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Awesome Self-Hosted
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Best Open-Source DevOps Tools in 2026
A curated list of the best, top, and most popular open-source devops tools available right now. Showing the top 30 of 107 devops tools in our directory, ranked by GitHub stars.
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N8n
A powerful fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. It combines visual workflow building with the ability to include custom code. Self-host or use the cloud version with over 400+ integrations available.
👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps🔁 API🤖 AI - 120.6k
Free-for-dev
A comprehensive list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings with free tiers beneficial for DevOps and infrastructure developers.
⚙️ DevOps🕶️ Awesome🛠️ Tools - 85.1k
Uptime Kuma
A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool for keeping tabs on website uptime and performance.
🔎 Monitoring⚙️ DevOps🏠 Self-Hosted - 78.4k
Netdata
An advanced monitoring software providing real-time performance and health monitoring for your infrastructure.
🔎 Monitoring⚙️ DevOps🏎️ Performance - 71.5k
Caddy
A fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS, providing easy configuration and built-in support for modern protocols.
🌐 Web👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps🔒 Security - 69.8k
Act
Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀. Act makes it easy to test and debug your GitHub Actions workflows by simulating the GitHub environment locally.
👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps🛠️ Tools - 69.1k
Lobe Chat
An open-source, modern-design AI chat framework supporting multiple AI providers such as OpenAI, Claude 3, Gemini, Ollama, DeepSeek, and Qwen. It offers features like knowledge base management, multi-modality support through plugins and artifacts, and easy deployment for private AI applications like ChatGPT and Claude.
🤖 AI🧰 Framework⚙️ DevOps - 62.7k
Traefik
A powerful Cloud Native Application Proxy designed for ease of use and automation. It seamlessly integrates with your infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.
⚙️ DevOps🔁 API🔎 Monitoring🏎️ Performance - 57.1k
MeiliSearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
🔁 API🤖 AI⚙️ DevOps - 54.9k
Gitea
Gitea is a painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, offering Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry, and CI/CD integration.
👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps📦 Version Control🏠 Self-Hosted - 52.9k
Coolify
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel, offering a streamlined way to host applications and databases.
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- 49.6k
Cypress
Cypress is a fast, easy, and reliable testing tool for anything that runs in a browser, built to make end-to-end testing enjoyable and efficient.
🧪 Testing👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps🌐 Web - 47.5k
Gogs
Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service that makes it easy to set up your own Git repository management system.
📦 Version Control🏠 Self-Hosted⚙️ DevOps - 43.6k
Sentry
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring to help you improve your software applications' reliability and speed.
🔎 Monitoring🏎️ Performance👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps - 42.0k
PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer for managing and keeping applications online.
👨💻 Development💚 Node.js⚙️ DevOps🏎️ Performance - 41.0k
Anything-llm
The all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, No-code agent builder, and more.
🤖 AI👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps💻 Desktop - 39.1k
Bark
A sophisticated text-prompted generative audio model that allows for dynamic sound generation based on text prompts.
🤖 AI🛠️ Tools⚙️ DevOps👨💻 Development - 37.7k
Spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps💻 Desktop🦀 Rust - 37.3k
Headscale
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server, providing secure peer-to-peer networking capabilities.
🔒 Security🏠 Self-Hosted⚙️ DevOps - 37.1k
Portainer
A user-friendly management UI for Docker and Kubernetes that simplifies container management.
⚙️ DevOps⌨️ CLI🏠 Self-Hosted - 36.2k
Mattermost
An open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
⚡ Productivity🛠️ Tools⚙️ DevOps🔒 Security - 35.4k
Vault
A comprehensive tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management, providing high security and control.
🔒 Security⚙️ DevOps🛠️ Tools - 33.8k
Keycloak
Open Source Identity and Access Management solution for modern applications and services, offering single sign-on, user federation, and multi-factor authentication.
🔑 Authentication🔒 Security⚙️ DevOps🛠️ Tools - 31.7k
Minikube
Run Kubernetes clusters locally for testing and development purposes.
👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps🛠️ Tools🏠 Self-Hosted - 31.1k
Changedetection.io
The best and simplest open-source web page change detection and notification service. Monitor changes to websites, get restock alerts, and price change notifications. Designed for simplicity and free to use.
🔎 Monitoring⚙️ DevOps🌐 Web - 30.3k
Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a modern data store designed as a high-performance, in-memory replacement for Redis and Memcached, offering superior scalability and enhanced features.
💾 Database🏎️ Performance⚙️ DevOps🛠️ Tools - 30.3k
K6
A modern load testing tool designed for developers and testers to measure performance and detect issues, utilizing Go and JavaScript.
🧪 Testing🏎️ Performance⚙️ DevOps🟡 JavaScript - 30.3k
Qdrant
Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud.
💾 Database👨💻 Development🤖 AI⚙️ DevOps - 30.2k
Turborepo
A build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript projects, utilizing advanced techniques for fast and efficient builds. Written in Rust for performance and reliability.
👨💻 Development⚙️ DevOps🟡 JavaScript🔷 TypeScript
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What is the best open-source devops tool in 2026?
Awesome Self-Hosted is the most popular by GitHub stars right now. A comprehensive list of Free Software network services and web applications that you can host on your own servers.
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Yes. Every tool on this list is open source and free to use in your own projects. Many can be self-hosted.
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