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Awesome Sysadmin

A curated list of amazingly awesome Free and Open-Source sysadmin resources. Please read the Pull Request template if you wish to add software and consider ย ย ย ย 26โญ ย ย ย ย ย 4๐Ÿด donating) to the FLOSS projects you use regularly. Please consider contributing to fix one of the pinned issues if your time allows.


Table of contents


Software

Automation

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Build automation.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Apache Ant - Automation build tool, similar to make, a library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. (ย ย ย 407โญ ย ย ย 419๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Apache Maven - Build automation tool mainly for Java. A software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. (ย ย 4164โญ ย ย 2604๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Bazel - A fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system. Used by Google. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Bolt - You can use Bolt to run one-off tasks, scripts to automate the provisioning and management of some nodes, you can use Bolt to move a step beyond scripts, and make them shareable. (ย ย ย 487โญ ย ย ย 220๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ GNU Make - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes, make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Gradle - Another build automation system. (ย 16198โญ ย ย 4521๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Groovy/Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Rake - Build automation tool similar to Make, written in and extensible in Ruby. (ย ย 2307โญ ย ย ย 609๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Ruby

Backups

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Backup software.

See also: ย ย ย 644โญ ย ย ย ย 55๐Ÿด Restic's list of Linux backup software)

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Amanda - Backup and archive many computers on a network to disk, tape changer/drive or cloud storage. (ย ย ย 206โญ ย ย ย 106๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Backupninja - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system, provides a centralized way to configure and coordinate many different backup utilities. GPL-2.0 Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ BackupPC - High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk.. (ย ย 1321โญ ย ย ย 182๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Perl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Bareos - Cross-network backup solution which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems. (ย ย ย 943โญ ย ย ย 255๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 C++/C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL. (ย ย 1874โญ ย ย ย 181๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. (ย 10596โญ ย ย ย 729๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Burp - Network backup and restore program. (ย ย ย 476โญ ย ย ย ย 79๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 C
  • Dar - Which stands for Disk ARchive, is a robust and rich featured archiving and backup software of the tar style. (ย ย ย 124โญ ย ย ย ย 16๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Duplicati - Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. (ย 10303โญ ย ย ย 870๐Ÿด Source Code)) LGPL-2.1 C#
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Proxmox Backup Server - Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise-class, client-server backup solution thatis capable of backing up virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 Rust
  • ๐ŸŒŽ rclone - Command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.. (ย 44186โญ ย ย 3971๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Rdiff-backup - Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. (ย ย 1048โญ ย ย ย ย 94๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Restic - Easy, fast, verifiable, secure and efficient remote backup tool. (ย 23975โญ ย ย 1472๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-2-Clause Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Rsnapshot - Filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. (ย ย 3101โญ ย ย ย 258๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Perl
  • ย ย ย 346โญ ย ย ย ย 69๐Ÿด Shield) - A pluggable architecture for backup and restore of database systems. MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux. (ย ย ย 627โญ ย ย ย 143๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 C/C++

Build and software organization tools

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Build and software organization tools.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ EasyBuild - EasyBuild builds software and modulefiles for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way. (ย ย ย 348โญ ย ย ย 680๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Environment Modules - Environment Modules provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles. (ย ย ย 656โญ ย ย ย ย 99๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Tcl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Lmod - Lmod is a Lua based module system that easily handles the MODULEPATH Hierarchical problem. (ย ย ย 460โญ ย ย ย 122๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Lua
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers. (ย ย 4020โญ ย ย 2165๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT/Apache-2.0 Python

ChatOps

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Conversation-driven development and management.

_See also: ๐ŸŒŽ /r/chatops*

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Eggdrop - The oldest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot still in active development. (ย ย ย 490โญ ย ย ย ย 87๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Errbot - Plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable. (ย ย 3066โญ ย ย ย 606๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Hubot - A customizable, life embetterment robot. (ย 16561โญ ย ย 3759๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Nodejs

Cloud Computing

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

Please visit ๐ŸŒŽ Cloud Native Software Landscape

Code Review

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Code review is a software quality assurance activity in which one or several people check a program mainly by viewing and reading parts of its source code.

