Ansible
Red Hat (Ansible community) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Agentless configuration management and orchestration tool that runs YAML playbooks over SSH, with collections for clouds, network gear and applications
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Red Hat (Ansible community) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Agentless configuration management and orchestration tool that runs YAML playbooks over SSH, with collections for clouds, network gear and applications
Bitwarden Inc. · Secrets management
Open-source password manager with hosted and self-hosted server options, passkey support, organization sharing and a separate Secrets Manager for developers
The Borg Collective · Backup & recovery
Deduplicating backup archiver with compression and authenticated encryption that stores repositories on local disks or remote hosts over SSH
Caddy project (sponsored by ZeroSSL) · Reverse proxies & web servers
Go web server and reverse proxy that obtains and renews TLS certificates automatically and is configured with a short Caddyfile or a JSON API
Docker, Inc. · Containers & virtualization
Container platform combining the Docker Engine runtime, the Compose and Build tooling, Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows, and the Docker Hub registry
Elastic N.V. · Vector databases
Distributed search and analytics engine on Apache Lucene with full-text, aggregations, vector search and ES|QL; triple-licensed AGPL, SSPL and Elastic License
Grafana Labs · Monitoring & observability
Dashboarding and alerting platform that visualizes metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, SQL databases and dozens of other data sources
HashiCorp (an IBM company) · Secrets management
Identity-based secrets manager providing encrypted key-value storage, dynamic database and cloud credentials, PKI and encryption-as-a-service, under the Business Source License
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
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
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Containers & virtualization
Open-source system for scheduling, scaling and operating containerized workloads across a cluster of machines
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions
MinIO, Inc. · Backup & recovery
S3-compatible object storage server; the AGPL community edition was archived in April 2026 and succeeded by MinIO's AIStor Free and AIStor Enterprise editions
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
OpenSearch Software Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Vector databases
Apache-2.0 search and analytics suite forked from Elasticsearch and Kibana, governed by the OpenSearch Software Foundation
OpenBSD Project · Tunneling & remote access
Reference implementation of the SSH protocol from the OpenBSD project: remote shell, file transfer, port forwarding, key agent and certificate authority tooling
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
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
Podman Container Tools (LF Projects) · Containers & virtualization
Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI
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
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
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
restic project (Alexander Neumann and contributors) · Backup & recovery
Encrypted, deduplicating backup program written in Go that stores snapshots in local, SFTP, S3-compatible and many cloud backends
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
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