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Top 23 Kubernete Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Autonomous SRE: Revolutionizing Reliability with AI, Automation, and Chaos Engineering | dev.to | 2025-06-24
Self-Healing Pods/Containers: Platforms like Kubernetes inherently offer self-healing capabilities, automatically restarting or rescheduling unhealthy containers or pods to maintain desired service levels. This is fundamental to cloud-native resilience.
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devops-exercises
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
Project mention: Struggling to Learn DevOps? Here’s How to Master It in Just 30 Days | dev.to | 2025-04-25DevOps Exercises Interview prep + practical questions
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Project mention: CPU & Memory Monitoring 101: How to Check, Analyze, and Optimize System Performance | dev.to | 2025-05-14
Netdata: Provides beautiful, real-time dashboards for visualizing system metrics ( https://www.netdata.cloud ).
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Hetzner, Docker, Traefik as proxy and Apache / httpd inside the containers
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minio
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.
Project mention: MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-30It's odd that it's the UI they removed (which was always lacking features anyway, like lifecycle configuration) instead of replication support which feels more enterprisesque.
It's also perhaps worth pointing out that they once had a very strange interpretation of AGPL that caused quite the drama some years ago: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/13308#issuecomment-929...
> Also, just want to mention that the AGPL license requires that all software connecting with MinIO be 100% open source for you/your users not to be in violation of the license.
That's the type of people we are dealing with here, probably best to stay away from it. If AGPL itself didn't already deter you.
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Project mention: Explore the essentials of ETCD, a powerful distributed database | dev.to | 2025-05-09
GitHub Repository. etcd-io/etcd
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awesome-cheatsheets
👩💻👨💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.
Project mention: 🔥 Hidden Gems on GitHub That Every Developer (IT/Non-IT) Needs to Explore | dev.to | 2025-05-30📦 18. Awesome Cheatsheets 📍 https://github.com/LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets 📜 One-liners and syntax reminders for 20+ languages/tools. ✅ Best For: Everyone - literally!
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SaaSHub
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Project mention: Istio vs. Linkerd: Choosing the Right Service Mesh for Your Tech Team | dev.to | 2025-05-20
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ToolJet
Low-code platform for building business applications. Connect to databases, cloud storages, GraphQL, API endpoints, Airtable, Google sheets, OpenAI, etc and build apps using drag and drop application builder. Built using JavaScript/TypeScript. 🚀
Project mention: Show HN: ToolJet 3.0 – open-source internal tool and workflow builder | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-13 -
Since I'm not using Kubernetes/K3S to manage the orchestration, I simply use Docker Compose files, which I manage in folders and track with Git. Secrets and credentials are stored securely using .env files — nothing is hardcoded. For maintenance, I use Portainer. The whole Docker management and Ubuntu itself run on the internal SSD for the fastest speed possible, ensuring no other services interfere.
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LocalAI
:robot: The free, Open Source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others. Self-hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more models architectures. Features: Generate Text, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P inference
Project mention: Nvidia on NixOS WSL – Ollama up 24/7 on your gaming PC | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-10If you're going to run Ollama in Windows anyway, why not use the native build? And if you want to use WSL, then I'd sugggest using something like LocalAI which gives you a lot more control and support for additional formats (GGML, GGUF, GPTQ, ONNX, etc).
https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI
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Nacos
an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building AI cloud native applications.
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6. Dokku
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Minikube - Local Kubernetes cluster
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Project mention: Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-09
I mean, it's nice to have a GUI when running multiple containers on Docker, or Kubernetes, but I've never used Docker Desktop on my work Mac either.
For Kubernetes, something like K9s [1] or Headlamp [2] works fine. I remember seeing something similar for Docker but I can't remember the name.
[1] https://k9scli.io/
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A server with Docker and Docker Compose installed or a Kubernetes cluster with HTTP ingress set up (such as with k3s and Traefik)
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consul
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Consul, HashiCorp's distributed system tool, isn't just a one-trick pony for service discovery—it's a Swiss Army knife that also handles configuration management and network segmentation.
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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.
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helm
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Podman - Alternative container runtime
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trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Project mention: Stop shipping insecure Dockerfiles: real devs don’t run as root | dev.to | 2025-05-03 -
Project mention: Your laptop can run a full devops stack here’s how I set mine up | dev.to | 2025-06-19
Push and pull images without Docker Hub rate limits. Harbor has a slick UI and RBAC. Docker Registry UI is minimal and works well.
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SaaSHub
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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 Kubernete projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | kubernetes | 115,835 |
| 2 | devops-exercises | 76,795 |
| 3 | Netdata | 74,840 |
| 4 | traefik | 55,226 |
| 5 | minio | 53,237 |
| 6 | etcd | 49,649 |
| 7 | awesome-cheatsheets | 42,801 |
| 8 | Kong | 41,116 |
| 9 | istio | 36,974 |
| 10 | ToolJet | 35,886 |
| 11 | Portainer | 33,297 |
| 12 | LocalAI | 33,275 |
| 13 | Nacos | 31,645 |
| 14 | Dokku | 30,701 |
| 15 | minikube | 30,575 |
| 16 | k9s | 30,179 |
| 17 | k3s | 30,003 |
| 18 | consul | 29,057 |
| 19 | 90DaysOfDevOps | 28,088 |
| 20 | helm | 28,038 |
| 21 | podman | 27,315 |
| 22 | trivy | 27,221 |
| 23 | Harbor | 25,773 |
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