Please visit ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/Software Development - Project Management

Configuration Management

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Configuration management (CM) is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Ansible - Provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. (ย 61361โญ ย 23706๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ CFEngine - Configuration management system for automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems. (ย ย ย 474โญ ย ย ย 185๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Chef - Configuration management tool using a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". (ย ย 7496โญ ย ย 2506๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Puppet - Software configuration management tool which includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. (ย ย 7293โญ ย ย 2181๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Ruby/C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Rudder - Scalable and dynamic configuration management system for patching, security & compliance, based on CFEngine. (ย ย ย 498โญ ย ย ย ย 73๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Scala
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Salt - Event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management software. (ย 13892โญ ย ย 5452๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Python

Configuration Management Database

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Configuration management database (CMDB) software.

Related: IT Asset Management

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Collins - At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge. (ย ย ย 572โญ ย ย ย 100๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Docker/Scala
  • ๐ŸŒŽ i-doit - IT Documentation and CMDB. AGPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ iTop - Complete ITIL web based service management tool. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) AGPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ netbox - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, ย 15079โญ ย ย 2443๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Python

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Continuous integration ๐ŸŒŽ deployment software.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Buildbot - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration. (ย ย 5176โญ ย ย 1595๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ CDS - Enterprise-Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform. (ย ย 4463โญ ย ย ย 413๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Concourse - Concourse is a CI tool that treats pipelines as first class objects and containerizes every step along the way. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, ย ย 7207โญ ย ย ย 842๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ drone - Drone is a Continuous Delivery platform built on Docker, written in Go. (ย 31564โญ ย ย 2756๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Factor - Programmatically define and run workflows to connect configuration management, source code management, build, continuous integration, continuous deployment and communication tools. (ย ย ย ย 81โญ ย ย ย ย ย 6๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ GitLab CI - Gitlab's built-in, full-featured CI/CD solution. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) MIT Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ GoCD - Continuous delivery server. (ย ย 7045โญ ย ย ย 971๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java/Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Jenkins - Continuous Integration Server. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Laminar - Fast, lightweight, simple and flexible Continuous Integration. (ย ย ย 290โญ ย ย ย ย 53๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C++
  • ย ย ย 672โญ ย ย ย 144๐Ÿด PHP Censor) - Open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects. BSD-2-Clause PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ PHPCI - Free and open source continuous integration specifically designed for PHP. (ย ย 2421โญ ย ย ย 443๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-2-Clause PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Strider - Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. (ย ย 4589โญ ย ย ย 434๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Nodejs
  • ๐ŸŒŽ werf - Open Source CI/CD tool for building Docker images and deploying to Kubernetes via GitOps. (ย ย 3932โญ ย ย ย 197๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Woodpecker - Community fork of Drone that uses Docker containers. (ย ย 3740โญ ย ย ย 325๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go

Control Panels

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Web hosting and server or service control panels.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Ajenti - Control panel for Linux and BSD. (ย ย 7419โญ ย ย ย 831๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Python/Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Cockpit - Web-based graphical interface for servers. (ย 10408โญ ย ย 1062๐Ÿด Source Code)) LGPL-2.1 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Froxlor - Lightweight server management software with Nginx and PHP-FPM support. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ HestiaCP - Web server control panel (fork of VestaCP). ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, ย ย 3069โญ ย ย ย 652๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP/Shell/Other
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ISPConfig - Manage Linux servers directly through your browser. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) BSD-3-Clause PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Sentora - Open-Source Web hosting control panel for Linux, BSD (fork of ZPanel). (ย ย ย 634โญ ย ย ย 444๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Virtualmin - Powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Shell/Perl/Other
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Webmin - Web-based interface for system administration for Unix. (ย ย 3760โญ ย ย ย 598๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Perl

Databases

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Database servers.

Please visit ๐ŸŒŽ dbdb.io - Database of Databases

See also: ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/Database Management

Deployment Automation

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Tools and scripts to support deployments to your servers.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Capistrano - Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based). (ย 12657โญ ย ย 1774๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ CloudSlang - Flow-based orchestration tool for managing deployed applications, with Docker capabilities. (ย ย ย ย 84โญ ย ย ย ย 47๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ CloudStack - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. (ย ย 1770โญ ย ย 1057๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java/Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Cobbler - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. (ย ย 2548โญ ย ย ย 647๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Fabric - Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. (ย 14631โญ ย ย 1936๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-2-Clause Python
  • ย ย ย ย 54โญ ย ย ย ย 26๐Ÿด Genesis) - A template framework for multi-environment BOSH deployments. MIT Perl
  • Mina - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based). (ย ย 4328โญ ย ย ย 493๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ munki - Webserver-based repository of packages and package metadata, that allows macOS administrators to manage software installs. (ย ย 3013โญ ย ย ย 337๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Overcast - Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH. (ย ย ย 476โญ ย ย ย ย 36๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Nodejs
  • ย ย ย 354โญ ย ย ย ย 65๐Ÿด Vlad the Deployer) - Deployment automation (rake based). MIT Ruby

