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Open Source @ IBM

From Blockchain to Containers to AI to Operating Systems – and everything in between-our developers are creating emerging open source projects and surrounding them with code, docs, and supporting materials, so you can join the innovation

Get your hands on the code

There are a number of ways that you can partner with us to create open source technology, including:

Open source projects created by IBM

Open source technology underlies many of our products, and much of that innovative open tech starts at IBM. We train, equip, and encourage our employees to engage in open source and to create open projects that solve our clients’ problems or their own personal development problems. Here are a few of the open source projects developed at IBM. We hope you’ll check out the GitHub repos, reach out to the maintainers, and join us.

Featured open source projects

If you want to see the breadth of our open source projects, check out our GitHub organization. Or, if you don’t want to search through all of our repos, check out our projects page to see the most popular and active ones.

Open Project

Kabanero

Kabanero is an open source project that brings together foundational open source technologies into a modern microservices-based framework.

Jul 16, 2019
Open Project

AI Explainability 360

The AI Explainability 360 toolkit (AIX360) is an open source software toolkit that can help consumers comprehend how machine learning…

Aug 08, 2019
Open Project

Appsody

Appsody provides everything you need to iteratively develop applications, ready for deployment to Kubernetes environments.

Jul 24, 2019

Meet the graduates

Once a project has gained enough adoption by the wider community, we contribute the project to an open source foundation so it can continue to grow. Check out some of our most popular graduated projects.

Open Project

IBM open source graduated to Eclipse OpenJ9

Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK is optimized to run Java applications cost-effectively in the cloud.

Dec 21, 2018
Open Project

OpenWhisk

OpenWhisk lets you quickly and easily build feature-rich apps that automatically trigger responses to events.

Jan 08, 2019
Open Project

Apache Toree: Graduated IBM open source project

Apache Toree (previously Spark Kernel) acts as the middleman between the application and a Spark cluster.

Nov 13, 2018

Model Asset eXchange (MAX)

The Model Asset eXhange is a place for developers to find and use free and open source deep learning models. Browse dozens of different models, get started with our easy-to-follow tutorials, or join our community and contribute your own models.