Self Hosting Guide

A guide for getting started with Self Hosting devices including software and hardware that will make you a better and more efficient Self Hosting.

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Getting Started with Self-Hosting

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Self-Hosting is the practice of locally hosting(on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by a person or organization instead of monthly subscriptions from Software as a service (SaaS) providers.

Most self-hosted software can be installed using Docker, a packaging system which allows software to bundle their configuration and dependencies and isolate them from your operating system. Software using docker can be installed using the command line or via graphical interfaces such as Portainer. Software is installed with Docker by downloading an image file containing the application, then creating a copy that sets up its own dependencies and configuration within what is called a container. Without containers you would often need to install different versions of the same programming languages or tools to satisfy the dependencies for the software you want to use which can get complicated.

Tools for Self-Hosting

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Containers

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Container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies(including CPU, memory, file storage, and network connections) so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another.

Application Container Security Guide | NIST (PDF)

Container Image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application such as the code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, and settings.

Best places to get Container Images:

Docker Compose is a tool that was developed to help define and share multi-container applications. With Compose, we can create a YAML file to define the services and with a single command, can spin everything up or tear it all down.

Docker Include is a Compose application can declare dependency on another Compose application. This is useful if you want to reuse other Compose files. Also, if you need to factor out parts of your application model into separate Compose files so they can be managed separately or shared with others.

Kompose is a conversion tool for Docker Compose to container orchestrators such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.

SwarmKit is a toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more.

Containerd is a daemon that manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond. It is available for Linux and Windows.

ContainersSSH is an SSH Server that Launches Containers in Kubernetes and Docker on demand.

Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images. Podman provides a command line interface (CLI) familiar to anyone who has used the Docker Container Engine.

Lima is a tool that launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2), and containerd. It's a great free and open-source alternative for Docker Desktop.

Colima is a container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup.

Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. It is designed to be as simple to deploy as it is to use.

Yacht is a container management UI with a focus on templates and 1-click deployments.

Kitematic is a simple application for managing Docker containers on Mac, Linux and Windows letting you control your app containers from a graphical user interface (GUI).

HashiCorp Nomad is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-premises and clouds at scale.

Open Container Initiative is an open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes.

OpenNebula is an open source platform delivering a simple but feature-rich and flexible solution to build and manage enterprise clouds for virtualized services, containerized applications and serverless computing.

Buildah is a command line tool to build Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. It can be used with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes.

Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI) is a tool that offers a way to build your container images on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux software. They are OCI-compliant, container-based, operating system images with complementary runtime languages and packages that are freely redistributable. Easily find UBI images in the Red Hat container catalog, and they are buildable and deployable anywhere.

Red Hat Quay is a project that Builds, Stores, and Distributes your Applications and Containers.

ctop is a tool that provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container. It comes with built-in support for Docker and runC; connectors for other container and cluster systems are planned for future releases.

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification.

container-images is a collection of container images used in CI across various opencontainers projects.

Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in application containers (currently including OCI and Docker).

Shipwright is a WebUI to generate templates for Yacht, Portainer, Docker-Compose, and Unraid.

Alnoda Workspaces is an open-source portable containerized browser-based development environments in Docker containers. You can create your own custom workspace or customize any of the workspaces with your preferred stack of applications without knowing much of the Docker.

Autoheal monitors and restarts unhealthy docker containers.

Dozzle is a small lightweight application with a web based interface to monitor Docker logs. It doesn’t store any log files. It is for live monitoring of your container logs only.

Diun is a tool that receive notifications when a Docker image is updated on a Docker registry.

WatchTower is a process for automating Docker container base image updates.

Kasm Workspaces is a a highly configurable container streaming platform that enables you to stream and deliver containerized applications over the web. It offers tools that you can use to create desktop workspaces and provide access to virtual desktops to end users. It also ensures data loss prevention as well as secure and private web browsing.

Nginx Proxy is an automation tool that sets up a container running nginx and docker-gen. Docker-gen generates reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers are started and stopped.

Visual Studio Code Dev Containers is an extension that lets you use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment. It allows you to open any folder inside (or mounted into) a container and take advantage of Visual Studio Code's full feature set. A devcontainer.json file in your project tells VS Code how to access (or create) a development container with a well-defined tool and runtime stack.

CI/CD

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CI/CD: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

Drone is a Continuous Delivery system built on container technology. Drone uses a simple YAML configuration file, a superset of docker-compose, to define and execute Pipelines inside Docker containers.

Woodpecker is a CI service, a community fork of Drone.

Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub.

Circle CI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that helps software teams work smarter, faster.

Buddy is a fully-featured DevOps platform with no learning curve that packs everything you need from a CI/CD tool.

Buildbot is a continuous integration tool which automates the compile or test cycle required to validate changes to the project code base. It queues jobs, executes the jobs when the required resources are available, and reports the results.

Development

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Proxmox VE(Virtual Environment) is an open-source platform for enterprise virtualization. It has a built-in web interface that you can use to easily manage VMs and containers, software-defined storage and networking, high-availability clustering, and multiple out-of-the-box tools on a single solution.

Terraform provider plugin for Proxmox is a Terraform provider for the Proxmox virtualization platform and exposes Terraform resources to provision QEMU VMs and LXC Containers.

OTF is an open source alternative to Terraform Enterprise. Includes SSO, team management, agents, and as many applies as you can throw hardware at.

Ansible Semaphore is a modern UI for Ansible. It lets you easily run Ansible playbooks, get notifications about fails, control access to deployment system.

APITable is an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.

Chisel Kubernetes Operator is a Kubernetes operator for Chisel. It allows you to use Chisel as a LoadBalancer provider for your Kubernetes cluster, similar to inlets-operator.

Docker-pgautoupgrade is a PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database. It's whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, and automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the required version of PostgreSQL.

IT-Tools is a collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX.

Lazygit is a simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library.

LazyDocker is a simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library.

Code-Server is Visual Studio Code running on a remote server, accessible through the browser.

Turbopilot is an open source large-language-model based code completion engine that runs locally on your CPU.

Self-Hosted Sentry nightly is an official bootstrap for running your own Sentry with Docker. Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept.

Visual Studio Live Share is a service/extension that enables you to collaboratively edit and debug with others in real time, regardless of the programming languages you're using or app types you're building. You can instantly and securely share your current project, start a joint debugging session, share terminal instances, forward localhost web apps, have voice calls, and more.

GistPad is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows you to edit GitHub Gists and repositories from the comfort of your favorite editor. You can open, create, delete, fork and star gists and repositories, and then seamlessly begin editing files as if they were local, without ever cloning, pushing or pulling anything.

Live Server is an extension for Visual Studio Code that launches a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages.

Gitea is a community managed painless self-hosted Git service.

Act is a a tool to run your GitHub Actions locally.

Act runner is a runner for Gitea based on act.

GitLab is an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more. Self-host GitLab on your own servers, in a container, or on a cloud provider.

Bonobo Git Server - Set up your own self hosted git server on IIS for Windows. Manage users and have full control over your repositories with a nice user friendly graphical interface.

Fossil - Distributed version control system featuring wiki and bug tracker.

Gerrit - A code review and project management tool for Git based projects.

Gitblit - Pure Java stack for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories.

gitbucket - Easily installable GitHub clone powered by Scala.

Gitea - Community managed fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution.

Gitlist - Web-based git repository browser - GitList allows you to browse repositories using your favorite browser, viewing files under different revisions, commit history and diffs.

Gitolite - Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features.

GitPrep - Portable Github clone.

Gogs - Painless self-hosted Git Service written in Go.

Kallithea - Source code management system that supports two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git, with a web interface.

Klaus - Simple, easy-to-set-up Git web viewer that Just Works.

Lavagna - Lavagna is an open-source issue/project management tool designed for small teams. Lightweight, pure Java, easy to install, easy to use.

Leantime - Leantime is a lean project management system for small teams and startups helping to manage projects from ideation through delivery.

Taiga is an open-source project management software for cross-functional teams that work agile across both scrum and kanban frameworks.

Planka is a realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux.

Microgit - Git hosting service made in Crystal and Lucky. MIT Crystal

OneDev - All-In-One DevOps Platform. With Git Management, Issue Tracking, and CI/CD. Simple yet Powerful.

OpenProject - OpenProject is a web-based project management system.

Pagure - A lightweight, powerful, and flexible git-centric forge with features laying the foundation for federated and decentralized development.

Phorge - Phorge is an open source, community driven platform for collaborating, managing, organizing and reviewing software development projects.

Redmine - Redmine is a flexible project management web application. (Demo,

RhodeCode - RhodeCode is an open source platform for software development teams. It unifies and simplifies repository management for Git, Subversion, and Mercurial.

SCM Manager - The easiest way to share and manage your Git, Mercurial and Subversion repositories over http.

Taiga - Agile Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.

Titra - Time-tracking solution for freelancers and small teams.

Traq - Project management and issue tracking system written in PHP.

Tuleap - Tuleap is a libre suite to plan, track, code and collaborate on software projects.

UVDesk - UVDesk community is a service oriented, event driven extensible opensource helpdesk system that can be used by your organization to provide efficient support to your clients effortlessly whichever way you imagine.

ZenTao - An agile(scrum) project management system/tool.

k3s-ansible is the easiest way to bootstrap a self-hosted High Availability Kubernetes cluster. A fully automated HA k3s etcd install with kube-vip, MetalLB, and more.

Soft Serve is a tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line.

Coolify is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative.

Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications.

Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI. It's used to discover markdown files, read documentation directly on the command line and stash markdown files to your own private collection, so you can read them anywhere.

Deep Lake is a data lake for deep learning applications. Our open-source dataset format is optimized for rapid streaming and querying of data while training models at scale, and it includes a simple API for creating, storing, and collaborating on AI datasets of any size. It can be deployed locally or in the cloud, and it enables you to store all of your data in one place, ranging from simple annotations to large videos.

Node-Red is a low-code programming for event-driven applications.

krunvm is a CLI-based utility for creating microVMs from OCI images, using libkrun and buildah.

Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers inspired by Dash.

Web servers

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Web servers

Apache - Most popular web server.

Beakon - A self-host location sharing webserver. Beakon aims to leak as little data as possible and uses mostly self-contained libraries and local database files. Where possible, it will reference local files and not reach out over any network.

Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS.

Cherokee - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.

Lighttpd - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.

Nginx - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.

uWSGI - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.

Web Performance

HAProxy - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.

Squid - Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

Traefik - Taefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.

Varnish - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.

LLMs

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Large Language Models (LLMs) is a language model that uses artificial neural networks to generate text (AI chatbots/search engines). Some notable ones are GPT-3, GPT-4, BLOOM, and LLaMA.

llama.cpp is a Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++.

ollama is a tool to get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.

LocalAI is a self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running LLMs on consumer-grade hardware with no GPU required. It's an API to run ggml compatible models: llama, gpt4all, rwkv, whisper, vicuna, koala, gpt4all-j, cerebras, falcon, dolly, starcoder, and many others.

Serge is a web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully self-hosted & dockerized, with an easy to use API.

OpenLLM is an open platform for operating large language models (LLMs) in production. Fine-tune, serve, deploy, and monitor any LLMs with ease.

Llama-gpt is a self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.

Llama2 webui is a tool to run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use llama2-wrapper as your local llama2 backend for Generative Agents/Apps.

Llama2.c is a tool to Train the Llama 2 LLM architecture in PyTorch then inference it with one simple 700-line C file (run.c).

Alpaca.cpp is a fast ChatGPT-like model locally on your device. It combines the LLaMA foundation model with an open reproduction of Stanford Alpaca a fine-tuning of the base model to obey instructions (akin to the RLHF used to train ChatGPT) and a set of modifications to llama.cpp to add a chat interface.

GPT4All is an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue based on LLaMa.

MiniGPT-4 is an enhancing Vision-language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models

LoLLMS WebUI is a the hub for LLM (Large Language Model) models. It aims to provide a user-friendly interface to access and utilize various LLM models for a wide range of tasks. Whether you need help with writing, coding, organizing data, generating images, or seeking answers to your questions.

LM Studio is a tool to Discover, download, and run local LLMs.

Gradio Web UI is a tool for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.

OpenPlayground is a playfround for running ChatGPT-like models locally on your device.

Vicuna is an open source chatbot trained by fine tuning LLaMA. It apparently achieves more than 90% quality of chatgpt and costs $300 to train.

Yeagar ai is a Langchain Agent creator designed to help you build, prototype, and deploy AI-powered agents with ease.

KoboldCpp is an easy-to-use AI text-generation software for GGML models. It's a single self contained distributable from Concedo, that builds off llama.cpp, and adds a versatile Kobold API endpoint, additional format support, backward compatibility, as well as a fancy UI with persistent stories, editing tools, save formats, memory, world info, author's note, characters, and scenarios.