Diagramming

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Tools used to create diagrams of networks, flows, etc.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Diagrams.net - A.K.A. ๐ŸŒŽ Draw.io. Easy to use Diagram UI with a plethora of templates. (ย 38919โญ ย ย 7315๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 JavaScript/Docker
  • DrawThe.Net - Javascript tool that uses a YAML-formatted input to programmatically create large, complex, and visually solid diagrams. (ย ย 1079โญ ย ย ย 127๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT JavaScript
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Kroki - API for generating diagrams from textual descriptions. (ย ย 2702โญ ย ย ย 204๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Mermaid - Javascript module with a unique, easy, shorthand syntax. Integrates into several other tools like Grafana. (ย ย 3650โญ ย ย ย 543๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Nodejs/Docker

Distributed Filesystems

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Network distributed filesystems.

See also: ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/File Transfer - Object Storage & File Servers

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Ceph - Distributed object, block, and file storage platform. (ย 13314โญ ย ย 5839๐Ÿด Source Code)) LGPL-3.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ DRBD - Distributed replicated storage system, implemented as a Linux kernel driver. (ย ย ย 546โญ ย ย ย ย 91๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ GlusterFS - Software-defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes, with interfaces for object, block and file storage. (ย ย 4508โญ ย ย 1070๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0/LGPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) - Distributed file system that provides high-throughput access to application data. (ย 14396โญ ย ย 8723๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ JuiceFS - Distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. (ย ย 9870โญ ย ย ย 874๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ย 15821โญ ย ย 2958๐Ÿด Kubo) - Implementation of IPFS, a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. Apache-2.0/MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ LeoFS - Highly available, distributed, replicated eventually consistent object/blob store. (ย ย 1540โญ ย ย ย 155๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Erlang
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Lustre - Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Minio - High-performance, S3 compatible object store built for large scale AI/ML, data lake and database workloads. (ย 44566โญ ย ย 5166๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ MooseFS - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. (ย ย 1592โญ ย ย ย 199๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenAFS - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) IPL-1.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Openstack Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) Apache-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Perkeep - A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data (previously Camlistore). (ย ย 6407โญ ย ย ย 447๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ TahoeLAFS - Secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system. (ย ย 1281โญ ย ย ย 246๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ XtreemFS - Distributed, replicated and fault-tolerant file system for federated IT infrastructures.. (ย ย ย 328โญ ย ย ย ย 64๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Java

DNS - Control Panels & Domain Management

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DNS server control panels, web interfaces and domain management tools.

Related: DNS - Servers

See also: ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/DNS

  • ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Atomia DNS) - DNS management system. ISC Perl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Designate - DNSaaS services for OpenStack. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) Apache-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ DNSControl - Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL. (ย ย 2949โญ ย ย ย 367๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go/Docker
  • ๐ŸŒŽ DomainMOD - Manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location. (ย ย ย 454โญ ย ย ย ย 94๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ nsupdate.info - Dynamic DNS service. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, ย ย 1008โญ ย ย ย 110๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Python
  • ย ย 2991โญ ย ย ย 391๐Ÿด octoDNS) - DNS as code - Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers. MIT Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Poweradmin - Web-based DNS control panel for PowerDNS server. (ย ย ย 609โญ ย ย ย 253๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ SPF Toolbox - Application to look up DNS records such as SPF, MX, Whois, and more. (ย ย ย 260โญ ย ย ย ย 61๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT PHP

DNS - Servers

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ DNS servers.

Related: DNS - Control Panels & Domain Management

See also: ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/DNS

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Bind - Versatile, classic, complete name server software. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) MPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ CoreDNS - Flexible DNS server. (ย 11859โญ ย ย 2044๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ djbdns - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) CC0-1.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ dnsmasq - Provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Knot - High performance authoritative-only DNS server. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ NSD - Authoritative DNS name server developed speed, reliability, stability and security. (ย ย ย 417โญ ย ย ย ย 91๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ PowerDNS Authoritative Server - Versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends. (ย ย 3405โญ ย ย ย 878๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Unbound - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. (ย ย 2831โญ ย ย ย 328๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Yadifa - Clean, small, light and RFC-compliant name server implementation developed from scratch by .eu. (ย ย ย ย 61โญ ย ย ย ย 14๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause C

Editors

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Open-source code editors.

