bjarneo/kli
A fast, keyboard-driven Kubernetes TUI. Browse any resource, edit objects, follow logs, and shell into pods. Inspired by k9s, Lens, and lazygit.