Build your own container runtime.
Containers made 'it works on my machine' portable. Own the box the code ships in.
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live from source · api.github.com · Oct 29, 2:39 AM UTCkubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
devops-exercises
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
moby
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
firecracker
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
podman
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
minikube
Run Kubernetes locally
dokku
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
colima
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
90DaysOfDevOps
This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the community. We have 3 years under our belt covering all things DevOps, including Principles, Processes, Tooling and Use Cases surrounding this vast topic.
harbor
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
dapr
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
rancher
Complete container management platform
pulumi
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
cilium
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
slim
Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)
witr
Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
containerd
An open and reliable container runtime
cosmopolitan
build-once run-anywhere c library
gvisor
Application Kernel for Containers
kops
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
dagger
Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud
skaffold
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
caprover
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
jib
🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.
runc
CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification
grype
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
redpanda
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
devbox
Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
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