Repositories list

• runwasi

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  containerd/runwasi’s past year of commit activity
  Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

  kubernetesrustwebassembly+ 3

  kubernetesrustwebassemblywasmcontainerdwasi

  Rust

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  Apache License 2.0

  •123123 forks•1.3k1.3k stars•4343 issues•2121 pull requests•Updated Apr 20, 2026Apr 20, 2026

• nerdctl

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  containerd/nerdctl’s past year of commit activity
  contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

  containerd

  containerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •767767 forks•10k10k stars•309309 issues•5555 pull requests•Updated Apr 18, 2026Apr 18, 2026

• containerd

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  An open and reliable container runtime

  dockerkubernetescontainers+ 5

  dockerkubernetescontainerscncfocicrihacktoberfestcontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •3.9k3.9k forks•21k21k stars•315315 issues•249249 pull requests•Updated Apr 17, 2026Apr 17, 2026

• project

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  containerd/project’s past year of commit activity
  Overall containerd project docs and governance details

  Apache License 2.0

  •5252 forks•7979 stars•22 issues•11 pull request•Updated Apr 17, 2026Apr 17, 2026

• nydus-snapshotter

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  containerd/nydus-snapshotter’s past year of commit activity
  A containerd snapshotter with data deduplication and lazy loading in P2P fashion

  container-imagecontainerd-snapshotter

  container-imagecontainerd-snapshotter

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •119119 forks•245245 stars•1212 issues•77 pull requests•Updated Apr 17, 2026Apr 17, 2026

• stargz-snapshotter

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  containerd/stargz-snapshotter’s past year of commit activity
  Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling

  dockercontainersfilesystem+ 2

  dockercontainersfilesystemdocker-imagecontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •149149 forks•1.5k1.5k stars•6363 issues•2020 pull requests•Updated Apr 16, 2026Apr 16, 2026

• imgcrypt

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  containerd/imgcrypt’s past year of commit activity
  OCI Image Encryption Package

  encryptioncontainersgpg+ 2

  encryptioncontainersgpgocioci-image

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •4848 forks•424424 stars•22 issues•00 pull requests•Updated Apr 16, 2026Apr 16, 2026

• rust-extensions

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  Rust crates to extend containerd

  rustcontainerslogging+ 4

  rustcontainerslogginggrpccontainerdrust-cratecontainerd-snapshotter

  Rust

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  Apache License 2.0

  •9090 forks•229229 stars•00 issues•22 pull requests•Updated Apr 16, 2026Apr 16, 2026

• overlaybd

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  Overlaybd: a block based remote image format. The storage backend of containerd/accelerated-container-image.

  storagevirtual-machine-imagesiscsi-target+ 3

  storagevirtual-machine-imagesiscsi-targetblockdevicecontainer-imagesremote-image

  C++

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  Apache License 2.0

  •7171 forks•353353 stars•1919 issues•11 pull request•Updated Apr 15, 2026Apr 15, 2026

• nri

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  containerd/nri’s past year of commit activity
  Node Resource Interface

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •9393 forks•376376 stars•3838 issues•1010 pull requests•Updated Apr 15, 2026Apr 15, 2026

• nerdbox

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  containerd sandbox runtime using vms

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2121 forks•115115 stars•1111 issues•88 pull requests•Updated Apr 14, 2026Apr 14, 2026

• continuity

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  A transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •6868 forks•151151 stars•3232 issues•33 pull requests•Updated Apr 14, 2026Apr 14, 2026

• containerd.io

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  Website repo for https://containerd.io

  JavaScript

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  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

  •4747 forks•3939 stars•1010 issues•22 pull requests•Updated Apr 14, 2026Apr 14, 2026

• ttrpc

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  GRPC for low-memory environments

  gogolangstream+ 5

  gogolangstreamprotocolgrpcrpcgolang-librarygolang-package

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •8282 forks•648648 stars•1717 issues•99 pull requests•Updated Apr 6, 2026Apr 6, 2026

• accelerated-container-image

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  A production-ready remote container image format (overlaybd) and snapshotter based on block-device.

  containersdocker-imagecontainerd+ 4

  containersdocker-imagecontainerdcontainer-imagesremote-imagecontainerd-snapshotteroverlaybd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •8585 forks•460460 stars•3030 issues•44 pull requests•Updated Apr 4, 2026Apr 4, 2026

• log

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  Common log interface for containerd repositories and clients

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •55 forks•88 stars•11 issue•33 pull requests•Updated Apr 3, 2026Apr 3, 2026

• go-dmverity

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  A pure Go implementation of dm-verity functionality

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •33 forks•44 stars•00 issues•22 pull requests•Updated Apr 3, 2026Apr 3, 2026

• platforms

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  Go package for handling platform type

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •1414 forks•1313 stars•22 issues•33 pull requests•Updated Apr 1, 2026Apr 1, 2026

• zfs

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  ZFS snapshotter plugin for containerd

  zfscontainerd

  zfscontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2525 forks•7979 stars•66 issues•11 pull request•Updated Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026

• release-tool

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  A release tool for generating detailed release notes

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2020 forks•3535 stars•00 issues•11 pull request•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• cgroups

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  containerd/cgroups’s past year of commit activity
  cgroups package for Go

  linuxgolangcgroups

  linuxgolangcgroups

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •251251 forks•1.2k1.2k stars•1515 issues•99 pull requests•Updated Mar 6, 2026Mar 6, 2026

• fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter

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  containerd/fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter’s past year of commit activity
  fuse-overlayfs plugin for rootless containerd on old Linux (not needed on modern Linux)

  containerdrootless-containers

  containerdrootless-containers

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •1818 forks•4949 stars•00 issues•55 pull requests•Updated Jan 28, 2026Jan 28, 2026

• plugin

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  containerd/plugin’s past year of commit activity
  Package for registering and managing typed plugins with dependencies

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •66 forks•77 stars•00 issues•11 pull request•Updated Jan 7, 2026Jan 7, 2026

• go-cni

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  containerd/go-cni’s past year of commit activity
  A generic CNI library to provide APIs for CNI plugin interactions

  cnicontainerd

  cnicontainerd

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •6666 forks•160160 stars•77 issues•1111 pull requests•Updated Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

• otelttrpc

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  Opentelemetry instrumentation support for ttRPC

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •44 forks•44 stars•00 issues•1010 pull requests•Updated Nov 17, 2025Nov 17, 2025

• btrfs

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  Btrfs bindings for Go

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2121 forks•7171 stars•11 issue•00 pull requests•Updated Jul 17, 2025Jul 17, 2025

• ttrpc-rust

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  Rust implementation of ttrpc (GRPC for low-memory environments)

  Rust

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  Apache License 2.0

  •5858 forks•357357 stars•1616 issues•66 pull requests•Updated Jul 15, 2025Jul 15, 2025

• console

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  console package for Go

  golangpty

  golangpty

  Go

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  Apache License 2.0

  •5555 forks•199199 stars•66 issues•22 pull requests•Updated May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

• project-checks

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  containerd/project-checks’s past year of commit activity
  This cross-project repository holds utilities, scripts, and common files used across the containerd master project and many sub-projects within the containerd o…

  Shell

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  Apache License 2.0

  •1010 forks•66 stars•77 issues•00 pull requests•Updated Mar 4, 2025Mar 4, 2025

• ltag

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  Prepends project files with given template.

  Go

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  MIT License

  •1010 forks•1818 stars•22 issues•11 pull request•Updated Mar 4, 2025Mar 4, 2025