  • ย ย ย 717โญ ย ย ย ย 30๐Ÿด Atom Community) - A fork of ย 59999โญ ย 17378๐Ÿด atom) A hackable text editor from Github. MIT JavaScript
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Brackets - Code editor for web designers and front-end developers. (ย ย 1289โญ ย ย ย 170๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT JavaScript
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Eclipse - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) EPL-1.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Geany - GTK2 text editor. (ย ย 3003โญ ย ย ย 582๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C/C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more. (ย ย 4266โญ ย ย 1261๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C
  • Haroopad - Markdown editor with live preview. (ย ย 1603โญ ย ย ย 225๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 JavaScript
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ICEcoder - Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages. (Demo, ย ย 1411โญ ย ย ย 348๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT PHP
  • ย ย ย 208โญ ย ย ย ย 32๐Ÿด jotgit) - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing. MIT Nodejs
  • ๐ŸŒŽ KDevelop - IDE by the people behind KDE. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GFDL-1.2 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Micro - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. (ย 23982โญ ย ย 1143๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Nano - Easy to use, customizable text editor. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Notepad++ - GPLv2 multi-language editor with syntax highlighting for Windows. (ย 21746โญ ย ย 4434๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ TextMate - A graphical text editor for OS X. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Vim - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing. (ย 35139โญ ย ย 5265๐Ÿด Source Code)) Vim C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ VSCodium - An open source cross-platform extensible code editor based on ๐ŸŒŽ VS Code by Microsoft removing their non-free additions. (ย 23886โญ ย ย 1004๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT TypeScript

Identity Management

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Identity management (IdM), also known as identity and access management (IAM or IdAM), is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users (that are part of the ecosystem connected to or within an enterprise) have the appropriate access to technology resources.

Please visit Identity Management - LDAP, Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces, Identity Management - Single Sign-On SSO

Identity Management - LDAP

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ 389 Directory Server - Enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. (ย ย ย 194โญ ย ย ย ย 80๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Apache Directory Server - Extensible and embeddable directory server, certified LDAPv3 compatible, with Kerberos 5 and Change Password Protocol support, triggers, stored procedures, queues and views. (ย ย ย 137โญ ย ย ย ย 90๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ FreeIPA - Integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, Kerberos, NTP, DNS, and Dogtag Certificate System (web interface and command-line administration tools). ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 Python/C/JavaScript
  • ๐ŸŒŽ FreeRADIUS - Multi-protocol policy server (radiusd) that implements RADIUS, DHCP, BFD, and ARP and associated client/PAM library/Apache module. (ย ย 2025โญ ย ย 1050๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ย ย 3549โญ ย ย ย 165๐Ÿด lldap) - Light (simplified) LDAP implementation with a simple, intuitive web interface and GraphQL support. GPL-3.0 Rust
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenLDAP - Open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (server, libraries and clients). ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) OLDAP-2.8 C

Identity Management - Single Sign-On (SSO)

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. (ย 19765โญ ย ย 1036๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Authentik - Flexible identity provider with support for different protocols. (OAuth 2.0, SAML, LDAP and Radius). (ย ย 7005โญ ย ย ย 539๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ KeyCloak - Open Source Identity and Access Management. (ย 20150โญ ย ย 6295๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java

Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces

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Miscellaneous utilities and web interfaces for identity management systems.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ BounCA - A personal SSL Key / Certificate Authority web-based tool for creating self-signed certificates. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) Apache-2.0 Python
  • ย ย 3906โญ ย ย 1161๐Ÿด easy-rsa) - Bash script to build and manage a PKI CA. GPL-2.0 Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Fusion Directory - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP. (ย ย ย 153โญ ย ย ย ย 36๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Indieauth - Sign in with your domain name (using the rel-me-auth protocol). (ย ย ย 186โญ ย ย ย ย 31๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ LDAP Account Manager (LAM) - Web frontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Libravatar - Libravatar is a service which delivers your avatar (profile picture) to other websites. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) AGPL-3.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Pomerium - An identity and context aware access-proxy inspired by BeyondCorp. (ย ย 3863โญ ย ย ย 276๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Docker/Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Samba - Active Directory and CIFS protocol implementation. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Smallstep Certificates - A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) and related tools for secure automated certificate management. (ย ย 6213โญ ย ย ย 409๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ZITADEL - Cloud-native Identity & Access Management solution providing a platform for secure authentication, authorization and identity management. (ย ย 7210โญ ย ย ย 431๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go/Docker/K8S

