Linux Containers_

A curated list of awesome Linux Containers frameworks, libraries and software

55 repos401.8k total stars+669 this week11 categories
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04containers/libpod

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

30,893+79
05wagoodman/dive

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

53,479+55
06projectatomic/skopeo

Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content

10,530+45
07lxc/lxd

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

4,966+38
08google/gvisor

Application Kernel for Containers

17,827+36
09projectatomic/buildah

A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

8,652+24
10opencontainers/runc

CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

13,097+20
01Containers18 repos · 125.9k stars
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firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

32,804+132
containers/libpod

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

30,893+79
opencontainers/runc

CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

13,097+20
containers/youki

A container runtime written in Rust

7,263+18
nestybox/sysbox

An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.

3,487+18
lxc/lxc

LXC - Linux Containers

5,122+9
indigo-dc/udocker

A basic user tool to execute simple docker containers in batch or interactive systems without root privileges.

1,704+2
coreos/rkt

[Project ended] rkt is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.

8,794+1
tailhook/vagga

Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons

1,896+1
google/lmctfy

lmctfy is the open source version of Google’s container stack, which provides Linux application containers.

3,410
oracle/railcar

RailCar: Rust implementation of the Open Containers Initiative oci-runtime

1,123
01org/cc-oci-runtime

OCI (Open Containers Initiative) compatible runtime for Intel® Architecture

418
yandex/porto

Yet another Linux container management system

403
ihucos/plash

Build and run layered root filesystems.

387
xemul/libct

Linux containers control plane

107
weaveworks/footloose

Container Machines - Containers that look like Virtual Machines

1,587-1
hyperhq/runv

Hypervisor-based Runtime for OCI

828-1
p8952/bocker

Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash

12,623-2
02Filesystem10 repos · 101.5k stars
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wagoodman/dive

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

53,479+55
projectatomic/skopeo

Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content

10,530+45
projectatomic/buildah

A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

8,652+24
google/go-containerregistry

Go library and CLIs for working with container registries

3,761+8
GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

Build Container Images In Kubernetes

15,752+1
P3GLEG/Whaler

Program to reverse Docker images into Dockerfiles

1,185+1
jessfraz/img

Standalone, daemon-less, unprivileged Dockerfile and OCI compatible container image builder.

3,990
GoogleCloudPlatform/container-diff

container-diff: Diff your Docker containers

3,801
blablacar/dgr

Container build and runtime tool

249
christian-korneck/docker-pushrm

"Docker Push Readme" - a Docker CLI plugin to update container repo docs

148
03Partial Access3 repos · 71.7k stars
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zalando/python-nsenter

Enter kernel namespaces from Python

141
Friz-zy/pyspaces

Works with Linux namespaces througth glibc with pure python

88
moby/moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

71,480-6
04Dashboard2 repos · 40.2k stars
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portainer/portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

36,755+82
swarmpit/swarmpit

Lightweight mobile-friendly Docker Swarm management UI

3,409+2
05Security9 repos · 35.9k stars
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google/gvisor

Application Kernel for Containers

17,827+36
aelsabbahy/goss

Quick and Easy server testing/validation

5,867+2
google/docker-explorer

A tool to help forensicate offline docker acquisitions

552
containers/oci-seccomp-bpf-hook

OCI hook to trace syscalls and generate a seccomp profile

338
OpenSCAP/container-compliance

Assessing compliance of a container

243
buildkite/sockguard

A proxy for docker.sock that enforces access control and isolated privileges

144
zuBux/drydock

drydock provides a flexible way of assessing the security of your Docker daemon configuration and containers using editable audit templates

65
docker/docker-bench-security

The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.

9,598-1
jfrazelle/bane

Custom & better AppArmor profile generator for Docker containers.

1,224-1
06Sandboxes5 repos · 13.4k stars
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projectatomic/bubblewrap

Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

6,000+87
google/nsjail

A lightweight process isolation tool that utilizes Linux namespaces, cgroups, rlimits and seccomp-bpf syscall filters, leveraging the Kafel BPF language for enhanced security.

3,749+14
singularityware/singularity

Singularity has been renamed to Apptainer as part of us moving the project to the Linux Foundation. This repo has been persisted as a snapshot right before the changes.

2,606+1
subuser-security/subuser

Run programs on linux with selectively restricted permissions.

894+1
parke/lxroot

A lightweight, flexible, and safer alternative to chroot and/or Docker.

116+1
07Hypervisors3 repos · 5.1k stars
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lxc/lxd

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

4,966+38
tailhook/lithos

Process supervisor that supports linux containers

117
marty90/multidocker

Creates a system where users are forced to login in dedicated independent docker containers.

56
08Specifications2 repos · 4.5k stars
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opencontainers/specs

OCI Runtime Specification

3,562+1
deislabs/cnab-spec

Cloud Native Application Bundle Specification

970-1
09Operating Systems1 repos · 3.2k stars
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vmware/photon

Minimal Linux container host

3,170+3
10Clouds1 repos · 284 stars
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cloudfoundry/warden

Cloud Foundry - the open platform as a service project

284
11Another Information Sources1 repos · 115 stars
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draios/sysdig-container-ecosystem

The Container Ecosystem Project

115