| 120,294 | Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management | 2,563,221 | 1,169,625 | 53 days |
| 62,568 | The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. | 243,194 | 147,582 | 32 days |
| 61,464 | The Cloud Native Application Proxy | 161,827 | 105,473 | 25 days |
| 51,460 | Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system | 148,528 | 73,035 | 53 days |
| 42,643 | Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search | 654,468 | 343,404 | 3 days |
| 37,903 | Connect, secure, control, and observe services. | 417,628 | 226,851 | 19 days |
| 36,946 | Define and run multi-container applications with Docker | 31,680 | 9,916 | 18 days |
| 32,591 | A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity. | 121,017 | 63,498 | 46 days |
| 31,816 | CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement. | 2,091,227 | 818,765 | — |
| 29,856 | A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript | 814,254 | 74,608 | 34 days |
| 25,477 | Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration. | 246,986 | 73,145 | 13 days |
| 24,655 | Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀 | 371,310 | 163,834 | 3 days |
| 22,424 | CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform | 89,323 | 55,744 | 37 days |
| 21,898 | Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes | 218,727 | 125,921 | 6 days |
| 20,203 | An open and reliable container runtime | 668,615 | 58,828 | 52 days |
| 19,794 | The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure. | 1,097,516 | 520,931 | 5 days |
| 19,743 | GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo Sample cloud-first application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC. | 2,795 | 739 | 74 days |
| 18,155 | | 545,988 | 267,593 | 4 days |
| 15,923 | An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability. | 83,174 | 50,408 | 8 days |
| 15,538 | Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database. | 529,221 | 305,371 | 4 days |
| 15,391 | Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud | 258,261 | 65,448 | 3 days |
| 13,953 | Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project. | 135,431 | 71,570 | 103 days |
| 13,033 | A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development. | 229,318 | 138,502 | 13 days |
| 12,910 | ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you. | 636,911 | 383,400 | 9 days |
| 12,893 | LLM-powered framework for deep document understanding, semantic retrieval, and context-aware answers using RAG paradigm. | 57,926 | 2,970 | 9 days |
| 12,497 | Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. | 113,426 | 47,825 | 68 days |
| 12,161 | Secure environments for developers and their agents | 416,387 | 222,078 | 3 days |
| 11,192 | Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine. | 279,116 | 171,080 | 10 days |
| 10,922 | Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers | 15,691 | 4,910 | 60 days |
| 10,391 | Fast and secure standalone server for resizing, processing, and converting images on the fly | 16,948 | 3,403 | 121 days |