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Top 23 Shell Container Projects
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Dokku is the smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen. It's a self-hosted Heroku alternative that runs on a single server. Push code with git push — Dokku builds, deploys, and manages your apps.
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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.
Project mention: 10 GitHub Repositories That Will Actually Teach You DevOps in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-05-05github.com/MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps. 29k stars. Three years of community-curated 90-day plans.
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Project mention: One TCP Connection, From SYN to FIN: Capture the Whole Lifecycle in tcpdump | dev.to | 2026-07-12
netshoot: a Docker + Kubernetes network troubleshooting swiss-army container
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Project mention: Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker and Podman containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-23
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> Part #2 to me, I also want observability as to what the agent changed.
You could potentially combine https://github.com/binpash/try with bubblewrap (I'm not sure how well they compose and as the docs say it isn't a full sandbox).
The good (and bad because it's confusing and can lead to surprises if misconfigured) thing about Linux containers is all the pieces of containers can be used independently. The "try" tool lets you use the overlay part of containers on your host system, just like Bubblewrap lets you combine the namespacing parts of containers with your host system.
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containers-roadmap
This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).
Project mention: We want to achieve this configuration using only an Egress-only internet gateway with IPv6 | dev.to | 2025-12-14 -
Project mention: Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-22
If all you need is init (and not a process supervisor), docker comes with one called 'tini' built in. All you have to do is supply `--init` to the `docker run` command.
As far as a different process supervisor, I'm not sure. I've used supervisord and agree it's kind of awkward. I have heard of these but don't know much about them:
https://smarden.org/runit/
https://github.com/nicolas-van/multirun
https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
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Bitnami recently updated its policy, restricting direct access to their secure container images (discussion here). This change impacts automated workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and production deployments that rely on Bitnami images and Helm charts.
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sysbox
An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.
Project mention: Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-06 -
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Project mention: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-18
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images
Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers (by devcontainers)
Project mention: Maximizing Efficiency with Dev Containers: A Developer's Guide | dev.to | 2025-07-21Dev Containers provide a versatile and expansive technology stack, making them ideal for development. For our purposes, we'll opt for a pre-configured Python image maintained by Microsoft, accessible in their repository. Specifically, the Python development containers we're interested in are found under src/python, with a comprehensive list of available images available at location. We'll select the mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python image tagged 3-bullseye. This container comes equipped with Git, various Python tools, zsh, the Oh My Zsh! Framework, a non-root Visual Studio Code (VSCode) user with sudo privileges, and a suite of common development dependencies. For those curious about the construction of the Docker image, further details can be found here.
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features
A collection of Dev Container Features managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter to publish your own
This article demonstrates how to create and publish your own Dev Container Feature for VS Code. We'll use the Amazon Q CLI feature from the jajera/features repository as a practical example, showing the complete process from forking the starter repository to getting your feature listed on containers.dev.
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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: Les Cloud Development Environments (CDE) - Embarquement immédiat ! | dev.to | 2025-11-06 -
bastille
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
Project mention: Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-05I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails https://bastillebsd.org/
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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).
Shell Containers discussion
Shell Containers related posts
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One TCP Connection, From SYN to FIN: Capture the Whole Lifecycle in tcpdump
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Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control
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bastille
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Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown
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Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux
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Distrobox but with Support for macOS
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Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir
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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 | 32,039 |
| 2 | 90DaysOfDevOps | 29,603 |
| 3 | netshoot | 10,862 |
| 4 | docker-gitlab | 8,093 |
| 5 | x11docker | 6,287 |
| 6 | try | 5,451 |
| 7 | containers-roadmap | 5,351 |
| 8 | s6-overlay | 4,531 |
| 9 | containers | 4,443 |
| 10 | kube-ps1 | 3,800 |
| 11 | sysbox | 3,780 |
| 12 | dotfiles | 3,562 |
| 13 | minideb | 2,216 |
| 14 | cheatsheet-kubernetes-A4 | 2,141 |
| 15 | images | 2,082 |
| 16 | features | 1,500 |
| 17 | templates | 1,419 |
| 18 | bastille | 1,092 |
| 19 | Conty | 1,093 |
| 20 | geodesic | 1,053 |
| 21 | docker-squid | 851 |
| 22 | SkiffOS | 810 |
| 23 | docker-vackup | 489 |
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