Cncf Open Source Projects

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1-60 of 177 projects
123,825 stars

kubernetes/kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

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Stars123,825
52,009 stars

etcd-io/etcd

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

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Stars52,009
33,901 stars

backstage/backstage

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals

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Stars33,901
31,969 stars

kubernetes/minikube

Run Kubernetes locally

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Stars31,969
30,018 stars

helm/helm

The Kubernetes Package Manager

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Stars30,018
28,976 stars

goharbor/harbor

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

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Stars28,976
28,599 stars

envoyproxy/envoy

Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

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Stars28,599
24,750 stars

cilium/cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

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Stars24,750
23,014 stars

jaegertracing/jaeger

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

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Stars23,014
21,860 stars

jina-ai/jina

☁️ Build multimodal AI applications with cloud-native stack

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Stars21,860
21,771 stars

TeamStuQ/skill-map

程序员技能图谱

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Stars21,771
21,151 stars

vitessio/vitess

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

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Stars21,151
21,000 stars

containerd/containerd

An open and reliable container runtime

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Stars21,000
17,008 stars

kubesphere/kubesphere

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

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Stars17,008
16,833 stars

argoproj/argo-workflows

Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

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Stars16,833
16,766 stars

tikv/tikv

Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB

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Stars16,766
16,647 stars

kubernetes/kops

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

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Stars16,647
14,189 stars

coredns/coredns

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

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Stars14,189
14,156 stars

thanos-io/thanos

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

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Stars14,156
13,579 stars

rook/rook

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

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Stars13,579
13,562 stars

fluent/fluentd

Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

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Stars13,562
12,001 stars

open-policy-agent/opa

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

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Stars12,001
11,870 stars

crossplane/crossplane

The Cloud Native Control Plane

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Stars11,870
11,592 stars

rootsongjc/kubernetes-handbook

Kubernetes 架构与生态:从云原生到 AI 原生基础设施的构建指南

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Stars11,592
11,383 stars

meshery/meshery

Meshery, the cloud native manager

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Stars11,383
10,728 stars

WasmEdge/WasmEdge

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

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Stars10,728
10,523 stars

distribution/distribution

The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content

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Stars10,523
9,942 stars

cncf/landscape

🌄 The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape filters and sorts hundreds of projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding, first and last commits, contributor counts and headquarters location.

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Stars9,942
9,169 stars

falcosecurity/falco

Cloud Native Runtime Security

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Stars9,169
7,875 stars

longhorn/longhorn

Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

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Stars7,875
7,860 stars

kubevela/kubevela

The Modern Application Platform.

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Stars7,860
7,806 stars

chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.

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Stars7,806
7,521 stars

kubeedge/kubeedge

Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)

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Stars7,521
6,646 stars

opencost/opencost

Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs

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Stars6,646
6,611 stars

cncf/curriculum

📚Open Source Curriculum for CNCF Certification Courses

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Stars6,611
6,497 stars

pixie-io/pixie

Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability

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Stars6,497
6,255 stars

bfenetworks/bfe

A modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu

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Stars6,255
5,879 stars

strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator

Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes

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Stars5,879
5,839 stars

cortexproject/cortex

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

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Stars5,839
5,825 stars

cloudevents/spec

CloudEvents Specification

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Stars5,825
5,785 stars

volcano-sh/volcano

A Cloud Native Batch System (Project under CNCF)

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Stars5,785
5,613 stars

cubefs/cubefs

cloud-native distributed storage

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Stars5,613
5,537 stars

feiskyer/kubernetes-handbook

Kubernetes Handbook (Kubernetes指南) https://kubernetes.feisky.xyz

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Stars5,537
5,516 stars

litmuschaos/litmus

Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q

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Stars5,516
5,295 stars

openkruise/kruise

Automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes (incubating project under CNCF)

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Stars5,295
4,544 stars

virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet

Virtual Kubelet is an open source Kubernetes kubelet implementation.

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Stars4,544
4,411 stars

walidshaari/Kubernetes-Certified-Administrator

Online resources that will help you prepare for taking the CNCF CKA 2020 "Kubernetes Certified Administrator" Certification exam. with time, This is not likely the comprehensive up to date list - please make a pull request if there something that should be added here.

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Stars4,411
4,243 stars

open-policy-agent/gatekeeper

🐊 Policy Controller for Kubernetes

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Stars4,243
3,981 stars

kumahq/kuma

🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.

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Stars3,981
3,939 stars

projectcontour/contour

Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy.

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Stars3,939
3,287 stars

notaryproject/notary

Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data

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Stars3,287
3,260 stars

dragonflyoss/Dragonfly

This repository has be archived and moved to the new repository https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2.

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Stars3,260
3,258 stars

dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2

Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. It is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Incubating Level Project.

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Stars3,258
3,048 stars

vmware-tanzu/sonobuoy

Sonobuoy is a diagnostic tool that makes it easier to understand the state of a Kubernetes cluster by running a set of Kubernetes conformance tests and other plugins in an accessible and non-destructive manner.

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Stars3,048
3,020 stars

cncf/mentoring

👩🏿‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓CNCF Mentoring + LFX + Summer of Code

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Stars3,020
2,950 stars

buildpacks/pack

CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks

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Stars2,950
2,890 stars

envoyproxy/gateway

Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway

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Stars2,890
2,703 stars

aws-samples/aws-workshop-for-kubernetes

AWS Workshop for Kubernetes

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Stars2,703
2,555 stars

openservicemesh/osm

Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

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Stars2,555
2,534 stars

OpenObservability/OpenMetrics

Evolving the Prometheus exposition format into a standard.

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Stars2,534
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