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Kueue

Kubernetes
open source / Overall score: 3.2

Kubernetes-native job queueing from the Kubernetes SIG, deciding when a job waits, when it is admitted so its pods may be created, and when it is preempted. Quotas and fair sharing are expressed per tenant over ResourceFlavors that describe heterogeneous hardware, and Topology-Aware Scheduling can pin a whole PodSet to nodes inside one rack or block.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public(kubernetes-sigs/kueue is the whole controller)
core features withheld
no — a 15,902-entry recursive tree carries no path matching enterprise, ee, commercial or proprietary

Kueue is Apache-2.0 and installs whole on a plain Kubernetes cluster, with no paid tier for a core to be withheld from. The repository tree carries one root LICENSE and no enterprise, ee or commercial path.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/git/trees/main?recursive=1 recorded 2026-09-15

    Full untruncated recursive tree of the default branch, 15,902 entries. Licenses are the root LICENSE and vendored dependencies. No path matches enterprise, ee, commercial or proprietary. A tree lists paths; it is cited for that and for nothing about the vendor's offerings.

  • https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue recorded 2026-09-15

    Repository page for kubernetes-sigs/kueue: Apache-2.0 license, public and unarchived, described as 'Kubernetes-native Job Queueing'. Establishes the license and that the source is public.

  • https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/overview/ recorded 2026-09-16

    Kueue's overview: 'You can install Kueue on top of a vanilla Kubernetes cluster' and 'Kueue does not replace any existing Kubernetes components.' A Kubernetes SIG project with no vendor edition; the installable thing is the whole thing.

Adoption

2 low confidence
2.0

Kueue ships as container images and a Helm chart rather than through a package registry, so GitHub stars are the only adoption signal available. A star is not a use, so the signal shows attention rather than real usage.

Capability

5 medium confidence
5.0

Kueue's Topology-Aware Scheduling does the placing, not its queueing alone: it can fix an assignment of pods to nodes and inject a NodeSelector, and podset-required-topology can bind a whole set to one rack or block. Kueue makes that placement decision itself, with Kubernetes only executing it, which puts it level with Volcano.

  • https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/concepts/topology_aware_scheduling/ recorded 2026-09-15

    Kueue's Topology-Aware Scheduling concept page: 'When the lowest level of Topology is set to node, TAS finds a fixed assignment of pods to nodes and injects a NodeSelector to make sure the pods get scheduled on the selected nodes', and the podset-required-topology annotation requiring all pods within one topology domain.

  • https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/overview/ recorded 2026-09-15

    Kueue overview: 'Kueue decides when a job should wait, when a job should be admitted to start (as in pods can be created) and when a job should be preempted', with quotas, fair sharing and resource fungibility across flavors.

Verified 2026-09-15