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BorgBackup

The Borg Collective · Backup & recovery

Deduplicating backup archiver with compression and authenticated encryption that stores repositories on local disks or remote hosts over SSH

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Fly.io

Fly.io, Inc. · Cloud & hosting providers

Platform that runs Docker images as Fly Machines (Firecracker microVMs) in regions around the world with anycast routing, private networking and managed Postgres

ProprietaryUsage-basedPaidNov 2, 2026

Prometheus

Prometheus Authors / Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Monitoring & observability

Pull-based metrics monitoring system and time-series database with the PromQL query language, service discovery and the Alertmanager component

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

rclone

rclone project (Nick Craig-Wood) · Backup & recovery

Command-line program to sync, copy, mount and serve files across dozens of cloud storage providers and protocols, with optional client-side encryption

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services, Inc. · Cloud & hosting providers

Amazon's public cloud with hundreds of usage-billed services spanning compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3), databases (RDS), networking, AI (Bedrock) and analytics

ProprietaryUsage-basedFreemiumNov 2, 2026

Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. · DNS & domains

Global network offering authoritative DNS, CDN and reverse-proxy security, a domain registrar, Zero Trust access and the Workers serverless platform

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Neon

Neon (Databricks) · Relational databases

Serverless PostgreSQL service with separated storage and compute, instant database branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

NGINX

F5, Inc. · Reverse proxies & web servers

Event-driven HTTP server, reverse proxy, load balancer and mail proxy, distributed as open source under the 2-clause BSD license with a commercial Plus edition

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

Slurm Workload Manager

SchedMD LLC · Distributed & parallel computing

Open-source cluster resource manager and job scheduler for Linux clusters, allocating nodes, launching jobs and managing queues on many HPC systems

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Infisical

Infisical Inc. · Secrets management

Secrets, certificate and privileged-access management platform with an MIT-licensed core, available as a hosted service or self-hosted deployment

MITOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft · Cloud & hosting providers

Microsoft's public cloud with virtual machines, AKS, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Entra ID identity and Microsoft Foundry for hosted AI models

ProprietaryUsage-basedFreemiumNov 2, 2026

Supabase

Supabase Inc. · Relational databases

Open-source backend platform built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database with auto-generated APIs, authentication, file storage, realtime subscriptions and edge functions

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Terraform

HashiCorp (an IBM company) · Infrastructure & provisioning

Infrastructure-as-code tool that provisions cloud and SaaS resources from HCL configurations through a plan-and-apply workflow, licensed under BSL 1.1

BUSL-1.1FreePaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Fail2Ban

Fail2Ban project · Security tools

Log-scanning intrusion-prevention daemon that temporarily bans IP addresses showing repeated authentication failures by updating firewall rules

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Google Cloud

Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Cloud & hosting providers

Google's public cloud with Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage and the Vertex AI platform for Gemini and other models

ProprietaryUsage-basedFreemiumNov 2, 2026

Hetzner

Hetzner Online GmbH · Cloud & hosting providers

German hosting provider known for cost-focused cloud servers, dedicated root servers, Storage Boxes and object storage in Germany, Finland, the United States and Singapore

ProprietaryPaidUsage-basedNov 2, 2026

OpenTofu

Linux Foundation (OpenTofu project) · Infrastructure & provisioning

Community fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, keeping the HCL language, provider ecosystem and state model under the MPL-2.0 license

MPL-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Semgrep

Semgrep, Inc. · Security tools

Static analysis engine that matches code patterns written in the target language's own syntax, with an LGPL community edition and a commercial AppSec platform

LGPL-2.1-onlyOpen sourceFreemiumLocalNov 2, 2026

CrowdSec

CrowdSec · Security tools

Open-source behavior-based intrusion prevention engine whose detections feed a crowd-sourced IP reputation network, with remediation components for firewalls, proxies and CDNs

MITOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Keycloak

Keycloak project (CNCF incubating, originated at Red Hat) · Identity & access

Open-source identity and access management server providing single sign-on with OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML, user federation and fine-grained authorization

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

OrbStack

OrbStack (Orbital Labs) · Containers & virtualization

macOS application that runs Docker containers, Linux machines and a local Kubernetes cluster as a lighter replacement for Docker Desktop

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

OVHcloud

OVH Groupe SA · Cloud & hosting providers

European cloud and hosting provider offering dedicated bare-metal servers, public and hosted private cloud, VPS, domains and web hosting from data centers in Europe, Canada and elsewhere

ProprietaryPaidUsage-basedNov 2, 2026

promptfoo

Promptfoo, Inc. · Prompting, evaluation & observability

Open-source, local-first CLI and library for evaluating prompts, models, RAG pipelines and agents, with automated red teaming and CI integration

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

authentik

Authentik Security Inc. · Identity & access

Self-hosted identity provider with OIDC, SAML, LDAP, RADIUS and SCIM support and a built-in application proxy, with an MIT core and an enterprise edition

MITOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026