IT Asset Management

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IT ๐ŸŒŽ asset management software.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. (ย ย 3869โญ ย ย 1223๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OCS Inventory NG - Asset management and deployment solution for all devices in your IT Department. (Source Code) GPL-2.0 PHP/Perl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OPSI - Hardware and software inventory, client management, deployment, and patching for Linux and Windows. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0/AGPL-3.0 OVF/Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ RackTables - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, ย ย ย 712โญ ย ย ย 255๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Ralph - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. (ย ย 2162โญ ย ย ย 532๐Ÿด Demo), ย ย 2162โญ ย ย ย 532๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Python/Docker
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Snipe IT - Asset & license management software. (ย ย 9794โญ ย ย 2975๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 PHP

Log Management

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Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize...

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Fluentd - Data collector for unified logging layer. (ย 12586โญ ย ย 1322๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Flume - Distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. (ย ย 2503โญ ย ย 1568๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ GoAccess - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal or through the browser. (ย 17593โญ ย ย 1080๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Loki - Log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure. (ย 22352โญ ย ย 3252๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ rsyslog - Rocket-fast system for log processing. (ย ย 1965โญ ย ย ย 632๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C

Mail Clients

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An ๐ŸŒŽ email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ aerc - Terminal MUA with a focus on plaintext and features for developers. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) MIT Go
  • Claws Mail - Old school email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0 C
  • ImapSync - Simple IMAP migration tool for copying mailboxes to other servers. (ย ย 3207โญ ย ย ย 447๐Ÿด Source Code)) NLPL Perl
  • Mutt - Small but very powerful text-based mail client. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Sylpheed - Still developed predecessor to Claws Mail, lightweight mail client. (ย ย ย 117โญ ย ย ย ย 14๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Thunderbird - Free email application that's easy to set up and customize. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) MPL-2.0 C/C++

Metrics & Metric Collection

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Metric gathering and display software.

Related: Databases, Monitoring

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Beats - Single-purpose data shippers that send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. (ย 12006โญ ย ย 4856๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Collectd - System statistics collection daemon. (ย ย 2994โญ ย ย 1226๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT C
  • ย ย 1735โญ ย ย ย 603๐Ÿด Diamond) - Daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). MIT Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Grafana - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor. (ย 60723โญ ย 11606๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Graphite - Scalable graphing server. (ย ย 5851โญ ย ย 1257๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ RRDtool - Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. (ย ย ย 973โญ ย ย ย 252๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Statsd) - Daemon that listens for statistics like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP, and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services. MIT Nodejs
  • tcollector - Gathers data from local collectors and pushes the data to OpenTSDB. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) LGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0 Python
  • ย 13807โญ ย ย 5479๐Ÿด Telegraf) - Plugin-driven server agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. MIT Go

Miscellaneous

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Software that does not fit in another section.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows. (ย ย 9934โญ ย ย ย 880๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 C#/PowerShell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Clonezilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Perl/Shell/Other
  • ๐ŸŒŽ DadaMail - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Perl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Fog - Cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. (ย ย 1046โญ ย ย ย 214๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP/Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ phpList - Newsletter and email marketing software. (ย ย ย 712โญ ย ย ย 265๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 PHP

Monitoring

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Monitoring software.

