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
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
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
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
Fail2Ban project · Security tools
Log-scanning intrusion-prevention daemon that temporarily bans IP addresses showing repeated authentication failures by updating firewall rules
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
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
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
SOPS project (CNCF) · Secrets management
Command-line tool that encrypts the values of YAML, JSON, ENV and INI files with age, PGP or cloud KMS keys so secrets can be committed to git
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
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