ChatGPT

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Chatbot UI for ChatGPT

Chatbot UI by mckaywrigley is an advanced chatbot kit for OpenAI's chat models built on top of Chatbot UI Lite using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. This version of ChatBot UI supports both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models. Conversations are stored locally within your browser. You can export and import conversations to safeguard against data loss. See a demo.

Chatbot UI Lite by mckaywrigley is a simple chatbot starter kit for OpenAI's chat model using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. See a demo.

Build locally with Docker:

docker build -t chatgpt-ui .
docker run -e OPENAI_API_KEY=xxxxxxxx -p 3000:3000 chatgpt-ui

Running Locally on Windows, MacOS, and Linux:

1. Clone Project Repo

git clone https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui.git

2. Install Dependencies

npm i

3. Provide OpenAI API Key

Create a .env.local file in the root of the repo with your OpenAI API Key:

OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY

You can set OPENAI_API_HOST where access to the official OpenAI host is restricted or unavailable, allowing users to configure an alternative host for their specific needs.
Additionally, if you have multiple OpenAI Organizations, you can set OPENAI_ORGANIZATION to specify one.

4. Run App

npm run dev

You done you should be able to start chatting with ChatGPT!

Chatbot UI

MiniGPT-4 is an enhancing Vision-language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models

Launching Demo Locally

Try out the demo demo.py on your local machine by running

python demo.py --cfg-path eval_configs/minigpt4_eval.yaml --gpu-id 0

Here, the demo loads Vicuna as 8 bit by default to save some GPU memory usage. Besides, the default beam search width is 1. Under this setting, the demo cost about 23G GPU memory. If you have a more powerful GPU with larger GPU memory, you can run the model in 16 bit by setting low_resource to False in the config file minigpt4_eval.yaml and use a larger beam search width.

MiniGPT-4 Demo

GPT4All is an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue based on LLaMa.

GPT4All UI is a Flask web application that provides a chat UI for interacting with the GPT4All chatbot.

Alpaca.cpp is a fast ChatGPT-like model locally on your device. It combines the LLaMA foundation model with an open reproduction of Stanford Alpaca a fine-tuning of the base model to obey instructions (akin to the RLHF used to train ChatGPT) and a set of modifications to llama.cpp to add a chat interface.

llama.cpp is a Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++.

Serge is a web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully self-hosted & dockerized, with an easy to use API.

OpenPlayground is a playfround for running ChatGPT-like models locally on your device.

Vicuna is an open source chatbot trained by fine tuning LLaMA. It apparently achieves more than 90% quality of chatgpt and costs $300 to train.

Yeagar ai is a Langchain Agent creator designed to help you build, prototype, and deploy AI-powered agents with ease.

LocalAI is a self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running LLMs on consumer-grade hardware with no GPU required. It's an API to run ggml compatible models: llama, gpt4all, rwkv, whisper, vicuna, koala, gpt4all-j, cerebras, falcon, dolly, starcoder, and many others.

DoctorGPT is a lightweight self-contained binary that monitors your application logs for problems and diagnoses them.

HttpGPT is an Unreal Engine 5 plugin that facilitates integration with OpenAI's GPT based services (ChatGPT and DALL-E) through asynchronous REST requests, making it easy for developers to communicate with these services. It also includes Editor Tools to integrate Chat GPT and DALL-E image generation directly in the Engine.

Automation

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Accelerated Text - Automatically generate multiple natural language descriptions of your data varying in wording and structure.

Activepieces - No-code business automation tool like Zapier or Tray. For example, you can send a Slack notification for each new Trello card.

ActiveWorkflow - An intelligent process and workflow automation platform based on software agents.

Alltube - Web GUI for youtube-dl, a program to download videos and audio from more than 100 websites.

AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet (browser fingerprinting tool).

Automatisch - Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes (Open source Zapier alternative).

Baserow - Open source online database tool and Airtable alternative. Create your own database without technical experience.

betanin - Music organization man-in-the-middle of your torrent client and music player. Based on beets.io, similar to Sonarr and Radarr.

ChiefOnboarding - Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot.

Datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data, easy import and export and database management.

Eonza - Eonza is used to create scripts and automate tasks on servers or VPS hosting. Manage your servers from any browser on any device.

Exadel CompreFace - Face recognition system that provides REST API for face recognition, face detection, and other face services, and is easily deployed with docker. There are SDKs for Python and JavaScript languages. Can be used without prior machine learning skills.

feed2toot - Feed2toot parses a RSS feed, extracts the last entries and sends them to Mastodon.

feedmixer - FeedMixer is a WSGI (Python3) micro web service which takes a list of feed URLs and returns a new feed consisting of the most recent n entries from each given feed(Returns Atom, RSS, or JSON).

Headphones - Automated music downloader for NZB and Torrent, written in Python. It supports SABnzbd, NZBget, Transmission, µTorrent, Deluge and Blackhole.

Healthchecks - Django app which listens for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.

HRConvert2 - Drag-and-drop file conversion server with session based authentication, automatic temporary file maintenance, and logging capability.

Huginn - Allows you to build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.

Kibitzr - Lightweight personal web assistant with powerful integrations.

Krayin - Free and Opensource Laravel CRM Application.

Leon - Open-source personal assistant who can live on your server.

Lidarr - Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.

Matchering - A containerized web app for automated music mastering. An open-source alternative to LANDR, eMastered, and MajorDecibel.

Medusa - Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Python

MeTube - Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites. AGPL-3.0 Python/Nodejs/Docker

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform built as a web application atop the Django Python framework with a PostgreSQL or MySQL database.

nefarious - Web application that automates downloading Movies and TV Shows.

NocoDB - No-code platform that turns any database into a smart spreadsheet. It can be considered as an Airtable or Smartsheet alternative.

OliveTin - OliveTin is a web interface for running Linux shell commands.

Patrowl - Open Source, Smart and Scalable Security Operations Orchestration Platform.

Podgrab - Lightweight podcast manager and automatic podcast episode downloader. It will monitor podcasts for your and download them automatically whenever a new episode goes live.

pyLoad - Lightweight, customizable and remotely manageable downloader for 1-click-hosting sites like rapidshare.com or uploaded.to.

Radarr - Radarr is an independent fork of Sonarr reworked for automatically downloading movies via Usenet and BitTorrent, à la Couchpotato.

SickRage - SickRage is an automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. Automatic torrent/nzb searching, downloading, and processing at the qualities you want.

SiteInspector - Web-based tool for catching spelling errors, grammatical errors, broken links, and other errors on websites.

Sonarr - Automatic TV Shows downloader and manager for Usenet and BitTorrent. It can grab, sort and rename new episodes and automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

StackStorm - StackStorm (aka IFTTT for Ops) is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, security responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions and ChatOps.

µTask - Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml.

Configuration Management

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Ansible - is a tool is a powerful, agentless tool that works everywhere and with everything. When you add in proven enterprise engineering and support from Red Hat that's written in Python.

Ansible.Ai is an AI for Ansible Content Development tool to automate in your IT infrastructure and it will generate syntactically correct playbook to help you get there.

CFEngine - is a Lightweight agent system where the configuration state is specified via a declarative language.

mgmt - is a next generation config management written in Go.

Pallet - is a Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL.

Puppet - is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

Chef - is a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment.

(R)?ex - is a friendly automation framework to any combinations of local and remote execution, push and pull style of management, or imperative and declarative approach.

Salt - is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. It automates common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of your infrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state.

Fleek is an all-in-one management system for everything you need to be productive on your computer.

Cloud Storage

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Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.

Syncthing - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data.

git-annex assistant - A synchronized folder on each of your MacOS and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services.

NextCloud - Provides access to your files via the web.

ownCloud - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.

Seafile - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.

SparkleShare - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend.

Cloud

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Linode

Linode is a cloud hosting company that provides virtual private servers and variety of other cloud services.

Linode Tools

Linode Cloud Manager is a user- and mobile-friendly interface to deploy and manage virtual machines, configure networking, and control user accounts.

Linode API is a tool that makes easy to configure, manage, and deploy user management, billing, support tickets, and more with programmatic access to Linode products and services.

Linode CLI is a tool to deploy and manage Linux servers from Linode without leaving the command line.

Linode Images is a service to capture, store, and deploy your custom images across Linodes or data centers. Easily create your own raw disk image and upload a compressed .gz image file (up to 5 GB) using the Cloud Manager or API to easily deploy to the Linode size and data center you need.

Linode Integrations is a collection of integrations lets you connect infrastructure and dev tools to the Linode platform. That let's you manage your Linode resources using the tools you know and love.

StackScripts is a tool to automatically configure new Linode instances using simple scripts. Create your own StackScript or browse the community StackScript library.

Linode Bare Metal is the single-tenant solution for applications and organizations with security, compliance, and performance needs. Bare Metal combines direct hardware access and the flexibility of a virtual machine.

Nextcloud

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Nextcloud is an industry-leading, on-premises content collaboration platform for file sync & share and communication server. It is fully open source and you can host it yourself or pay a company to do it for you. Also checkout the following links below:

Nexcloud login screen

Nextcloud Hub is a tool that allows you to share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks. As fully on-premises solution, Nextcloud Hub provides the benefits of online collaboration without the compliance and security risks.

Nexcloud Hub

Nextcloud AIO (All In One) is a tool that provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.

Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with your computer.

Nextcloud Deck is a kanban style organization tool aimed at personal planning and project organization for teams integrated with Nextcloud.

Nextcloud Files is a tool tool that allows your employees have easy access to their files, photos and documents to work and can share and collaborate with team members, customers and partners. So IT knows nobody besides those they shared with has access to those files.

Nextcloud Talk is a tool that protects your communication better than other team collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams or Slack, making sure your data stays on your servers. It also goes further than other encrypted communication technologies by keeping even metadata from leaking.

Nextcloud Home is a tool that allows you store your documents, calendar, contacts and photos on your server at home, at one of at one Nextcloud's providers or in a data center you trust.

Nextcloud Enterprise is a service that gives professional organizations software optimized and tested for mission critical environments.

Nextcloud Outlook Integration is a tool that automatically upload files to replace large attachments or integrate Calendars and Contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

Collabora Online in Nextcloud is a powerful LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing, which supports all major document, spreadsheet and presentation file formats and works in all modern browsers.

ONLYOFFICE integration in Nextcloud is a service that empowers your users to collaborate on office documents with team members in real time. It has compatibility with Microsoft Office formats means perfect documents, every time.

Nextcloud VM(virtual machine appliance) is a set of carefully crafted family of *nix scripts, which interactively guide you through a quality-controlled installation of a Nextcloud instance for Home/SME Server and scripts for Raspberry Pi 4. It is Community developed and maintained.

LibreSign is a Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.

DigitalOcean

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DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that provides developers cloud services that help to deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers with data centers worldwide.

DigitalOcean Tools

DigitalOcean API is a service that manages your DigitalOcean infrastructure with our RESTful API.

DigitalOcean Client libraries is a collection of libraries lets you use the DigitalOcean API in a variety of programming languages.

DigitalOcean CLI is a service that manages your DigitalOcean infrastructure through your terminal with our open source Command Line Interface (CLI).

Terraform provider is a service that allows the user treat their DigitalOcean infrastructure like code with Terraform.

DigitalOcean Custom images is a service that quickly builds your environment in the cloud by provisioning servers with your own custom image, or choose from various Linux distributions.

Container Registry is a service that easily stores, manages, and protects private container images.

MinIO Object Storage

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MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. It is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Use MinIO to build high performance infrastructure for machine learning, analytics and application data workloads. It's one of the fastest object storage platforms globally, with a read/write speed of 183GB/s-171GB/s if you use standard hardware. It can function as the main storage tier for many workloads like Spark, TensorFlow, Presto, Hadoop HDFS, and H2O.

