Top 9 Software Container Open-Source Projects

Portainer

337 28,852 9.8 TypeScript

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

Project mention: Homelab Adventures: Crafting a Personal Tech Playground | dev.to | 2024-04-22

Portainer

Dokku

181 25,975 9.9 Shell

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

Project mention: Hosting old Node Projects 👴🏼 | dev.to | 2024-04-25

If you want to dig into it anyways, Dokku is an interesting mention. They provide an Open Source PaaS that you can install on your server to simplify self hosting containers.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Harbor

74 22,485 9.7 Go

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

Project mention: Docker Private Registry using Harbor | dev.to | 2024-04-20

cat << EOF wget \ https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/releases/download/v2.9.4/\ harbor-offline-installer-v2.9.4.tgz EOF

podman

358 21,645 10.0 Go

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

Project mention: Podman 5.0 has been released | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26

Example of why: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5102#issuecommen...

LXC

7 4,439 9.2 C

LXC - Linux Containers

Project mention: LXD Moves into Canonical | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-06

I hope this doesn't affect LXC negatively.
LXC and LXD share plenty of contributors.
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/graphs/contributors
I use an "unprivileged LXC container" setup on several Debian bullseye hosts. It works fantastic, and each LXC container feels like a real server.
Compare that to Docker's "one-container-one-process" philosophy, reinventing the wheel by awkwardly composing multiple containers.

Docker Swarm

151 4,025 10.0 Markdown

Source repo for Docker's Documentation (by docker)

Project mention: Top 6 Alternatives to XAMPP for Local Development Environments | dev.to | 2024-04-04

Docker - A containerization platform that allows developers to package applications and their dependencies into containers. Docker Compose can be used to define multi-container application stacks, including web servers, databases, and other services. Features powerful portability and consistency, supports rapid building, sharing, and container management, suitable for complex application architectures, and requires a learning curve.

runtime-spec

11 3,087 6.4 Go

OCI Runtime Specification

Project mention: The What, Why and How of Containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-27

> Well, no. When people say "containers", they always mean "Docker".
Not really/necessarily. https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Habitus

0 1,328 0.0 Go

A build flow tool for Docker.
Starter

0 303 3.0 Go

Helping you get started with containerized apps. (by cloud66-oss)

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).