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OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#security #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 224 open

14,525

stars

Forks: 3,392
Commits: 4,780 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coredns/coredns

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cncf #coredns #dns-server #go #plugin #service-discovery

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 280 open

14,322

stars

Forks: 2,531
Commits: 5,112 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

borgbackup/borg

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

AI dev

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#backup #borgbackup #compression #deduplication #encryption #python

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-14
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 177 open

13,830

stars

Forks: 881
Commits: 11,579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#etherip #ike #ipsec #l2tp #l2tpv3 #openvpn

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 297 open

13,652

stars

Forks: 2,790
Commits: 2,277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sshuttle/sshuttle

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-01
History: 9 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 204 open

13,604

stars

Forks: 795
Commits: 1,393 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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fluent/fluentd

Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cncf #data-collector #fluentd #logging #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-06-18
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 134 open

13,595

stars

Forks: 1,403
Commits: 7,243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

capistrano/capistrano

A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#capistrano #deployment #ruby #ssh

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

13,000

stars

Forks: 1,738
Commits: 1,737 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/zookeeper

Apache ZooKeeper

Stack

Java React Tailwind CSS Vite CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#apache #configuration-management #consensus #coordination #database #distributed-configuration

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-19
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

12,803

stars

Forks: 7,317
Commits: 2,735 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

elastic/beats

:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go pytest Go modules Maven npm

GitHub topics

#filebeat #heartbeat #metricbeat #packetbeat #winlogbeat

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-05
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,079 open

12,651

stars

Forks: 5,004
Commits: 21,183 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

TwiN/gatus

Automated developer-oriented status page with alerting and incident support

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Tailwind CSS Vue Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#alerting #container #dashboard #devops #docker #go

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-04
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 388 open

12,079

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 1,679 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chocolatey/choco

Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #chocolatey #hacktoberfest #package-management #package-manager #package-manager-tool

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-12
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 519 open

11,541

stars

Forks: 964
Commits: 5,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jordansissel/fpm

Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

Stack

Ruby Bundler PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#packaging

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-03
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 789 open

11,513

stars

Forks: 1,064
Commits: 2,449 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tariqbuilds/linux-dash

A beautiful web dashboard for Linux

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#dashboard #linux #linux-dash #monitoring #server #ui

Updated: 2024-04-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

10,579

stars

Forks: 1,184
Commits: 864 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

healthchecks/healthchecks

Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django

Stack

Python Django pip

GitHub topics

#cron #cron-jobs #devops #django #monitoring #ops

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-11
History: 174 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 54 open

10,425

stars

Forks: 1,025
Commits: 3,968 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +17 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +10 +0.3%

Website GitHub

nezhahq/nezha

:trollface: Self-hosted, lightweight server and website monitoring and O&M tool

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#monitoring #monitoring-tool #system

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-09
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 54 open

10,356

stars

Forks: 1,619
Commits: 4,015 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nhost/nhost

The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Expo Express Gin Bun Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #backend #backend-as-a-service #database #firebase #flutter

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-09
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 190 open

9,347

stars

Forks: 634
Commits: 9,432 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

firezone/firezone

Blazing-fast remote access

AI dev

Stack

Elixir Android Axum Ecto Phoenix Cargo Mix Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud #devsecops #elixir #elixir-lang #liveview #network

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-22
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 343 open

9,110

stars

Forks: 463
Commits: 11,892 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

databasus/databasus

PostgreSQL backup tool with Point-In-Time-Recovery and restore verification

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Gin gRPC Go Next.js Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#backup #backups #database #database-backup #devops #docker

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3 open

9,059

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 1,074 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

smallstep/certificates

🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#acme #acme-server #ca #certificate-authority #certificates #go

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-10-05
History: 16 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 310 open

8,958

stars

Forks: 607
Commits: 5,757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 0.0%

Website GitHub

htop-dev/htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #console #hacktoberfest #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 353 open

8,329

stars

Forks: 637
Commits: 3,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

draios/sysdig

Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-04-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-15
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

8,301

stars

Forks: 751
Commits: 4,927 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AnalogJ/scrutiny

Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds

Stack

Go Angular Gin Tailwind CSS Go modules npm

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-19
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 38 open

8,293

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 952 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jgraph/drawio

draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#diagram #javascript #whiteboard

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2024-11-19
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 97 open

8,143

stars

Forks: 1,240
Commits: 114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

woodpecker-ci/woodpecker

Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#automation #ci #cicd #devops #docker #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-07
History: 131 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 392 open

8,014

stars

Forks: 709
Commits: 8,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +30 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +38 +0.5%

Website GitHub

ajenti/ajenti

Ajenti Core and stock plugins

Stack

Python npm pip

GitHub topics

#administration #ajenti #angular #javascript #linux #panel

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-01-09
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

7,965

stars

Forks: 857
Commits: 1,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

concourse/concourse

Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD.

Stack

Go Express gRPC Go Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#ci #ci-cd #concourse #containerd #containers #continuous-delivery

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-14
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 89 open

7,903

stars

Forks: 903
Commits: 28,290 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OneUptime/oneuptime

Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Android Expo Express React .NET SDK Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#devops #incident-management #incident-response #monitoring #observability #on-call

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-02
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 314 open

7,738

stars

Forks: 474
Commits: 49,964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

TigerVNC/tigervnc

High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-20
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 193 open

7,586

stars

Forks: 1,210
Commits: 5,841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

garethgeorge/backrest

Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript gRPC Go React Vite Vue Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#backups #restic #restic-backups #webui

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-11-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 383 open

7,544

stars

Forks: 230
Commits: 841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gocd/gocd

GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#cd #ci #ci-cd #continuous-delivery #continuous-delivery-server #continuous-deployment

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-13
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 83 open

7,434

stars

Forks: 980
Commits: 23,074 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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