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ActiveMQ Web Servers & Middleware ☆ Message-broker software supporting a variety of protocols.
Airbyte Other Products ☆ An open-source ELT/data integration tool that moves data from a wide variety of sources into a data warehouse and other destinations.
Airflow DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source workflow management tool for defining task dependencies and running them on a schedule.
Android Other Products ☆ An open-source mobile OS developed primarily by Google.
Ansible DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source tool for configuration management and automation that requires no agent.
Apache HTTP Server Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A leading open-source web server used widely around the world.
Apache Superset Other Products ☆ An open-source business intelligence (BI) tool that lets you build dashboards and charts without writing SQL.
Argo Rollouts DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source tool for advanced control over canary releases and blue-green deployments on Kubernetes.
ArgoCD DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source tool for continuous deployment to Kubernetes.
Audacity Other Products ☆ A go-to audio-editing tool for recording and editing sound.
Authelia Security Tools ☆ An open-source authentication server providing single sign-on and multi-factor authentication for self-hosted environments.
Authentik Security Tools ☆ A self-hostable, open-source identity and access management (IAM) platform.
AWX DevOps Tools ☆ Open-source infrastructure that lets you manage Ansible runs through a web UI and API.
BIND Network Operations Tools ☆ The most widely used open-source DNS server software.
Blender Other Products ☆ A free, open-source 3D-content-creation tool.
Boundary Security Tools ☆ An open-source tool from HashiCorp that brokers secure, identity-based access to infrastructure without exposing credentials.
Cacti Monitoring Tools ☆ A traffic-monitoring tool that graphs values collected via SNMP.
Caddy Web Servers & Middleware ☆ Web server software that automatically obtains and renews HTTPS certificates.
Ceph Backup & Storage ☆ A distributed storage system supporting block, file, and object storage.
cert-manager DevOps Tools ☆ A tool that automates issuing and renewing TLS certificates on Kubernetes.
Chef DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for automating server configuration by writing steps in Ruby.
Chromium Other Products ☆ The open-source project that underlies many browsers.
Cilium Network Operations Tools ☆ A fast networking and security foundation for Kubernetes built on eBPF.
ClamAV Security Tools ☆ Open-source antivirus software commonly used on mail servers and elsewhere.
Cloud-init Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A mechanism that automatically applies initial configuration the first time a VM boots.
Consul DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for service discovery and health checking, aimed at service meshes.
containerd Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ An industry-standard container runtime focused on managing the container lifecycle.
Coolify DevOps Tools ☆ A self-hosted PaaS tool that brings the convenience of services like Heroku or Vercel to your own server.
CoreDNS Network Operations Tools ☆ A plugin-based DNS server written in Go.
CrowdSec Security Tools ☆ A collaborative security tool that analyzes logs to detect and block malicious access.
dbt Other Products ☆ An open-source tool for managing data transformations inside a data warehouse using SQL.
dnsmasq Network Operations Tools ☆ Lightweight open-source software that combines DNS caching and DHCP server functionality.
Docker DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source container technology that lightweightly packages an app together with its environment.
Docker Compose DevOps Tools ☆ A tool that lets you define and launch a multi-container application all at once from a single configuration file.
Drupal Business & CMS Tools ☆ A CMS with flexible extensibility, geared toward large sites.
Duplicati Backup & Storage ☆ Backup software for the cloud that supports encryption and compression.
Elastic Stack Monitoring Tools ☆ The umbrella name for a log-collection and analytics stack combining Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and more.
Envoy Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A high-performance proxy designed for microservices.
etcd Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A reliable, distributed key-value store used for storing configuration data.
Fail2ban Security Tools ☆ A tool that watches logs and automatically blocks the source IP of unauthorized access.
Flink Other Products ☆ An open-source distributed processing engine with a strength in low-latency stream processing.
Fluentd Monitoring Tools ☆ A unified log-collection tool that gathers and forwards logs from a wide range of data sources.
Flux CD DevOps Tools ☆ A GitOps tool that automatically applies the state of a Git repository to Kubernetes.
Ghost Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source publishing platform specialized in blogging and newsletter delivery.
GIMP Other Products ☆ A free, open-source image editor.
Git DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source, distributed version-control system.
Gitea DevOps Tools ☆ Lightweight, self-hosted Git repository management software.
GitLab DevOps Tools ☆ A platform that handles everything from repository management to CI/CD in one place.
GLPI Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source tool combining IT asset management and help-desk features.
GlusterFS Backup & Storage ☆ A mechanism that pools disks from multiple servers into a single distributed file system.
Grafana Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source tool for visualizing collected metrics on a dashboard.
Grafana Mimir Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source time-series database that can store Prometheus-format metrics at long-term, large scale.
Grafana Tempo Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source distributed tracing backend from Grafana Labs that visualizes the path a request takes through a system.
HAProxy Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A high-performance, open-source load balancer and proxy.
Helm DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for packaging and managing application configuration for Kubernetes.
Home Assistant Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source home-automation platform for centrally managing smart devices at home.
