containerd

containerd Joined Aug 2015 View on GitHub

Stars: 41,935; across 39 public repos
Rank: #736; of 94,827 organizations, top 0.8%; Down 22 places this week

Repositories with 50+ stars

containerd's repositories with their overall rank
Rank	Repository	Language	Stars
2,159	containerd An open and reliable container runtime	Go	21,473
5,453	nerdctl contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...	Go	10,475
42,720	stargz-snapshotter Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling	Go	1,602
50,674	runwasi Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd	Rust	1,349
56,764	cgroups cgroups package for Go	Go	1,193
72,873	cri Moved to https://github.com/containerd/containerd/tree/master/pkg/cri . If you wish to submit issues/PRs, please submit to https://github.com/containerd/containerd	Go	902
95,913	ttrpc GRPC for low-memory environments	Go	671
129,970	accelerated-container-image A production-ready remote/on-demand container/sandbox/vm image format (overlaybd) and snapshotter	Go	480
140,881	imgcrypt OCI Image Encryption Package	Go	438
141,496	overlaybd Overlaybd: a block based remote image format for containers/vms/sandboxes. The storage backend of containerd/accelerated-container-image.	C++	436
147,476	nri Node Resource Interface	Go	416
162,446	ttrpc-rust Rust implementation of ttrpc (GRPC for low-memory environments)	Rust	373
220,021	nydus-snapshotter A containerd snapshotter with data deduplication and lazy loading in P2P fashion	Go	263
233,403	rust-extensions Rust crates to extend containerd	Rust	245
273,712	console console package for Go	Go	202
277,190	nerdbox containerd sandbox runtime using vms	Go	199
305,381	go-runc runc bindings for Go	Go	177
330,622	go-cni A generic CNI library to provide APIs for CNI plugin interactions	Go	161
342,860	continuity A transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system	Go	154
403,474	protobuild Build protobufs in Go, easily	Go	126
540,170	fifo fifo pkg for Go	Go	87
577,198	.project Overall containerd project docs and governance details		80
583,141	zfs ZFS snapshotter plugin for containerd	Go	79
613,508	btrfs Btrfs bindings for Go	Go	74
774,412	typeurl Go package for managing marshaled types to protobuf.Any	Go	55
809,321	fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter fuse-overlayfs plugin for rootless containerd on old Linux (not needed on modern Linux)	Go	52

Among 94,827 organizations

40k–63k stars: 367 organizations, including containerd

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Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

containerd 21.5k, 51%nerdctl 10.5k, 25%stargz-snapshotter 1.6k, 4%runwasi 1.3k, 3%cgroups 1.2k, 3%cri 902, 2%

9 more repos 868, 2%

ttrpc 671, 2%accelerated-container-image 480, 1%imgcrypt 438, 1%overlaybd 436, 1%nri 416, 1%ttrpc-rust 373, 1%nydus-snapshotter 263, 1%rust-extensions 245, 1%console 202, <1%nerdbox 199, <1%go-runc 177, <1%

Smaller repos 173, <1%

Languages

Go 39.3k stars, 94% · 21 repos
Rust 2k stars, 5% · 3 repos
C++ 436 stars, 1% · 1 repo

When they were made

26 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2015 and 2025

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Quick stats

Next rank: +11 stars to reach #735
Next milestone: +148,834 stars to reach the top 0.1%
Public repos: 39, 26 with 50+ stars
Popular repos: 5 over 1k stars, 2 over 10k stars
Top repo: containerd, #2,159 of all repos, 51% of stars
Smaller repos: 173 stars from repos under 50