Open Source Linux Container Management Software
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View 41 business solutionsBrowse free open source Container Management software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Container Management software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Volcano
A Cloud Native Batch System (Project under CNCF)
Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes. It provides a suite of mechanisms that are commonly required by many classes of batch & elastic workload including machine learning/deep learning, bioinformatics/genomics, and other "big data" applications. These types of applications typically run on generalized domain frameworks like TensorFlow, Spark, Ray, PyTorch, MPI, etc, which Volcano integrates with. Volcano builds upon a decade and a half of experience running a wide variety of high-performance workloads at scale using several systems and platforms, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the open-source community. Until June 2021, Volcano has been widely used around the world at a variety of industries such as Internet/Cloud/Finance/ Manufacturing/Medical. More than 20 companies or institutions are not only end users but also active contributors. -
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Podman Desktop
A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
Podman Desktop is an open source graphical tool enabling you to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes from your local environment. Podman Desktop installs, configures, and keeps Podman up to date on your local environment. It provides a system tray, to check status and interact with your container engine without losing focus from other tasks. The desktop application provides a dashboard to interact with containers, images, pods, and volumes but also configures your environment with your OCI registries and network settings. Podman Desktop also provides capabilities to connect and deploy pods to Kubernetes environments. -
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K3s
Lightweight Kubernetes
Lightweight Kubernetes. Production-ready, easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB. K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. K3s is packaged as a single <70MB binary that reduces the dependencies and steps needed to install, run and auto-update a production Kubernetes cluster. Both ARM64 and ARMv7 are supported with binaries and multiarch images available for both. K3s works great on something as small as a Raspberry Pi to an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server. -
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Reloader
A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets
A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it. We would like to watch if some change happens in ConfigMap and/or Secret; then perform a rolling upgrade on relevant DeploymentConfig, Deployment, Daemonset, Statefulset, and Rollout. Reloader can watch changes in ConfigMap and Secret and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated DeploymentConfigs, Deployments, Daemonsets Statefulsets, and Rollouts. -
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cri-dockerd
dockerd as a compliant Container Runtime Interface for Kubernetes
This adapter provides a shim for Docker Engine that lets you control Docker via the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface. Mirantis and Docker have agreed to partner to maintain the shim code standalone outside Kubernetes, as a conformant CRI interface for the Docker Engine API. For Mirantis customers, that means that Docker Engine’s commercially supported version, Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR), will be CRI compliant. This means that you can continue to build Kubernetes based on the Docker Engine as before, just switching from the built-in docker shim to the external one. Mirantis and Docker intend to work together to make sure it continues to work as well as before and that it passes all the conformance tests and continues to work just like the built-in version did. Mirantis will be using this in Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, and Docker will continue to ship this shim in Docker Desktop. -
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containerd
An open and reliable container runtime
An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. As of February 28, 2019, containerd is officially a graduated project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, following Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and CoreDNS. We'd like to thank the amazing containerd community for making this all possible and we're excited for the future of the project. containerd is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. It manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond. Management of network namespaces containers to join existing namespaces. Network primitives for creation, modification, and deletion of interfaces. Multi-tenant supported with CAS storage for global images. -
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Goldilocks
Get your resource requests "Just Right"
Goldilocks is a utility that can help you identify a starting point for resource requests and limits. By using the Kubernetes vertical-pod-autoscaler in recommendation mode, we can see a suggestion for resource requests on each of our apps. This tool creates a VPA for each workload in a namespace and then queries them for information. Once your VPAs are in place, you'll see recommendations appear in the Goldilocks dashboard. -
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Strimzi
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations. Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations. For development, it’s easy to set up a cluster in Minikube in a few minutes. For production you can tailor the cluster to your needs, using features such as rack awareness to spread brokers across availability zones, and Kubernetes taints and tolerations to run Kafka on dedicated nodes. You can expose Kafka outside Kubernetes using NodePort, Load balancer, Ingress and OpenShift Routes, depending on your needs, and these are easily secured using TLS. The Kube-native management of Kafka is not limited to the broker. You can also manage Kafka topics, users, Kafka MirrorMaker and Kafka Connect using Custom Resources. This means you can use your familiar Kubernetes processes and tooling to manage complete Kafka applications. -
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cri-tools
CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI). cri-tools aims to provide a series of debugging and validation tools for Kubelet CRI. It's recommended to use the same cri-tools and Kubernetes minor version, because new features added to the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) may not be fully supported if they diverge. cri-tools follows the Kubernetes release cycles with respect to its minor versions (1.x.y). Patch releases (1.x.z) for Kubernetes are not in sync with those from cri-tools, because they are scheduled for each month, whereas cri-tools provides them only if necessary. If a Kubernetes release goes End of Life, then the corresponding cri-tools version can be considered in the same way. -
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ContainerSSH
ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand
An SSH Server that Launches Containers in Kubernetes and Docker. Building a lab environment can be time-consuming. ContainerSSH solves this by providing dynamic SSH access with APIs, automatic cleanup on logout using ephemeral containers, and persistent volumes for storing data. Perfect for vendor and student labs. Provide production access to your developers, give them their usual tools while logging all changes. Authorize their access and create short-lived credentials for the database using simple webhooks. Clean up the environment on disconnect. Study SSH attack patterns up close. Drop attackers safely into network-isolated containers or even virtual machines, and capture their every move using the audit logging ContainerSSH provides. The built-in S3 upload ensures you don't lose your data. -
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NVIDIA AI Cluster Runtime (AICR)
Tooling for optimized and reproducible GPU-accelerated AI runtime
NVIDIA AI Cluster Runtime (AICR) is an emerging project within NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure ecosystem focused on enabling advanced AI compute and runtime workflows, though publicly available documentation remains limited. Based on its positioning within NVIDIA’s repositories, it is designed to support scalable AI runtime environments, potentially addressing challenges related to orchestration, resource management, or reproducible AI execution. The project likely aligns with NVIDIA’s broader strategy of building modular infrastructure layers that integrate with GPU-accelerated workloads and cloud-native systems. It appears to emphasize automation, consistency, and performance optimization across AI pipelines, potentially targeting enterprise and research use cases. Given NVIDIA’s ecosystem, it may also integrate with containerized environments, Kubernetes, or other orchestration frameworks. -
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Pyrra
Making SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use
Making SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone. When running Pyrra outside of Kubernetes, the SLO object can be provided through a YAML file read from the file system. For this, one container or binary needs to be started with the API argument and the reconciler with the filesystem argument. Here, Pyrra will save the generated recording rules to disk where they can be picked up by a Prometheus instance. While running Pyrra on its own works, there won't be any SLO configured, nor will there be any data from Prometheus to work with. It's designed to work alongside a Prometheus. -
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Helmsman
Helm Charts as Code
Helmsman is a Helm Charts (k8s applications) as Code tool that allows you to automate the deployment/management of your Helm charts from version-controlled code. Helmsman uses a simple declarative TOML file to allow you to describe a desired state for your k8s applications as in the example toml file. Alternatively YAML declaration is also an acceptable example YAML file. Helmsman sees what you desire, validates that your desire makes sense (e.g. that the charts you desire are available in the repos you defined), compares it with the current state of Helm and figures out what to do to make your desire come true. -
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Kueue
Kubernetes-native Job Queueing
Kueue is a set of APIs and controllers for job queueing. It is a job-level manager that decides when a job should be admitted to start (as in pods can be created) and when it should stop (as in active pods should be deleted). Use Kueue to build a multi-tenant batch service with quotas and a hierarchy for sharing resources among teams in your organization. Based on the available quotas, Kueue decides when jobs should wait and when and where they should run. Kueue works in combination with standard kube-scheduler, cluster-autoscaler, and the rest of the Kubernetes ecosystem. This combination allows Kueue to run both on-prem and in the cloud, where resources can be heterogeneous, fungible, and dynamically provisioned. -
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XPipe
Your entire server infrastructure at your fingertips
Introducing the brand-new shell connection hub and remote file manager that is ready to take on the challenges of modern infrastructure. XPipe takes a completely new approach to handling shell connections, which makes it possible to provide features that you can't find anywhere else. Explore what makes XPipe stand out. All SSH user and system configuration settings are automatically applied. Your existing SSH agent can be utilized to securely authenticate, there is no need to provide your keys and passwords. Supports the use of gateways and jump servers to establish connections via intermediate systems. Support for all types of SSH tunnels plus a dynamic state control to quickly open and close tunnels in the background. -
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GoDoxy
High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator
GoDoxy is a high-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator tailored for self-hosting environments, blending automated routing with a user-friendly web interface and advanced traffic control. Written in Go, it automatically discovers services (like Docker containers) and generates routes based on configuration or container labels, letting you expose and secure apps with minimal manual routing. GoDoxy includes features like ACL control, automatic SSL certificate management with Let’s Encrypt, support for HTTP, TCP/UDP forwarding, and integration points for OpenID Connect authentication and forward auth, making it highly versatile for modern home labs and self-hosted stacks. Its WebUI provides dashboard views of routes, container stats, and real-time logs, while optional idle-sleep controls let you conserve resources by pausing inactive services. It fills the gap between simple reverse proxies and full-featured orchestrators with a focus on automation and live management. -