MinIO UI

Run the following command to run the latest stable image of MinIO as a container using an ephemeral data volume:

Podman

podman run -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 \
  quay.io/minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001"

Docker

#docker run -p 9000:9000 --name minio -d minio/minio server /export

If you're using an SSD mounted at /mnt/sdd, then we can run the following to use it instead:

# docker run -v /mnt/ssd:/export -p 9000:9000 --name minio -d minio/minio server /export

MacOS

brew install minio/stable/minio
minio server /data

Binary Download for MacOS

wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/darwin-amd64/minio
chmod +x minio
./minio server /data

Linux

wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio
chmod +x minio
./minio server /data

Architecture	URL
64-bit Intel/AMD	https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio
64-bit ARM	https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-arm64/minio
64-bit PowerPC LE (ppc64le)	https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-ppc64le/minio
IBM Z-Series (S390X)	https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-s390x/minio

Windows

To run MinIO on 64-bit Windows hosts, download the MinIO executable from the following URL:

https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/windows-amd64/minio.exe

Use the following command to run a standalone MinIO server on the Windows host. Replace D:\ with the path to the drive or directory in which you want MinIO to store data. You must change the terminal or powershell directory to the location of the minio.exe executable, or add the path to that directory to the system $PATH:

minio.exe server D:\

Install from Source

Use the following commands to compile and run a standalone MinIO server from source. Source installation is only intended for developers and advanced users. If you do not have a working Golang environment, please follow How to install Golang. The minimum version required is go1.19.

go install github.com/minio/minio@latest

After you install MinIO:

The MinIO deployment starts using default root credentials minioadmin:minioadmin. You can test the deployment using the MinIO Console, an embedded web-based object browser built into MinIO Server. Point a web browser running on the host machine to http://127.0.0.1:9000 and log in with the root credentials. You can use the Browser to create buckets, upload objects, and browse the contents of the MinIO server.

When you run Minio you will be issued a key and a secret. These are used by the client or the web front-end to connect securely. I found my codes by typing in docker logs minio.

Created minio configuration file at /root/.minio

Endpoint:  http://172.17.0.2:9000  http://127.0.0.1:9000
AccessKey: accessCode
SecretKey: secretCode
Region:    us-west-1
SQS ARNs:  <none>

Browser Access:
   http://172.17.0.2:9000  http://127.0.0.1:9000

Command-line Access: https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide
   $ mc config host add myminio http://172.17.0.2:9000 accessCode secretCode

Object API (Amazon S3 compatible):
   Go:         https://docs.minio.io/docs/golang-client-quickstart-guide
   Java:       https://docs.minio.io/docs/java-client-quickstart-guide
   Python:     https://docs.minio.io/docs/python-client-quickstart-guide
   JavaScript: https://docs.minio.io/docs/javascript-client-quickstart-guide

Drive Capacity: 50 GiB Free, 70 GiB Total

If you'd like to learn more then most of the Minio client commands support a help flag or give info on the command line:

NAME:
  mc - Minio Client for cloud storage and filesystems.

USAGE:
  mc [FLAGS] COMMAND [COMMAND FLAGS | -h] [ARGUMENTS...]

COMMANDS:
  ls       List files and folders.
  mb       Make a bucket or a folder.
  cat      Display file and object contents.
  pipe     Redirect STDIN to an object or file or STDOUT.
  share    Generate URL for sharing.
  cp       Copy files and objects.
  mirror   Mirror buckets and folders.
  diff     Show differences between two folders or buckets.
  rm       Remove files and objects.
  events   Manage object notifications.
  watch    Watch for files and objects events.
  policy   Manage anonymous access to objects.
  session  Manage saved sessions for cp and mirror commands.
  config   Manage mc configuration file.
  update   Check for new mc update.
  version  Print version info.
  help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

Advanced options

You can have your client point to multiple Minio servers, which is really neat especially if you're working on a distributed team.

Minio's test-server called "play" is already configured in the default client, you can see all the servers you have configured with mc config host list.

To upload the photo to Minio's "play" S3 server just type in:

# mc mb play/somebucketname

# mc cp ~/Downloads/IMG_2016120-25.jpg play/somebucketname

Recursive uploads:

If you want to test something larger out you could try uploading your entire Downloads photo, and then you should use the --recursive flag to make sure nothing's missed:

# mc cp --recursive ~/Downloads/IMG_2016120-25.jpg myminio/photos

Databases

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SQL

SQL is a standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases.

Coolify is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative.

MySQL is a fully managed database service to deploy cloud-native applications using the world's most popular open source database.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

PostgREST is a tool that serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch.

NocoDB is an open source #NoCode platform that turns any database into a smart spreadsheet. It turns any MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite & MariaDB into a smart-spreadsheet.

DBeaver is a free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc.

OmniDB is a web-based tool for database management.

Navicat is a series of graphical database management and development software produced by CyberTech Ltd. for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. It lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database manager(MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more.) available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

UI Bakery is a web-based low-code internal tool builder. It can visualize the data pulled from PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, MicrosoftSQL, Redis.

IBM DB2 is a collection of hybrid data management products offering a complete suite of AI-empowered capabilities designed to help you manage both structured and unstructured data on premises as well as in private and public cloud environments. Db2 is built on an intelligent common SQL engine designed for scalability and flexibility.

OracleDB is a powerful fully managed database helps developers manage business-critical data with the highest availability, reliability, and security.

MariaDB is an enterprise open source database solution for modern, mission-critical applications.

EventQL is a distributed, analytical database. It allows you to store massive amounts of structured data and explore it using SQL and other programmatic query facilities.

CockroachDB is the SQL database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters.

SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine.SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. SQLite is built into all mobile phones and most computers and comes bundled inside countless other applications that people use every day.

SQLite Database Browser is an open source SQL tool that allows users to create, design and edits SQLite database files. It lets users show a log of all the SQL commands that have been issued by them and by the application itself.

TimescaleDB is an open-source database designed to make SQL scalable for time-series data. It is engineered up from PostgreSQL and packaged as a PostgreSQL extension, providing automatic partitioning across time and space (partitioning key), as well as full SQL support.

InfluxDB is an open source time series platform. This includes APIs for storing and querying data, processing it in the background for ETL or monitoring and alerting purposes, user dashboards, Internet of Things sensor data, and visualizing and exploring the data and more. It also has support for processing data from Graphite.

Atlas is an in-memory dimensional time series database.

dbWatch is a complete database monitoring/management solution for SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MySQL and Azure. Designed for proactive management and automation of routine maintenance in large scale on-premise, hybrid/cloud database environments.

Adminer is an SQL management client tool for managing databases, tables, relations, indexes, users. Adminer has support for all the popular database management systems such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Firebird, SimpleDB, Elasticsearch and MongoDB.

Knex is a query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

rqlite is an easy-to-use, lightweight, distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine.

osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework.

SQLModel is a library for interacting with SQL databases from Python code, with Python objects. It is designed to be intuitive, easy to use, highly compatible, and robust.

Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that transforms Postgres into a distributed database—so you can achieve high performance at any scale.

DbVisualizer is a SQL management tool that allows users to manage a wide range of databases such as Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, MySQL, H3, and SQLite.

AppDynamics Database is a management product for Microsoft SQL Server. With AppDynamics you can monitor and trend key performance metrics such as resource consumption, database objects, schema statistics and more, allowing you to proactively tune and fix issues in a High-Volume Production Environment.

Toad is a SQL Server DBMS toolset developed by Quest. It increases productivity by using extensive automation, intuitive workflows, and built-in expertise. This SQL management tool resolve issues, manage change and promote the highest levels of code quality for both relational and non-relational databases.

Lepide SQL Server is an open source storage manager utility to analyse the performance of SQL Servers. It provides a complete overview of all configuration and permission changes being made to your SQL Server environment through an easy-to-use, graphical user interface.

Sequel Pro is a fast MacOS database management tool for working with MySQL. This SQL management tool helpful for interacting with your database by easily to adding new databases, new tables, and new rows.

ElasticSearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java.

Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. When used generically, the term encompasses a larger system of log collection, processing, storage and searching activities.

Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.

Trino is a Distributed SQL query engine for big data. It is able to tremendously speed up ETL processes, allow them all to use standard SQL statement, and work with numerous data sources and targets all in the same system.

Tableau is a Data Visualization software used in relational databases, cloud databases, and spreadsheets. Tableau was acquired by Salesforce in August 2019.

DataGrip is a professional DataBase IDE developed by Jet Brains that provides context-sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing.

RStudio is an integrated development environment for R and Python, with a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, and tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

NoSQL

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NoSQL is a database that is interchangeably referred to as "nonrelational, or "non-SQL" to highlight that the database can handle huge volumes of rapidly changing, unstructured data in different ways than a relational (SQL-based) database with rows and tables.

Scylla is the real-time big data database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB.

Apache Cassandra™ is an open source NoSQL distributed database trusted by thousands of companies for scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Cassandra provides linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data.

Apache HBase™ is an open-source, NoSQL, distributed big data store. It enables random, strictly consistent, real-time access to petabytes of data. HBase is very effective for handling large, sparse datasets. HBase serves as a direct input and output to the Apache MapReduce framework for Hadoop, and works with Apache Phoenix to enable SQL-like queries over HBase tables.

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed file system that handles large data sets running on commodity hardware. It is used to scale a single Apache Hadoop cluster to hundreds (and even thousands) of nodes. HDFS is one of the major components of Apache Hadoop, the others being MapReduce and YARN.

Redis(REmote DIctionary Server) is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. It provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

FoundationDB is an open source distributed database designed to handle large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers. It organizes data as an ordered key-value store and employs ACID transactions for all operations. It is especially well-suited for read/write workloads but also has excellent performance for write-intensive workloads. FoundationDB was acquired by Apple in 2015.

CouchbaseDB is an open source distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database. It creates a key-value store with managed cache for sub-millisecond data operations, with purpose-built indexers for efficient queries and a powerful query engine for executing SQL queries.

MongoDB is a document database meaning it stores data in JSON-like documents.

NoSQLBooster is a cross-platform IDE for MongoDB v2.6-5.0, which provides a build-in MongoDB script debugger, SQL query, server monitoring tools, chaining fluent query, query code generator, task scheduling, ES2020 support, and advanced IntelliSense experience.

ClickHouse® is an open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real-time.

Neo4j is a graph database management system that provides an array of tools, libraries, and frameworks to make development faster and easier.

Remote Access

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FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients.

Rustdesk is an open source virtual/remote desktop infrastructure for everyone. Display and control your PC (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and Android devices.

TinyPilot is a tool that enables KVM over IP letting you control any computer remotely.

X2Go is open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses a modified NX 3 protocol. It gives remote access to a Linux system's GUI.

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.

Remmina is a Remote access screen and file sharing to your desktop. It has Remote Access Protocol Plugins for RDP, SSH, SPICE, VNC, X2Go, HTTP/HTTPS.

Remotely is a remote control and remote scripting solution, built with .NET 6, Blazor, SignalR Core, and WebRTC.

P2P Remote Desktop is a portable, no configuration or installation needed remote desktop tool.

Cloudflare Tunnel is a tunneling daemon that proxies traffic from the Cloudflare network to your origins. This daemon sits between Cloudflare network and your origin (a webserver). This attracts client requests and sends them to you via this daemon, without requiring you to poke holes on your firewall and your origin(webserver) can remain as closed as possible.

WireGuard® is a straight-forward, fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec while avoiding the massive headache. WireGuard is designed as a general-purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many circumstances. It's cross-platform (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Android) and widely deployable.

NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.

Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale. It works like an overlay network between the computers of your networks using all kinds of NAT traversal sorcery.

Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server.

MeshCentral is a full computer management web site. It can run your own web server to remotely manage and control computers on a local network or anywhere on the internet. Once you get the server started, create device group and download and install an agent on each computer you want to manage.

VNC Viewer is a free remote desktop application that use can use on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Linux computers from anywhere in the world.

TightVNC is a free remote desktop application. It can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.

KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.

Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.

wayvnc is a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors (no_entry Gnome, KDE and Weston are not supported). It attaches to a running Wayland session, creates virtual input devices, and exposes a single display via the RFB protocol.

Waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket.

Virtualization

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HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) is a virtualization type that provides the ability to run an operating system directly on top of a virtual machine without any modification, as if it were run on the bare-metal hardware.

PV(ParaVirtualization) is an efficient and lightweight virtualization technique introduced by the Xen Project team, later adopted by other virtualization solutions. PV does not require virtualization extensions from the host CPU and thus enables virtualization on hardware architectures that do not support Hardware-assisted virtualization.

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is the replacement of network appliance hardware with virtual machines. The virtual machines use a hypervisor to run networking software and processes such as routing and load balancing. NFV allows for the separation of communication services from dedicated hardware, such as routers and firewalls. This separation means network operations can provide new services dynamically and without installing new hardware. Deploying network components with network functions virtualization only takes hours compared to months like with traditional networking solutions.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an approach to networking that uses software-based controllers or application programming interfaces (APIs) to communicate with underlying hardware infrastructure and direct traffic on a network. This model differs from that of traditional networks, which use dedicated hardware devices (routers and switches) to control network traffic.

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) is a service delivery and reduce costs with high performance lifecycle management Manage the full lifecycle of the software and hardware comprising your NFV infrastructure (NFVI), and maintaining a live inventory and allocation plan of both physical and virtual resources.

