Top Kubernetes repositories

Repositories with the GitHub topic “kubernetes”: 194 repositories with 3.2M stars between them, mostly written in Go, Python and TypeScript. The highest-rated is kubernetes/kubernetes, #244 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder.

Biggest movers this week

libracoder/kiri

Open on GitHubRust
  • Copper IV
  • Trending #2 · 2-day streak
  • New & Rising · Nov 2026

A small, fast container runtime for macOS, Windows and Linux with free Ngrok alternative

  • 989+54 Elo, change today
  • +2.5k stars gained
  • 6.1k stars
  • 277 forks
  • 17 watchers
cargo
cargo install --git https://github.com/libracoder/kiri
  • containers
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • linux

kubescape/kubescape

Open on GitHubGo

Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.

  • 1,607+24 Elo, change today
  • 11.9k stars
  • 1.1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/kubescape/kubescape.git
  • best-practice
  • devops
  • kubernetes
  • mitre-attack

ClickHouse/ClickStack

Open on GitHubTypeScript

Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.

  • 1,552+4 Elo, change today
  • 10k stars
  • 522 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickStack.git
  • alerting
  • analytics
  • apm
  • application-monitoring

woodpecker-ci/woodpecker

Open on GitHubGo

Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

  • 1,611+2 Elo, change today
  • 8.2k stars
  • 748 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker.git
  • automation
  • ci
  • cicd
  • devops

crowdsecurity/crowdsec

Open on GitHubGo

Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.

  • 1,772+9 Elo, change today
  • 15.6k stars
  • 766 forks
  • 128 watchers
go
go get github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec
  • anti-bot
  • blocklist
  • bot-detection
  • bot-protection

libracoder/kiri

Open on GitHubRust
  • Copper IV
  • Trending #2 · 2-day streak
  • New & Rising · Nov 2026

A small, fast container runtime for macOS, Windows and Linux with free Ngrok alternative

  • 989+54 Elo, change today
  • +2.5k stars gained
  • 6.1k stars
  • 277 forks
  • 17 watchers
cargo
cargo install --git https://github.com/libracoder/kiri
  • containers
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • linux

Top 100 on the Elo ladder

  1. #244
    kubernetes/kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    2,099 Elo −85129kGo
  2. #253
    bregman-arie/devops-exercises

    Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL…

    2,094 Elo −7686.8kPython
  3. #518
    aquasecurity/trivy

    Finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets and SBOM issues in containers, Kubernetes and code.

    1,968 Elo +3739.3kGo
  4. #552
    netdata/netdata

    The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

    1,956 Elo +1181.4kGo
  5. #690
    opensandbox-group/OpenSandbox

    Secure, Fast, and Extensible Sandbox runtime for AI agents.

    1,919 Elo +8717.3kGo
  6. #779
    Infisical/infisical

    Infisical is the open-source platform for securing secrets, certificates, access, and AI Agents.

    1,899 Elo −430.5kTypeScript
  7. #815
    seaweedfs/seaweedfs

    SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, Iceberg table buckets, and Lance…

    1,891 Elo −136kGo
  8. #891
    MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps

    This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for…

    1,877 Elo −15630.9kShell
  9. #913
    traefik/traefik

    The Cloud Native Application Proxy

    1,873 Elo −4165.5kGo
  10. #1,009
    GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily

    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.

    1,854 Elo −2148.4k
  11. #1,058
    podman-container-tools/podman

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    1,846 Elo +1733.2kGo
  12. #1,080
    etcd-io/etcd

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

    1,843 Elo −10652.6kGo
  13. #1,086
    argoproj/argo-cd

    Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

    1,842 Elo −2624.6kGo
  14. #1,232
    google/gvisor

    Application Kernel for Containers

    1,823 Elo +1020kGo
  15. #1,242
    goauthentik/authentik

    The authentication glue you need.

    1,821 Elo +2226.3kPython
  16. #1,246
    cilium/cilium

    eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

    1,821 Elo −2225.8kGo
  17. #1,305
    abiosoft/colima

    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

    1,811 Elo +2531.7kGo
  18. #1,312
    GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

    Sample cloud-first application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC.

    1,811 Elo −5521.1kGo
  19. #1,316
    authelia/authelia

    The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.

