kubernetes-sigs/karpenter

Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.

DevOps & infrastructureGo

1.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 23, 2026, 12:53 UTC.

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About the project

Karpenter is a Kubernetes node autoscaler that watches unschedulable pods, provisions nodes matching their scheduling constraints, and removes nodes when no longer needed to cut costs. It is a multi-cloud project with implementations for AWS, Azure, GCP and others.

Useful for

Configure automatic node provisioning for peak load in a Kubernetes cluster
Reduce cloud costs by removing idle nodes
Match instance types to pod resource requests and affinity rules

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

4 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +3 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 2,199
Today: 4 · ≈ 7 by evening
Forks: 581
Issues and pull requests: 3,290
Watchers: 29
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.14.1 · August 21, 2026
Created: October 11, 2022
Last push: September 16, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 23, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +3 stars

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