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1Password

AgileBits Inc. (1Password) · Secrets management

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Password and secrets manager for individuals, families and businesses with end-to-end encrypted vaults, passkeys, an SSH agent and a developer CLI

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseLocalNov 2, 2026

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

GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Bitwarden

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

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreemiumPaidLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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

Caddy

Caddy project (sponsored by ZeroSSL) · Reverse proxies & web servers

In-depth entry

Go web server and reverse proxy that obtains and renews TLS certificates automatically and is configured with a short Caddyfile or a JSON API

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Cloudflare Tunnel

Cloudflare, Inc. · Tunneling & remote access

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Outbound-only connector (cloudflared) that publishes local web services and private networks through Cloudflare's edge without opening inbound ports

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Docker

Docker, Inc. · Containers & virtualization

In-depth entry

Container platform combining the Docker Engine runtime, the Compose and Build tooling, Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows, and the Docker Hub registry

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Elasticsearch

Elastic N.V. · Vector databases

In-depth entry

Distributed search and analytics engine on Apache Lucene with full-text, aggregations, vector search and ES|QL; triple-licensed AGPL, SSPL and Elastic License

AGPL-3.0-only OR SSPL-1.0 OR Elastic-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Grafana

Grafana Labs · Monitoring & observability

In-depth entry

Dashboarding and alerting platform that visualizes metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, SQL databases and dozens of other data sources

AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

HashiCorp Vault

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

BUSL-1.1FreePaidSelf-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

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

Kubernetes

Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Containers & virtualization

In-depth entry

Open-source system for scheduling, scaling and operating containerized workloads across a cluster of machines

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

launchd

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

In-depth entry

macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions

ProprietaryFreeLocalBroken

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

ngrok

ngrok, Inc. · Tunneling & remote access

Hosted ingress service that exposes local servers through public URLs via an agent or SDK, with Traffic Policy rules, API gateway features and reserved domains

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

OpenSearch

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

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

OpenSSH

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

SSH-OpenSSHOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

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

PM2

Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning

In-depth entry

Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts

AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Podman

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

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

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

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