The most active Go / Golang repositories on GitHub, August 2026

As of August 2026, the most active Go / Golang repository on GitHub is kubernetes/kubernetes (124.4k stars). The top 10 Go / Golang repositories tracked by StarHunt hold 730.2k combined stars, averaging 73.0k each, with 10 of 10 updated in the last week. Among the 110 of their contributors StarHunt could place in one of six tracked countries, 63% are in the United States.

What are the most active Go / Golang repositories in August 2026?

Here is a look at the most active Go / Golang repositories on GitHub this month, based on stars, forks, and recent commit activity.

#	Repository	Stars	Last push
1	kubernetes/kubernetes Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management cncf containers	⭐ 124,382 (+43)	today
2	golang/go The Go programming language go golang	⭐ 135,706 (+47)	today
3	gin-gonic/gin Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with framework gin	⭐ 89,071 (+6)	4 days ago
4	infiniflow/ragflow RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge agent-harness agentic-ai	⭐ 87,110	yesterday
5	ethereum/go-ethereum Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol blockchain ethereum	⭐ 51,278	yesterday

Which Go / Golang repositories grew the most this month?

Here is how the Go / Golang rankings changed compared to last month:

• golang/go: +47 stars
• kubernetes/kubernetes: +43 stars
• hashicorp/terraform: +16 stars
• docker/compose: +14 stars
• spf13/cobra: +13 stars

The biggest mover this month was golang/go, which gained 47 stars.

Which Go / Golang repositories are growing fastest?

These Go / Golang repositories gained the most stars over the past month:

• hashicorp/terraform +16 stars this month (49.5k total)
• docker/compose +14 stars this month (38.0k total)
• spf13/cobra +13 stars this month (44.4k total)
• hashicorp/vault +10 stars this month (36.1k total)
• go-gorm/gorm +2 stars this month (39.9k total)

How active is the Go / Golang ecosystem this month?

Across the top 10 Go / Golang repositories tracked by StarHunt:

• Combined stars: 730,183
• Average stars per repository: 73,018
• Repositories with a commit in the last 7 days: 10 out of 10

These repositories are where the best Go / Golang engineers spend their time. StarHunt helps you find them.

Who builds the top Go / Golang repositories?

StarHunt has indexed 150 contributors across these Go / Golang repositories. Among the 110 located in one of the six tracked countries (United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Canada), the split is:

• United States: 63% (69)
• Germany: 14% (15)
• Canada: 10% (11)
• United Kingdom: 7% (8)
• France: 5% (5)
• Spain: 2% (2)

28% have a public email on their GitHub profile.

A few standouts across individual repositories:

• kubernetes/kubernetes — 68% of kubernetes/kubernetes's StarHunt-indexed contributors located in one of the six tracked countries are in the United States.
• hashicorp/terraform — 68% of hashicorp/terraform's StarHunt-indexed contributors located in one of the six tracked countries are in the United States.

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