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RBAC Manager
A Kubernetes operator that simplifies the management of Role Bindings
RBAC Manager is designed to simplify authorization in Kubernetes. This is an operator that supports declarative configuration for RBAC with new custom resources. Instead of managing role bindings or service accounts directly, you can specify a desired state and RBAC Manager will make the necessary changes to achieve that state. -
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Tilt
Define dev environment as code for microservice apps on Kubernetes
A toolkit for fixing the pains of microservice development. Understand & orchestrate your services, work smarter & faster wherever you are, and team-based productivity. See all the pieces of your app, and trigger custom workflows like seeding databases or creating infrastructure. Our engine starts the whole app and runs automated rebuilds as you edit in your IDE. Get a continuous feedback loop with your logs, broken builds, and runtime errors. Work with Kubernetes without needing to be an expert. And if you are an expert, no more 20 questions with kubectl. Tilt responsively handles the tedious and repetitive parts of your workflow and gives you peripheral vision so you find errors faster. Recapture the magic of hacking with immediate feedback. -
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kcp Kubernetes
Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors
kcp can be a building block for SaaS service providers who need a massively multi-tenant platform to offer services to a large number of fully isolated tenants using Kubernetes-native APIs. The goal is to be useful to cloud providers as well as enterprise IT departments offering APIs within their company. kcp takes full advantage of Kubernetes API conventions, the glue that binds the cloud-native technology ecosystem together and imbues Kubernetes popular end-user experience, but kcp has unbound it from Kubernetes workload orchestration and clusters. kcp implements fully-isolated workspaces, each acting as its own Kubernetes-like cluster, with its own URL, its own set of APIs (e.g. different CRDs), its own RBAC, but as cheap and quick as a namespace. -
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Bank of Anthos
Retail banking sample application showcasing Kubernetes
Bank of Anthos is a sample HTTP-based web app that simulates a bank's payment processing network, allowing users to create artificial bank accounts and complete transactions. Google uses this application to demonstrate how developers can modernize enterprise applications using Google Cloud products, including: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos Service Mesh (ASM), Anthos Config Management (ACM), Migrate to Containers, Spring Cloud GCP, Cloud Operations, Cloud SQL, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. This application works on any Kubernetes cluster. -
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Harbor
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores
Harbor is an open-source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. Harbor extends the open-source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by users such as security, identity and management. Having a registry closer to the build-and-run environment can improve the image transfer efficiency. Harbor supports replication of images between registries, and also offers advanced security features such as user management, access control and activity auditing. Harbor is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If you are an organization that wants to help shape the evolution of cloud native technologies, consider joining the CNCF. Cloud native registry: With support for both container images and Helm charts, Harbor serves as registry for cloud native environments like container runtimes and orchestration platforms. -
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A Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best-of-breed Java libraries and standards. Quarkus tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near-instant scale-up and high-density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile-time boot. Combine both the familiar imperative code and the reactive style when developing applications. Quarkus provides a cohesive, fun-to-use, full-stack framework by leveraging a growing list of over fifty best-of-breed libraries that you love and use. All wired on a standard backbone. The combination of Quarkus and Kubernetes provides an ideal environment for creating scalable, fast, and lightweight applications. Quarkus significantly increases developer productivity with tooling, pre-built integrations, application services, and more.
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kpt Kubernetes
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
kpt is a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure (e.g., Config Connector, Crossplane) at scale by manipulating declarative Configuration as Data. -
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youki
A container runtime written in Rust
youki is an implementation of the OCI runtime-spec in Rust, similar to runc. Rust is one of the best languages to implement the oci-runtime spec. Many very nice container tools are currently written in Go. However, the container runtime requires the use of system calls, which requires a bit of special handling when implemented in Go. This is too tricky (e.g. namespaces(7), fork(2)); with Rust, it's not that tricky. And, unlike in C, Rust provides the benefit of memory safety. While Rust is not yet a major player in the container field, it has the potential to contribute a lot: something this project attempts to exemplify. youki has the potential to be faster and use less memory than runc, and therefore works in environments with tight memory usage requirements. Here is a simple benchmark of a container from creation to deletion. -
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LINKERD
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes
Enterprise power without enterprise complexity. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster. 100% open source, CNCF graduated, and written in Rust. Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient. Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance. Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools. Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration. Designed by engineers, for engineers.
