# Kubernetes — developer ecosystem report

> Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

- GitHub org: `kubernetes`
- Category: platform
- Overall score: 66.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #25
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-19

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 72.0 | #83 | ~22% |
| Education | 79.0 | #122 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 11.0 | #786 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 56.0 | #72 | ~16% |
| Reach | 69.0 | #88 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 79.0 | #34 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/kubernetes
- Website: https://kubernetes.io
- Docs: https://docs.kubernetes.io

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 298,960 |
| Forks | 119,464 |
| Open issues | 6,971 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) | 124,607 | Go | Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management |
| [minikube](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube) | 32,044 | Go | Run Kubernetes locally |
| [ingress-nginx](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx) | 19,485 | Go | Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes |
| [kops](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops) | 16,664 | Go | Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management |
| [community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community) | 12,982 | Jupyter Notebook | Kubernetes Community Documentation |
| [kompose](https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose) | 10,605 | Go | Convert Compose to Kubernetes |
| [client-go](https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go) | 9,866 | Go | Go client for Kubernetes. |
| [autoscaler](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler) | 8,937 | Go | Autoscaling components for Kubernetes |
| [examples](https://github.com/kubernetes/examples) | 6,680 | Shell | Kubernetes application example tutorials |
| [kube-state-metrics](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics) | 6,179 | Go | Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics. |
| [website](https://github.com/kubernetes/website) | 5,344 | HTML | Kubernetes website and documentation repo:  |
| [test-infra](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra) | 4,015 | Go | Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project. |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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