containers/buildah vs googlecontainertools/kaniko
containers/buildah shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, buildah shows healthier maintenance signals than kaniko. buildah rates Healthy overall while kaniko rates Mixed. buildah was committed to 1 day ago with 9+ active contributors, while kaniko last saw a commit 1 year ago with 16+ active contributors. Both use the Apache-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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containers/buildah
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
googlecontainertools/kaniko
Stale — last commit 1y ago
last commit was 1y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 1y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 72% of recent commits
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| buildah | kaniko | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,016 | 15,772 |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 1y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 287 | 760 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 25% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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