Kubernetes & orchestration

Kubernetes

kubernetes/kubernetes

Popular

Container orchestration standard for deploying, scaling and self-healing workloads across clusters.

Amazon EKS

aws.amazon.com

Popular

AWS's managed Kubernetes control plane, with Auto Mode for managed nodes; the most common way to run K8s on AWS.

Google Kubernetes Engine

cloud.google.com

Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes (GKE) with Autopilot mode for hands-off node management.

Azure Kubernetes Service

azure.microsoft.com

Microsoft Azure's managed Kubernetes (AKS), with AKS Automatic for opinionated production-ready clusters.

K3s

k3s-io/k3s

Popular

Lightweight, certified Kubernetes in a single binary; popular for edge, IoT, homelabs and CI.

Red Hat OpenShift

redhat.com

Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes platform with built-in CI/CD, registry, security and developer tooling.

Rancher

rancher/rancher

SUSE's multi-cluster Kubernetes management platform for provisioning and governing clusters anywhere.

Talos Linux

siderolabs/talos

Rising

Immutable, API-managed minimal Linux built solely to run Kubernetes securely on bare metal or cloud.

k0s

k0sproject/k0s

Zero-friction, single-binary Kubernetes distribution for bare metal, edge and cloud.

MicroK8s

canonical/microk8s

Canonical's snap-packaged, low-ops Kubernetes for workstations, edge devices and small clusters.

Nomad

hashicorp/nomad

HashiCorp's simpler orchestrator for containers, VMs and binaries; BSL-licensed since 2023.