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Kubernetes Operators

Tools and controllers that automate the deployment, configuration, and management of complex applications on Kubernetes using the operator pattern.

115 projects

146,081 contributors

$12B

Argo

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.

Contributors

23,232

Organizations

5,436

Software value

$117M

Istio

Istio extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the powerful Envoy service proxy. Working with both Kubernetes and traditional workloads, Istio brings standard, universal traffic management, telemetry, and security to complex deployments.

Contributors

13,502

Organizations

2,884

Software value

$428M

Kubeflow

Kubeflow is an open source machine learning platform built on Kubernetes that makes deploying and managing ML workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable. It provides end-to-end orchestration of machine learning pipelines, model training, serving, and experiment tracking.

Contributors

10,568

Organizations

2,286

Software value

$433M

Cilium

Cilium is an open source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads - cloud native, and fueled by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF.

Contributors

7,665

Organizations

2,141

Software value

$1.1B

Flux

Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of your Kubernetes cluster matches the configuration you’ve supplied in Git. It uses an operator in the cluster to trigger deployments inside Kubernetes, which means that you don’t need a separate continuous delivery tool.

Contributors

7,057

Organizations

2,157

Software value

$19M

Dapr

Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

Contributors

4,902

Organizations

1,066

Software value

$56M

Crossplane

Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs for application teams to consume, without having to write any code.

Contributors

4,678

Organizations

1,292

Software value

$724M

KEDA

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaler. KEDA determines how any container in Kubernetes should be scaled based on the number of events that need to be processed. KEDA is a single-purpose and lightweight component that can be added to any Kubernetes cluster. It works alongside standard Kubernetes components like the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and can extend functionality without overwriting or duplication. With KEDA you can specify the that apps you want to scale in an event-driven way while other apps continue to function. This makes KEDA a flexible and safe option to run alongside other Kubernetes applications and frameworks.

Contributors

4,404

Organizations

1,155

Software value

$217M

Rook

Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.

Contributors

4,329

Organizations

1,309

Software value

$12M

Meshery

Lifecycle, performance, and configuration management across any service mesh.

Contributors

4,155

Organizations

743

Software value

$275M

Linkerd

Linkerd is a service mesh for Kubernetes and other frameworks. It makes running services easier and safer by giving you runtime debugging, observability, reliability, and security—all without requiring any changes to your code.

Contributors

3,974

Organizations

1,188

Software value

$114M

Knative

Knative is an Open-Source Enterprise-level solution to build Serverless and Event Driven Applications.

Contributors

3,730

Organizations

986

Software value

$750M

Strimzi

Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations.

Contributors

3,629

Organizations

853

Software value

$334M

External Secrets Operator

"External Secrets Operator (ESO) is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems like AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Google Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault and many more. The operator reads information from external APIs and automatically injects the values into a Kubernetes Secret. ESO provides a user-friendly abstraction for the external API that stores the secrets for you. It allows you to manage access to the secret store for different tenants within your cluster and keeps the Kubernetes secrets in sync.

Contributors

3,598

Organizations

1,122

Software value

$9.2M

Longhorn

Cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes

Contributors

3,530

Organizations

1,003

Software value

$436M

KubeVirt

KubeVirt technology addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both Application Containers as well as Virtual Machines in a common, shared environment.

Contributors

3,443

Organizations

673

Software value

$3.3B

Jenkins X

Jenkins X provides pipeline automation, built-in GitOps, and preview environments to help teams collaborate and accelerate their software delivery at any scale.

Contributors

3,141

Organizations

878

Software value

$366M

VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective, and scalable time series database and monitoring solution. It offers high-performance storage and querying of time series data, with built-in support for Prometheus compatibility, multi-tenancy, and horizontal scalability.

Contributors

2,884

Organizations

724

Software value

$67M

OpenEBS

OpenEBS is the leading storage solution for Kubernetes Kubernetes native; runs in userspace Open Source; no vendor lock-in The only multi cloud storage solution

Contributors

2,508

Organizations

658

Software value

$113M

KubeEdge

KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge.It is built upon kubernetes and provides fundamental infrastructure support for network, app. deployment and metadata synchronization between cloud and edge.

