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Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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91Health
Library Go

testcontainers-go

Programmatically spin up disposable Docker containers for Go integration and smoke tests, then tear them down automatically.

4,976
MIT
Used by 21
87Health
SDK PyPI

docker-py

Official Python library for the Docker Engine API — manage containers, images, networks, and Swarm clusters from your own code.

7,213
Apache 2.0
Used by 20
90Health
Library npm

testcontainers-node

Spin up disposable Docker containers to run real databases, brokers, and browsers in your Node.js tests.

2,610
MIT
Used by 20
77Health
SDK npm

dockerode

A Node.js client for the Docker Engine Remote API, covering containers, images, networks, and volumes with streams intact.

4,947
Apache 2.0
Used by 19
98Health
Library Go

moby/moby/api

The independently-versioned Go module of shared request/response types for the Docker Engine API, used by both the daemon and third-party Go clients.

72,104
Apache 2.0
Used by 15
98Health
SDK Go

docker/docker

The legacy Go client library for the Docker Engine API, used to build and manage containers, images, and daemons programmatically.

72,104
Apache 2.0
Used by 13
87Health
Library npm

systeminformation

Dependency-free Node.js library exposing 50+ functions for deep hardware, OS, and system telemetry

3,133
MIT
Used by 11
86Health
Tool Go

Docker CLI

The official command-line client for Docker Engine, covering containers, images, networks, swarm, and an extensible plugin ecosystem.

6,059
Apache 2.0
Used by 10
68Health
Library Go

image-spec

Canonical Go types and embedded JSON Schema validation for the OCI Image Format specification.

4,472
Apache 2.0
Used by 9
91Health
Library Go

go-containerregistry

A Go library and CLI toolkit for reading, writing, and mutating OCI container images across registries, tarballs, and daemons.

4,047
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
90Health
Tool npm

verdaccio

A lightweight, zero-config-required private npm registry with built-in caching and proxying of public registries.

17,881
MIT
Used by 7
95Health
Tool Go

BuildKit

The daemon and CLI toolkit behind `docker build`, compiling Dockerfiles and other build definitions into portable, cacheable OCI images.

10,263
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
95Health
Tool Go

containerd

A CNCF-graduated container runtime that manages the full container lifecycle for Linux and Windows hosts.

21,296
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
55Health
Library Go

Dockertest

Spin up real Docker containers for Go integration tests, then tear them down automatically.

4,525
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
74Health
Library Cargo

Testcontainers for Rust

Integration-test against throwaway Docker containers from within Rust

1,129
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
55Health
Library Go

runtime-spec

Go structs for the OCI Runtime Specification — the container config, state, and features schema shared by runc, containerd, and CRI-O.

3,676
Apache 2.0
Used by 4
87Health
Library PyPI

testcontainers-python

Throwaway Docker containers for real integration tests, driven straight from Python.

2,294
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
51Health
Library PyPI

types-boto3

Complete, auto-generated type annotations for every boto3 AWS service client, enabling full IDE autocomplete and mypy/pyright checking.

670
MIT
Used by 3
41Health
Tool PyPI

pytest-docker

Pytest fixtures that spin up Docker Compose services for integration tests, then tear them down automatically.

490
MIT
Used by 3
95Health
Tool Go

Docker Compose

The official CLI plugin for defining and running multi-container Docker applications from a single Compose file.

38,152
Apache 2.0
Used by 2
85Health
SDK PyPI

OpenSandbox

Python SDK for creating and controlling secure, isolated OpenSandbox execution environments.

15,283
Apache 2.0
Used by 2
80Health
Library Cargo

rust-oci-client

A Rust client library implementing the OCI Distribution specification

184
Apache 2.0
Used by 2
51Health
Tool PyPI

dumb-init

A minimal init system that runs as PID 1 in containers, correctly forwarding signals and reaping zombie processes.

7,308
MIT
Used by 1
88Health
SDK Cargo

bollard

An asynchronous Rust client for the Docker and Podman Engine API, built on Hyper and Tokio.

1,364
Apache 2.0
Used by 1

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