Related: Metrics & Metric Collection

  • Adagios - Web based Nagios interface for configuration and monitoring (replacement to the standard interface), and a REST interface. (ย ย ย 329โญ ย ย ย ย 75๐Ÿด Source Code)) AGPL-3.0 Docker/Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Alerta - Distributed, scalable and flexible monitoring system. (ย ย 2333โญ ย ย ย 352๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Bloonix - Bloonix is a monitoring solution that helps businesses to ensure high availability and performance. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Perl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Bosun - Monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange. (ย ย 3378โญ ย ย ย 497๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool. (ย ย 1577โญ ย ย ย 389๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 PHP
  • ย 16427โญ ย ย 2278๐Ÿด cadvisor) - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ checkmk - Comprehensive solution for monitoring of applications, servers, and networks. (ย ย 1409โญ ย ย ย 433๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Python/PHP
  • ย ย 2357โญ ย ย ย ย 86๐Ÿด dashdot) - A simple, modern server dashboard for smaller private servers. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo) MIT Nodejs/Docker
  • ย ย ย ย ย 8โญ ย ย ย ย ย 0๐Ÿด EdMon) - A command-line monitoring application helping you to check that your hosts and services are available, with notifications support. MIT Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ eZ Server Monitor - A lightweight and simple dashboard monitor for Linux, available in Web and Bash application. (ย ย ย 344โญ ย ย ย 129๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP/Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ glances - Open-source, cross-platform real-time monitoring tool with CLI and web dashboard interfaces and many exporting options. (ย 25195โญ ย ย 1446๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Healthchecks - Monitoring for cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. (ย ย 7410โญ ย ย ย 773๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Icinga - Nagios fork that has since lapped nagios several times. Comes with the possibility of clustered monitoring. (ย ย 1967โญ ย ย ย 569๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ LibreNMS - Fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. (ย ย 3568โญ ย ย 2201๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ย 10356โญ ย ย 1199๐Ÿด Linux Dash) - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine. MIT Nodejs/Go/Python/PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Monit - Small utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) AGPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Munin - Networked resource monitoring tool. (ย ย 1918โญ ย ย ย 469๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Perl/Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Naemon - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features. (ย ย ย 149โญ ย ย ย ย 61๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Nagios - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application. (ย ย 1457โญ ย ย ย 439๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Netdata - Distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. (ย 68465โญ ย ย 5735๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management. (ย ย ย 205โญ ย ย ย ย 43๐Ÿด Source Code)) LGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0 Java/C++/C
  • Observium Community Edition - Network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance. QPL-1.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ openITCOCKPIT Community Edition - Monitoring Suite featuring seamless integrations with Naemon, Checkmk, Grafana and more. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, ย ย ย 253โญ ย ย ย ย 50๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 deb/Docker
  • Performance Co-Pilot - Lightweight, distributed system performance and analysis framework. (ย ย ย 944โญ ย ย ย 232๐Ÿด Source Code)) LGPL-2.1/GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ PHP Server Monitor - Open source tool to monitor your servers and websites. (ย ย 2133โญ ย ย ย 683๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ PhpSysInfo - A customizable PHP script that displays information about your system nicely. (ย ย 1380โญ ย ย ย 233๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Prometheus - Service monitoring system and time series database. (ย 53073โญ ย ย 8792๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Riemann - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis. (ย ย 4216โญ ย ย ย 518๐Ÿด Source Code)) EPL-1.0 Java
  • ย ย 2112โญ ย ย ย 168๐Ÿด rtop) - Interactive, remote system monitoring tool based on SSH. MIT Go
  • ย ย ย 120โญ ย ย ย ย ย 6๐Ÿด ruptime) - Classic system status server. AGPL-3.0 Shell
  • ย ย 4486โญ ย ย ย 152๐Ÿด Scrutiny) - Web UI for hard drive S.M.A.R.T monitoring, historical trends & real-world failure thresholds. MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Sensu - Monitoring tool for ephemeral infrastructure and distributed applications. (ย ย ย 985โญ ย ย ย 176๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go
  • ย ย ย 114โญ ย ย ย ย 11๐Ÿด Status) - Simple and lightweight system monitoring tool for small homeservers with a pleasant web interface. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo) MIT Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Thruk - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken. (ย ย ย 397โญ ย ย ย 144๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-1.0 Perl
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Zabbix - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C

Network Configuration Management

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Network configuration management tools.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ GNS3 - Graphical network simulator that provides a variety of virtual appliances. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenWISP - Open Source Network Management System for OpenWRT based routers and access points. ๐ŸŒŽ Demo, Source Code) GPL-3.0 Python
  • ย ย 2629โญ ย ย ย 904๐Ÿด Oxidized) - Network device configuration backup tool. Apache-2.0 Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ phpIPAM - Open source IP address management with PowerDNS integration. (ย ย 2153โญ ย ย ย 719๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ RANCID - Monitor network devices configuration and maintain history of changes. (ย ย ย 110โญ ย ย ย ย 42๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Perl/Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ rConfig - Network device configuration management tool. (ย ย ย ย 66โญ ย ย ย ย 10๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 PHP

Packaging

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A ๐ŸŒŽ package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ aptly - Swiss army knife for Debian repository management. (ย ย 2522โญ ย ย ย 363๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ fpm - Versatile multi format package creator. (ย 11055โญ ย ย 1062๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Ruby
  • ย ย 1281โญ ย ย ย 295๐Ÿด omnibus-ruby) - Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms. Apache-2.0 Ruby
  • ย ย ย 375โญ ย ย ย 129๐Ÿด tito) - Builds RPMs for git-based projects. GPL-2.0 Python

Project Management

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Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.