Management and Orchestration(MANO) is an ETSI-hosted initiative to develop an Open Source NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) software stack aligned with ETSI NFV. Two of the key components of the ETSI NFV architectural framework are the NFV Orchestrator and VNF Manager, known as NFV MANO.

Magma is an open source software platform that gives network operators an open, flexible and extendable mobile core network solution. Their mission is to connect the world to a faster network by enabling service providers to build cost-effective and extensible carrier-grade networks. Magma is 3GPP generation (2G, 3G, 4G or upcoming 5G networks) and access network agnostic (cellular or WiFi). It can flexibly support a radio access network with minimal development and deployment effort.

OpenRAN is an intelligent Radio Access Network(RAN) integrated on general purpose platforms with open interface between software defined functions. Open RANecosystem enables enormous flexibility and interoperability with a complete openess to multi-vendor deployments.

Open vSwitch(OVS)is an open source production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag).

Edge is a distributed computing framework that brings enterprise applications closer to data sources such as IoT devices or local edge servers. This proximity to data at its source can deliver strong business benefits, including faster insights, improved response times and better bandwidth availability.

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an Industry Specification Group (ISG) within ETSI to create a standardized, open environment which will allow the efficient and seamless integration of applications from vendors, service providers, and third-parties across multi-vendor Multi-access Edge Computing platforms.

Virtualized network functions(VNFs) is a software application used in a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) implementation that has well defined interfaces, and provides one or more component networking functions in a defined way. For example, a security VNF provides Network Address Translation (NAT) and firewall component functions.

Cloud-Native Network Functions(CNF) is a network function designed and implemented to run inside containers. CNFs inherit all the cloud native architectural and operational principles including Kubernetes(K8s) lifecycle management, agility, resilience, and observability.

Physical Network Function(PNF) is a physical network node which has not undergone virtualization. Both PNFs and VNFs (Virtualized Network Functions) can be used to form an overall Network Service.

Network functions virtualization infrastructure(NFVI) is the foundation of the overall NFV architecture. It provides the physical compute, storage, and networking hardware that hosts the VNFs. Each NFVI block can be thought of as an NFVI node and many nodes can be deployed and controlled geographically.

Virtualization-based Security (VBS) is a hardware virtualization feature to create and isolate a secure region of memory from the normal operating system.

Hypervisor-Enforced Code Integrity (HVCI) is a mechanism whereby a hypervisor, such as Hyper-V, uses hardware virtualization to protect kernel-mode processes against the injection and execution of malicious or unverified code. Code integrity validation is performed in a secure environment that is resistant to attack from malicious software, and page permissions for kernel mode are set and maintained by the hypervisor.

NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) is a software enables powerful GPU performance for workloads ranging from graphics-rich virtual workstations to data science and AI, enabling IT to leverage the management and security benefits of virtualization as well as the performance of NVIDIA GPUs required for modern workloads.

AMD MxGPU is a hardware-based virtualized GPU solution, is built on industry standard SR-IOV (Single-Root I/O Virtualization) technology and allows multiple virtualized users per physical GPU to work remotely.

Proxmox Virtual Environment(VE) is a complete open-source platform for enterprise virtualization. It inlcudes a built-in web interface that you can easily manage VMs and containers, software-defined storage and networking, high-availability clustering, and multiple out-of-the-box tools on a single solution.

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.

QEMU is a fast processor emulator using a portable dynamic translator. QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It can be used to launch a different Operating System without rebooting the PC or to debug system code.

Quickemu is a program that quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

Hyper-V enables running virtualized computer systems on top of a physical host. These virtualized systems can be used and managed just as if they were physical computer systems, however they exist in virtualized and isolated environment. Special software called a hypervisor manages access between the virtual systems and the physical hardware resources. Virtualization enables quick deployment of computer systems, a way to quickly restore systems to a previously known good state, and the ability to migrate systems between physical hosts.

Cloud Hypervisor is an open source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that runs on top of KVM. The project focuses on exclusively running modern, cloud workloads, on top of a limited set of hardware architectures and platforms. Cloud workloads refers to those that are usually run by customers inside a cloud provider. Cloud Hypervisor is implemented in Rust and is based on the rust-vmm crates.

VirtManager is a graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. Most usage is with QEMU/KVM virtual machines, but Xen and libvirt LXC containers are well supported. Common operations for any libvirt driver should work.

oVirt is an open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure. oVirt uses the trusted KVM hypervisor and is built upon several other community projects, including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible. Founded by Red Hat as a community project on which Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is based allowing for centralized management of virtual machines, compute, storage and networking resources, from an easy-to-use web-based front-end with platform independent access.

Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. It runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.

Foreman is a free open source project that gives you the power to easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy applications, and proactively manage your servers life cycle, on-premises or in the cloud.

Harvester is an open source hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software built on Kubernetes.

Anthos is a modern application management platform that provides a consistent development and operations experience for cloud and on-premises environments.

OpenNebula is an open source platform delivering a simple but feature-rich and flexible solution to build and manage enterprise clouds for virtualized services, containerized applications and serverless computing.

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application. It includes a complete hypervisor, based on xhyve/bhyve, which is optimized for lightweight virtual machines and container deployment. It is designed to be interfaced with higher-level components such as the VPNKit and DataKit. HyperKit currently only supports macOS using the Hypervisor.framework making it a core component of Docker Desktop for Mac.

Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel® GVT) is a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through, starting from 4th generation Intel Core (TM) processors with Intel processor graphics(Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.

Apple Hypervisor is a frameowrk that builds virtualization solutions on top of a lightweight hypervisor, without third-party kernel extensions. Hypervisor provides C APIs so you can interact with virtualization technologies in user space, without writing kernel extensions (KEXTs). As a result, the apps you create using this framework are suitable for distribution on the Mac App Store.

Apple Virtualization Framework is a framework that provides high-level APIs for creating and managing virtual machines on Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers. This framework is used to boot and run a Linux-based operating system in a custom environment that you define. It also supports the Virtio specification, which defines standard interfaces for many device types, including network, socket, serial port, storage, entropy, and memory-balloon devices.

Apple Paravirtualized Graphics Framework is a framework that implements hardware-accelerated graphics for macOS running in a virtual machine, hereafter known as the guest. The operating system provides a graphics driver that runs inside the guest, communicating with the framework in the host operating system to take advantage of Metal-accelerated graphics.

Cilicon is a macOS App that leverages Apple's Virtualization Framework to create, provision and run ephemeral virtual machines with minimal setup or maintenance effort. You should be able to get up and running with your self-hosted CI in less than an hour.

Xen is focused on advancing virtualization in a number of different commercial and open source applications, including server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware appliances, and automotive/aviation.

Ganeti is a virtual machine cluster management tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other open source software. Once installed, the tool assumes management of the virtual instances (Xen DomU).

Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past. It provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team.

Password Management

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Bitwarden is a free and open-source password management service that stores sensitive information such as website credentials in an encrypted vault.

Bitwarden Server is a project contains the APIs, database, and other core infrastructure items needed for the "backend" of all bitwarden client applications. Checkout Bitwarden's self-hosted release repository.

Vaultwarden is an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.

Passbolt is an open-source/self-hosted password manager for teams. It allows you to securely share and store credentials. For instance, the wifi password of your office, the administrator password of a router or your organization's social media account passwords, all of them can be secured using passbolt.

KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information. You can run KeePassXC on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. It saves many different types of information, such as usernames, passwords, URLs, attachments, and notes in an offline, encrypted file that can be stored in any location, including private and public cloud solutions.

AuthPass.app is an Open-Source Password Manager for mobile and desktop that is Keepass 2.x (kdbx 3.x) compatible.

pass is an open-source unix-based password utilitiy with various gui clients

SSH

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Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.

Advanced SSH config is a tool that enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.

AutoSSH is a tool that automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption.

ContainersSSH is an SSH Server that Launches Containers in Kubernetes and Docker on demand.

Cluster SSH is a tool that controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.

DSH is a Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line.

Flightplan is a node.js library for streamlining application deployment or systems administration tasks (local and remote hosts).

Mosh is a command-line program, like SSH. You can use it inside xterm, gnome-terminal, urxvt, Terminal.app, iTerm, emacs, screen, or tmux.

Parallel SSH is an asynchronous parallel SSH library designed for large scale automation. It differentiates ifself from alternatives, other libraries and higher level frameworks like Ansible or Chef.

SSH Audit is a tool for SSH server & client configuration auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc).

Sshwifty is a SSH and Telnet connector made for the Web. It can be deployed on your computer or server to provide SSH and Telnet access interface for any compatible (standard) web browser.

SSHrc is a tool that sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.

StormSSH is a command line tool to manage SSH connections.

Tailscale SSH is a service that allows Tailscale to manage the authentication and authorization of SSH connections on your tailnet.

VPN

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VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a service that encrypts your internet traffic on unsecured networks to protect your online identity, hide your IP address, and shield your online data from third parties.

Wireguard - New minimal VPN Solution that is very fast.

OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.

Pritunl - OpenVPN based solution that's easy to set up.

SoftEther - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features.

sshuttle - Poor man's VPN.

strongSwan - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.

tinc - Distributed p2p VPN.

LDAP

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LDAP Servers

389 Directory Server - Developed by Red Hat.

Apache Directory Server - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java.

Fusion Directory - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP. OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS.

OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java.

OpenLDAP - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project.

LDAP management

Apache Directory Studio - The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client

Log Management

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Echofish - A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system.

Fluentd - Log Collector and Shipper.

Flume - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.

Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.

Heka - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.

Elasticsearch - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis.

Kibana - Visualize logs and time-stamped data.

Logstash - Tool for managing events and logs.

Octopussy - Log Management Solution (Visualize/Alert/Report).

DNS

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Duckdns - A free service which will point a DNS (sub domains of duckdns.org) to an IP of your choice. The service is completely free, and doesn't require reactivation or forum posts to maintain its existence.

dnsmasq - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.

MagicDNS is a tool that automatically registers DNS names for devices in your network.

Bind - The most widely used name server software.

djbdns - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.

Designate - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend.

Knot - High performance authoritative-only DNS server.

NSD - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server.

PowerDNS - DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features.

CoreDNS is a DNS server/forwarder, written in Go, that chains plugins. Each plugin performs a (DNS) function.

Unbound - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Yadifa - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain.

Network Tools

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MQTT is an OASIS standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport that is ideal for connecting remote devices with a small code footprint and minimal network bandwidth.

Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It is designed for connecting devices and bringing them online.

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform built as a web application atop the Django Python framework with a PostgreSQL or MySQL database.

Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source implementation of a server for version 5.0, 3.1.1, and 3.1 of the MQTT protocol.

Ejabberd is an open-source, robust, scalable and extensible realtime platform built using Erlang/OTP, that includes XMPP Server, MQTT Broker and SIP Service.

Nebula is a scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security. It lets you seamlessly connect computers anywhere in the world. Nebula is portable, and runs on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android. It can be used to connect a small number of computers, but is also able to connect tens of thousands of computers.

LibreSpeed is a network speed test tool that can be run on your LAN or hosted in the cloud.

SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. It uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.

Tailnet is your private network. When you log in for the first time to Tailscale on your phone, laptop, desktop, or cloud VM, a tailnet is created. For personal users, you are a tailnet of many devices and one person. Each device gets a private Tailscale IP address in the CGNAT range and every device can talk directly to every other device, wherever they are on the internet.

Tailscale SSH is a service that allows Tailscale to manage the authentication and authorization of SSH connections on your tailnet.

Tailscale Funnel is a feature that allows you to route traffic from the wider internet to one or more of your Tailscale nodes. You can think of this as publicly sharing a node for anyone to access, even if they don’t have Tailscale themselves.

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers, intended for everyone. It uses your system’s normal user logins and privileges. Network-wide logins are also supported through single-sign-on and other authentication techniques.

NetBox is a leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks. It combines the traditional disciplines of IP address management (IPAM) and datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) with powerful APIs and extensions, NetBox provides the ideal "source of truth" to power network automation.

Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a project that provides support for Power Devices, such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Power Distribution Units, Automatic Transfer Switches, Power Supply Units and Solar Controllers. NUT provides a common protocol and set of tools to monitor and manage such devices, and to consistently name equivalent features and data points, across a vast range of vendor-specific protocols and connection media types.

Dnsmasq is a tool that provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. It is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained routers and firewalls. It has also been widely used for tethering on smartphones and portable hotspots, and to support virtual networking in virtualisation frameworks. Supported platforms include Linux (with glibc and uclibc), Android, BSD, and MacOS.

Nginx proxy manager (NPM) is a reverse proxy management system running on Docker. It's easy to set up and does not require users to know how to work with Nginx servers or SSL certificates.

