Shell Containers

Open-source Shell projects categorized as Containers

Top 23 Shell Container Projects

  1. Dokku

    A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

    Project mention: Deploy a NestJS Application with Dokku | dev.to | 2025-02-09

    In this article, we will deploy a NestJS application using Dokku (https://dokku.com).

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  3. 90DaysOfDevOps

    This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the community. We have 3 years under our belt covering all things DevOps, including Principles, Processes, Tooling and Use Cases surrounding this vast topic.

  4. distrobox

    Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

    Project mention: Show HN: Box – a script-based interactive container manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-25
  5. netshoot

    a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container

    Project mention: The Kubernetes Troubleshooting Handbook | dev.to | 2025-01-22

    For more complex issues, consider using a debug container with pre-installed tools. There are a lot of good docker images with tooling and scripts for debugging, one that stands out to me is https://github.com/nicolaka/netshoot. It can quickly be created using:

  6. docker-gitlab

    Dockerized GitLab

  7. x11docker

    Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.

  8. try

    Inspect a command's effects before modifying your live system

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. containers-roadmap

    This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).

  11. s6-overlay

    s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init)

    Project mention: S6 – skarnet's small supervision suite | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-13

    This one looks pretty well thought out: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay

    There's a huge community https://www.linuxserver.io/ for people building "home server" containers that all use the s6-overlay. So they have a lot of tutorials and a very busy Discord, Reddit, etc with all levels of experience from container developers to people who don't program and are just getting into Docker.

  12. containers

    Bitnami container images

    Project mention: Why pinning your dependency versions matters | dev.to | 2024-11-12

    It worked perfectly for months until this morning, when I woke up to my database in a crashloop and my service completely unavailable. Why? It turns out K8s had to restart the PostgreSQL pod, which then loaded the latest 15.* version of the Docker image. Unfortunately for me, that image was buggy and sent my database down to into oblivion.

  13. dotfiles

    My dotfiles. Buyer beware ;) (by jessfraz)

  14. sysbox

    An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.

    Project mention: Running Untrusted JavaScript Code | dev.to | 2024-07-21

    Moreover, you might benefit from taking a look at sysbox, a VM-like container runtime that provides a more secure environment. Sysbox is worth it, especially if the main app is running in a container, which means that you'll be running Docker in Docker.

  15. toolbox

    Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux (by containers)

    Project mention: Show HN: Box – a script-based interactive container manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-25
  16. minideb

    A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers

  17. cheatsheet-kubernetes-A4

    :book: Kubernetes CheatSheets In A4

  18. templates

    Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter to create your own! (by devcontainers)

    Project mention: Automated Testing and Dev Containers | dev.to | 2024-11-15

    For my project, I honestly wish there was more work to do, but once again, Rust just made things insanely easy: Because everything I needed, including the package manager, the project manager, the code formatter, the linter are included in the Rust toolchain, all I had to do was using the Rust template image. I simply went with the default configuration, ran the containers, and everything just worked!

  19. features

    A collection of Dev Container Features managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter to publish your own

    Project mention: Development Container Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-06
  20. geodesic

    πŸš€ Geodesic is a DevOps Linux Toolbox in Docker

  21. bastille

    Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.

    Project mention: Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-23

    A brother from another mother: https://bastillebsd.org/ Bastille manages jails using shell with many of the same constructs you'd find in docker. I like it over other jail management software in BSD because it has so few dependencies.

  22. docker-squid

    Dockerfile to create a Docker container image for Squid proxy server

  23. Conty

    Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable

  24. SkiffOS

    Any Linux distribution, anywhere.

  25. ramalama

    The goal of RamaLama is to make working with AI boring.

    Project mention: Docker Bake Is Now Generally Available | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-07

    About time. https://github.com/containers/ramalama also working on this

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Container projects in Shell? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Dokku 29,797
2 90DaysOfDevOps 27,603
3 distrobox 10,486
4 netshoot 8,951
5 docker-gitlab 7,938
6 x11docker 5,761
7 try 5,238
8 containers-roadmap 5,237
9 s6-overlay 3,904
10 containers 3,600
11 dotfiles 3,252
12 sysbox 2,904
13 toolbox 2,673
14 minideb 2,117
15 cheatsheet-kubernetes-A4 2,022
16 templates 1,079
17 features 999
18 geodesic 991
19 bastille 864
20 docker-squid 833
21 Conty 828
22 SkiffOS 745
23 ramalama 1,035

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