Please visit ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/Project Management

Queuing

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Message queues and ๐ŸŒŽ message broker software, typically used for inter-process communication (IPC), or for inter-thread communication within the same process.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ ActiveMQ - Java message broker. (ย ย 2260โญ ย ย 1436๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ BeanstalkD - A simple, fast work queue. (ย ย 6484โญ ย ย ย 867๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT C
  • Gearman - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform. (ย ย ย 725โญ ย ย ย 138๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Kafka - Extremely high performance publish/subscribe message system. (ย 27501โญ ย 13531๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ NSQ - A realtime distributed messaging platform. (ย 24615โญ ย ย 2890๐Ÿด Source Code)) MPL-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ RabbitMQ - Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system. (ย 11670โญ ย ย 3884๐Ÿด Source Code)) MPL-2.0/Apache-2.0 Erlang
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ZeroMQ - Lightweight queuing system. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 C++

Remote Desktop Clients

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See also: ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/Remote Access

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Remmina - Feature-rich remote desktop application for linux and other unixes. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Tiger VNC - High-performance, multi-platform VNC client and server. (ย ย 4754โญ ย ย ย 894๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ X2go - X2Go is an open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses the NoMachine/NX technology protocol. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Perl

Router

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Software for management of router hardware.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ DD-WRT - A Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points, originally designed for the Linksys WRT54G series. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenWrt - A Linux-based router featuring Mesh networking, IPS via snort and AQM among many other features. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OPNsense - An open source FreeBSD-based firewall and router with traffic shaping, load balancing, and virtual private network capabilities. (Source Code) BSD-2-Clause C/PHP
  • ๐ŸŒŽ pfSense CE - Free network firewall distribution, based on the FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and including third party free software packages for additional functionality. (ย ย 4653โญ ย ย 1425๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Shell/PHP/Other

Service Discovery

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Service discovery is the process of automatically detecting devices and services on a computer network.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Consul - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. (ย 27869โญ ย ย 4379๐Ÿด Source Code)) MPL-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ etcd - Distributed K/V-Store, authenticating via SSL PKI and a REST HTTP Api for shared configuration and service discovery. (ย 46519โญ ย ย 9608๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ZooKeeper - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. (ย 11957โญ ย ย 7168๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Java/C++

Software Containers

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Operating systemโ€“level virtualization.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container Docker applications. (ย 32549โญ ย ย 5067๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Docker Swarm - Manage cluster of Docker Engines. (ย ย 3261โญ ย ย ย 600๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Docker - Platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ LXC - Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. (ย ย 4465โญ ย ย 1107๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ LXD - Container "hypervisor" and a better UX for LXC. (ย ย 2032โญ ย ย ย 153๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Podman - Daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Simply put: alias docker=podman. (ย 21935โญ ย ย 2262๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Portainer Community Edition - Simple management UI for Docker. (ย 29118โญ ย ย 2360๐Ÿด Source Code)) Zlib Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ systemd-nspawn - Lightweight, chroot-like, environment to run an OS or command directly under systemd. (ย 12590โญ ย ย 3629๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C

Status Pages

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the percentage of time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available.

Please visit ๐ŸŒŽ awesome-selfhosted/Status / Uptime Pages

Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting tools.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ grml - Bootable Debian Live CD with powerful CLI tools. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-3.0 Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ mitmproxy - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems. (ย 34587โญ ย ย 3908๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ mtr - Network utility that combines traceroute and ping. (ย ย 2546โญ ย ย ย 330๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ย ย 9649โญ ย ย 1623๐Ÿด perf-tools) - Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace. GPL-2.0 Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. (ย ย 7611โญ ย ย ย 725๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Docker/Lua/C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Wireshark - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C

Version control

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Software versioning and revision control.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Darcs - Cross-platform version control system, like git, mercurial or svn but with a very different approach: focus on changes rather than snapshots. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Haskell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Fossil - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) BSD-2-Clause C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Git - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed. (ย 50345โญ ย 25175๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Mercurial - Distributed source control management tool. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Python/C/Rust
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Subversion - Client-server revision control system. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) Apache-2.0 C