Icinga2 Monitoring Tools ☆ A monitoring tool derived from Nagios, offering more features and geared toward larger deployments.
Immich Backup & Storage ☆ Self-hosted, open-source software that automatically backs up photos and videos from a smartphone.
Inkscape Other Products ☆ A go-to graphics tool for creating and editing vector images.
iperf Network Operations Tools ☆ A tool for measuring the effective network bandwidth between two points.
Istio Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A service mesh for controlling and visualizing communication between microservices.
Jaeger Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source tool for distributed tracing in microservice environments.
Jenkins DevOps Tools ☆ A long-established, leading open-source CI/CD tool.
Joomla Business & CMS Tools ☆ A go-to CMS that has long been used alongside WordPress.
K3d DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for easily running the lightweight Kubernetes distribution "k3s" inside Docker containers.
k3s Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A lightweight Kubernetes distribution built for edge environments.
k9s DevOps Tools ☆ A TUI tool for visually operating a Kubernetes cluster from the terminal.
Kafka Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A distributed messaging system that handles large volumes of event data in real time.
KeePass Other Products ☆ Password-management software that encrypts and centrally manages your passwords.
Keycloak Security Tools ☆ An open-source identity and access management platform providing SSO and user management.
Kibana Monitoring Tools ☆ A tool for visualizing and analyzing Elasticsearch data.
kind DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for spinning up a Kubernetes cluster inside Docker containers, aimed at local development.
Kong Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A high-performance, open-source API gateway built on Nginx.
Kubernetes DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source container-orchestration tool that originated at Google.
kustomize DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for customizing Kubernetes manifests without using templates.
KVM Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A virtualization capability built into the Linux kernel.
LibreNMS Network Operations Tools ☆ A tool that auto-discovers and monitors many network devices over SNMP.
LibreOffice Other Products ☆ A free, open-source office suite.
Linkerd Network Operations Tools ☆ A service mesh for Kubernetes designed with a focus on being lightweight.
Logstash Monitoring Tools ☆ A tool that collects and transforms various logs and ships them to destinations such as Elasticsearch.
Loki Monitoring Tools ☆ A log-aggregation and search system used together with Grafana.
Longhorn Backup & Storage ☆ An open-source distributed block storage system for Kubernetes.
LXD Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A tool developed by Canonical for managing system containers.
Mattermost Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source chat-collaboration tool you can run on your own server.
MediaWiki Business & CMS Tools ☆ Wiki-building software also used by Wikipedia.
Memcached Web Servers & Middleware ☆ Middleware that caches data in memory to speed up access.
Metabase Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source BI tool for visualizing and analyzing data without needing specialist expertise.
Metasploit Security Tools ☆ A penetration-testing framework for verifying vulnerabilities.
Minikube DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for running a single-node Kubernetes cluster on a local PC.
MinIO Backup & Storage ☆ Self-hosted object storage with an S3-compatible API.
Moodle Business & CMS Tools ☆ An e-learning system for delivering and managing online courses.
MRTG Network Operations Tools ☆ A long-standing tool that pulls traffic volume via SNMP and graphs it.
Munin Monitoring Tools ☆ A monitoring tool that automatically graphs server resource usage.
Nagios Monitoring Tools ☆ A long-standing open-source tool specialized in up/down monitoring of services and hosts.
NATS Web Servers & Middleware ☆ Lightweight, high-speed messaging infrastructure software.
NetBox Network Operations Tools ☆ An IPAM/DCIM tool that centrally manages network-device configuration data and IP addresses.
Netdata Monitoring Tools ☆ A monitoring tool that visualizes detailed system metrics in real time.
Netdisco Network Operations Tools ☆ A tool that automatically discovers network devices and manages their configuration and topology.
Nextcloud Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source cloud-storage platform for file sharing and syncing on your own server.
Nginx Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A lightweight, fast web server also widely used as a reverse proxy.
Nmap Security Tools ☆ A tool for probing hosts and open ports on a network.
Nomad DevOps Tools ☆ An orchestration tool for scheduling containers and applications.
ntopng Monitoring Tools ☆ A tool for visualizing and analyzing network traffic in real time.
OBS Studio Other Products ☆ Go-to broadcasting software used for screen streaming and recording.
Observium Network Operations Tools ☆ A monitoring tool that auto-discovers network devices and collects and visualizes performance data.
Odoo Business & CMS Tools ☆ An open-source, integrated business software (ERP) that offers a wide range of functions—accounting, inventory, CRM, HR, and more—as modules.
OpenBao DevOps Tools ☆ An open-source secrets management tool forked from HashiCorp Vault.
OpenSearch Other Products ☆ An open-source search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch.
OpenStack Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A collection of open-source software for building cloud infrastructure, made up of multiple components.
OpenTelemetry Monitoring Tools ☆ An industry-standard set of specifications and implementations for uniformly collecting metrics, logs, and traces.
OpenTofu DevOps Tools ☆ A community-driven fork of Terraform, created to keep the tool open source.
