Open Source Linux Container Management Software
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View 41 business solutionsBrowse free open source Container Management software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Container Management software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Volcano
A Cloud Native Batch System (Project under CNCF)
Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes. It provides a suite of mechanisms that are commonly required by many classes of batch & elastic workload including machine learning/deep learning, bioinformatics/genomics, and other "big data" applications. These types of applications typically run on generalized domain frameworks like TensorFlow, Spark, Ray, PyTorch, MPI, etc, which Volcano integrates with. Volcano builds upon a decade and a half of experience running a wide variety of high-performance workloads at scale using several systems and platforms, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the open-source community. Until June 2021, Volcano has been widely used around the world at a variety of industries such as Internet/Cloud/Finance/ Manufacturing/Medical. More than 20 companies or institutions are not only end users but also active contributors. -
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Reloader
A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets
A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it. We would like to watch if some change happens in ConfigMap and/or Secret; then perform a rolling upgrade on relevant DeploymentConfig, Deployment, Daemonset, Statefulset, and Rollout. Reloader can watch changes in ConfigMap and Secret and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated DeploymentConfigs, Deployments, Daemonsets Statefulsets, and Rollouts. -
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Tilt
Define dev environment as code for microservice apps on Kubernetes
A toolkit for fixing the pains of microservice development. Understand & orchestrate your services, work smarter & faster wherever you are, and team-based productivity. See all the pieces of your app, and trigger custom workflows like seeding databases or creating infrastructure. Our engine starts the whole app and runs automated rebuilds as you edit in your IDE. Get a continuous feedback loop with your logs, broken builds, and runtime errors. Work with Kubernetes without needing to be an expert. And if you are an expert, no more 20 questions with kubectl. Tilt responsively handles the tedious and repetitive parts of your workflow and gives you peripheral vision so you find errors faster. Recapture the magic of hacking with immediate feedback. -
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K3s
Lightweight Kubernetes
Lightweight Kubernetes. Production-ready, easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB. K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. K3s is packaged as a single <70MB binary that reduces the dependencies and steps needed to install, run and auto-update a production Kubernetes cluster. Both ARM64 and ARMv7 are supported with binaries and multiarch images available for both. K3s works great on something as small as a Raspberry Pi to an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server. -
MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Podman Desktop
A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
Podman Desktop is an open source graphical tool enabling you to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes from your local environment. Podman Desktop installs, configures, and keeps Podman up to date on your local environment. It provides a system tray, to check status and interact with your container engine without losing focus from other tasks. The desktop application provides a dashboard to interact with containers, images, pods, and volumes but also configures your environment with your OCI registries and network settings. Podman Desktop also provides capabilities to connect and deploy pods to Kubernetes environments. -
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Harbor
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores
Harbor is an open-source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. Harbor extends the open-source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by users such as security, identity and management. Having a registry closer to the build-and-run environment can improve the image transfer efficiency. Harbor supports replication of images between registries, and also offers advanced security features such as user management, access control and activity auditing. Harbor is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If you are an organization that wants to help shape the evolution of cloud native technologies, consider joining the CNCF. Cloud native registry: With support for both container images and Helm charts, Harbor serves as registry for cloud native environments like container runtimes and orchestration platforms. -
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KDash
A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes
A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust. KDash only offers a view of the resources with a focus on speed and UX. Really, if something is slow or has bad UX then please raise a bug. Hence the UI/UX is designed to be more user-friendly and easier to navigate with contextual help everywhere and a tab system to switch between different resources easily. -
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Lens
Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes
Lens is a Kubernetes IDE designed to simplify the management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of cloud-native applications. It provides a unified, context-aware graphical interface that allows developers and DevOps teams to interact with Kubernetes clusters more efficiently. Lens enables users to visualize workloads, inspect resources, and manage deployments without relying heavily on command-line tools. It supports multiple clusters simultaneously, making it easier to operate complex distributed environments. Widely adopted across organizations, Lens helps teams learn Kubernetes faster and streamline their workflows. Overall, it serves as a powerful productivity tool for managing Kubernetes infrastructure at scale. -