Contributors

2,253

Organizations

397

Software value

$345M

Kserve

The mission of the Project is to develop a highly scalable and standards based model inference platform on Kubernetes for Trusted AI.

Contributors

2,134

Organizations

430

Software value

$229M

Vitess

Vitess is a database solution for deploying, scaling and managing large clusters of open-source database instances. It currently supports MySQL and MariaDB. It’s architected to run as effectively in a public or private cloud architecture as it does on dedicated hardware. It combines and extends many important SQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database

Contributors

1,947

Organizations

490

Software value

$88M

Volcano

Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.

Contributors

1,540

Organizations

298

Software value

$55M

OpenKruise

OpenKruise is a suite that provides application automations in Kubernetes. It complements the popular upstream workload controllers by supporting new capabilities based on real production requirements.

Contributors

1,057

Organizations

228

Software value

$156M

Bank-Vaults

Bank-Vaults is a set of tools covering many aspects of secret management in the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Contributors

1,053

Organizations

334

Software value

$2.5M

Seldon Core

Seldon Core is an open-source platform for deploying, managing and scaling machine learning models on Kubernetes. It provides a production-ready solution for serving models with features like A/B testing, canary deployments, monitoring, and advanced traffic routing patterns.

Contributors

1,003

Organizations

269

Software value

$26M

Altinity Kubernetes Operator for ClickHouse

Altinity Kubernetes Operator for ClickHouse creates, configures and manages ClickHouse® clusters running on Kubernetes

Contributors

909

Organizations

226

Software value

$13M

kube-vip

The kube-vip project provides High-Availability and load-balancing for both inside and outside a Kubernetes cluster

Contributors

820

Organizations

262

Software value

$5.9M

Juju

Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).

Contributors

780

Organizations

152

Software value

$55M

Machine Config Operator

A Kubernetes operator that manages OpenShift machine configurations, automating the deployment and maintenance of node configurations across clusters. It enables consistent machine state management for Linux Foundation's OpenShift environments.

Contributors

772

Organizations

111

Software value

$123M

Keptn

Keptn – pronounced captain – is a control-plane for DevOps automation of cloud-native applications.

Contributors

713

Organizations

227

Software value

$32M

Local Path Provisioner

Local Path Provisioner is a storage provisioner for Kubernetes that enables dynamic provisioning of persistent local storage volumes on nodes, allowing pods to use the host's local storage with automated volume management and lifecycle handling

Contributors

673

Organizations

254

Software value

$41M

metal3-io

There are a number of great open source tools for bare metal host provisioning, including Ironic. Metal3.io aims to build on these technologies to provide a Kubernetes native API for managing bare metal hosts via a provisioning stack that is also running on Kubernetes

Contributors

662

Organizations

163

Software value

$11M

Virtual Kubelet

Virtual Kubelet is an open-source Kubernetes kubelet implementation that masquerades as a kubelet. This allows Kubernetes nodes to be backed by Virtual Kubelet providers such as serverless cloud container platforms.

Contributors

656

Organizations

228

Software value

$2.2M

KUDO

KUDO is a toolkit that makes it easy to build Kubernetes Operators, in most cases just using YAML.

Contributors

616

Organizations

165

Software value

$7.7M

kube-rs

Rust client for Kubernetes in the style of a more generic client-go, a runtime abstraction inspired by controller-runtime, and a derive macro for CRDs inspired by kubebuilder.

Contributors

602

Organizations

256

Software value

$8.4M

HyperShift

Hyperscale OpenShift - clusters with hosted control planes

Contributors

585

Organizations

70

Software value

$312M

Kured

Kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) is a Kubernetes daemonset that performs safe automatic node reboots when the need to do so is indicated by the package management system of the underlying OS. This is a critical solution for many Kubernetes environments when continual node OS patching is required in order to ensure secure operations.

