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Open-source startups tagged #kubernetes
31 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #kubernetes. 24 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 4 have been quiet for 31–120 days, 3 have 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.
24 of 31 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 31, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| netdata/netdata | The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | 80.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| traefik/traefik | The Cloud Native Application Proxy | 64.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| minio/minio | MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. | 61.4K | Gone silent | Apr 24, 2026 |
| ToolJet/ToolJet | Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business applications, workflows and AI agents. Build visually, from a prompt, or from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor over MCP 🚀 | 41K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| portainer/portainer | Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy. | 38.5K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| seaweedfs/seaweedfs | SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling. | 34.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| dokku/dokku | A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications | 32.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| authelia/authelia | The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready. | 29K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| openfaas/faas | OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple | 26.2K | Slowed | Jul 2, 2026 |
| rancher/rancher | Complete container management platform | 25.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| goauthentik/authentik | The authentication glue you need. | 25.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| lensapp/lens | Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes | 23.2K | Gone silent | Feb 11, 2025 |
| gravitational/teleport | The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure. | 20.9K | Still shipping | Sep 17, 2026 |
| labring/sealos | Deploy real projects from GitHub or your AI coding agent, then keep them running with AI-powered operations. | 18.4K | Still shipping | Sep 18, 2026 |
| verdaccio/verdaccio | A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry | 17.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics | VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database | 17.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| kubesphere/kubesphere | The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️ | 17.1K | Slowed | Jul 15, 2026 |
| loft-sh/devpod | Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker. | 15.2K | Gone silent | Nov 14, 2025 |
| xpipe-io/xpipe | Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop | 14.6K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| macrozheng/mall-swarm | mall-swarm是一套微服务商城系统,采用了 Spring Cloud Alibaba、Spring Boot 3.5、Sa-Token、MyBatis、Elasticsearch、Docker、Kubernetes等核心技术,同时提供了基于Vue的管理后台方便快速搭建系统。mall-swarm在电商业务的基础集成了注册中心、配置中心、监控中心、网关等系统功能。 | 13.2K | Slowed | Jul 31, 2026 |
| redpanda-data/redpanda | Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM! | 12.6K | Slowed | Aug 22, 2026 |
| ubicloud/ubicloud | Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services. | 12.3K | 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 |
| gravitl/netmaker | Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks. | 11.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| kubescape/kubescape | Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources. | 11.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 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 |
| dexidp/dex | OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors | 11.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| bunkerity/bunkerweb | 🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF) | 11K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| TykTechnologies/tyk | Open Source API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol) | 10.8K | 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 |
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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 →