Top CONTAINERS GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

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

Light, fluffy, and always free - Local Azure Emulator

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

Cloud Native Runtime Security

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

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.

An open and reliable container runtime

A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

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

CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems

Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

A library to support tests with throwaway instances of Docker containers for all compatible .NET Standard versions.

The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes.

Ultrafast serverless GPU inference, sandboxes, and background jobs

A fast & densely stored hashmap and hashset

Creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate in your CI/CD pipeline with automatic submission to Dependency Track server