Contributors

583

Organizations

226

Software value

$205K

Open Cluster Management

Open Cluster Management is a community-driven project focused on multicluster and multicloud scenarios for Kubernetes apps. Open APIs are evolving within this project for cluster registration, work distribution, dynamic placement of policies and workloads, and much more.

Contributors

582

Organizations

85

Software value

$765M

Azure Service Operator

Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl

Contributors

559

Organizations

121

Software value

$205M

KubeArmor

KubeArmor is a cloud-native runtime security enforcement system that restricts the behavior (such as process execution, file access, and networking operation) of containers and nodes at the system level.

Contributors

540

Organizations

160

Software value

$6.3M

OpenYurt

OpenYurt follows the philosophy of "integrating cloud and edge". It is an open platform that embraces the powerful orchestration capabilities of upstream Kubernetes.

Contributors

537

Organizations

113

Software value

$13M

KubeStellar

KubeStellar is an open source project focused on extending Kubernetes capabilities for edge computing and multi-cluster management. It enables organizations to manage workload placement across distributed Kubernetes clusters while maintaining centralized control and policy enforcement.

Contributors

517

Organizations

90

Software value

$9.7M

wasmCloud

wasmCloud is a cloud native distributed application runtime that combines the portability and security of WebAssembly with the flexibility of an actor model.

Contributors

514

Organizations

172

Software value

$52M

Rainbond

No need to know Kubernetes' cloud native application management platform | 不用懂 Kubernetes 的云原生应用管理平台

Contributors

437

Organizations

45

Software value

$5.2M

Koordinator

A QoS-based scheduling system brings optimal layout and status to workloads such as microservices, web services, big data jobs, AI jobs, etc.

Contributors

428

Organizations

66

Software value

$27M

Botkube

Botkube is a Kubernetes monitoring and debugging tool that integrates with messaging platforms to provide real-time alerts, notifications, and interactive debugging capabilities for Kubernetes clusters. It helps DevOps teams monitor cluster events, troubleshoot issues, and execute kubectl commands directly from chat interfaces.

Contributors

421

Organizations

156

Software value

$1.9M

Piraeus-Datastore

A High-Availability Datastore for Kubernetes contributed from DaoCloud.

Contributors

385

Organizations

133

Software value

$24M

kcp

Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads.

Contributors

382

Organizations

106

Software value

$19M

Azure Red Hat OpenShift Resource Provider

Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP

Contributors

365

Organizations

32

Software value

$10M

OCS-CI

Operator for RHOCS

Contributors

361

Organizations

20

Software value

$10M

Kuberhealthy

Kuberhealthy is an operator for running synthetic checks. By creating a custom resource (a khcheck) in your cluster, you can easily enable various synthetic test containers.

Contributors

345

Organizations

116

Software value

$3.7M

WebLogic Kubernetes Operator

WebLogic Kubernetes Operator

Contributors

335

Organizations

23

Software value

$15M

OpenShift Cluster Ingress Operator

The OpenShift Cluster Ingress Operator manages and configures OpenShift's ingress components, including router deployments and load balancers. It automates the deployment, scaling, and management of ingress traffic routing for OpenShift clusters.

Contributors

334

Organizations

53

Software value

$70M

Capsule

Capsule implements a multi-tenant and policy-based environment in your Kubernetes cluster. It is designed as a micro-services-based ecosystem with the minimalist approach, leveraging only on upstream Kubernetes.

Contributors

321

Organizations

131

Software value

$4M

OWASP secureCodeBox

secureCodeBox (SCB) - continuous secure delivery out of the box

Contributors

307

Organizations

45

Software value

$14M

Kanister

An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes.

Contributors

303

Organizations

86

Software value

$5.9M

K8up

K8up is a Kubernetes backup operator based on Restic that will handle PVC and application backups on a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster.

Contributors

248

Organizations

95

Software value

$3M

OpenShift Router

Ingress controller for OpenShift

Contributors

248

Organizations

53

Software value

$55M

Kuadrant

The Kuadrant project provides communities and enterprises with a solution for managing and enforcing Kubernetes Gateway policies across single and multi-cluster environments.

Contributors

241

Organizations

33

Software value

$28M

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