Top Kubernetes repositories on GitHub
Operators, controllers, dashboards, and ecosystem tools for Kubernetes.
Ranked by stars across 4,615 repositories tagged kubernetes. Refreshed daily.
- 1kubernetes/kubernetes★ 127,802 · ⑂ 44,477
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
- kubernetes
- go
- cncf
- containers
- 2bregman-arie/devops-exercises★ 84,510 · ⑂ 20,306
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
- devops
- aws
- linux
- ansible
- python
- docker
- 3netdata/netdata★ 80,568 · ⑂ 6,630
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
- monitoring
- docker
- kubernetes
- cncf
- prometheus
- netdata
- 4traefik/traefik★ 64,888 · ⑂ 6,201
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
- microservice
- docker
- marathon
- mesos
- consul
- etcd
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- 5minio/minio★ 61,363 · ⑂ 7,954
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.
- go
- storage
- cloud
- s3
- objectstorage
- cloudstorage
- 6etcd-io/etcd★ 52,271 · ⑂ 10,506
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
- etcd
- raft
- distributed-systems
- kubernetes
- go
- database
- 7GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily★ 47,912 · ⑂ 4,696
坚持分享 GitHub 上高质量、有趣实用的开源技术教程、开发者工具、编程网站、技术资讯。A list cool, interesting projects of GitHub.
- github
- open-source
- ai
- java
- python
- web
- 8LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets★ 46,478 · ⑂ 6,690
👩💻👨💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.
- cheatsheets
- javascript
- bash
- nodejs
- cheatsheet
- database
- 9Kong/kong★ 44,148 · ⑂ 5,210
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
- api-gateway
- microservices
- api-management
- serverless
- apis
- reverse-proxy
- 10ToolJet/ToolJet★ 40,937 · ⑂ 5,449
Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business applications, workflows and AI agents. Build visually, from a prompt, or from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor over MCP 🚀
- javascript
- internal-tools
- self-hosted
- reactjs
- no-code
- typescript
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- 11portainer/portainer★ 38,520 · ⑂ 2,907
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
- docker
- docker-swarm
- ui
- docker-deployment
- docker-compose
- docker-container
- 12istio/istio★ 38,397 · ⑂ 8,376
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
- microservices
- service-mesh
- lyft-envoy
- kubernetes
- api-management
- circuit-breaker
- 13aquasecurity/trivy★ 37,971 · ⑂ 694
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
- security
- security-tools
- docker
- containers
- vulnerability-scanners
- vulnerability-detection
- 14seaweedfs/seaweedfs★ 34,802 · ⑂ 3,003
SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.
- distributed-storage
- distributed-systems
- s3
- hdfs
- fuse
- distributed-file-system
- 15derailed/k9s★ 34,622 · ⑂ 2,279
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
- k9s
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-cli
- kubernetes-clusters
- k8s
- k8s-cluster
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- 17alibaba/nacos★ 33,387 · ⑂ 13,293
an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building AI cloud native applications.
- nacos
- dubbo
- kubernetes
- istio
- spring-cloud
- microservices
- 18podman-container-tools/podman★ 32,889 · ⑂ 3,380
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
- containers
- docker
- kubernetes
- linux
- oci
- 19dokku/dokku★ 32,148 · ⑂ 2,076
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
- dokku
- paas
- heroku
- docker
- kubernetes
- nomad
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