197 projects
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is an open-source organization under the Linux Foundation that promotes the development and adoption of cloud-native technologies. It serves as a hub for projects that enable scalable, resilient, and portable applications in modern cloud environments.
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Helm
The package manager for Kubernetes
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103,887
Organizations
7,071
Kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
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101,519
Organizations
13,940
OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software.
Contributors
39,024
Organizations
4,581
gRPC
A high performance, open source, general-purpose RPC framework
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25,196
Organizations
4,328
Argo
Argo is an open-source suite of tools for running and managing container-native workflows, data pipelines, and Kubernetes-native CI/CD processes.
Contributors
25,087
Organizations
4,908
Prometheus
Prometheus is a Linux Foundation project providing an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability in modern cloud environments, with powerful data collection, visualization capabilities, and a flexible query language.
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21,224
Organizations
4,927
Keycloak
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
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17,687
Organizations
2,262
Envoy
Envoy Proxy - CNCF
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16,318
Organizations
1,932
Istio
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
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14,651
Organizations
2,732
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Sustaining and integrating open source technologies to orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture
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14,553
Organizations
3,326
Fluentd
Fluentd is a cloud native logging solution to unify data collection and consumption.
Contributors
13,947
Organizations
2,688
Harbor
An open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and RBAC, ensures images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted.
Contributors
10,733
Organizations
1,959
Kubeflow
Kubeflow is an open, community driven project to make it easy to deploy and manage an ML stack on Kubernetes
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10,300
Organizations
1,615
Backstage
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
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10,033
Organizations
1,925
Cilium
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
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9,668
Organizations
1,940
Etcd
etcd Development and Communities
Contributors
9,599
Organizations
1,711
Flux
Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes
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8,519
Organizations
2,038
Dapr
Distributed Application Runtime. An event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge.
Contributors
8,202
Organizations
962
NATS
NATS is a simple, secure and performant communications system and data layer for digital systems, services and devices.
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8,078
Organizations
1,564
KubeVirt
Managing virtualization workloads on Kubernetes
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7,921
Organizations
596
cert-manager
cert-manager is a Linux Foundation project that automates the management and issuance of TLS certificates in Kubernetes environments, providing native integration for certificate authorities and ensuring secure application communications.
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7,918
Organizations
2,597
Distribution
CNCF Distribution Project
Contributors
6,560
Organizations
1,302
Containerd
Containerd is a Linux Foundation project that provides a container runtime for managing the complete container lifecycle on a host system, offering core container capabilities for Docker and Kubernetes environments.
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6,560
Organizations
1,542
k3s
k3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution by The Linux Foundation that delivers a fully compliant Kubernetes experience in resource-constrained environments, optimized for edge computing, IoT devices, and CI/CD workflows.
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6,319
Organizations
1,831
Jaeger
Jaeger is a Linux Foundation project providing distributed tracing for microservices, offering end-to-end transaction monitoring, performance optimization, and troubleshooting capabilities for complex distributed systems.
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6,216
Organizations
1,325
Kyverno
Cloud Native Policy Management
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6,114
Organizations
871
Open Policy Agent
Enabling policy-based control across the stack.
Contributors
5,338
Organizations
1,110
Meshery
the cloud native manager
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4,789
Organizations
507
Rook
Open Cloud-Native Storage for Kubernetes
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4,626
Organizations
1,233
KEDA
Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling
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4,400
Organizations
1,045
Linkerd
A service mesh for Kubernetes and beyond. Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io) project.
Contributors
4,329
Organizations
1,128
Strimzi
Kubernetes-native data streaming powered by Apache Kafka
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4,090
Organizations
793
Longhorn
Cloud native distributed block storage built on and for Kubernetes
Contributors
4,066
Organizations
897
Atlantis
Organization for the Atlantis project: runatlantis/atlantis
Contributors
4,033
Organizations
936
Thanos
Thanos is a Linux Foundation project focused on highly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage capabilities. It provides a unified monitoring system with features for global query view, downsampling, and efficient historical data management.
Contributors
4,021
Organizations
1,062
Knative
Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads
Contributors
4,017
Organizations
886
External Secrets Operator
A Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems with Kubernetes, allowing secure access to sensitive information stored outside the cluster while maintaining native Secret objects within Kubernetes.
Contributors
3,742
Organizations
917
TiKV
TiKV is an open-source, distributed key-value storage system under The Linux Foundation that provides transactional consistency, high availability, and horizontal scalability for modern cloud-native applications.
Contributors
3,720
Organizations
625
Score
Score is a Linux Foundation project focused on standardizing and improving software supply chain security through open-source tools, frameworks, and best practices for vulnerability management and secure development.
Contributors
3,655
Organizations
47
Connect
Simple, reliable, interoperable. Protobuf RPC that works. Now part of CNCF.
Contributors
3,653
Organizations
313
Radius
Cloud-native application platform
Contributors
3,458
Organizations
61
Falco
Falco is Container Native Runtime Security
Contributors
3,288
Organizations
723
CoreDNS
Cloud Native DNS
Contributors
3,156
Organizations
867
Volcano
A Cloud Native Batch System
Contributors
3,137
Organizations
249
Cloud Custodian
Rules engine for cloud management
Contributors
3,122
Organizations
379
OpenEBS
High-Performance Container Native Stateful Persistent Block-mode and Filesystem storage platform for K8s // A CNCF Member project
Contributors
2,882
Organizations
579
Notary
Notary is a Linux Foundation project providing a framework for verifying software supply chain security through digital signatures, provenance validation, and vulnerability scanning to ensure software integrity and authenticity.
Contributors
2,858
Organizations
234
OpenFeature
Standardizing Feature Flagging for Everyone
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2,718
Organizations
230
Fluid Project
Fluid Project is a Linux Foundation initiative focused on developing collaborative web frameworks and tools that enable seamless real-time collaboration and data synchronization across applications and platforms.
Contributors
2,645
Organizations
69
Cortex
A multitenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a Service
Contributors
2,547
Organizations
410
KubeEdge
KubeEdge is a Linux Foundation project that extends Kubernetes capabilities to edge computing environments, enabling seamless orchestration of containerized applications across cloud and edge devices with reduced latency and improved data processing at the network edge.
Contributors
2,460
Organizations
354
Vitess
Vitess is a Linux Foundation project that provides a scalable, distributed database clustering system for MySQL. It helps organizations manage large-scale database deployments by offering horizontal scaling, improved performance, and high availability while maintaining MySQL compatibility.
Contributors
2,287
Organizations
462
Telepresence
Fast, local development of Kubernetes services
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2,259
Organizations
605
ChubaoFS
an open-source, cloud-native file storage hosted by the CNCF
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2,238
Organizations
93
OpenCost
CNCF OpenCost project for Kubernetes and Cloud Cost Monitoring
Contributors
2,125
Organizations
357
Capsule
Multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. Created & maintained by CLASTIX Labs
Contributors
2,110
Organizations
129
OpenFGA
OpenFGA is a flexible Authorization system inspired by Google's Zanzibar, designed for reliability and low latency at scale. OpenFGA is a CNCF Sandbox Project.
Contributors
2,087
Organizations
240
Dex
OpenID Connect Identity (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 Provider with Pluggable Connectors
Contributors
2,065
Organizations
818
emissary-ingress
Emissary-ingress is a Linux Foundation project providing a Kubernetes-native API gateway and ingress controller, enabling secure and efficient traffic management for cloud-native applications.
Contributors
1,959
Organizations
650
Kuma
The Universal Service Mesh. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Contributors
1,945
Organizations
175