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firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo PEP 517 Poetry

GitHub topics

#containers #minimalist #open-source #oversubscription #rust #sandbox

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-23
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 104 open

36,302

stars

Forks: 2,583
Commits: 8,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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valeriansaliou/sonic

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#backend #database #graph #index #infrastructure #rust

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-18
History: 4 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 61 open

21,310

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 1,083 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tikv/tikv

Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cncf #consensus #distributed-transactions #hacktoberfest #key-value #raft

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-07
History: 117 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,811 open

16,869

stars

Forks: 2,344
Commits: 8,521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +31 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +3 0.0%

Website GitHub

bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

An operating system designed for hosting containers

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #linux #operating-system #rust

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-03
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 197 open

9,659

stars

Forks: 584
Commits: 8,096 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

databendlabs/databend

Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

AI dev

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ai #bigdata #cloud-native #database #elasticsearch #geospatial

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-10-10
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 556 open

9,419

stars

Forks: 891
Commits: 34,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kata-containers/kata-containers

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum gRPC Go Cargo Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#containers #cri #cri-o #docker #firecracker #k8s

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-18
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,154 open

8,527

stars

Forks: 1,426
Commits: 20,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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youki-dev/youki

A container runtime written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kubernetes #oci #rust

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-27
History: 24 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 152 open

7,566

stars

Forks: 459
Commits: 5,967 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/opendal

Apache OpenDAL: One Layer, All Storage.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum pytest React Tornado Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#azblob #gcs #hacktoberfest #redis #rust #s3

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 316 open

5,311

stars

Forks: 805
Commits: 4,557 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fluvio-community/fluvio

🦀 event stream processing for developers to collect and transform data in motion to power responsive data intensive applications.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #data-analytics #data-flow #data-integration #data-pipelines #distributed-systems

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-04
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 140 open

5,244

stars

Forks: 531
Commits: 2,574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kube-rs/kube

Rust Kubernetes client and controller runtime

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#client #kubernetes #runtime #rust

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-11
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 133 open

3,800

stars

Forks: 414
Commits: 2,914 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

krustlet/krustlet

Kubernetes Rust Kubelet

Stack

Rust Warp Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#krustlet #kubelet #kubernetes #kubernetes-kubelet #rust #wascc

Updated: 2023-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 136 open

3,604

stars

Forks: 221
Commits: 1,076 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust

The Rust OpenTelemetry implementation

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#jaeger #logging #metrics #opentelemetry #prometheus #tracing

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-08
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 254 open

2,674

stars

Forks: 685
Commits: 2,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libkrun/libkrun

A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-19
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 94 open

2,572

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 1,479 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Qovery/engine

The Orchestration Engine To Deliver Self-Service Infrastructure ⚡️

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#aws #azure #cloud #digitalocean #gcp #helm

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-05-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

2,458

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 2,534 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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linkerd/linkerd2-proxy

A purpose-built proxy for the Linkerd service mesh. Written in Rust.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#cncf #linkerd #rust #service-mesh

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-05
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,140

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 4,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libkrun/krunvm

Create microVMs from OCI images

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-02-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-26
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

1,727

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dragonflyoss/nydus

Nydus - a reliable, high-performance on-demand load filesytem framework for container image and data distribution.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum gRPC Go Rocket Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#accelerator #container #container-image #containerd #docker #filesystem

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-20
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

1,627

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 3,626 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hook0/hook0

Open-source webhook server that helps you provide webhooks to your users. It handles for you a great amount of features that are usually tedious to (re)implement.

Stack

Rust Actix Web Axum React Tailwind CSS Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#webhook #webhook-api #webhook-events #webhook-server #webhook-service #webhooks

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-11-15
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

1,476

stars

Forks: 102
Commits: 1,962 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

containerd/runwasi

Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#containerd #kubernetes #rust #wasi #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 67 open

1,326

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 1,973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openebs/mayastor

Dynamically provision Stateful Persistent Replicated Cluster-wide Fabric Volumes & Filesystems for Kubernetes that is provisioned from an optimized NVME SPDK backend data storage stack.

Stack

Rust Axum pytest Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#containers #data-plane #k8s #kubernetes #microvm #nvme

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-28
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 78 open

1,057

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 2,903 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tremor-rs/tremor-runtime

Main Tremor Project Rust Codebase

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2021 #rust #tremor #tremor-languages #tremor-query

Updated: 2025-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-11
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 153 open

932

stars

Forks: 126
Commits: 4,545 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/teaclave

Apache Teaclave™ is an open source universal secure computing platform, making computation on privacy-sensitive data safe and simple.

AI dev

GitHub topics

#confidential-computing #memory-safe #rust #sgx #tee #trusted-execution-environment

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-08
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 20 open

805

stars

Forks: 156
Commits: 772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kube-rs/controller-rs

A kubernetes reference controller with actix-web

Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo

GitHub topics

#actix #controller #example #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-28
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 15 open

339

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lockc-project/lockc

Making containers more secure with eBPF and Linux Security Modules (LSM)

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #ebpf #kubernetes #lsm #lsm-hooks #security

Updated: 2024-06-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-22
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 23 open

234

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 370 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

olix0r/kubert

Rust Kubernetes runtime helpers. Based on kube-rs.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#kubernetes

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-18
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 17 open

182

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 287 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kubewarden/policy-server

Webhook server that evaluates WebAssembly policies to validate Kubernetes requests

Archived

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #kubernetes #kubernetes-security #kubernetes-webhook #policy #policy-as-code

Updated: 2026-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-15
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

151

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 2,294 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kube-rs/version-rs

Example kubernetes reflector and web server with axum

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#axum #example #kubernetes #reflector

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-20
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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passcod/cni-plugins

Library to create CNI plugins in Rust, and a set of plugins

Archived

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2022-04-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-24
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 148 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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