Netdata is high-fidelity infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting, real-time monitoring Agent collects thousands of metrics from systems, hardware, containers, and applications with zero configuration. It runs permanently on all your physical/virtual servers, containers, cloud deployments, and edge/IoT devices, and is perfectly safe to install on your systems mid-incident without any preparation.

Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for use on embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but it can be used on other machines running Linux and cloud implementations.

OWASP Amass is a tool that performs network mapping of attack surfaces and external asset discovery using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance techniques.

Smap is a port scanner built with shodan.io's free API. It takes same command line arguments as Nmap and produces the same output which makes it a drop-in replacament for Nmap.

ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules.

Ory Kratos is a developer-friendly, security-hardened and battle-test Identity, User Management and Authentication system for the Cloud. The Kratos identity server (similiar to Auth0, Okta, Firebase) with Ory-hardened authentication, MFA, FIDO2, TOTP, WebAuthn, profile management, identity schemas, social sign in, registration, account recovery, passwordless.

Ory Hydra is a hardened, OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 Server and OpenID Connect Provider optimized for low-latency, high throughput, and low resource consumption. Ory Hydra is not an identity provider (user sign up, user login, password reset flow), but connects to your existing identity provider through a login and consent app.

Ory Keto is an Open Source (Go) implementation of Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System. It ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.

AdGuard Home is a DNS relay station with ad/tracker/other blocking, IP address redirections, and DNS-over-HTTPS.

NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. It is building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools.

Plik is a scalable & friendly temporary file upload system (Wetransfer like) in golang.

Restify is a framework, utilizing connect style middleware for building REST APIs.

Traefik is an open source Edge Router that makes publishing your services a fun and easy experience. It receives requests on behalf of your system and finds out which components are responsible for handling them. What sets Traefik apart, besides its many features, is that it automatically discovers the right configuration for your services.

Traefik Mesh is a simple, yet full-featured service mesh. It is container-native and fits as your de-facto service mesh in your Kubernetes cluster. It supports the latest Service Mesh Interface specification SMI that facilitates integration with pre-existing solution.

DuckDNS is a free service that allows you to bind your own favorite subdomain under duckdns.org to the public IP address in use from your router, even though such address is dynamically allocated by your internet service provider and therefore changes over time.

Trust-DNS is a Rust based DNS client, server, and Resolver, built to be safe and secure from the ground up.

Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website.

sshuttle is a transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN that forwards connection over ssh. It works with Linux and MacOS and supports DNS tunneling.

NetHopper is a Multi-Cloud Application Network as a Service. The easiest way to visualize, connect, secure, protect, and monitor microservices across any cluster, site, cloud, or network.

Cypress is a tool that makes it fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.

ION is a distributed real-time communication system, the goal is to chat anydevice, anytime, anywhere.

FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients.

Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.

PiKVM is a very simple and fully functional Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP.

Firezone is a self-hosted WireGuard®-based VPN server and Linux firewall.

Monoid is an open-source suite of tools for automating data privacy.

Pinecone is an experimental overlay routing protocol suite which is the foundation of the current P2P Matrix demos. It is designed to provide end-to-end encrypted connectivity between devices at a global scale over any compatible medium (currently TCP, WebSockets, Bluetooth Low Energy etc), allowing multi-hop peer-to-peer connectivity between devices even in places where there is no Internet connectivity.

Service Discovery

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Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. Install Consul on Self-Hosted Kubernetes Clusters.

Linkerd is an ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability features to your Kubernetes stack with no code change required.

Doozerd is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data.

Admiral is a tool for for service discovery that provides automatic configuration and service discovery for multicluster Istio service mesh.

ScaleCube is a library that simplifies the development of reactive and distributed applications by providing an embeddable microservices library. It connects distributed microservices in a way that resembles a fabric when viewed collectively. It greatly simplifies and streamlines asynchronous programming and provides a tool-set for managing microservices architecture.

DPS(dns-proxy-server) is a lightweight end user (Developers, Server Administrators) DNS server tool for service discovery, which make it easy to develop in systems where one hostname can solve to different IPs based on the configured environment, so you can:

Solve hostnames from local configuration database.
Solve hostnames from docker containers using docker hostname option or HOSTNAMES env.
Solve hostnames from a list of configured remote DNS servers(as a proxy) if no answer of two above .
Graphic interface to Create/List/Update/Delete A/CNAME records.
Solve host machine IP using host.docker hostname.
Access container by its container name / service name.
Specify from which network solve container IP.

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.

Security

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Blackbox - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords.

Denyhosts - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.

Fail2Ban - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior.

fwknop - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.

Glastopf - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data.

Kippo - A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox. OSSEC - OSSEC is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more.

OSQuery - Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface.

OPNsense is an open source firewall and routing software developed by Deciso. It offers an integrated Netflow analyser without the need for additional plugins or tools, similar to what you may find in high-end commercial products.

pfSense - Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution.

Snort - Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch in 1998.

SpamAssassin - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique.

BounCA - is a personal SSL / Certificate Authority Key management tool. Create self-signed SSL certificates via your browser.

Troubleshooting

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NETworkManager - A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems. It contains features like a WiFi analyzer, IP scanner, port scanner, ping monitor, traceroute, DNS lookup or a LLDP/CDP capture.

Wireshark - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer.

Cilium - A networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. It provides a simple flat Layer 3 network with the ability to span multiple clusters in either a native routing or overlay mode.

Netshoot - A Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container.

Kubevious - A suite of app-centric assurance, validation, and introspection products for Kubernetes. It helps running modern Kubernetes applications without disasters and costly outages by continuously validating application manifests, cluster state, and configuration.

HOMER - A robust, carrier-grade, scalable Packet and Event capture system and VoiP/RTC Monitoring Application based on the HEP/EEP protocol and ready to process & store insane amounts of signaling, rtc events, logs and statistics with instant search, end-to-end analysis and drill-down capabilities.

mitmproxy - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems.

Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.

Sysdig Inspect - A powerful opensource interface for container troubleshooting and security investigation.

Monitoring

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Proxmox Mail Gateway is an open-source email security solution protecting your mail server against all email threats from the moment they emerge.

M2MLabs MainSpring is an application framework for building machine-to-machine applications like vehicle tracking or machine remote monitoring. In such applications typically a remote device equipped with sensors (e.g. gps, temperature, pressure) and actors communicates with a server application that is running the device communication protocol, device configuration, storage of data sent by the devices as well as the application business logic and the presentation layer.

VictoriaMetrics is a fast and scalable open source time series database and monitoring solution which exists in a Single and in a cluster version. It is compatible with Prometheus pull model and supports a wide variety of ingestion protocols: Influx, Graphite, Prometheus remote_write, Prometheus exposion format, OpenTSDB put message, JSON line format, Arbitrary CSV data, native binary formant, DataDog agent or DogStatsD; as way as many ways to query data via PromQL or MetricsQL from Grafana or own VMUI.

Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.

InfluxDB is an open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA's, and chart a path to automation.

Grafana is a tool that allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.

Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.

Wyze is a great security and monitoring application to live stream HD video from the security cameras from anywhere in the world.

Uptime Kuma is a fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.

Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard that gives you the ability to monitor your services using HTTP, ICMP, TCP, and even DNS queries as well as evaluate the result of said queries by using a list of conditions on values like the status code, the response time, the certificate expiration, the body and many others.

Upptime is the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pages.

HertzBeat is an open-source, real-time monitoring system with custom-monitor and agentless. It supports web service, database, os, middleware and more.

Tautulli is a python based web application for monitoring, analytics and notifications for Plex Media Server.

Flower is a web based tool for monitoring and administrating Celery clusters.

Weave Scope is a tool for Troubleshooting & Monitoring for Docker & Kubernetes. It automatically generates a map of your application, enabling you to intuitively understand, monitor, and control your containerized, microservices-based application.

Statping (Status Page & Monitoring Server) is an easy to use Status Page for your websites and applications. Statping will automatically fetch the application and render a beautiful status page with tons of features for you to build an even better status page.

Vector is a high-performance, end-to-end (agent & aggregator) observability data pipeline that puts you in control of your observability data. Collect, transform, and route all your logs, metrics, and traces to any vendors you want today and any other vendors you may want tomorrow.

Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

Ciao is a tool that checks HTTP(S) URL endpoints for a HTTP status code (or errors on the lower TCP stack) and sends a notification on status change via E-Mail or Webhooks.

Server is a simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time per WebSocket.

Ngxtop is a real-time metrics for nginx server (and others).

Blocky is a fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

Dashy is a self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more.

Netdata is high-fidelity infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting, real-time monitoring Agent collects thousands of metrics from systems, hardware, containers, and applications with zero configuration. It runs permanently on all your physical/virtual servers, containers, cloud deployments, and edge/IoT devices, and is perfectly safe to install on your systems mid-incident without any preparation.

Restic is a modern backup program that can back up your files: from Linux, BSD, Mac and Windows. To many different storage types, including self-hosted and online services. easily, being a single executable that you can run without a server or complex setup. effectively, only transferring the parts that actually changed in the files you back up.

Autorestic is a wrapper around the amazing restic. While being amazing the restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage if you have many different locations that you want to backup to multiple locations.

MinIO is a high performance object storage tool that provides the world's fastest object storage server. With READ/WRITE speeds of 325 GiB/s and 165 GiB/s on standard hardware with default parity (EC:4), object storage can operate as the primary storage tier for a diverse set of workloads ranging from Spark, Presto, TensorFlow.

Greyhole is a tool that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they are connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

Falcon LogScale is purpose-built to help any organization achieve the benefits of large-scale logging and analysis. Falcon LogScale has virtually no latency, even at ingest volumes of 1PB(Petabyte) per day.

Googerteller is a tool that makes an audible sound any time your computer sends a packet to a Google tracker or a Google service, which excludes Google Cloud users.

TeslaMate is a powerful, self-hosted data logger for your Tesla.

OneUptime is an open-source complete SRE and DevOps platform. It monitors your website, dashboards, API's, and more and alerts your team when downtime happens.

Parca is a tool for continuous profiling for analysis of CPU and memory usage, down to the line number and throughout time. Saving infrastructure cost, improving performance, and increasing reliability.

DeviceHive is a free, highly scalable open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing and analysis, visualization, and device management with the broad range of integration options.

Distributed Services Architecture (DSA) is an open source IoT platform that facilitates device inter-communication, logic and applications at every layer of the Internet of Things infrastructure. The objective is to unify the disparate devices, services and applications into a structured and adaptable real-time data model.

IoTivity is an open source software framework enabling seamless device-to-device connectivity to address the emerging needs of the Internet of Things.

Eclipse IoT Project provides open source technology that will be used to build IoT solutions for industry and consumers.

Dashboards

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Adagios is a Web based Nagios configuration interface.

Dash is a low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine.

Thruk is a Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.

Uchiwa is a simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework.

InfluxDB is an open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA's, and chart a path to automation.

Grafana is a tool that allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.

Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.

Analytics

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Plausible Analytics - Simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics.

PostHog - Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host.

Ackee - Self-hosted analytics tool for those who care about privacy.

AWStats - Generate statistics from web, streaming, ftp or mail server logfiles.

Chartbrew - Web application that can connect directly to databases and APIs and use the data to create beautiful charts.

Countly Community Edition - Real time mobile and web analytics, crash reporting and push notifications platform.

Druid - Distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store.

EDA - Web application for data analysis and visualization.

GoAccess - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.

GoatCounter - Easy web statistics without tracking of personal data.

Metabase - Easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

Offen - Fair, lightweight and open web analytics tool. Gain insights while your users have full access to their data.

Open Web Analytics - Web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and applications.

Redash - Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

RudderStack - Collect, unify, transform, and store your customer data, and route it to a wide range of common, popular marketing, sales, and product tools. alternative to Segment.

Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

Superset - Modern data exploration and visualization platform.

Umami - Simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

Search

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Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow.

Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected (IoT) devices.

Whoogle Search is a self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.

SearX is a Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases.

Sonic is a fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

Zinc is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch and runs using a fraction of the resources.

Cylect.io is the ultimate searching tool that is here to assist anyone looking for specific information through vast amounts of websites, search engines, and data collectors.

Lyra is a fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript.

Hugo Lyra is a typescript module for creating LyraSearch indexes for static Hugo sites, it comes with server and client libraries.

Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences.

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust.

Toshi is meant to be a full-text search engine similar to Elasticsearch. Toshi strives to be to Elasticsearch what Tantivy is to Lucene.

FlexSearch is a Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js.

fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

k8s at home search is a tool that indexs Flux HelmReleases from Github repositories with the k8s-at-home topic on GitHub.

OpenFind is an app to find text in real life. Easily search your entire photo library in split seconds. This runs 100% offline. No servers, nothing weird going on.

