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Top 23 Go Docker Projects
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Moby
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
There were many attempts to fix this issue by changing cgroup isolation settings using flags like --cgroupns=host etc ,but nothing worked. Similar outcomes were also obtained by other attempts like these. https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/16238
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Project mention: EKS vs k3s on AWS for startups: cost, complexity, and when to choose each | dev.to | 2026-04-26
k3s: You run the control plane on an EC2 instance. It starts in under a minute, ships with Traefik and a working storage class, and upgrades when you decide. Nothing AWS-specific unless you want it.
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memos
Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.
ObjeX currently serves as the S3 backend for our Outline and Memos instances. Both use presigned URLs and server-side uploads through the standard AWS SDKs, no special configuration needed.
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dive (~54k⭐) lets you browse what's in it — file by file, interactively. It answers what is in a layer.
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Project mention: GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their Credit Values | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11
What would you suggest as an alternative? Gitlab really sucks in my personal opinion, but what are your experiences with:
Gogs https://gogs.io/ (this IS gitea btw)
Forgejo https://forgejo.org/
Self hosted or cloud hosted. Also excluding Github because, please just fracking don't.
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Project mention: Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-25
What sort of compatibility issues were you encountering? (disclaimer: I'm on the Podman Desktop team)
If it was compose + docker compatibility issues, that's on the roadmap for improvement :). Compose support is flakey at times (it's essentially a wrapper around the open source binary https://github.com/docker/compose)
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harness
Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. (by harness)
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trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Project mention: trivy VS onequery - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/trivy | 2026-06-01 -
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Project mention: Stop Waiting for Gradle: Turn Your Old Laptop into an Android/Kotlin Build Sanctuary | dev.to | 2025-12-15
Using CasaOS, I transformed that junk hardware into a local powerhouse.
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Docker runs a long-lived background daemon (dockerd), traditionally as root. Every CLI call talks to it over a socket. Podman doesn't. Each podman invocation is just a regular process you run as your own user.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-01
https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin for fuzzy shell history (ctrl+r)
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (nice coloured cat replacement)
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima (so I don't need docker desktop)
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb (performant database that lets you directly query JSON, parquet, csv files with SQL queries and convert one to the other.
https://github.com/eradman/entr (rerun commands automatically when provided files change) (useful for rerunning test commands automatically once you save the file you're editing.
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj and https://github.com/idursun/jjui (Jujutsu VCS, been using it for three months and I really enjoy it)
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker (managing containers, images, volumes easily)
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit (best tui for git and outside niche git commands, the fastest way to use git.)
https://github.com/jdx/mise (fast asdf, direnv, and task runner replacement) (install pretty much version of tool, language, env vars in a per directory level. (Or global if you want))
https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide (intelligent cd to move between directories incredibly quickly)
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Depending on what other (additional) features you're willing to accept, the GoHarbor[0] registry supports pull-through as well as mirroring and other features, it's a nice registry that also supports other OCI stuff like Helm charts, and does vulnerability scanning with "Interrogation Services" like Trivy.
I've been using it at home and work for a few years now, might be a bit overkill if you just want a simple registry, but is a really nice tool for anyone who can benefit from the other features.
[0] https://goharbor.io/
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Yes. The two ports are independent — 8502 for the UI and 5055 for the API. Caddy reverse-proxying both with auto-TLS is one Caddyfile block per port. Enable Open Notebook's built-in password protection in addition if the deployment is public-facing. For team deployments, add Authelia or Tailscale serve.
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Project mention: Bridging the Gap: Future Directions for Kubernetes and Distributed Systems | dev.to | 2026-05-04
The industry's first pass at solving this was multi-cluster management. Platforms like Anthos, Rancher, and OpenShift are essential for managing fleets of Kubernetes clusters. They provide a single pane of glass for configuration, policy, and deployments across different environments. This was a critical step forward for operational maturity.
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At the moment we have an entry point for our application, but we will need to stop and rerun manually each time we make changes in the application. There is a tool we can use and that one is Air, so let's setup it
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Lean and Mean Docker containers
Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)
Project mention: I Ditched Docker for Podman (and You Should Too) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-05 -
Project mention: Kubernetes Secret Extraction via ArgoCD ServerSideDiff | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-01
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Project mention: Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-09
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Project mention: Kubelet Metrics: How cAdvisor and CRI Collect Kubernetes Stats | dev.to | 2026-05-28
implement CRI ListPodSandboxMetrics
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Underneath the hood, Substrate uses gvisor (same thing as the Agent Sandbox project from the CNCF SIG), which is a container sandbox developed by Google that focuses on security, isolation, and the ability to use it in an efficient fashion (e.g - not take up a ton of hardware resources).
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No. Portainer is web-only. You can open a container console through the Portainer web UI, but Portainer itself has no terminal interface. If you want a TUI, use Lazydocker or ctop.
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).
Go Docker discussion
Go Docker related posts
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Mqtt-dashboard: a self-hostable dashboard for IoT things
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Show HN: My home server got unplugged, so I built a recovery CLI
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Dozzle: Real-time Docker logs, stats, and debugging – in the browser
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Show HN: HomeButler – A CLI that tells you what changed on your home server
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Mqtt-dashboard – A self-hostable MQTT dashboard/explorer for IoT developers
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trivy VS onequery - a user suggested alternative
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Agent Substrate: The Agentic AI Isolation Layer On K8s
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Docker projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moby | 71,622 |
| 2 | traefik | 63,619 |
| 3 | memos | 60,641 |
| 4 | dive | 54,238 |
| 5 | Gogs | 47,587 |
| 6 | Docker Compose | 37,489 |
| 7 | harness | 36,711 |
| 8 | trivy | 36,314 |
| 9 | glance | 34,855 |
| 10 | CasaOS | 34,021 |
| 11 | podman | 32,003 |
| 12 | colima | 29,243 |
| 13 | Harbor | 28,645 |
| 14 | authelia | 28,025 |
| 15 | OpenFaaS | 26,178 |
| 16 | rancher | 25,666 |
| 17 | air | 23,663 |
| 18 | Lean and Mean Docker containers | 23,301 |
| 19 | argo-cd | 23,065 |
| 20 | neko | 21,087 |
| 21 | containerd | 20,814 |
| 22 | gvisor | 18,504 |
| 23 | ctop | 17,685 |
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