Top KUBERNETES GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

Build, run and scale AI agents like API and microservices

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

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.

Web-based Traffic and Cybersecurity Network Traffic Monitoring

An open and reliable container runtime

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes

Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster

A Cloud Native Batch System (Project under CNCF)

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

Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

Run any process, on your machine or in an AI agent's environment, as if it were a pod in your Kubernetes cluster: real env vars, DNS, network, traffic.

NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes

Enhancements tracking repo for Kubernetes

Rust Kubernetes client and controller runtime