containers
Containers Joined Nov 2013 View on GitHub
- Stars
- 43,172
- across 100 public repos
- Rank
- #704
- of 94,827 organizations, top 0.7%
- Down 23 places this week
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,167 | Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects | C | 9,449 |
| 10,016 | a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman | Python | 6,259 |
| 15,641 | A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers | C | 4,210 |
| 18,918 | Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux | Go | 3,538 |
| 21,685 | RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of... | Python | 3,111 |
| 30,394 | Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift | Go | 2,236 |
| 40,687 | Generate Podman Quadlet files from a Podman command, compose file, or existing object | Rust | 1,683 |
| 53,699 | Podman Terminal UI | Go | 1,267 |
| 68,459 | Work with containers' images | Go | 964 |
| 81,206 | Container network stack | Rust | 804 |
| 91,764 | FUSE implementation for overlayfs | Rust | 705 |
| 99,441 | Container Storage Library | Go | 645 |
| 108,583 | This repository contains a tool for generating SELinux security profiles for containers | Python | 586 |
| 123,252 | An OCI container runtime monitor. | C | 510 |
| 136,567 | A new network stack based on gVisor | Go | 454 |
| 154,449 | C | 395 | |
| 157,903 | Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API | Python | 385 |
| 170,996 | OCI hook to trace syscalls and generate a seccomp profile | Go | 352 |
| 174,930 | another build tool for container images (archived, see https://github.com/rkt/rkt/issues/4024) | Go | 343 |
| 183,804 | Repository for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins for use with the Podman tool | Python | 324 |
| 194,840 | Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf | Rust | 303 |
| 195,396 | Work with LLMs on a local environment using containers | TypeScript | 302 |
| 199,257 | SELinux policy files for Container Runtimes | Roff | 295 |
| 213,696 | Run VM disk images using Podman / Docker / Kubernetes. | Rust | 272 |
| 223,566 | An OCI container runtime monitor. | Rust | 258 |
| 227,154 | Repository for podman.io website using GitHub Pages. | CSS | 253 |
| 231,073 | Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos. | Go | 248 |
| 233,403 | Prometheus exporter for podman environments exposing containers, pods, images, volumes and networks information. | Go | 245 |
| 268,185 | Examples for building and running LLM services and applications locally with Podman | Python | 207 |
| 280,682 | Encryption libraries for Encrypted OCI Container images | Go | 196 |
| 304,018 | name resolution for containers | Go | 178 |
| 305,381 | FetchIt is used to manage the life cycle and configuration of Podman containers | Go | 177 |
| 325,470 | Docker volume plugin for LVM volumes | Go | 164 |
| 372,822 | A Go package for building hardware virtualized container runtimes | Go | 139 |
| 406,122 | General purpose container library | Rust | 125 |
| 422,181 | A collection of community maintained NRI plugins | Go | 119 |
| 535,295 | Shortnames project is collecting registry alias names for shortnames to fully specified container image names. | Python | 88 |
| 555,247 | Repository is a location of user demos for technologies listed on github.com/containers | Shell | 84 |
| 560,660 | OCI Artifact for ML model & metadata | Python | 83 |
| 655,646 | A ps(1) AIX-format compatible golang library | Go | 68 |
| 655,646 | Shell | 68 | |
| 671,363 | Go | 66 | |
| 704,738 | a C library for accessing OCI runtime and image spec files | C | 62 |
| 704,738 | Example directory of Kubernetes YAML and Quadlets tested with Podman | Python | 62 |
| 834,145 | Python bindings and code examples for using Varlink access to Podman Service | Python | 50 |
Among 94,827 organizations
40k–63k stars: 367 organizations, including containers
Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- C 14.6k stars, 34% · 5 repos
- Go 11.4k stars, 26% · 18 repos
- Python 11.2k stars, 26% · 10 repos
- Rust 4.2k stars, 10% · 7 repos
- TypeScript 302 stars, 1% · 1 repo
- Roff 295 stars, 1% · 1 repo
- CSS 253 stars, 1% · 1 repo
- Shell 152 stars, <1% · 2 repos
When they were made
45 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2015 and 2025
Quick stats
- Next rank
- +6 stars to reach #703
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- Public repos
- 100, 45 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 36 over 100 stars, 8 over 1k stars
- Top repo
- bubblewrap, #6,167 of all repos, 22% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 840 stars from repos under 50