Open Source Server & VM Management Tools

Open source server & vm management tools

projects 10 combined stars ★ 229K refresh nightly

Server & VM Management is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 10 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Server & VM Management tools

Coolify ★ 66K

Deploy apps, databases, and services to your own server

rank001 licenseApache-2.0 written inPHP typeServer & VM Management

Dokploy ★ 38K

Effortless deployment and management for any VPS

rank002 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typeServer & VM Management

CasaOS ★ 38K

Your personal cloud OS for simple, elegant home servers

rank003 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeServer & VM Management

1Panel ★ 37K

Manage Linux servers with ease through a modern web interface

rank004 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeServer & VM Management

Refine ★ 36K

Build data-rich React apps with ease and flexibility

rank005 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeServer & VM Management

Cosmos Server ★ 6.2K

Self-hosted cloud platform with automated security

rank006 licenseNOASSERTION written inGo typeServer & VM Management

aaPanel ★ 3.1K

Powerful and user-friendly web hosting control panel

rank007 licenseNOASSERTION written inJavaScript typeServer & VM Management

YunoHost ★ 3.0K

Self-host your digital life with ease

rank008 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython typeServer & VM Management

Temps ★ 887

One self-hosted binary replaces Vercel, Sentry, and analytics tools

rank009 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeServer & VM Management

OpenPanel ★ 767

Simplify server management with an intuitive interface

rank010 licenseNOASSERTION written inGo typeServer & VM Management

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Server & VM Management tools are there?

This registry tracks 10 open source Server & VM Management projects, with 228,504 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Server & VM Management project?

Coolify leads this category with 65,550 GitHub stars, followed by Dokploy.

Are these Server & VM Management tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.