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DockStation
Application to managing projects based on Docker
DockStation is a developer-centric application to managing projects based on Docker. Instead of lots of CLI commands you can monitor, configure, and manage services and containers using just a GUI. The DockStation helps to manage projects and container settings, e.g. bind a local host to a project, simple version changing, map ports, assign and reassign environment variables, change entry point and start command instructions, configure volumes, quick access to image documentation, quick services containers cleanup and a lot of other useful functionality. The application helps to manage and observe remote containers. We provide many tools, such as as log monitoring, searching logs, grouping, running tools, and getting container info. We also provide amazing authorization tools for remote connections. -
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OpenCost
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
OpenCost is a vendor-neutral open-source project for measuring and allocating cloud infrastructure and container costs in real-time. Built by Kubernetes experts and supported by Kubernetes practitioners, OpenCost shines a light into the black box of Kubernetes spending. Flexible, customizable cost allocation and cloud resource monitoring for accurate showback, chargeback, and ongoing reporting. Dynamic asset pricing, through integrations with AWS, Azure, and GCP billing APIs as well as support for on-prem Kubernetes clusters using custom pricing. Monitor costs outside the Kubernetes cluster from the cloud provider, resources like object storage, databases, and other managed services. -
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Strimzi
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations. Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations. For development, it’s easy to set up a cluster in Minikube in a few minutes. For production you can tailor the cluster to your needs, using features such as rack awareness to spread brokers across availability zones, and Kubernetes taints and tolerations to run Kafka on dedicated nodes. You can expose Kafka outside Kubernetes using NodePort, Load balancer, Ingress and OpenShift Routes, depending on your needs, and these are easily secured using TLS. The Kube-native management of Kafka is not limited to the broker. You can also manage Kafka topics, users, Kafka MirrorMaker and Kafka Connect using Custom Resources. This means you can use your familiar Kubernetes processes and tooling to manage complete Kafka applications. -
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Argo Rollouts
Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller and set of CRDs that provide advanced deployment capabilities such as blue-green, canary, canary analysis, experimentation, and progressive delivery features to Kubernetes. Argo Rollouts (optionally) integrates with ingress controllers and service meshes, leveraging their traffic shaping abilities to gradually shift traffic to the new version during an update. Additionally, Rollouts can query and interpret metrics from various providers to verify key KPIs and drive automated promotion or rollback during an update. -
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Colima
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup. -
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External Secrets
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service
External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems like AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Google Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, IBM Cloud Secrets Manager, Akeyless, CyberArk Conjur, Pulumi ESC and many more. The operator reads information from external APIs and automatically injects the values into a Kubernetes Secret. Multiple people and organizations are joining efforts to create a single External Secrets solution based on existing projects. If you are curious about the origins of this project, check out this issue and this PR. -
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GoDoxy
High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator
GoDoxy is a high-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator tailored for self-hosting environments, blending automated routing with a user-friendly web interface and advanced traffic control. Written in Go, it automatically discovers services (like Docker containers) and generates routes based on configuration or container labels, letting you expose and secure apps with minimal manual routing. GoDoxy includes features like ACL control, automatic SSL certificate management with Let’s Encrypt, support for HTTP, TCP/UDP forwarding, and integration points for OpenID Connect authentication and forward auth, making it highly versatile for modern home labs and self-hosted stacks. Its WebUI provides dashboard views of routes, container stats, and real-time logs, while optional idle-sleep controls let you conserve resources by pausing inactive services. It fills the gap between simple reverse proxies and full-featured orchestrators with a focus on automation and live management. -
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Kata Containers
Build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs)