    1,810 Elo −1529.6kGo
  20. #1,388
    helm/helm

    The Kubernetes Package Manager

    1,799 Elo −930.4kGo
  21. #1,390
    goharbor/harbor

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

    1,799 Elo −4129.7kGo
  22. #1,399
    LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets

    👩‍💻👨‍💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything…

    1,797 Elo −4846.6kJavaScript
  23. #1,421
    k3s-io/k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

    1,795 Elo −2734.4kGo
  24. #1,543
    portainer/portainer

    Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

    1,779 Elo −1038.8kTypeScript
  25. #1,574
    istio/istio

    Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

    1,776 Elo −1638.5kGo
  26. #1,602
    alibaba/nacos

    an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building AI cloud native…

    1,772 Elo −3633.5kJava
  27. #1,606
    crowdsecurity/crowdsec

    Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of…

    1,772 Elo +8515.6kGo
  28. #1,613
    meshery/meshery

    Meshery, the cloud native manager

    1,771 Elo +6612.2kGo
  29. #1,701
    ToolJet/ToolJet

    Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business…

    1,761 Elo −8241.2kHTML
  30. #1,745
    Kong/kong

    🦍 The API and AI Gateway

    1,756 Elo −6944.3kLua
  31. #1,849
    VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

    VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

    1,744 Elo +3518.1kGo
  32. #1,877
    milanm/DevOps-Roadmap

    DevOps Roadmap for 2026. with learning resources

    1,742 Elo −1720.9k
  33. #1,884
    kubernetes/minikube

    Run Kubernetes locally

    1,740 Elo −4332.2kGo
  34. #1,890
    derailed/k9s

    Terminal UI to navigate, observe and manage your Kubernetes clusters.

    1,739 Elo +334.9kGo
  35. #2,069
    containerd/containerd

    An open and reliable container runtime

    1,720 Elo −1521.4kGo
  36. #2,092
    pranshuparmar/witr

    Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.

    1,717 Elo −1723kGo
  37. #2,111
    Agents365-ai/drawio-skill

    Agent skill that turns natural language, code, Terraform/K8s, SQL, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Protobuf and GraphQL sources into…

    1,715 Elo +8510.7kPython
  38. #2,203
    ceph/ceph

    Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform

    1,705 Elo −2517.2kC++
  39. #2,237
    kubernetes-sigs/kubespray

    Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

    1,702 Elo −4018.8kJinja
  40. #2,268
    yeasy/docker_practice

    最新Docker容器技术,从真实案例中学习最佳实践!| Learn and understand Docker&Container technologies, with real DevOps practice!

    1,699 Elo −7226.3kGo
  41. #2,293
    pulumi/pulumi

    Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

    1,696 Elo +725.9kGo
  42. #2,314
    DataTalksClub/machine-learning-zoomcamp

    Learn ML engineering for free in 4 months! Register here 👇🏼

    1,694 Elo +214.9kJupyter Notebook
  43. #2,350
    hashicorp/consul

    Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across…

    1,690 Elo −6630.1kGo
  44. #2,368
    rancher/rancher

    Complete container management platform

    1,689 Elo −5326kGo
  45. #2,395
    amir20/dozzle

    Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s.

    1,686 Elo +4314.9kGo
  46. #2,470
    minio/minio

    MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.

    1,678 Elo −7261.2kGo
  47. #2,515
    budtmo/docker-android

    Android in docker solution with noVNC supported, video recording, mcp server and AI-agent

    1,674 Elo +2916.1kPython
  48. #2,644
    dapr/dapr

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

    1,664 Elo +426.1kGo
  49. #2,655
    ai-dynamo/dynamo

    A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework

    1,664 Elo +568.4kRust
  50. #2,709
    kata-containers/kata-containers

    Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight…

    1,659 Elo +669.1kRust
  51. #2,751
    apache/apisix

    The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

    1,656 Elo −417.3kLua
  52. #2,775
    recommenders-team/recommenders

    Best Practices on Recommendation Systems

    1,654 Elo −621.9kPython
  53. #2,867
    iam-veeramalla/Jenkins-Zero-To-Hero

    Install Jenkins, configure Docker as slave, set up cicd, deploy applications to k8s using Argo CD in GitOps way.

    1,647 Elo −5610.1kPython
  54. #3,029
    gravitational/teleport

    The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.

    1,634 Elo +921kGo
  55. #3,107
    argoproj/argo-workflows

    Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

    1,629 Elo −517kGo
  56. #3,171
    vitessio/vitess

    Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

    1,625 Elo −5621.4kGo
  57. #3,189
    siderolabs/talos

    Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

    1,624 Elo +4011.5kGo
  58. #3,276
    ahmetb/kubectx

    Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

    1,618 Elo −920.1kGo
  59. #3,374
    jhipster/generator-jhipster

    JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice…

    1,613 Elo −6222.4kTypeScript
  60. #3,404
    woodpecker-ci/woodpecker

    Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

    1,611 Elo +868.2kGo
  61. #3,422
    dokku/dokku

    A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

    1,610 Elo −3032.2kShell
  62. #3,456
    kubernetes-sigs/headlamp

    A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible

    1,608 Elo +687.6kTypeScript
  63. #3,470
    kubescape/kubescape

    Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk…

    1,607 Elo +12311.9kGo
  64. #3,478
    kubernetes-sigs/kind

    Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

    1,606 Elo −515.6kGo
  65. #3,541
    vllm-project/semantic-router

    An open, programmable decision layer for models and compute.