Notifications

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Apprise is a tool that allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc.

ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, entirely without signup, cost or setup. It's also open source if you want to run your own.

Countly is a product analytics solution and innovation enabler that helps teams track product performance and customer journey and behavior across mobile, web, and desktop applications. Ensuring privacy by design, Countly allows you to innovate and enhance your products to provide personalized and customized customer experiences, and meet key business and revenue goals.

notifiers is a general wrapper for a variety of 3rd party providers and built in ones (like SMTP) aimed solely at sending notifications.

Pushover is a tool that makes it easy to get real-time notifications on your Android, Android Wear, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Desktop.

Simplepush is a tool to send end-to-end encrypted push notifications to your Android and iPhone.

UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications are delivered. All in a free and open source way.

RSS

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RSS Guard is a simple RSS/ATOM feed reader for Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2 or macOS which can work with RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds as well as many online feed services:

Feedly
Gmail
Google Reader API (Bazqux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, Reedah, The Old Reader and more)
Nextcloud News
Tiny Tiny RSS

Feedly is an RSS tool where you can privately organize and research the topics and trends that matter to you. It offers useful integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Buffer, OneNote, Pinterest, LinkedIn, IFTTT, and Zapier so that you can easily share stories with your networks and teammates.

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.

ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline. It takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more.

RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.

Miniflux V2 is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

Websites/Blogs

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Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website.

Lyra is a fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript.

Hugo Lyra is a typescript module for creating LyraSearch indexes for static Hugo sites, it comes with server and client libraries.

Kopage is a self-hosted Website Builder. It's compatible with cPanel and other popular hosting control panels. Compatible with cPanel and other popular hosting control panels.

Ghost is a fully-managed PaaS & self-hosted open source software, and can be installed and maintained relatively easily on just about any VPS hosting provider.

Cloudron is a self-hosted immutable infrastructure design allows easy migration of apps across servers. In fact, you can move your entire server along with all its apps to another cloud provider in no time.

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content.

Haven is a Self-hosted private blog instead of using Facebook.

Antville is an open source project aimed at the development of a simple site hosting system with many advanced features.

October is a Self-hosted Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again.

Grav is a Fast, Simple, and Flexible, file-based Web-platform. There is Zero installation required. Just extract the ZIP archive, and you are already up and running. It omes with a powerful Package Management System to allow for simple installation and upgrading of plugins and themes, as well as simple updating of Grav itself.

Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.

Netlify CMS is a CMS for static site generators. Give users a simple way to edit and add content to any site built with a static site generator.

Zola is a fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.

FlatPress is a lightweight, easy-to-set-up blogging engine.

Chyrp Lite is an ultra-lightweight blogging engine. It provides four beautiful blog themes and a friendly administration console, all fully navigable on a broad range of devices, thanks to the power of responsive HTML5.

WriteFreely is an open source platform for building a writing space on the web.

Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications.

YunoHost is a Debian-based distribution which strives to make it easy to quickly set up a server and host web applications.

Social

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Mattermost is a secure, open source platform for communication, collaboration, and workflow orchestration across tools and teams.

Mastadon is a a decentralized social media platform that supports audio, video and picture posts, accessibility descriptions, polls, content warnings, animated avatars, custom emojis, thumbnail crop control, and more, to help you express yourself online.

Telegram is a cross-platform, cloud-based instant messaging service. It has an open API and source code free for everyone. Telegram also provides end-to-end encrypted video calling, VoIP, file sharing and several other features.

ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News. Where you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated, and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Lemmy-UI is the official web app for Lemmy, written in inferno.

Mlem is a Lemmy client for iOS.

Jerboa is an Android client for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative.

GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang.

Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.

Pleroma is a free and open communication for everyone. Pleroma is social networking software compatible with other Fediverse software such as Misskey, Pixelfed, Mastodon and many others.

Matrix is a tool that gives you simple HTTP APIs and SDKs (iOS, Android, Web) to create chatrooms, direct chats and chat bots, complete with end-to-end encryption, file transfer, synchronised conversation history, formatted messages, read receipts and more.

Element is a Matrix web client built using the Matrix React SDK.

Nostr(Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working.

Fritter is an open source frontend for Twitter on mobile devices, focusing on giving you the best experience and keeping your data private, local and in your hands.

Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. All requests go through the backend, meaning the client never talks to Twitter and prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint.

Diaspora is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

Hubzilla is a general purpose communication server integrated with a web publishing system and a decentralised permission system.

Expanse is a fully selfhosted multi-user web app for externally storing Reddit items (saved, created, upvoted, downvoted, hidden) to bypass Reddit's 1000-item listing limits.

Apollo is a beautiful Reddit app built for fast navigation with an incredibly powerful set of features.

Infinity is a Reddit client on Android written in Java. It does not have any ads and it features a clean UI and smooth browsing experience.

RedReader is an unofficial open source Reddit client for Android.

Nostr

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Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a protocol, designed for simplicity, that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network. The protocol is based on very simple & flexible event objects (which are passed around as plain JSON) and uses standard elliptic-curve cryptography for keys and signing.

nostr - overview and FAQ.
NIPs - the "Nostr Implementation Possibilities" describe the protocol in technical detail.
nostr, a basic tour - an intro to nostr.
UseNostr - A small guide for anyone who wants to learn more about how nostr works and what it can do.
nostr.how - Quick-start to onboard desktop users with Alby & Astral.
nostr.guide - A guide to all things nostr.
nostr address book - A directory of twitter users accounts and their NOSTR addresses.
NNostr - a C# relay.
nostr-rs-relay - a minimalistic relay written in Rust that saves data on SQLite.
Relayer Basic - a simple relay based on relayer backed by Postgres.
nodestr - a Node.js implementation.
sovereign-stack - a tool that helps you deploy nostr relays and create self-hosted (bitcoin-only) Value4Value websites.
expensive relay - a relay that requires payment for registration
me.untethr.nostr-relay - a relay written in Clojure
Minds Nostr Relay - a relay for Minds, an open-source social network
- Minds Engine - Nostr - relevant Minds API code for reading/writing Minds posts using Nostr
NostrPostr Relay - a Kotlin Relay supporting both SQLite and Postgresql
nostrpy - relay, client, and other tooling in python
nostream - a nostr relay written in Typescript backed by PostgreSQL (renamed from nostr-ts-relay)
nostr_relay – a nostr relay written in python, backed by SQLite
søstr – a private nostr relay written in rust, saves all notes from one pubkey and publish them to anyone that requests them
knostr – a nostr relay implemented in Kotlin with support for Postgres and metrics(micrometer).
PyRelay – a python implementation of a nostr relay, using asyncio.
strfry – C++ implementation backed by LMDB with efficient syncing of events using merkle trees
Astro – Elixir based implementation built to be performant and highly distributed.
Nex - A powerful and scalable Nostr relay written in Elixir with Postgres DB.
gnost-relay - nostr relay written in go backed by postgresql database.
nostring - A Nostr relay written in Deno.
Denostr - Deno based, cloud native nostr implemention support by ByteTrade and Revo.
nostr-relay-nestjs- A Nostr relay implemented using the NestJS framework
Ephemerelay - An in-memory Nostr relay that doesn't store data.
Servus - A self-contained, single executable, CMS / blogging engine reminiscent of Jekyll which also acts as a personal Nostr relay for your blog posts. Written in Rust.
nostr relay registry - real-time checking of status of some known relays.
nostr.info - real-time checking of status of some known relays.
nostr.watch - real-time checking of status of some known relays.
Astral - a branle fork with global feed and UI makeover
damus - a twitter-like nostr client for iOS and MacOS.
more-speech - desktop client for nostr written in Clojure.
futr - nostr client desktop app written in Haskell.
Minds - open source social network. Supports reading and creating posts using the Nostr protocol.
Jester - Chess over nostr.
- Jester instance
Sendstr - shared clipboard between devices over nostr.
nosbin - pastebin over nostr.
noscl - a basic command-line client written in Go.
loquaz - a desktop app written in Rust for direct encrypted chat.
nostr console - a nostr command line client written in Dart. Binaries available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
ArcadeCity - Public group chats and P2P services (WIP) over nostr.
second exchange - an experiment to work out something of like medium, something of creator economy where users are rewarded for engaging in quality discussion and most importantly engaging in governance-related discussion.
scalastr - A barebones nostr client written in scala.
Nostros - A nostr mobile client for Android.
Nostrify.me - Nostr client built in SvelteKit.
NostrEmitter - Simple E2E encrypted client and EventEmitter object
Lightning.Pub - A nostr daemon for Lightning nodes.
shockwallet - A Lightning wallet that uses nostr and lnurl to connect to nodes.
coracle - A nostr web client.
nostrweb - another nostr web client in vanilla JS.
- nostr.ch - live instance
Bija - A desktop client written in python. Currently Linux only.
Nosky - A native Android client for Nostr. Still in development.
Stackerstan - A decentralised organisation built on Bitcoin and Nostr, implemented as a replicated state machine in Golang.
nostr-java - A nostr client API written in java, for generating, signing and publishing events to relays.
bolt.fun - A bitcoin lightning makers community that supports reading and creating comments using Nostr.
iris - A nostr web client.
- iris.to - live instance
- Android app
gossip - A desktop client in rust presented with egui.
Attached - Open-Source ReactNative Expo app for Nostr (iOS, Android). Currently under app stores review.
Member - Progressive Web App Client. Works on desktop and mobile.
- member.cash - live instance
dispute - A cross-platform (Linux, Android, iOS, MacOs, Windows and Web) client for NOSTR
Snort - Nostr UI written in react
Hamstr - A twitter-style web client built with Vue.js
Nozzle - A Twitter-like native Android client written with Jetpack Compose
electron-nostr - A bare-bones desktop nostr client using electron-react-boilerplate. Goal is to be an easy template for people to experiment with different ideas on decentralized ratings, reputation, and web of trust.
Nostrid - Multi-platform client currently offering binaries for Android, Windows, MacOS and Linux.
- Nostrid.Web - Web version running completely on the browser. It can be installed locally as PWA.
nostr-chat-widget-react - A React component that provides a live-chat widget over nostr that can be embedded into any website.
Blockcore Notes - Progressive Web App that can be installed on mobile and desktop, organize following in circles and have both public and private following lists. Dynamic interface for different uses, such as optimized for photograph viewing.
Noteon- Yet another nostr client focused on private chat and group chat with a simple, elegant and secure interface.
emon - Encrypted DMs over nostr with lightning payments integrated (WIP).
notebin.org - Nostr UI created with NextJS, support for markdown and code highlighting.
Daisy - Mobile client for Android and iOS.
Flycat - A 2000s old-school style web client which support blogging on Nostr.
Amethyst - An Android client for nostr written in Kotlin.
MeShell - Web, iOS and Android blog type client destined to publish articles and researches for independent journalists.
Disgus - A comment widget like Disqus, but for Nostr.
Tamga - An offline first nostr contact & profile manager for iOS!
nostromat- A Twitter-style Nostr web client, written in Clojurescript/React.
nostrom.at - live instance.
blogstack.io - Blogging site for nostr, supports markdown.
Votestr - Poll web app with nostr authentication and blind signature unlinkability.
gnost-deflate-client- A CLI nostr client written in go implementing permessage-deflate websocket compression.
algia - A cli application for nostr.
algia-web - A small resource consumption oriented Nostr web client.
Blowater - A desktop Web client focusing on chat with delightful UX.
Written Self hosted blog using nostr long-form content (NIP-23) and it shows only posts by selected authors.
Nostr Nests - Nostr Nests is an audio space for chatting, brainstorming, debating, jamming, micro-conferences and more.
nblog - a self-host nostr ghost blog
Nostribe.com - Nostr client web app built with Next.js 13 and TypeScript.
- Nostribe.com - Live instance.
Nostrtium - Post to Nostr directly from within WordPress
uBlog - A minimalist blog on nostr that allows anyone to easily create their own personal micro-blog.
Listr - A Nostr Web Client for Making Lists, built with Next.js 13 and TypeScript.
nostr-ruby - a Ruby implementation of the nostr protocol.
nostr - a Ruby Nostr gem for use by clients.
NNostr.Client - a C# Nostr library for use by clients.
nostr-tools - a JavaScript client that abstracts the relay management code for use by clients.
nostr-relaypool-ts - a TypeScript relay pool library on top of nostr-tools that simplifies handling subscriptions to multiple servers.
nostr-react - React Hooks for Nostr.
go-nostr - a Go library that implements relay management, plus event encoding and signing utils.
nostr_rust - Functional Rust implementation of the nostr protocol.
nostr-js - a javascript implementation of the nostr protocol.
nostr-rs - a Rust implementation of the nostr protocol
nostr
- nostr: Rust implementation of Nostr protocol.
- nostr-sdk: High level client library.
- bindings: UniFFI (Kotlin, Swift, Python, Ruby) bindings.
relayer - a server framework for writing custom relays.
NostrPostr - a Kotlin Nostr library for clients or relays.
python-nostr - a python library for making clients.
nostr-bot - a Rust library for writing bots.
NostrKit - a Swift library for interacting with relays.
nostr-relay-inspector - A library that returns useful information about relays based on nostr-js.
schorr_snap - A snap plugin for Metamask Flask, supports nostr.
nostr-deno - a client library for Deno javascript runtime.
nostr-types - a rust library defining types useful for the nostr protocol.
dart-nostr - a Dart library for Flutter.
nostr-connect - Nostr Connect SDK for TypeScript is a library that allows you to easily integrate Nostr Connect into your web application.
pynostr - a python library for nostr.
nostr-php - a PHP library for nostr.
smtp nostr gateway - a bridge that forwards emails to pubkeys as encrypted direct messages.
matrix-nostr-bridge - a simple Matrix-to-Nostr or Nostr-to-Matrix bridge.
Mostr - a bridge between Nostr and the Fediverse (Mastodon, ActivityPub, etc.).
nostrich.fun - A feature-rich directory of nostr projects. A fork of LightningNetworkStores.com
git-nostr-tools - A cli tool for sending code patches over nostr.
nostr-cln-events - A CLN plugin to push clightning node events to nostr.
nostr registry - a database of known relays with their uptime and NIP support tables
nostr-fzf - Nostr Directory; a tool for searching usernames and channels.
nostr-notify - desktop nostr notifications using libnotify.
nostr-launch - A tool for launching a bunch of relays and clients locally for development and testing.
nostr GitHub Action - send events from GitHub Actions.
nostrefresh - A simple refresh function for nostr web pages.
anonroom - anonymous chat room inside nostr.
nostril - A C cli tool for creating nostr events.
nostr-rs-relay-compose - A Docker compose deployment for nostr-rs-relay with SSL support based on Traefik.
nostr.guru - a nostr web gateway for viewing events by their ID.
nostrandom.netlify.app - generate publish-able Nostr event with random keys.
nashboard - A Nostr network dashboard with network statistics, reachable here.
ndxstr - nostr's layer 2 indexing nodes, with more advanced querying capability than currently supported by relays.
nostrillery - A tool for running performance tests against Nostr relays.
nostr-terminal - A SSH-like access to your machine via web terminal, powered by Nostr.
nostreq - A Nostr relay event request generator.
nostr.io - A network statistics with last published notes, top 50 publishers, and top 50 followed users.
nostr-commander - A simple but convenient CLI-based Nostr app for following users, sending DMs, etc.
nostr.directory - A searchable database of nostr users and their other social media links.
nostr-tool - A Rust CLI tool to generate and publish events.
frostr - Create joint nostr identities and require t-of-n signatures to post.
nostr.rest - Mine proof of work public keys with user specified prefixes.
lnpass - A key manager for Lightning and nostr.
sb.nostr.band - Search bots that you can create and follow to receive new posts matching a keyword right into your feed.
rss.nostr.band - Create custom RSS feeds with posts matching your keywords and consume using your favorite RSS reader.
nostrview - A nostr search engine. Search by content, tags, events or pub keys.
nostr-bulk-dms - A tool that allows you to send DMs over nostr to many recipients in bulk.
nostrify - A Core Lightning plugin that sends events (forwards, connect, disconnect, etc.) to nostr.
nip06-web - a website to generate or restore NIP-06 seed phrases
nip06-cli - a Node.js CLI to generate or restore NIP-06 seed phrases.
nostr-broadcast - A tool lets you take your events from some relays and broadcast them to another relay. Could be helpful for backing up your notes to a private relay.
nostr-follow-bundler - A tool lets you create lists of profiles that other users can then see and follow themselves.
nostr-proxy - Push and get events to your Proxy, get results from multiple Nostr relays.
nostrends - Trending on Nostr, like Twitter trends. Live at nostrends.vercel.app.
homebrew-nostr - Homebrew tap for Nostr software.
heyxynip5 - A CLI helper for converting nostr npub/nsec to their hex format for NIP-05 verification.
http-nostr-publisher - A Cloudflare worker to publish Nostr events to relays through a non-blocking HTTP interface .
blastr - A nostr cloudflare workers proxy relay that publishes to all known relays.
keystr-rs - An application for managing Nostr keys. Written in Rust, with simple UI (Iced).
nostr_simple_publish - Drupal module to publish content to Nostr.
nostr-spam-detection - An experiment in building a machine learning model to label Nostr spam content for filtering and relay rejection.
blogsync - Self-host blog articles from long-form notes e.g. via Caddy server.
NostrFlu - A tool to collect and resend following lists from relays. You can also check badges.
nkcli - A CLI tool for nostr key manage and serve NIP-46.
git-nostr- A tool to enhance git cli with nostr communications.
nostr-wtf - A set of nostr tools available and deployed on a web app including a pubkey converter and relay query tool.
strfry policies- A collection of moderation & antispam policies for the strfry relay developed in TypeScript/Deno.
nostrum - Nostrum it's a mobile app that allows you to sign transactions and messages with your Nostr keys. Nostrum is the reference implementation for a remote signer app (ie. Wallet) of the Nostr Connect protocol.
nostr-signing-device - Signing device for Nostr built on ESP32.

