| 120,294 | Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management | 2,563,221 | 1,169,625 | 53 days |
| 62,568 | The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. | 243,194 | 147,582 | 32 days |
| 61,464 | The Cloud Native Application Proxy | 161,827 | 105,473 | 25 days |
| 47,610 | Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. | 474,642 | 288,292 | 11 days |
| 39,694 | TiDB - the open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for modern applications. | 1,148,854 | 495,301 | 24 days |
| 37,903 | Connect, secure, control, and observe services. | 417,628 | 226,851 | 19 days |
| 32,697 | 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! | 58,184 | 19,271 | 28 days |
| 32,591 | A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity. | 121,017 | 63,498 | 46 days |
| 32,090 | | 45,718 | 16,369 | 5 days |
| 31,459 | | 107,335 | 31,090 | 10 days |
| 31,369 | Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more | 222,218 | 125,894 | 3 days |
| 29,721 | Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. | 529,889 | 320,953 | 16 days |
| 29,383 | The Kubernetes Package Manager | 75,278 | 43,572 | 18 days |
| 27,962 | The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA. | 358,338 | 153,256 | 12 days |
| 27,747 | OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure. | 400,877 | 245,353 | 18 days |
| 27,551 | Like Prometheus, but for logs. | 6,756,510 | 254,508 | 18 days |
| 27,520 | An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. | 146,807 | 62,955 | 24 days |
| 25,477 | Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration. | 246,986 | 73,145 | 13 days |
| 25,416 | Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era. | 33,582 | 17,652 | 65 days |
| 25,327 | Complete container management platform | 280,175 | 104,210 | 10 days |
| 23,617 | eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability | 1,739,191 | 210,876 | 4 days |
| 22,803 | Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source) | 512,114 | 7,042 | 737 days |
| 21,898 | Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes | 218,727 | 125,921 | 6 days |
| 19,794 | The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure. | 1,097,516 | 520,931 | 5 days |
| 19,426 | Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes | 56,388 | 18,994 | 6 days |
| 17,664 | Application Kernel for Containers | 422,590 | 138,647 | — |
| 16,836 | The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️ | 1,068,726 | 12,813 | 321 days |
| 16,684 | Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data. | 413,078 | 238,740 | 27 days |
| 16,550 | Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management | 1,016,589 | 35,200 | 75 days |
| 16,433 | Workflow Engine for Kubernetes | 135,459 | 77,278 | 4 days |
| 15,730 | GoogleContainerTools/skaffold Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development | 1,091,931 | 88,529 | 32 days |
| 15,655 | | 41,991 | 1,455 | 107 days |
| 15,444 | kubernetes-retired/dashboard General-purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters | 27,530 | 9,565 | 101 days |
| 14,993 | Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes | 15,884 | 4,512 | 52 days |
| 14,642 | Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker. | 1,106,635 | 1,840 | 335 days |
| 13,793 | CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins | 65,329 | 39,365 | 23 days |
| 13,545 | cert-manager/cert-manager Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes | 114,355 | 62,175 | 6 days |
| 13,365 | Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes | 129,398 | 61,991 | 3 days |
| 13,033 | A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development. | 229,318 | 138,502 | 13 days |
| 12,581 | :tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash | 521,856 | 249,143 | 5 days |
| 11,764 | API traffic analyzer for Kubernetes, providing deep packet inspection with complete API and Kubernetes contexts, retaining cluster-wide L4 traffic (PCAP), and using minimal production compute resources. | 5,045 | 337 | 13 days |
| 11,423 | Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s. | 11,393 | 2,312 | 13 days |
| 11,372 | The Cloud Native Control Plane | 92,018 | 61,550 | 5 days |
| 11,279 | Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x. | 84,549 | 36,801 | 10 days |
| 11,173 | 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. | 38,641 | 19,674 | 4 days |
| 10,910 | vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces. | 92,449 | 19,399 | 10 days |
| 10,428 | Convert Compose to Kubernetes | 17,915 | 6,773 | 24 days |