List of awesome tools to tinker with containers.

GPU environment and cluster management with LLM support

🚡 Minimal linux container runtime

Easy to use, extendable, OCI-compliant container runtime written in pure Rust

A simple educational linux container runtime.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for container runtimes (Podman and Docker)

Simplistic container runtime shim

A high-performance, minimalistic container engine in Rust.

linux container runtime built with zig

This repository implements a simple container runtime for learning purposes.

An experimental, rootless, Alpine-based container runtime

Namespaces and cgroups basics en route to better understanding Linux containers

The main purpose of runtime copilot is to assist with node runtime management tasks such as configuring registries, upgrading versions, installing plugins, and replacing runtimes.

Local-first engine for secure, reproducible AI agents: daemonless CLI, policy-enforced isolated runtimes, and immutable ClawCapsule artifacts.

Tiny container runtime

Inception is a lightweight container runtime primarily targeting HPC environments.

Docker Compose runner for Apple's native container CLI on macOS—dependency ordering, service DNS, hot reload, named volumes, dashboards, and restart supervision without rewrites.

A rootless, daemonless, low level container runtime for Linux written in Rust that aims to be compliant with the OCI Runtime Spec

A local deployment validation runtime for containers and Kubernetes-style workloads

Very minimal container runtime in Rust. Implementation of Containers from Scratch but in Rust, based on Liz Rice's talks.