Cloud landscape by sendai

Infrastructure platforms

Name	Year	Company
OpenStack	2010	OpenStack Foundation
vSphere	2009	VMWare
Azure Stack VMs	2010	Microsoft
AWS Outposts	2018	Amazon

Hosted

Name	Date	Company
AWS	2006	Amazon
GCP	2008	Google
Azure	2010	Microsoft

Configuration management

Name	Date	GitHub stars	Company
CFEngine	1993	0.3	CFEngine
Puppet	2005	5.1	Puppet
Chef	2008	5.4	Chef
Rudder	2011	0.2	Open Source
SaltStack	2011	9.2	SaltStack
Juju	2012	1.2	Canonical
Ansible	2012	32.9	RedHat

Infrastructure As a Code

Name	Date	GitHub stars	Company	Language
Saltstack	2011	9.2	SaltStack	Python
Cloudformation	2011	n/a	Amazon	n/a
Terraform	2014	14.3	Hashicorp	Go

CI/CD

Framework

Name	Date	Github star	Company	Language
Jenkins	2011	11.5		Java
GitLab	2011	21.3	GitLab	Ruby
Travis CI	2011	7.1	Open Source	Ruby
Circle CI	2011	n/a		Clojure/Ruby
Drone	2014	16.1	Drone	Go
GoCD	2014	4.5	Open Source	Java
Spinnaker	2015	5.3	Spinnaker	Python
Argo	2017	1.8		Go
Skaffold	2018	5.2	Google	Go
Jenkins X	2018	1.8	Jenkins	Go

Code analysis

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company	Language
SonarQube	2008	3.0		Java
Codacy	2012	n/a		Scala/Ruby

Multi Cloud

Control Plane

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Crossplane	2018	0.6	Upbound	Go

Application Platform

Name	Year	Company
CloudFoundry		Cisco, Google, IBM

Organizations

Name	Date	Governs	Founded	Mission
CNCF	2015	Cloud	Google, CoreOS, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Docker, Univa, and VMware	The Cloud Native Computing Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems and fosters a community around a constellation of high-quality projects that orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture.
OpenContainers	2015	Containers	Docker	Promote a set of common, minimal, open standards and specifications around container technology.

Containers

Framework

Standard framework

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company	Language
Docker	2013	n/a	Docker Inc.	Go
rkt	2014	8.3	CoreOS/RedHat	Go
containerd	2017	3.3	CNCF	Go
cri-o	2017	1.4	RedHat	Go

Runtime

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company	Language	Description
runc	2015	5.1	Docker/OpenCountainers	Go
runv	2015	0.6	HyperHQ	Go	Hypervisor-based Runtime for OCI
Railcar	2017	0.7	Oracle	Rust
Pouch	2018	3.5	Alibaba	Go
runq	2018	0.4	Open Source	Go	KVM/Qemu-based Runtime for OCI
crun	2018	0.03	RedHat	C	High perf runtime

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CLI

Name	Date	Company
docker	2013	Docker Inc.
crictl	2017	Kubernetes SIGs
podman	2018	RedHat

Sandbox containers

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company
gVisor	2018	7.1	Google

Hypervisor based containers

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company
Hyper Container	2015		HyperHQ
Clear Container	2015		Intel
frakti	2017	0.4	Google
Kata	2018	0.7	OpenStack Foundation

Build

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company	Language	Description
Docker	2013	n/a	Docker Inc.
Packer	2013	8.1	Hashicorp	Go
Box	2016	0.2	Open Source	Go
Buildah	2017	1.0	RedHat	Go
Buildkit	2017	0.7	Moby	Go
Jib	2018	4.9	Google	Java	Containerize Java
Img	2018	1.9	GenuineTools	Go
Kaniko	2018	2.5	Google	Go
Makisu	2018	0.8	Uber	Go

Orchestration

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company	Language
Apache Mesos	2009	3.9	UC Berkeley	C++
Kubernetes	2014	43.6	Google	Go
Portainer	2014	9.8	Open Source	HTML
Nomad	2015	3.9	Hashicorp	Go
Hyper.sh	2015	1.9	Hyper	Go
Docker Swarm	2016	5.3	Docker Inc.	Go
Nelson	2017	0.2	Verizon	Scala
Titus	2018	1.7	Netflix	Go

