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Top 21 C Container Projects
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Project mention: Release Cosmopolitan v4.0.0 · jart/cosmopolitan | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-23
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Ultimately, the combination of C and Wasm3 worked successfully.
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Project mention: Crun – A fast and lightweight featured OCI runtime | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-05
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Project mention: CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-21
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felix
Project Calico's per-host agent Felix, responsible for programming routes and security policy.
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Maybe something like this? https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs
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Project mention: Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS, etc.) to CNCF | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-14
Composefs has a totally crucial feature that sold me immediately, which is that if two containers use the same file, the kernel can serve that file from the same page cache. This means you can hypothetically launch a lot of containers, and if they share some layers/base images, the memory usage can still be quite reasonable. Nice. https://github.com/containers/composefs?tab=readme-ov-file#b...
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komihash
Very fast, high-quality hash function, discrete-incremental and streamed hashing-capable (non-cryptographic, inline C/C++) 26GB/s + PRNG
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containers
Simple containers using Linux user namespaces — see also https://github.com/arachsys/ucontain (by arachsys)
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Containers
This library provides various containers. Each container has utility functions to manipulate the data it holds. This is an abstraction as to not have to manually manage and reallocate memory. (by bkthomps)
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bluechi
Eclipse BlueChi is a systemd service controller intended for multi-node environments with a predefined number of nodes and with a focus on highly regulated ecosystems such as those requiring functional safety.
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libGimbal
C17-based extended standard library, cross-language type system, and unit testing framework targeting Sega Dreamcast, Sony PSP and PSVita, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and WebAssembly.
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osxiec
Native Docker-like solution for macOS developed by Okerew. It has it own containers. It leverages native macOS features to provide containerization capabilities, albeit with some limitations compared to Docker.
Added a way to broadcast commands to the ip/vlan osxiec network straight from osxiec, added updating container config files in an existing container, fixed bugs, added better support for running background tasks in a container, improved the gui version and the container hub https://github.com/Okerew/osxiec/releases/tag/v0.8
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Containers discussion
C Containers related posts
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New update for my native macos docker like alternative
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Release Cosmopolitan v4.0.0 · jart/cosmopolitan
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Crun – A fast and lightweight featured OCI runtime
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New version for my osxiec project
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New version for my osxiec project
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Netdata: 20% discount on all annual plans Promo code BF20241Y
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Netdata 2.0 Released
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Container projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Netdata | 73,782 |
| 2 | cosmopolitan | 19,084 |
| 3 | wasm3 | 7,485 |
| 4 | LXC | 4,790 |
| 5 | crun | 3,232 |
| 6 | criu | 3,131 |
| 7 | barco | 1,511 |
| 8 | lxcfs | 1,083 |
| 9 | felix | 918 |
| 10 | fuse-overlayfs | 556 |
| 11 | composefs | 492 |
| 12 | CC | 244 |
| 13 | komihash | 212 |
| 14 | containers | 186 |
| 15 | Containers | 168 |
| 16 | Ruby-LXC | 133 |
| 17 | bluechi | 131 |
| 18 | libGimbal | 83 |
| 19 | osxiec | 29 |
| 20 | vita | 13 |
| 21 | flare | 2 |
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