Topic
Open-source startups tagged #cloud-native
11 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #cloud-native. 9 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 1 has been quiet for 31–120 days, 1 has not pushed in over 120 days. Topics are set by each repository’s own maintainers, so this is what those projects chose to call themselves rather than a category we assigned.
9 of 11 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 11, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustfs/rustfs | RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph. | 33.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| taosdata/TDengine | High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios | 25.1K | Still shipping | Sep 17, 2026 |
| lensapp/lens | Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes | 23.2K | Gone silent | Feb 11, 2025 |
| kubesphere/kubesphere | The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️ | 17.1K | Slowed | Jul 15, 2026 |
| juicedata/juicefs | JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. | 14.5K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| kubeshark/kubeshark | eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via MCP and humans via dashboard. | 12.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| quickwit-oss/quickwit | Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability | 11.7K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| loft-sh/vcluster | vCluster creates tenant clusters: fully isolated environments delivered as managed Kubernetes, or as the foundation for Slurm, Ray, Run:ai and inference clusters. Each gets its own API server, CRDs and RBAC, and runs on an existing cluster or standalone on bare metal. CNCF Certified Kubernetes. | 11.3K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| siderolabs/talos | Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. | 11.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| yugabyte/yugabyte-db | YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications. | 10.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| oceanbase/oceanbase | OceanBase is the unified distributed database for the AI era — open-source, multi-model, one engine for your most demanding workloads. | 10.3K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
Related collections
Sideways from here.
The 8 largest other topics in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →