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Container orchestration

Schedule and run containers across a cluster of machines, from full Kubernetes distributions to lighter schedulers.

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Container orchestration
ToolStarsLicenceTermsSelf-hostedLanguageLatestLast push
Kubernetes128kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov1.37.12026-10-06
Kubespray19kApache-2.0Open sourceYesJinjav2.32.02026-10-06
Nomad17kOtherSource availableYesGov2.0.72026-10-06
vcluster11kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov0.37.22026-10-06
Talos Linux11kMPL-2.0Open sourceYesGov1.14.22026-10-06
k0s6.5kOtherOpen sourceYesGov1.36.4+k0s.12026-10-06
Cluster API4.3kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov1.14.22026-10-06
SwarmKit3.7kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov2.1.22026-09-17
Gardener3.5kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov1.151.22026-10-06
RKE22.4kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov1.37.1+rke2r12026-10-05
Kamaji2kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGo26.10.2-edge2026-10-05

11 tools

Nomad

Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

Language
Go
Licence
Other
Stars
17k
Latest
v2.0.7
Last push
2026-10-06
vcluster

vCluster creates tenant clusters: fully isolated environments delivered as managed Kubernetes, or as the foundation for Slurm, Ray, Run:ai and inference clusters. Each gets its own API server, CRDs and RBAC, and runs on an existing cluster or standalone on bare metal. CNCF Certified Kubernetes.

Language
Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
11k
Latest
v0.37.2
Last push
2026-10-06
Talos Linux

Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

Language
Go
Licence
MPL-2.0
Stars
11k
Latest
v1.14.2
Last push
2026-10-06
SwarmKit

A toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more.

Language
Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
3.7k
Latest
v2.1.2
Last push
2026-09-17
Gardener

Homogeneous Kubernetes clusters at scale on any infrastructure using hosted control planes.

Language
Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
3.5k
Latest
v1.151.2
Last push
2026-10-06

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