Awesome List of Open Source K8s and Container Tools

Kubernetes ~ Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

⭐️ 94.6K 🚀 34.7K 💥 2.3K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Grafana ~ The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

⭐️ 53.2K 🚀 10.3K 💥 2.9K 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Prometheus ~ The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

⭐️ 46.0K 🚀 7.7K 💥 815 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Etcd ~ Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

⭐️ 42.1K 🚀 9.0K 💥 177 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Traefik ~ The Cloud Native Application Proxy

⭐️ 40.9K 🚀 4.4K 💥 598 🪪 MIT License

Minio ~ Multi-Cloud ☁️ Object Storage

⭐️ 36.8K 🚀 4.3K 💥 30 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Dive ~ A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

⭐️ 35.0K 🚀 1.4K 💥 144 🪪 MIT License

Istio ~ Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

⭐️ 32.1K 🚀 6.8K 💥 602 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Consul ~ Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

⭐️ 25.8K 🚀 4.2K 💥 1.1K 🪪 Mozilla Public License 2.0

Minikube ~ Run Kubernetes locally

⭐️ 25.3K 🚀 4.3K 💥 834 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Portainer ~ Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

⭐️ 24.0K 🚀 2.1K 💥 1.0K 🪪 zlib License

Helm ~ The Kubernetes Package Manager

⭐️ 23.3K 🚀 6.5K 💥 606 🪪 Apache License 2.0

K3s ~ Lightweight Kubernetes

⭐️ 21.8K 🚀 1.9K 💥 320 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Rancher ~ Complete container management platform

⭐️ 20.3K 🚀 2.7K 💥 2.2K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Lens ~ Lens – The way the world runs Kubernetes

⭐️ 20.1K 🚀 1.1K 💥 855 🪪 Other

Dapr ~ Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

⭐️ 20.1K 🚀 1.5K 💥 385 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Harbor ~ An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

⭐️ 19.0K 🚀 4.2K 💥 546 🪪 Apache License 2.0

K9s ~ 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

⭐️ 19.0K 🚀 1.2K 💥 378 🪪 Apache License 2.0

K6 ~ A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript – https://k6.io

⭐️ 18.9K 🚀 992 💥 391 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Loki ~ Like Prometheus, but for logs.

⭐️ 17.9K 🚀 2.4K 💥 742 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Jaeger ~ CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

⭐️ 16.8K 🚀 2.0K 💥 318 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Podman ~ Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

⭐️ 16.3K 🚀 1.7K 💥 415 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Docker-slim ~ DockerSlim (docker-slim): Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

⭐️ 15.6K 🚀 590 💥 142 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Trivy ~ Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

⭐️ 15.4K 🚀 1.4K 💥 343 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kops ~ Kubernetes Operations (kOps) – Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

⭐️ 14.5K 🚀 4.4K 💥 191 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kubectx ~ Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

⭐️ 14.4K 🚀 1.0K 💥 51 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Cadvisor ~ Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

⭐️ 14.3K 🚀 2.1K 💥 608 🪪 Other

Ingress-nginx ~ Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

⭐️ 14.0K 🚀 7.3K 💥 292 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Cilium ~ eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

⭐️ 13.8K 🚀 1.9K 💥 1.0K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Skaffold ~ Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

⭐️ 13.5K 🚀 1.5K 💥 617 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Teleport ~ The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

⭐️ 13.3K 🚀 1.3K 💥 2.2K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kubespray ~ Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

⭐️ 13.2K 🚀 5.6K 💥 149 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Watchtower ~ A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

⭐️ 12.4K 🚀 683 💥 71 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Argo-workflows ~ Workflow engine for Kubernetes

⭐️ 12.2K 🚀 2.6K 💥 696 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kubeflow ~ Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes

⭐️ 12.1K 🚀 2.0K 💥 305 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Dashboard ~ General-purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters

⭐️ 12.0K 🚀 3.8K 💥 107 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kubesphere ~ The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️

⭐️ 11.7K 🚀 1.7K 💥 331 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Argo-cd ~ Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.

⭐️ 11.6K 🚀 3.2K 💥 2.1K 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kaniko ~ Build Container Images In Kubernetes

⭐️ 11.5K 🚀 1.1K 💥 576 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Gitleaks ~ Protect and discover secrets using Gitleaks 🔑

⭐️ 11.3K 🚀 1.0K 💥 74 🪪 MIT License

Thanos ~ Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

⭐️ 11.3K 🚀 1.7K 💥 302 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kind ~ Kubernetes IN Docker – local clusters for testing Kubernetes

⭐️ 10.9K 🚀 1.2K 💥 161 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Rook ~ Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

⭐️ 10.5K 🚀 2.4K 💥 150 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Coredns ~ CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

⭐️ 10.1K 🚀 1.8K 💥 52 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Trufflehog ~ Find credentials all over the place

⭐️ 9.9K 🚀 1.2K 💥 101 🪪 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Cert-manager ~ Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

⭐️ 9.7K 🚀 1.7K 💥 214 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Linkerd2 ~ Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

⭐️ 9.1K 🚀 1.0K 💥 289 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kustomize ~ Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations

⭐️ 9.1K 🚀 1.9K 💥 171 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Infracost ~ Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Love your cloud bill!

⭐️ 8.4K 🚀 417 💥 125 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Node_exporter ~ Exporter for machine metrics

⭐️ 8.2K 🚀 1.9K 💥 188 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Hadolint ~ Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

⭐️ 7.9K 🚀 347 💥 130 🪪 GNU General Public License v3.0

Openebs ~ Leading Open Source Container Attached Storage, built using Cloud Native Architecture, simplifies running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes.

⭐️ 7.9K 🚀 954 💥 16 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kubeshark ~ The API traffic viewer for Kubernetes providing deep visibility into all API traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers and pods inside a Kubernetes cluster. Think TCPDump and Wireshark re-invented for Kubernetes

⭐️ 7.7K 🚀 277 💥 51 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Dex ~ OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors

⭐️ 7.6K 🚀 1.4K 💥 377 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Pipeline ~ A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

⭐️ 7.5K 🚀 1.5K 💥 300 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Opa ~ An open source, general-purpose policy engine.

⭐️ 7.5K 🚀 1.0K 💥 308 🪪 Apache License 2.0

Kubescape ~ Kubescape is a K8s open-source tool providing a multi-cloud K8s single pane of glass, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer and image vulnerabilities scanning.

⭐️ 7.4K 🚀 635 💥 57 🪪 Apache License 2.0