Hosted

Name	Year	Company
Google Kubernetes Engine	2015	Google
Elastic Container Service	2015	Amazon
Azure Container Service	2015	Microsoft
OpenShift Container Platform	2016	RedHat
Azure Kubernetes Service	2017	Microsoft
Elastic Kubernetes Service	2018	Amazon

Registry

Name	Year	GitHub	Company	Language
JFrog Artifactory	2008			Java/Go
GitLab	2011	21.4	GitLab HQ	Ruby
Docker Registry	2013		Docker Inc.
Harbor	2016	6.2	Harbor	Go
Nexus Repository OSS	2016		Sonatype

Hosted

Name	Year	Company
Quay	2013	CoreOS
Container Registry	2014	Google
Elastic Container Registry	2015	Amazon
Azure Container Registry		Azure
RedHat Container Catalog		RedHat

Kubernetes

Kubernetes installation

Name	Date	GitHub star	Company	Language	Support
Kupespray	2015	4.4	Open Source	Python	AWS, GCE, Azure, OpenStack
KOPS	2016	7.0	Google	Go	AWS
kube-aws	2016	0.8	CoreOS	Go	Declarative K8s on AWS
Kismatic	2016	0.7	Apprenda	Go
RKE	2017	0.8	Rancher	Go	On premise, AWS, GCE
kubeadm	2017		Google	Go
Pharos	2018	0.1	Kontena	Ruby

Controllers

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Compose	2018	0.4	Docker Inc.	Go	Manage K8s with docker-compose
AWS ALB Ingress	2017	0.7	Kubernetes	Go

Microservice ecosystem

Service Mesh

Control plane

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language	Description
Synapse	2012	1.9	AirBnB	Ruby	Service Discovery
Consul	2014	14.0	Hashicorp	Go	Service Discovery
Linkerd	2016	4.7	Buoyant	Scala
Istio	2017	12.7	Google/IBM/Lyft	Go
Linkerd2	2018	2.8	Buoyant	Go	Ex-Conduit
SuperGloo	2018	0.1	Solo	Go	Service Mesh Orchestration

Data plane

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Linkerd	2016	4.7	Buoyant	Scala
Envoy	2016	7.0	Lyft	C++
Linkerd2	2018	2.8	Buoyant	Rust

HTTP Tester

Name	Year	GitHub star	Language
Siege	2015	2.9	C
Fortio	2017	0.5	Go

Serverless

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Fission	2016	3.8	Platform9	Go
Iron	2016	2.4	Iron	Go
Nuclio	2018	2.3	Iguazio	Go
OpenWhisk	2018	3.6	Apache	Scala

Hosted

Name	Year	Company
Lambda	2014	Amazon
Azure Functions	2016	Azure
Google Cloud Functions	2017	Google

Package management

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language	Description
Helm	2015	8.2	Deis/CNCF	Go
Weave Flux	2016	1.4	Weave Works	Go
Forge	2017	0.3	DataWire	Python
CNAB	2018	n/a	Docker Inc.	n/a	Specification
Docker App	2018	0.9	Docker Inc.	Go	CNAB support

Controller frameworks

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Operator	2018	1.1	RedHat	Go
KubeBuilder	2018	0.8	Google	Go

Network

DNS

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language	Desciption
CoreDNS	2016	2.7	Open Source/CNCF	Go

Networking

Name	Year	GitHub	Company	Language
Weave Net	2014	5.3	Weave Works	Go
Flannel	2014	3.7	CoreOS	Go
Romana	2016	0.2	Open Source	Go
Cilium	2017	3.2	Isovalent Inc.	Go
Calico	2017	0.8	Open Source	Go
kube-router	2017	0.9	Cloud Native Labs	Go

Ingress controllers

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language	Desciption
Kong	2015	19.0	Kong	Lua
Traefik	2016	18.2	Containous	Go	Commercial support
Ingress Nginx	2016	3.2	Google	Go
Nginx Ingress	2016	1.1	Nginx	Go	Differences
Contour	2017	1.1	Heptio	Go	Ingress for Envoy
Cert Manager	2017	2.2	JetStack	Go
BIG-IP Controller	2017	0.0	F5	Go	kubernetes.io
Istio Gateway	2017	13.0	Google/IBM/Lyft	Go	kubernetes.io
HAProxy	2017	0.3	Open Source	Go	kubernetes.io
Ambassador	2017	1.3	DataWire	Python
Gimbal	2018	0.4	Heptio	Go
Kong Ingress	2018	0.2	Kong	Go	kubernetes.io

