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DNSControl/dnscontrol

Infrastructure as code for DNS!

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#dns #dnscontrol #go #infrastructure-as-code

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 56 open

3,892

stars

Forks: 519
Commits: 3,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

canonical/cloud-init

Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

Stack

Python Meson PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cloud-init #hacktoberfest #python

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-15
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 557 open

3,774

stars

Forks: 1,108
Commits: 7,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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octodns/octodns

Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#dns #infrastructure-as-code #workflow

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

3,741

stars

Forks: 441
Commits: 3,775 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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geany/geany

A fast and lightweight IDE

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#geany #ide #text-editor

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,258 open

3,671

stars

Forks: 664
Commits: 10,812 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rsnapshot/rsnapshot

a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

#backup #perl #rsnapshot #rsync

Updated: 2026-03-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-08-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 58 open

3,657

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 1,406 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

moby/swarmkit

A toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 269 open

3,634

stars

Forks: 670
Commits: 4,472 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MauriceNino/dashdot

A simple, modern server dashboard, primarily used by smaller private servers

Stack

TypeScript Express Next.js React Tailwind CSS npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#dashboard #docker #glassmorphism #monitoring #nodejs #react

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-10-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

3,517

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 1,817 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ytti/oxidized

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#backup #network #nms #rancid

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-17
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 67 open

3,477

stars

Forks: 1,049
Commits: 3,510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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munki/munki

Managed software installation for macOS —

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-14
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 73 open

3,447

stars

Forks: 371
Commits: 5,305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

collectd/collectd

The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Stack

GitHub topics

#amqp-client #c #collectd #cpu-monitoring #graphite-client #influxdb-client

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-02
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 786 open

3,364

stars

Forks: 1,252
Commits: 12,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

traviscross/mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 136 open

3,316

stars

Forks: 373
Commits: 982 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

errbotio/errbot

Errbot is a chatbot, a daemon that connects to your favorite chat service and bring your tools and some fun into the conversation.

Stack

Python Flask pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#automation #chat #chatbot #chatbots #chatops #devops

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-20
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

3,293

stars

Forks: 626
Commits: 3,012 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

EnterpriseDB/barman

Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#backup #disaster-recovery #postgres #postgresql #recovery

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 42 open

3,205

stars

Forks: 266
Commits: 2,616 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/cloudstack

Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform

AI dev

Stack

Java Vue Maven npm pip

GitHub topics

#cloud #cloudstack #iaas #infrastructure #java #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-11
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 875 open

3,003

stars

Forks: 1,358
Commits: 38,957 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

strongswan/strongswan

strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN

Stack

C Android Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ikev2 #ipsec #strongswan #vpn #vpn-client #vpn-server

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-11-03
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 154 open

2,924

stars

Forks: 924
Commits: 20,041 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cstate/cstate

🔥 Open source static (serverless) status page. Uses hyperfast Go & Hugo, minimal HTML/CSS/JS, customizable, outstanding browser support (IE8+), preloaded CMS, read-only API, badges & more.

Stack

HTML

GitHub topics

#dark-theme #downtime #gh-pages #github-pages #hacktoberfest #hugo

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-01
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,893

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 516 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aptly-dev/aptly

aptly - Debian repository management tool

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#apt #debian #go #packaging #ubuntu

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 205 open

2,857

stars

Forks: 419
Commits: 2,781 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

operacle/checkcle

CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.

Stack

Go Cobra React Tailwind CSS Vite Bun Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#alternative #api #checkcle #container #docker #full-stack

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-05-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 92 open

2,802

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 503 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

phpipam/phpipam

phpipam development repository

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#ip-address #ipam #management-system #network-admin #network-discovery #network-visualization

Updated: 2026-05-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-18
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1,842 open

2,770

stars

Forks: 793
Commits: 3,564 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cobbler/cobbler

Cobbler is a versatile Linux deployment server

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cobbler #deployment #dhcp #hacktoberfest #pxe #python

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 316 open

2,762

stars

Forks: 658
Commits: 9,980 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GNS3/gns3-gui

GNS3 Graphical Network Simulator

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#network #network-emulator #networking

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-09-26
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 129 open

2,599

stars

Forks: 475
Commits: 5,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/logging-flume

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like data

Stack

Java Maven npm

GitHub topics

#apache #api #flume #java #jvm #library

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-09
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 80 open

2,566

stars

Forks: 1,545
Commits: 2,084 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server

FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#aaa #arp #authentication #bfd #c #daemon

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-16
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 90 open

2,566

stars

Forks: 1,199
Commits: 53,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alerta/alerta

Alerta monitoring system

Stack

Python Flask pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#alerta #api-server #mongodb #monitoring #postgres

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-27
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

2,527

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 3,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

allegro/ralph

Ralph is the CMDB / Asset Management system for data center and back office hardware.

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#assets-management #backoffice #cmdb #data-center #dcim #django

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-12
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 123 open

2,510

stars

Forks: 589
Commits: 3,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby/rake

A make-like build utility for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #rake #rakefile #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

2,456

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 3,204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

apache/activemq

Apache ActiveMQ

AI dev

Stack

Java .NET SDK Maven

GitHub topics

#activemq #amqp #amqps #apache #broker #java

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-12-12
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 91 open

2,451

stars

Forks: 1,495
Commits: 12,547 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Checkmk/checkmk

Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring

AI dev

Stack

Python Cobra gRPC Go Vite Vue Cargo .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#monitoring

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,325

stars

Forks: 550
Commits: 106,968 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rsyslog/rsyslog

High-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

AI dev

Stack

C Maven pip

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #kafka #logging #mongodb #rsyslog

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-11-08
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 187 open

2,323

stars

Forks: 728
Commits: 21,649 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

metrue/fx

A Function as a Service tool makes a function as a container-based service in seconds.

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Rocket Cargo Go modules Maven

GitHub topics

#aks #aws-lambda #docker #faas #function-as-a-service #k8s

Updated: 2023-10-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 85 open

2,229

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 783 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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