    1,602 Elo +816.4kGo
  66. #3,545
    kubeflow/kubeflow

    The Cloud Native AI Platform

    1,602 Elo −415.9k
  67. #3,665
    cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

    The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.

    1,594 Elo +359.5kGo
  68. #3,675
    quarkusio/quarkus

    Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

    1,594 Elo −515.9kJava
  69. #3,710
    kubernetes/community

    Kubernetes Community Documentation

    1,591 Elo −2213kJupyter Notebook
  70. #3,730
    cert-manager/cert-manager

    Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

    1,589 Elo −814.1kGo
  71. #3,766
    openfaas/faas

    OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple

    1,587 Elo −5026.2kGo
  72. #3,795
    bunkerity/bunkerweb

    🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    1,585 Elo +4111.2kPython
  73. #3,809
    verdaccio/verdaccio

    A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry

    1,585 Elo −3817.9kTypeScript
  74. #3,859
    kubernetes/ingress-nginx

    Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

    1,581 Elo −6519.4kGo
  75. #3,861
    kubernetes/kops

    Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

    1,581 Elo −2816.7kGo
  76. #3,874
    dexidp/dex

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

    1,581 Elo +2311.2kGo
  77. #3,907
    eip-work/kuboard-press

    Kuboard v4 官方文档(zh/en 双语):Kuboard 是基于 Kubernetes 的微服务管理界面。本仓库为 v4 版本文档站源码,涵盖安装升级、集群管理、工作负载、网络、存储、Kuboard MCP 等。

    1,579 Elo −2525.2kShell
  78. #3,921
    kyverno/kyverno

    Unified Policy as Code

    1,578 Elo +558.3kGo
  79. #3,936
    helm/charts

    ⚠️(OBSOLETE) Curated applications for Kubernetes

    1,577 Elo −5615.3kGo
  80. #4,003
    labring/sealos

    Deploy real projects from GitHub or your AI coding agent, then keep them running with AI-powered operations.

    1,573 Elo −2718.3kGo
  81. #4,004
    kubevirt/kubevirt

    Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

    1,573 Elo +367.2kGo
  82. #4,029
    kedacore/keda

    KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container…

    1,572 Elo +3010.7kGo
  83. #4,092
    jina-ai/serve

    ☁️ Build multimodal AI applications with cloud-native stack

    1,568 Elo −2321.8kPython
  84. #4,154
    macrozheng/mall-swarm

    mall-swarm是一套微服务商城系统,采用了 Spring Cloud Alibaba、Spring Boot…

    1,565 Elo −4313.2kJava
  85. #4,205
    warp-tech/warpgate

    Fully transparent SSH, HTTPS, Kubernetes, database and RDP/VNC bastion/PAM that doesn't need additional client-side…

    1,562 Elo +688.2kRust
  86. #4,249
    bridgecrewio/checkov

    Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images…

    1,559 Elo +209.1kPython
  87. #4,338
    bitnami/charts

    Bitnami Helm Charts

    1,554 Elo −2610.4kGo Template
  88. #4,371
    lensapp/lens

    Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

    1,552 Elo −2823.2k
  89. #4,380
    ClickHouse/ClickStack

    Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces…

    1,552 Elo +9210kTypeScript
  90. #4,382
    kubesphere/kubesphere

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

    1,552 Elo −2117kGo
  91. #4,401
    databasus/databasus

    PostgreSQL backup tool with Point-In-Time-Recovery and restore verification

    1,551 Elo +509.2kTypeScript
  92. #4,458
    dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises

    A set of exercises to prepare for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer exam by Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    1,548 Elo −4310.1k
  93. #4,475
    rook/rook

    Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

    1,546 Elo −1913.7kGo
  94. #4,532
    crossplane/crossplane

    The Cloud Native Control Plane

    1,543 Elo +1612.2kGo
  95. #4,634
    redpanda-data/redpanda

    Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

    1,538 Elo −2512.6kC++
  96. #4,685
    ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes

    A curated list for awesome kubernetes sources :ship::tada:

    1,535 Elo −2516.1kShell
  97. #4,763
    falcosecurity/falco

    Cloud Native Runtime Security

    1,531 Elo +219.5kC++
  98. #4,805
    gogf/gf

    A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.

    1,529 Elo −1213.3kGo
  99. #4,836
    GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

    Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

    1,527 Elo −615.9kGo
  100. #4,857
    geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops

    Ansible for DevOps examples.

    1,526 Elo −219.9kPython