Top CONTAINER GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

An open and reliable container runtime

Free IDE for Kubernetes

Light, fluffy, and always free - Local Azure Emulator

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

A self-hosted dashboard for CrowdSec: investigate alerts, manage decisions, monitor runtime metrics, and send notifications from one responsive UI.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

Cloud Native Runtime Security

Open-source universal artifact registry. Drop-in Artifactory/Nexus alternative with 40+ package formats, security scanning, WASM plugins, and edge replication.

Complete container management platform

Podman Desktop is the best free and open source tool to work with Containers and Kubernetes for developers. Get an intuitive and user-friendly interface to effortlessly build, manage, and deploy containers and Kubernetes — all from your desktop.

A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit

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

The Cloud Native Control Plane