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    kubernetes/kubernetes

    #44 this week

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    kubernetes
    cncf
    containers
    go
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    128.3K stars
    46.6K forks
    128.3K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 11, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #44 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 2%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 353 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #15 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 27, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Kubernetes is a production-grade open-source system for container scheduling and management across multiple hosts.
    • Built in Go, it leverages Google's Borg experience and CNCF best practices for scalable microservices and dynamic scheduling.
    • It has strong community governance, extensive documentation, and supports both Go and Docker environments for development.
    • With 117k stars and 41k forks, Kubernetes is highly popular and widely adopted across industries for container orchestration.
    • Ideal for organizations needing scalable, reliable deployment, maintenance, and scaling of containerized applications in production.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts. It provides basic mechanisms for the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications.

    Kubernetes builds upon a decade and a half of experience at Google running production workloads at scale using a system called Borg, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

    Kubernetes is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If your company wants to help shape the evolution of technologies that are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled, and microservices-oriented, consider joining the CNCF. For details about who's involved and how Kubernetes plays a role, read the CNCF announcement.

    See our documentation on kubernetes.io.

    Take a free course on Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes.

    To use Kubernetes code as a library in other applications, see the list of published components. Use of the k8s.io/kubernetes module or k8s.io/kubernetes/... packages as libraries is not supported.

    Excerpt from the kubernetes/kubernetes README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

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    +4,516 stars over 90 days across 54 snapshot days; best day +326 on Sep 1.

    Forks

    46.6K+2.9K

    Open issues

    3.3K+513

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