Open source gitops projects
Every project in the registry tagged gitops, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Secure and streamline database changes with CI/CD automation
Meshery, the cloud native manager
Fully automated homelab from empty disk to running services with a single command.
The only Kubernetes dashboard you need
Git-native feature management for developers
A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes
The missing open-source Kubernetes UI with a built-in MCP server for AI agents. See what's broken, why, and what changed. Issues, Topology, event timeline, Helm
Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
OpenChoreo is an internal developer platform for Kubernetes
The One CD for All {applications, platforms, operations}
Feature management with GitOps for developers
KubeStellar - a flexible solution for multi-cluster configuration management for edge, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud
The open-source Render alternative — AI-native. Git push → build → deploy on your own infrastructure; agents are first-class users.
Infrahub is a graph-based data management platform with built-in version control, CI workflows, peer review, and API access. It’s purpose-built to power reliabl
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source gitops projects are there?
This registry tracks 18 projects tagged gitops, with 99,074 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is argo-cd at 24,510 stars.
Are these gitops projects free to use?
Yes — 16 of the 18 carry an explicit open-source licence across 3 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which gitops project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these gitops projects still maintained?
18 of the 18 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.