Top CONTAINERS GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

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

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

Complete container management platform

Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop

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

The Cloud Native Control Plane

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

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager