Open source infrastructure projects
Every project in the registry tagged infrastructure, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Python-native workflow orchestration for data and ML teams
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Beautiful open-source monitoring for modern infrastructure
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any
🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, lo
Open source modular logistics platform for faster app development
A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes
CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time u
lightweight, dependency-free bash script for security, performance auditing and infrastructure monitoring of Linux servers.
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Transform team email into efficient collaborative workflows
An open, distributed platform as a service
Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines
The One CD for All {applications, platforms, operations}
Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight. Formerly known as Lightchef.
Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs
MCP server for Coolify — 42 optimized tools for managing self-hosted PaaS through AI assistants
A platform for packaging and launching blockchain infra. Think docker compose for blockchain
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source infrastructure projects are there?
This registry tracks 22 projects tagged infrastructure, with 168,237 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is novu at 40,247 stars.
Are these infrastructure projects free to use?
Yes — 20 of the 22 carry an explicit open-source licence across 5 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 infrastructure 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 infrastructure projects still maintained?
20 of the 22 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.