OpenVAS Security Tools ☆ A tool that comprehensively scans systems for vulnerabilities.
OpenVPN Security Tools ☆ An open-source VPN software that builds a secure communication channel using SSL/TLS-based mechanisms.
OPNsense Security Tools ☆ An open-source firewall/router OS derived from pfSense.
oVirt Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A KVM-based virtualization-management platform for enterprises.
ownCloud Business & CMS Tools ☆ Software for building a file-sharing and syncing environment on your own server.
Packer DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for building machine images for various environments from the same configuration.
pfSense Security Tools ☆ An open-source firewall/router OS based on FreeBSD.
phpIPAM Network Operations Tools ☆ An open-source IPAM (IP address management) tool for managing IP address and subnet allocation.
phpMyAdmin Business & CMS Tools ☆ An administration tool for operating MySQL from a browser.
Pi-hole Network Operations Tools ☆ A self-hosted network tool that blocks ads and trackers at the DNS level.
Portainer Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A container management tool that lets you manage Docker and Kubernetes environments through a GUI.
Prometheus Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source tool used for metrics collection and monitoring.
Proxmox Backup Server Backup & Storage ☆ An open-source backup solution specialized for virtual machines and containers, designed to work with Proxmox VE.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A centralized management tool from Proxmox for overseeing multiple Proxmox VE clusters from a single interface.
Proxmox Mail Gateway Security Tools ☆ An open-source email security gateway from Proxmox that protects mail servers from spam and malware.
Proxmox VE Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ An open-source virtualization platform unifying KVM and LXC.
Puppet DevOps Tools ☆ A configuration-management tool for declaratively managing server configuration as code.
QEMU Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ Virtualization software that can emulate a variety of architectures.
RabbitMQ Web Servers & Middleware ☆ An open-source message broker for exchanging messages asynchronously.
Rclone Backup & Storage ☆ A command-line tool for syncing and transferring files between many different cloud storage services.
Restic Backup & Storage ☆ An open-source backup tool with deduplication and encryption.
Rocket.Chat Business & CMS Tools ☆ A chat and communication tool you can run on your own server.
Smokeping Network Operations Tools ☆ A tool that continuously graphs and records connectivity and latency trends over time.
Snort Security Tools ☆ A veteran IDS/IPS that detects malicious traffic through pattern matching.
Spark Other Products ☆ An open-source engine for fast, distributed processing of large-scale data.
Spinnaker DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for continuous delivery spanning multiple clouds.
Suricata Security Tools ☆ An open-source engine for network intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS).
Talos Linux Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ A minimal Linux distribution built solely for running Kubernetes.
Tekton DevOps Tools ☆ A tool that runs on Kubernetes for building CI/CD pipelines.
Telegraf Monitoring Tools ☆ A plugin-based agent for collecting a wide range of metrics.
Terraform DevOps Tools ☆ An IaC tool for managing infrastructure as code. Strictly speaking, no longer OSS since its 2023 license change.
Thanos Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source extension that adds long-term storage and horizontal scaling to Prometheus.
Thunderbird Other Products ☆ A go-to email client developed by Mozilla.
Tomcat Web Servers & Middleware ☆ An open-source application server for running Java servlets.
Traefik Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A modern reverse proxy that integrates easily with container environments.
Trivy Security Tools ☆ An open-source scanner that detects vulnerabilities in container images and IaC code.
Unbound Network Operations Tools ☆ An open-source, caching DNS resolver specialized in recursive queries.
Uptime Kuma Monitoring Tools ☆ A simple, self-hosted uptime and status monitoring tool.
Vagrant DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for easily building and sharing development VMs.
Varnish Web Servers & Middleware ☆ A caching server that speeds up delivery of web content.
Vault DevOps Tools ☆ A tool for securely storing and managing secrets such as passwords and API keys.
Vaultwarden Security Tools ☆ A lightweight, open-source server implementation compatible with the "Bitwarden" password manager client.
Velero Backup & Storage ☆ A tool for backing up and restoring Kubernetes resources and persistent volumes.
VirtualBox Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ Desktop virtualization software you can easily run on your own PC.
VLC Other Products ☆ A go-to media player that can play almost any video or audio format.
Wazuh Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source security-monitoring platform for log monitoring and intrusion detection.
WireGuard Security Tools ☆ A VPN protocol/implementation that's fast and highly secure through a simple design.
Wireshark Security Tools ☆ A tool for capturing and analyzing network packets in detail.
WordPress Business & CMS Tools ☆ The world's most widely used open-source CMS (content management system).
Xen Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ An open-source project implementing hypervisor-style virtualization.
Zabbix Monitoring Tools ☆ An open-source monitoring tool that can monitor the state of servers and network devices in one place.
Zeek Network Operations Tools ☆ A tool that analyzes network traffic and is also used for security monitoring.
Zookeeper Virtualization / Infrastructure ☆ An open-source tool for sharing configuration data and handling leader election in distributed systems.
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