Audience
Open-source startups for IT and ops
92 open-source startups in this directory are built first for IT and ops. 80 pushed code in the last 30 days, 3 have been quiet for 31–120 days, 9 have not pushed in over 120 days or are archived. The audience is chosen by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, from the repository’s own description: who a project appears to be built for first, not the only people who use it.
Ship status
80 of 92 pushed in the last 30 days.
The list
All 92, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. | 125.5K | Still shipping | ||
A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool | 92.3K | Still shipping | ||
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | 80.9K | Still shipping | ||
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS | 77.8K | Still shipping | ||
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more. | 77.3K | Still shipping | ||
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs | 68.9K | Still shipping | ||
The Cloud Native Application Proxy | 65.2K | Still shipping | ||
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. | 61.3K | Gone silent | ||
Supporting multi-protocol multi-user(Vmess, Vless, Trojan, ShadowSocks, Wireguard, Hysteria, Tunnel, Mixed, HTTP, Tun, MTProto، AmneziaWG) | 47.8K | Still shipping | ||
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server | 44.5K | Still shipping | ||
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy. | 38.6K | Still shipping | ||
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA. | 37.4K | Still shipping | ||
🔥 1Panel is a modern, open-source Linux server management panel and a lightweight AI management platform. | 37.2K | Still shipping | ||
☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data | 37.1K | Still shipping | ||
File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview and edit your files. | 35.9K | Gone silent | ||
SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling. | 35.4K | Still shipping | ||
RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph. | 34.7K | Still shipping | ||
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface | 34.4K | Still shipping | ||
一款轻量级、高性能、功能强大的内网穿透代理服务器。支持tcp、udp、socks5、http等几乎所有流量转发,可用来访问内网网站、本地支付接口调试、ssh访问、远程桌面,内网dns解析、内网socks5代理等等……,并带有功能强大的web管理端。a lightweight, high-performance, powerful intranet penetration proxy server, with a powerful web management terminal. | 34.2K | Gone silent | ||
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications | 32.2K | Still shipping | ||
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics | 31.8K | Still shipping | ||
JumpServer is an Open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform with AI-powered capabilities, providing DevOps and IT teams a unified workspace to securely access SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, databases, websites, RemoteApp, VirtualApp, and more. | 31.7K | Still shipping | ||
NetBird securely connects people, machines and AI agents across any network with one identity-based Zero Trust platform. Powered by peer-to-peer WireGuard® | 29.9K | Still shipping | ||
Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications | 29.5K | Still shipping | ||
The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready. | 29.2K | Still shipping | ||
⚙️ NGINX config generator on steroids 💉 | 28.3K | Gone silent | ||
Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, docker stats, and alerts. | 26.1K | Still shipping | ||
Complete container management platform | 26K | Still shipping | ||
The authentication glue you need. | 25.9K | Still shipping | ||
Fully autonomous AI Agents system capable of performing complex penetration testing tasks | 25.5K | Still shipping | ||
SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence and mapping your attack surface. | 23.3K | Gone silent | ||
Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes | 23.2K | Gone silent | ||
Modern networking and security platform providing secure access and connectivity to apps, infrastructure, and AI workloads. Connect and protect your users. | 23.1K | Still shipping | ||
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. | 22.7K | Still shipping | ||
A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC. | 22.5K | Still shipping | ||
Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment. | 22.3K | Still shipping | ||
The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/ | 21.7K | Still shipping | ||
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure. | 21K | Still shipping | ||
Ready-to-use Media-over-QUIC / SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / MPEG-TS / RTP live media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record and playback real-time video and audio streams. | 20.4K | Still shipping | ||
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc). | 20.3K | Still shipping | ||
Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container. | 19.4K | Still shipping | ||
ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go. | 17.9K | Still shipping | ||
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database | 17.8K | Still shipping | ||
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. | 17.2K | Still shipping | ||
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth | 17.2K | Slowed | ||