Communications

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Matrix is a tool that gives you simple HTTP APIs and SDKs (iOS, Android, Web) to create chatrooms, direct chats and chat bots, complete with end-to-end encryption, file transfer, synchronised conversation history, formatted messages, read receipts and more.

Postmoogle is an actual SMTP server that allows you to send and receive emails on your matrix server. It can't be used with arbitrary email providers, because it acts as an actual email provider itself, so you can use it to send emails from your apps and scripts as well.

SimpleX is a privacy redefined messenger without user IDs. Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers.

Element is a Matrix web client built using the Matrix React SDK.

Mattermost is a secure, open source platform for communication, collaboration, and workflow orchestration across tools and teams.

Mastadon is a a decentralized social media platform that supports audio, video and picture posts, accessibility descriptions, polls, content warnings, animated avatars, custom emojis, thumbnail crop control, and more, to help you express yourself online.

Telegram is a cross-platform, cloud-based instant messaging service. It has an open API and source code free for everyone. Telegram also provides end-to-end encrypted video calling, VoIP, file sharing and several other features.

Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.

Pleroma is a free and open communication for everyone. Pleroma is social networking software compatible with other Fediverse software such as Misskey, Pixelfed, Mastodon and many others.

ffsend is a easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.

Nostr(Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working.

Diaspora is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

Hubzilla is a general purpose communication server integrated with a web publishing system and a decentralised permission system.

Expanse is a fully selfhosted multi-user web app for externally storing Reddit items (saved, created, upvoted, downvoted, hidden) to bypass Reddit's 1000-item listing limits.

giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub.

Mailroute is a great tool that provides the best email filtering & security( CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, DISA, HIPPA). It protects your inbox, stop spam, viruses, ransomware, security threats & more with email filtering services. With an easy setup on Office 365, Google & more.

Docker Mailserver is a production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container. Only configuration files, no SQL database.

Diun is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to receive notifications when a Docker image is updated on a Docker registry.

iRedMail is a self-hosted email server.

iRedMail Easy is a web-based deployment platform, it offers an easy to use web interface to help you deploy iRedMail server, keep your server up to date, also get fast and professional technical support from iRedMail team.

Spider Email Archiver is an On-Premises Email Archiving Software.

MailCow is a self-hosted email server.

Nextcloud Talk is a on-premises, private audio/video conferencing and text chat through browser and mobile interfaces with integrated screen sharing and SIP integration.

Poste.io Email Server is self-hosted SMTP + IMAP + POP3 + Antispam + Antivirus Web administration + Web email. It is easy setup with a DNS guide for protect from spam.

Business Management

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Nextcloud is a suite of enterprise client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. It offers an on-premise Universal File Access and sync platform with powerful collaboration capabilities and desktop, mobile and web interfaces.

Odoo is a suite of open source business apps that cover all your company needs: CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, point of sale, project management, etc.

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology.

Eden Workplace is a complete workplace management platform that lets you achieve more. Desk Booking Software to make desk reservations easier for your team, including assigning permanent and hybrid desks, providing wayfinding solutions for employees.

Matomo is an ethical alternative where you won't make privacy sacrifices or compromise your site. Matomo is the Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customer's privacy.

Plausible Analytics is a simple, lightweight (< 1 KB), open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. It doesn’t use cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. You can self-host Plausible or have us run it for you in the Cloud.

Mailroute is a great tool that provides the best email filtering & security( CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, DISA, HIPPA). It protects your inbox, stop spam, viruses, ransomware, security threats & more with email filtering services. With an easy setup on Office 365, Google & more.

InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients and payments.

Collaboration & Synchronization

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Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time.

Synology is a tool that allows you to easily access and manage files in your Synology Drive on the go. Apart from common file types, such as documents, images, videos and music, you can also open Synology Office document, spreadsheets and slides in the user-friendly viewer provided by Drive.

Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. It offers an on-premise Universal File Access and sync platform with powerful collaboration capabilities and desktop, mobile and web interfaces.

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Mirror Daemon) is a tool used in Linux systems to keep directories synchronized. These directories can be found locally, within the same machine, or remotely, on different machines. For remote synchronization, this article focuses on using SSH to accomplish it.

FileRun is a self-hosted Google Drive alternative. It is a full featured web based file manager with an easy to use user interface.

FileBrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files. It allows the creation of multiple users and each user can have its own directory.

Rsync is a utility in the command line which enables users to transfer and synchronize files efficiently between a computer and an external hard drive in the entire connected network.

Warpinator is a free, open-source tool for sending and receiving files between computers that are on the same network.

LocalSend is a free and open-source tool that allows you to send files and messages over the local LAN network to nearby devices. Everything is sent securely over HTTPS. The TLS/SSL certificate is generated on the fly on each device. It's avilable on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Dragit is an application for intuitive file sharing between devices. It's useful for when you want to send file from one computer to another with minimal effort. Dragit automatically detects devices in the local network with help of mDNS protocol and allows you to send file immediately.

WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.

SSHFS-Win is a minimal port of SSHFS to Windows. Looking under the hood it uses Cygwin for the POSIX environment and WinFsp for the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) functionality.

RiftShare is a cross platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) file sharing tool that supports fully encrypted transfers both on the local network and off network using a simple passphrase. RiftShare uses magic-wormhole under the hood and is compatible with other magic-wormhole clients. It is also fully open source and licensed under the GPLv3.

Usermode FTP Server is a tool that let's you start an FTP server as user and transfer files with any FTP client. Allowing you to access your files directly with many file browsers' builtin FTP support: Windows File Explorer, Thunar, Gnome Files, Dolphin and many more.

TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. It's available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android.

Listmonk is a standalone, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager. It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary.

Encryption

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VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.
AxCrypt is an inexpensive and effective encryption tool for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

AESCrypt is an advanced file encryption utility that integrates with the Windows shell or runs from the Linux command prompt to provide a simple, yet powerful, tool for encrypting files using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is a disk encryption specification created by Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004 and was originally intended for Linux. It uses device mapper crypt ( dm-crypt) as a kernel module to handle encryption on the block device level.

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP ). It allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications; it features a versatile key management system, along with access modules for all kinds of public key directories.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. It's used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications.

Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform to sync secrets and configs across your team and infrastructure.

Hemmelig.app is a tool that keeps your sensitive information out of chat logs, emails, and more with encrypted secrets.

How Encryption Keys work

Symmetric is a data encryption method whereby the same private key is used to encode and decode information.
Asymmetric is a data encryption method that allows users to encrypt information using shared keys. For example, if you need to send a message across the internet, but you don't want anyone but the intended recipient to see what you've written.

Types of Encryption

Triple DES (Triple Data Encryption Algorithm) is a symmetric-key block cipher, which applies the DES cipher algorithm three times to each data block(contains 64 bits of data).
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is an algorithm that encrypts and decrypts data in blocks of 128 bits. It can do this using 128-bit, 192-bit, or 256-bit keys.
RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a type of public-key cryptography used for secure data transmission of e-mail and other digital transactions over the Internet.
Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits. It is an advanced version of Blowfish encryption.
Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) is a valid encryption algorithm to be used for compliance with NIST standards. It is mostly used in on-premise encryption and tokenization solutions.

Application Level Encryption

Hashes is a function that converts an input of letters and numbers into an encrypted output of a fixed length. For example, algorithms such as MD5 (Message Digest 5) or SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm).
Digital Certificates is a file that verifies the identity of a device or user and enables encrypted connections. A digital signature is a hashing approach that uses a numeric string to provide authenticity and validate identity. Digital certificates are typically issued by a certificate authority (CA), which is a trusted third-party entity that issues digital certificates for use by other parties.

