DevOps radar: tools and trends

Momentum based on available 7-day snapshots for DevOps: measured with two snapshots, estimated otherwise. Each value shows its own source window. This page reads stored snapshots only.

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What’s changing

Of 20 comparable tools in DevOps / Platform, 20 are increasing, 0 are stable, and 0 are declining. @pulumi/pulumi has the largest measured increase: +356508 downloads over 7 days. These movements describe only changes in metrics collected over the period.

Measured period: 2026-08-26 to 2026-09-01

Tool ranking

Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

  1. 1

    Other
    Active

    Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative

    JavaLicense: MIT
    • aws
    • aws-emulation
    • devops
    • docker
    • ec2

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    22 905GitHub stars+661 (+3.0 %)
  2. 2

    Other
    Active

    Ministack: Free, open-source local AWS emulator - 60+ services, Terraform compatible, real databases. Free forever. MIT licensed.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • aws
    • aws-emulator
    • aws-local
    • aws-sdk
    • devtools

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    4 321GitHub stars+193 (+4.7 %)
  3. 3

    Other
    Active

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • cncf
    • containers
    • go
    • kubernetes

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    125 584GitHub stars+389 (+0.31 %)
  4. 4

    CLI
    Active

    see ur network breathe

    GoLicense: MIT
    • bandwidth
    • cli
    • cross-platform
    • dashboard
    • devops

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    440GitHub stars+46 (+11.7 %)
  5. 5

    Other
    Active

    K16S - CKA/CKS lab that could actually break kubelet, systemd, containerd, static pods, etcd and certificates (not kind)

    Shell
    • cka
    • cks
    • devops
    • exam-simulator
    • homelab

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    114GitHub stars+22 (+23.9 %)
  6. 6

    Other
    Active

    Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • containers
    • devsecops
    • docker
    • go
    • golang

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    37 723GitHub stars+114 (+0.30 %)
  7. 7

    Other
    Active

    280+ free n8n automation templates — ready-to-use workflows for Gmail, Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Notion, OpenAI, and more. AI agents, RAG chatbots, email automation, social media, DevOps, and document processing. The…

    • ai-agents
    • ai-automation
    • automation
    • automation-templates
    • awesome

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    25 039GitHub stars+98 (+0.39 %)
  8. 8

    Other
    Active

    SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • blob-storage
    • cloud-drive
    • distributed-file-system
    • distributed-storage
    • distributed-systems

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    34 370GitHub stars+97 (+0.28 %)
  9. 9

    Other
    Active

    The Cloud Native Application Proxy

    GoLicense: MIT
    • consul
    • docker
    • etcd
    • go
    • golang

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    64 690GitHub stars+98 (+0.15 %)
  10. 10

    Agent
    Active

    Secure environments for developers and their agents

    GoLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • agents
    • dev-tools
    • development-environment
    • go
    • golang

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    14 318GitHub stars+66 (+0.46 %)
  11. 11

    Agent
    Active

    DataBuff is an AI-native APM built on Opentelemetry，with multi-agent troubleshooting out of the box.

    JavaLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • aiops
    • apm
    • application-monitoring
    • devops
    • distributed-tracing

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    627GitHub stars+22 (+3.6 %)
  12. 12

    Other
    Active

    Kubernetes in the browser.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 275GitHub stars+26 (+2.1 %)
    • 13

      Other
      Active

      Local Kubernetes on Apple's container framework - every node is its own lightweight VM. Metrics, storage, and LoadBalancer included.

      GoLicense: MIT
      • apple-silicon
      • containers
      • kubernetes
      • macos

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      358GitHub stars+15 (+4.4 %)
    • 14

      Other
      Active

      Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

      GoLicense: MIT
      • containerd
      • containerd-compose
      • containers
      • docker
      • docker-compose

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      30 578GitHub stars+59 (+0.19 %)
    • 15

      Other
      Active

      Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

      GoLicense: MPL-2.0
      • aws
      • azure
      • devops
      • gcp
      • pgp

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      22 979GitHub stars+56 (+0.24 %)
    • 16

      Other
      Active

      Production CI/CD pipeline template with quality gates, container security, SLSA provenance, cosign signing, and automated release management.

      ShellLicense: Apache-2.0
      • ci-cd
      • devops
      • docker
      • github-actions
      • kubernetes

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      135GitHub stars+9 (+7.1 %)
    • 17

      Other
      Active

      The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

      GoLicense: Apache-2.0
      • 2fa
      • authentication
      • docker
      • golang
      • kubernetes

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      28 751GitHub stars+53 (+0.18 %)
    • 18

      Other
      Active

      Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s.

      GoLicense: MIT
      • docker
      • docker-container
      • golang
      • k8s
      • log

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      14 225GitHub stars+46 (+0.32 %)
    • 19

      Other
      Active

      Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

      TypeScriptLicense: Zlib
      • docker
      • docker-compose
      • docker-container
      • docker-deployment
      • docker-image

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      38 389GitHub stars+47 (+0.12 %)
    • 20

      Other
      Active

      The Kubernetes control room—built in Rust, ready for engineers and AI agents.

      TypeScriptLicense: MIT
      • desktop-app
      • devops
      • ide
      • kubernetes
      • mcp

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      159GitHub stars+8 (+5.3 %)
    • 21

      Other
      Active

      Database governance built for humans and agents — controlling changes and access across every major database.

      Go
      • cicd
      • data-governance
      • data-masking
      • data-security
      • database-access

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      14 451GitHub stars+36 (+0.25 %)
    • 22

      CLI
      Active

      yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor

      GoLicense: MIT
      • bash
      • cli
      • csv
      • devops-tools
      • golang

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      15 910GitHub stars+36 (+0.23 %)
    • 23

      Other
      Active

      Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

      GoLicense: Apache-2.0
      • containers
      • docker
      • kubernetes
      • linux
      • oci

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      32 733GitHub stars+39 (+0.12 %)
    • 24

      Other
      Active

      Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

      GoLicense: Apache-2.0
      • cncf
      • consensus
      • database
      • distributed-database
      • distributed-systems

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      52 208GitHub stars+35 (+0.07 %)

    Learning resources

    Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

    1. 1

      agentconnect

      Agent
      ActiveOpen source ↗

      The open-source, multi-agent alternative to Claude Tag. @ any agent, wherever work happens, they work alongside your team, learning as they go.

      TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
      • agent-client-protocol
      • agent-sandbox
      • ai-agent
      • claude-tag-alternative
      • codereview
      githubResourcemeasured growth
      1 083GitHub stars+931 (+612.5 %)