Virtualization

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Virtualization software.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Ganeti - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen. (ย ย ย 468โญ ย ย ย 104๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-2-Clause Python/Haskell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ KVM - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0/LGPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenNebula - Build and manage enterprise clouds for virtualized services, containerized applications and serverless computing. (ย ย 1164โญ ย ย ย 468๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ oVirt - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks. (Source Code) Apache-2.0 Java
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Packer - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. (ย 14934โญ ย ย 3317๐Ÿด Source Code)) MPL-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Proxmox VE - Virtualization management solution. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 Perl/Shell
  • ๐ŸŒŽ QEMU - QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) LGPL-2.1 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Vagrant - Tool for building complete development environments. (ย 25908โญ ย ย 4406๐Ÿด Source Code)) BUSL-1.1 Ruby
  • ๐ŸŒŽ VirtualBox - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-3.0/CDDL-1.0 C++
  • ๐ŸŒŽ XCP-ng - Virtualization platform based on Xen Source and Citrixยฎ Hypervisor (formerly XenServer). (Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Xen - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C

VPN

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VPN software.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Dockovpn - Out-of-the-box stateless dockerized OpenVPN server which starts in less than 2 seconds. (ย ย 1090โญ ย ย ย 231๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 Docker
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Firezone - WireGuard based VPN Server and Firewall. (ย ย 6271โญ ย ย ย 263๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Docker
  • ย 19962โญ ย ย 1103๐Ÿด Headscale) - Self-hostable fork of ๐ŸŒŽ Tailscale, cross-platform clients, simple to use, built-in (currently experimental) monitoring tools. BSD-3-Clause Go
  • ย 13817โญ ย ย ย 929๐Ÿด Nebula) - A scalable p2p VPN with a focus on performance, simplicity and security. MIT Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ocserv - Cisco AnyConnect-compatible VPN server. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange. (ย 10014โญ ย ย 2892๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ SoftEther - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features. (ย ย ย ย ย ?โญ ย ย ย ย ย ?๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 C
  • ย 11174โญ ย ย ย 704๐Ÿด sshuttle) - Poor man's VPN. LGPL-2.1 Python
  • ๐ŸŒŽ strongSwan - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux. (ย ย 2106โญ ย ย ย 741๐Ÿด Source Code)) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ tinc - Distributed p2p VPN. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ WireGuard - Very fast VPN based on elliptic curve and public key crypto. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C

Web

^ back to top ^ ๐ŸŒŽ Web servers and ๐ŸŒŽ reverse proxies.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Algernon - Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support. (ย ย 2663โญ ย ย ย 135๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-3-Clause Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Apache HTTP Server - Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) Apache-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Caddy - Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS. (ย 54303โญ ย ย 3867๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0 Go
  • ๐ŸŒŽ HAProxy - Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Hiawatha - An advanced and secure webserver for Unix. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Lighttpd - Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) BSD-3-Clause C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Nginx - HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server. ๐ŸŒŽ Source Code) BSD-2-Clause C
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Static Web Server - A cross-platform, high-performance, and asynchronous web server for static file serving. (ย ย 1212โญ ย ย ย ย 69๐Ÿด Source Code)) Apache-2.0/MIT Rust/Docker
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Traefik - HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. (ย 48308โญ ย ย 4864๐Ÿด Source Code)) MIT Go/Docker
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Varnish - Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy. (ย ย 3515โญ ย ย ย 364๐Ÿด Source Code)) BSD-2-Clause C

List of Licenses

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External links

Communities / Forums

Repositories

Software package repositories.

  • ๐ŸŒŽ AlternativeTo - Find alternatives to software you know and discover new software.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ deb.sury.org - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ElRepo - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
  • ๐ŸŒŽ EPEL - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
  • ๐ŸŒŽ IUS - Community project that provides RPM packages for newer versions of select software for Enterprise Linux distributions.
  • Remi - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Software Collections - Community Release of ๐ŸŒŽ Red Hat Software Collections. Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.

Websites

  • ๐ŸŒŽ Cloud Native Software Landscape - Compilation of software and tools for cloud computing.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ ArchWiki - Arch Linux Wiki which has really nice written articles valid for other distros.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Gentoo Wiki - Gentoo Linux Wiki with a lot in-detail description of Linux components.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Awesome SysAdmin @ LibHunt - Your go-to SysAdmin Toolbox. Based on the list here.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Ops School - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Digital Ocean Tutorials - 6,000+ tutorials for getting the basics of certain applications/tools/systems administration topics.

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