Top CNCF GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Standardized Distributed Generative and Predictive AI Inference Platform for Scalable, Multi-Framework Deployment on Kubernetes

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

Cloud Native Agentic AI | Discord: https://bit.ly/kagentdiscord

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

OpenChoreo is an internal developer platform for Kubernetes

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

Cloud Native Runtime Security

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

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

An open and reliable container runtime

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

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

The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project 🚀

Bare metal provisioning engine, supporting network and ISO booting, BMC interactions, metadata service, and workflow engine.

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

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

Workflow Runtime Engine based on the Open Workflow Specification (CNCF Sandbox project) for Agentic Workflows

Java SDK for Serverless Workflow

Workflow Engine for Kubernetes