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️ | 17.1K | Slowed | ||
📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail | 16.9K | Still shipping | ||
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional. | 16.5K | Still shipping | ||
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ https://windows-internals.com | 16.2K | Still shipping | ||
A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time per WebSocket. (Includes a sleek web-ui) | 16.1K | Still shipping | ||
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. | 15.6K | Still shipping | ||
🚦 Cachet, the open source, self-hosted status page system. | 15.3K | Still shipping | ||
Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more | 15.2K | Still shipping | ||
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. | 15.2K | Still shipping | ||
Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs. | 15.1K | Still shipping | ||
All-in-one Mail & Collaboration server. Secure, scalable and fluent in every protocol (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV). | 15K | Still shipping | ||
A free open source IT asset/license management system | 15K | Still shipping | ||
Prowler is the world’s most widely used open-source cloud security platform that automates security and compliance across any cloud environment. | 15K | Still shipping | ||
Self-hosted deployment platform | 14.7K | Still shipping | ||
Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop | 14.6K | Still shipping | ||
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. | 14.5K | Still shipping | ||
Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, PowerShell and other DevOps tools. | 14.3K | Still shipping | ||
A lightweight, cryptography-powered, open-source toolkit built to enforce Zero Trust security for infrastructure, applications, and data in the AI-driven world. | 13.9K | Still shipping | ||
APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems. | 13.9K | Still shipping | ||
Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable. | 13.6K | Still shipping | ||
mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕 | 13.6K | Still shipping | ||
Open-source, self-hosted alerting for metrics, logs, and databases. Includes a built-in AI agent and MCP server. | 13.3K | Still shipping | ||
Full-featured and highly configurable SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV server - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob | 12.6K | Still shipping | ||
The open-source AIOps and alert management platform | 12.4K | Still shipping | ||
Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services. | 12.3K | Still shipping | ||
Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management | 12.3K | Gone silent | ||
eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via MCP and humans via dashboard. | 12.1K | Still shipping | ||
Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted. | 12.1K | Gone silent | ||
walle - 瓦力 Devops开源项目代码部署平台 | 12K | Gone silent | ||
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks. | 11.8K | Still shipping | ||
Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources. | 11.8K | Still shipping | ||
Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability | 11.7K | Still shipping | ||
A very simple static homepage for your server. | 11.7K | Still shipping | ||
Automated penetration testing & attack surface management platform. Recon, scan, exploit, report — 600+ exploits, 90+ integrations, 10K+ detections. | 11.4K | Slowed | ||
Apereo CAS - Identity & Single Sign On for all earthlings and beyond. | 11.4K | Still shipping | ||
vCluster creates tenant clusters: fully isolated environments delivered as managed Kubernetes, or as the foundation for Slurm, Ray, Run:ai and inference clusters. Each gets its own API server, CRDs and RBAC, and runs on an existing cluster or standalone on bare metal. CNCF Certified Kubernetes. | 11.3K | Still shipping | ||
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. | 11.3K | Still shipping | ||
mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. | 11.2K | Still shipping | ||
Spug is a lightweight agent-free automatic operation and maintenance platform designed for small and medium-sized enterprises. It integrates host management, host batch execution, host online terminal, file management, application release and deployment, pipelines, online task planning, configuration center, monitoring, alarm and so on. | 11.1K | Still shipping | ||
🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF) | 11.1K | Still shipping | ||
Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.com/invite/NAb6H3UTjK :) | 10.9K | Still shipping | ||
Diskless Kafka® on S3. 10x Cost-Effective. No Cross-AZ Traffic Cost. Autoscale in seconds. Single-digit ms latency. Multi-AZ Availability. | 10.9K | Still shipping | ||
Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS | 10.7K | Still shipping | ||
RustDesk Server Program | 10.5K | Still shipping | ||
Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django | 10.4K | Still shipping | ||
Open Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform | 10.1K | Still shipping | ||
Technitium DNS Server | 10.1K | Still shipping |
Related collections
Sideways from here.
The 4 largest other audiences in the directory, then the other ways to slice it.