There are roughly a thousand "top DevOps repos" listicles, and most of them are the same five awesome-lists in a different order. The problem with awesome-lists is that they are link directories. They tell you where to look, not what to do. If you want to actually get better at DevOps, you need a different shape of repo: ones with exercises, opinionated learning paths, hands-on demos, and source you can read and learn from. So here are ten GitHub repositories that have moved real engineers from "I have heard of Kubernetes" to "I run it in production." We will start with the one we maintain on this site, then walk through the rest in order of star count, with notes on who each one is for and how to get the most out of it. TLDR Star counts are pulled fresh from the GitHub API as of May 2026. 1. The-DevOps-Daily/devops-daily github.com/The-DevOps-Daily/devops-daily . the source for everything you read on this site, fully open source. We did not put ourselves at the top because we own the site.…