Cluster/Resilience

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Ark	2017	1.6	Heptio	Go
ChaosCube	2017	0.4	Open Source	Go

Backup

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Ark	2017	1.6	Heptio	Go

Compliance/Governance

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Notary	2015	1.6		Go
Cloud Custodian	2016	1.8	Open Source	Python
Sonobuoy	2018	1.0	Heptio	Go

Security

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language	Description
TUF	2010	0.8	n/a	n/a	Specification/CNCF
Vault	2015	10.5	HashiCorp	Go
Clair	2016	4.4	CoreOS	Go
Anchore	2016	0.3	Anchore	Python
kube2iam	2016	0.9		Go	Per Pod AWS policy
Sysdig Falco	2016	0.0	Sysdig	C++
Spiffe	2017	0.3		Go	Specification
Guard	2017	0.2	Appscode	Go	K8s auth via Google & GitHub
kubeaudit	2017	0.2	Shopify	Go
kiam	2017	0.3		Go	Per Pod AWS policy

Observability

Debugger

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Squash	2017	0.7	Solo	Go
Sysdig Inspect	2017	0.5	Sysdig	JS
KubeSquash	2018	0.1	Solo	Go

Tracer

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
NewRelic	2008	n/a	NewRelic
Sentry	2010	19.0	Sentry	Python
DataDog	2010	n/a	DataDog	Go
Opentracing	2016	n/a	CNCF	Various
OpenCensus	2017	n/a	Google	Various
Rookout	2018	n/a	Rookout

Processor

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
NewRelic	2008	n/a	NewRelic
DataDog	2010	n/a	DataDog	Go
Zipkin	2016	9.6	Twitter	Go
Jaeger	2017	6.2	Uber	Go

Prometheus exporters

Name	Year	GitHub star	Support
ElasticSearch exporter	2015	0.4	ES
BlackBox	2016	0.8	TCP/HTTP

Metric collecting agents

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
CollectD	2005	2.0	Open Source	C
Riemann	2012	3.6	Open Source	Clojure
StatsD	2012	13.4	Etsy	Javascript/NodeJS
Netdata	2013	33.0		C
OSQuery	2014	13.3	Facebook	C++
Note Exporter	2014	2.1	Prometheus	Go
Kube State Metrics	2016	0.9	Google	Go

Logging

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language	Description
Fluentd	2011	6.8	Treasure Data	C, Ruby	Log collecting
Logstash	2013	9.5	ElasticCo	Ruby	Log collecting
FluentBit	2015	0.9	CNCF	C	Log collecting
Filebeat	2015	n/a	ElasticCo	Go	Log collecting
Zap	2017	5.5	Uber	Go	High performance logging library

Notification

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
PagerDuty	2009		PagerDuty
Alert Manager	2015	1.6	Prometheus	Go

Time Series Databases

Name	Year	GitHub star	Company	Language
Graphite	2008	20.0	Open Source	Python
InfluxDB	2013	14.7	InfluxData	Go
Prometheus	2014	20.0	CNCF	Go
Timescale	2017	6.2	Timescale	C	Postgres extension
Thanos	2018	2.2	Improbable	Go	Scalable Prometheus
Cortex	2018	0.7	Weave	Go	Scalable Prometheus
M3	2018	1.2	Uber	Go	Scalable Prometheus

Data visualization / Dashboard

Name	Year	GitHub	Company	Language
Graphite	2008	20.0	Open Source	Python
Sysdig Monitor	2014	5.4	Sysdig	C++
Grafana	2014	24.7	Grafana Labs	Typescript
Weave Scope	2015	3.0	Weave Works	Go
Cloudcraft	2016	n/a	Cloudcraft Inc	Service

Persistent storage

Name	Year	GitHub	Company	Language
Rook	2016	4.1	Upbound	Go

SQL Database

Name	Year	GitHub	Company	Language
Patroni	2015	2.1	Zalando	Python	HA Postgres
Vitess	2015	7.0	The Vitess	Go	Scalable MySQL
TIDB	2016	16.2	PingCap	Go	Scalable MYSQL

Messaging

Name	Year	GitHub	Company	Language
NATS	2014	4.9	Open Source	Go

CLI

Name	Year	GitHub	Language	Description
stern	2016	1.4	Go	Multi-pod logs
kubens	2017	2.9	Shell	set kubectl namespace

External Tools

Name	Company
Kubernetes apps	Google
CNCF Landscape	CNCF