Kata Containers is an open source container runtime, building lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the container ecosystem. Kata Containers is an open source community working to build a secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers, but provide stronger workload isolation using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of defense. Since launching in December 2017, the community successfully merged the best parts of Intel Clear Containers with Hyper.sh RunV and scaled to include support for major architectures including AMD64, ARM, IBM p-series, and IBM z-series in addition to x86_64. Kata Containers also supports multiple hypervisors including QEMU, Cloud-Hypervisor, and Firecracker, and integrates with the containerd project among others. -
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NVIDIA Container Toolkit
Build and run Docker containers leveraging NVIDIA GPUs
The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated Docker containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime library and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs. Make sure you have installed the NVIDIA driver and Docker engine for your Linux distribution Note that you do not need to install the CUDA Toolkit on the host system, but the NVIDIA driver needs to be installed. The NVIDIA Container Toolkit supports different container engines in the ecosystem - Docker, LXC, Podman etc. Follow the User Guide for running GPU containers with these engines. The architecture of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows for different container engines in the ecosystem - Docker, LXC, Podman to be supported easily. The NVIDIA Container Toolkit provides different options for enumerating GPUs and the capabilities that are supported for CUDA containers. -
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Kube-OVN
A Bridge between SDN and Cloud Native (Project under CNCF)
If you miss the good old days of SDN, then Kube-OVN is your choice in Cloud Native era. Kube-OVN, a CNCF Sandbox Level Project, integrates the OVN-based Network Virtualization with Kubernetes. It offers an advanced Container Network Fabric for Enterprises with the most functions, extreme performance and the easiest operation. Each Namespace can have a unique Subnet (backed by a Logical Switch). Pods within the Namespace will have IP addresses allocated from the Subnet. It's also possible for multiple Namespaces to share a Subnet. -
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LINKERD
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes
Enterprise power without enterprise complexity. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster. 100% open source, CNCF graduated, and written in Rust. Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient. Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance. Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools. Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration. Designed by engineers, for engineers. -
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A Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best-of-breed Java libraries and standards. Quarkus tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near-instant scale-up and high-density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile-time boot. Combine both the familiar imperative code and the reactive style when developing applications. Quarkus provides a cohesive, fun-to-use, full-stack framework by leveraging a growing list of over fifty best-of-breed libraries that you love and use. All wired on a standard backbone. The combination of Quarkus and Kubernetes provides an ideal environment for creating scalable, fast, and lightweight applications. Quarkus significantly increases developer productivity with tooling, pre-built integrations, application services, and more.
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Status
Minimal docker container status panel
A minimal docker container management panel written in Python / Flask. Before installing this project, please, make sure you have installed docker and docker-compose. -
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cri-tools
CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI). cri-tools aims to provide a series of debugging and validation tools for Kubelet CRI. It's recommended to use the same cri-tools and Kubernetes minor version, because new features added to the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) may not be fully supported if they diverge. cri-tools follows the Kubernetes release cycles with respect to its minor versions (1.x.y). Patch releases (1.x.z) for Kubernetes are not in sync with those from cri-tools, because they are scheduled for each month, whereas cri-tools provides them only if necessary. If a Kubernetes release goes End of Life, then the corresponding cri-tools version can be considered in the same way. -
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crun
A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library
A fast and low-memory footprint OCI Container Runtime fully written in C. While most of the tools used in the Linux containers ecosystem are written in Go, I believe C is a better fit for a lower-level tool like container runtime. runc, the most used implementation of the OCI runtime specs written in Go, re-execs itself and uses a module written in C for setting up the environment before the container process starts. crun aims to be also usable as a library that can be easily included in programs without requiring an external process for managing OCI containers. -
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DevOps
Contains learning resources related to DevOps tools and tech
I created this repository to keep my learning, notes, and code in one place for various tools in DevOps. Now, it's helping thousands of learners, practitioners, and professionals every day in their DevOps journey. -
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Kaniko
Build Container Images In Kubernetes
kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. kaniko doesn't depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile completely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster.