Backups

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Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. The open-source solution supports incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows and macOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

BorgWarehouse is a fast and modern WebUI for a BorgBackup's central repository server.

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg, a powerful and fast de-duplicating backup program.

Borgmatic is a simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations. It protects your files with client-side encryption. Backup your databases too. Monitor it all with integrated third-party services.

Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

UrBackup is an easy to setup Open Source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups accomplishes both data safety and a fast restoration time. File and image backups are made while the system is running without interrupting current processes. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Kopia is a user-friendly desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux which allows you to create snapshots, define policies, and restore files quickly with Fast and Encrypted Backups.

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Three types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live, Clonezilla lite server, and Clonezilla SE (server edition).

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. This makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh.

Duplicity is a tool that backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup.

ZnapZend is a high performance open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support. It uses the built-in snapshot functionality of ZFS for fully consistent backups. For each fileset, a pre- and post-snapshot command can be configured to quiet down any software writing to the fileset prior to snapshotting.

SnapRAID is a folder-based backup tool that behaves like a software or hardware RAID5/6 disk raid, but is not a disk raid itself. There is no realtime recovery, free space between disks cannot be combined and manual excution of backup is needed.

rsync.net is a Cloud Storage for Offsite Backup that give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance with support for rsync/sftp/scp/borg/rclone/restic/git-annex.

Snapshots Management/System Recovery

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rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. This makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh.

rsync.net is a Cloud Storage for Offsite Backup that give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance with support for rsync/sftp/scp/borg/rclone/restic/git-annex.

ZnapZend is a high performance open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support. It uses the built-in snapshot functionality of ZFS for fully consistent backups. For each fileset, a pre- and post-snapshot command can be configured to quiet down any software writing to the fileset prior to snapshotting.

Sanoid is a policy-driven snapshot management tool for ZFS filesystems.

ZFSBootMenu is a Linux bootloader that attempts to provide an experience similar to FreeBSD's. This allows a user to have multiple "boot environments" (with different distributions, for example), manipulate snapshots before booting, and, for the adventurous user, even bootstrap a system installation via zfs recv.

Btrfs maintenance toolbox is a set of scripts supplementing the btrfs filesystem and aims to automate a few maintenance tasks. This means the scrub, balance, snapshots, trim or defragmentation.

ksync is a toool that sync files between your local system and a kubernetes cluster. It transparently updates containers running on the cluster from your local checkout.

Verify is a snapshot tool that simplifies the assertion of complex data models and documents.

Timeshift is a Linux application for providing functionality to restore your system just like Windows System Restore tool. Timeshift makes snapshots of your system in regular intervals which are further used at the time of restoration or undo all changes in the system.

CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore in Userspace) is a utility to checkpoint/restore Linux tasks. Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at.

Rsync time backup is a Time Machine style backup with rsync. It creates incremental backups of files and directories to the destination of your choice. The backups are structured in a way that makes it easy to recover any file at any point in time. It works on Linux, macOS and Windows (via WSL).

rdiff-backup is a simple backup tool which can be used locally and remotely, on Linux and Windows, and even cross-platform between both. Users have reported using it successfully on FreeBSD and MacOS.

Mainframer is a tool that executes a command on a remote machine while syncing files back and forth. The process is known as remote execution (in general) and remote build (in particular cases).

Archiving

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Access to Memory (AtoM) - Web-based, open source application for standards-based archival description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment.

ArchiveBox - Self-hosted wayback machine that creates HTML & screenshot archives of sites from your bookmarks, browsing history, RSS feeds, or other sources.

Archivematica - Mature digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects.

ArchivesSpace - Archives information management application for managing and providing Web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects.

CKAN - CKAN is a tool for making open data websites.

Collective Access - Providence - Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections supporting a variety of metadata standards, data types, and media formats.

Omeka S - Omeka S is a web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata.

Wayback - A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems.

Home Server

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Home Assistant is an open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Home Assistant is powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts that runs great on Raspberry Pi.

Homebridge is a software framework that allows you to integrate with smart home devices that do not natively support HomeKit. There are over 2,000 Homebridge plugins supporting thousands of different smart accessories.

Homebridge UI is a tool that provides an easy to use interface to manage your Homebridge plugins, configuration and accessories.

Install and configure Homebridge plugins.
Monitor your Homebridge server via a fully customisable widget-based dashboard.
View and control Homebridge accessories.
Backup and Restore your Homebridge instance.

ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

Shelly Cloud is a Smart home control tool that has been perfected and provides precise monitoring of your Shelly devices no matter where you are. Shelly devices are compatible with Alexa, Google Home, Android, and iOS.

Zigbee is the full-stack, secure, reliable, and market-proven solution used by a majority of large smart home ecosystem providers, such as Amazon's Echo Plus, Samsung SmartThings, Signify (Philips Hue), and more.

openHAB is a cross-platform software with the aim to integrate all kinds of Smart Home technologies, devices, etc.

Z-Wave is the leading wireless communications protocol behind many of the secure, trusted brands that are working to make everyone's home smarter and safer.

Homey is an applciation to control, automate and monitor your entire smart home from your phone, tablet or desktop.

Caddy is the only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default. Caddy obtains and renews TLS certificates for your sites automatically.

Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It can manage and download subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.

Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will grab, sort and rename them.

Homarr is a customizable browser's home page to interact with your homeserver's Docker containers (e.g. Sonarr/Radarr)

Midarr is a free and open source (and always will be), Midarr aims to provide a tailored experience for you and your users:

Beautifully crafted user interface.
Real-time online statuses.
Simple and easy invite system.
Integrates with your existing services, Radarr and Sonarr.

Rustdesk is an open source virtual/remote desktop infrastructure for everyone. Display and control your PC (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and Android devices.

TinyPilot is a tool that enables KVM over IP letting you control any computer remotely.

PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks.

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider focused on flexibility and versatility. You can use authentik in an existing environment to add support for new protocols. authentik is also a great solution for implementing signup/recovery/etc in your application, so you don't have to deal with it.

ESPHome Remote IS a WI-FI smart home remote with display that runs on ESPHome. It uses Lilygo T-Display or M5Stack Fire.

Tdarr is a distributed transcode automation application using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker). A common use for Tdarr is to simply convert video files from h264 to h265 (hevc), saving 40%-50% in size.

AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion where you're in charge of your data and customizations.

deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.

Neko is a self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.

QNAP Switch System (QSS) is a configuration interface for QNAP's managed switch series. Enable management functions such as link aggregation, VLAN, and RSTP, to take care of your network topology with ease.

ASUSTOR is a subsidiary of ASUS and a leading provider of network attached storage (NAS). It specializes in the development and integration of storage, backup, multimedia, video surveillance and mobile applications for home and enterprise users.

Seafile is an open-source, cross-platform file-hosting software system. Seafile organize files into libraries stored on a central server. Each library can be synced into any desktop computer(Windows, Mac and Linux) and mobile devices through apps.

SnapRAID is a folder-based backup tool that behaves like a software or hardware RAID5/6 disk raid, but is not a disk raid itself. There is no realtime recovery, free space between disks cannot be combined and manual excution of backup is needed.

FreeNAS is an Open Source Storage Platform and supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. This includes ZFS (high storage capacities and integrates file systems and volume management into a single piece of software). It supports UPS, CIFS/SMB, FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, AFP, Unison, UPnP, Webserver, iSCSI protocols, local and MS AD authentication, and disk enctyption.

Gladys Assistant is a privacy-first, open-source home assistant and runs great on Raspberry Pi.

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

Mistborn is a secure platform for easily standing up and managing your own cloud services: including firewall, ad-blocking, and multi-factor WireGuard VPN access.

Media Server

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Overseerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr, and Plex.

Jellyfin is a Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex, to provide media from a dedicated server to end-user devices via multiple apps.

Swiftfin is a modern video client for the Jellyfin media server. Redesigned in Swift to maximize direct play with the power of VLC and look native on all classes of Apple devices.

Intro Skipper is a tool that analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intro sequences in Jellyfin.

Jellyseerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It is a a fork of Overseerr built to bring support for Jellyfin & Emby media servers.

Midarr is a free and open source (and always will be), Midarr aims to provide a tailored experience for you and your users:

Beautifully crafted user interface.
Real-time online statuses.
Simple and easy invite system.
Integrates with your existing services, Radarr and Sonarr.

Kirino Media Server is a lightweight, modular alternative to Plex and Jellyfin.

Emby is a home media server built on top of other popular open source technologies such as Service Stack, jQuery, jQuery mobile, and Mono. It features a REST-based API with built-in documention to facilitate client development.

OpenMediaVault is a next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, AFS, UPnP media server, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more.

Plex media server is a application that gives you the power to add, access and share all the entertainment that matters to you, on almost any device. With 50,000+ on demand titles and hundreds of channels of live TV, plus your own personal media collection, using one powerful app.

Tautulli is a 3rd party application that you can run alongside your Plex Media Server to monitor activity and track various statistics.

Plex DupeFinder is a python script that finds duplicate versions of media (TV episodes and movies) in your Plex Library and tells Plex to remove the lowest rated files/versions (based on user-specified scoring) to leave behind a single file/version.

Prometheus Exporter for Plex is an expose library playback, storage, and host metrics in a Prometheus format.

Infuse is a Video Player for iOS, Apple TV, and Mac. It plays every video file ever created to avoid wasting hours converting and transcoding files.

InfuseSync is a plugin for Emby and Jellyfin media servers that tracks all media changes to decrease sync times with Infuse clients.

InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. Polaris works by streaming music directly from your computer (or cloud server), without uploading it to a third-party.

AirSonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.

TubeSync is a PVR (personal video recorder) for YouTube. Or, like Sonarr but for YouTube (with a built-in download client). It is designed to synchronize channels and playlists from YouTube to local directories and update your media server once media is downloaded.

yt-fts is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line. It allows you to query a channel for specific key word or phrase and will generate time stamped youtube urls to the video containing the keyword.

Tube Archivist is a self hosted YouTube media server.

PeerTube is an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.

Ant Media Server is a streaming engine software that provides adaptive, ultra low latency streaming by using WebRTC technology with ~0.5 seconds latency.

Castopod is an open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.

Festival is a music player for local album collections.

HD HomeRun Scribe 4K is a free local live TV with DVR with 4 tuners and 150 hours of recording storage all-in-one amazing box for watching and recording free TV all around your home.

RuneAudio is a free and open source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players.

Volumio (The Audiophile Music Player) is a very powerful and convenient music aggregator, now Volumio can also be used with great results in all sorts of different situations.

Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution.

SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Smart Home Automation

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Smart home is a process that allows homeowners to control appliances, thermostats, lights, and other smart devices remotely using a smartphone or tablet through an internet connection.

Most smart devices have their own Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) with little to no internet access with broadcasts forwarding to LAN Subnet aka Subnetwork for discovery. Using software such as Home Assistant, Homebridge, ESPHome, etc. help simplify the process of controlling and automating all your smart devices.

Matter is an open standard for smart home technology that lets your device work with any Matter-certified ecosystem using a single protocol. Matter comes from the Connectivity Standards Alliance, an organization of hundreds of companies(Amazon, Apple, Google, Comcast, Zigbee Alliance, and Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) creating products for the smart home.

Proprietary Smart Devices

Amazon Alexa is a smart virtual assistant software to manage Alexa-enabled devices, control music playback, view shopping lists on the go, keep track of upcoming reminders, check on active timers and much more.
Google Assistant is a smart virtual assistant software on mobile and home automation devices.
Apple HomeKit is a software framework that enables your app to coordinate and control home automation accessories from multiple vendors to present a coherent, user-focused interface. Using HomeKit, your app can: Discover HomeKit-compatible automation accessories and add them to a persistent, cross-device home configuration database.
Samsung SmartThings is a sofwtare framework that you can connect, monitor and control multiple smart home devices quicker and easier. Connect your Samsung smart TVs, smart appliances, smart speakers and brands like Ring, Nest and Philips Hue all from one app.
Philips Hue is a smart lighting system. The smart lights, Hue Bridge, and smart controls will forever change the way you experience light.
Sonos is the wireless home sound system that fills as many rooms as you want with great-sounding music, movies, and TV.

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Home Assistant is an open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Home Assistant is powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts that runs great on Raspberry Pi.

Add-ons are additional applications and services, that can be run alongside Home Assistant. The Home Assistant OS and Supervised installations types, provide the Supervisor, which is capable of running and managing these add-ons.

Home Assistant Official Add-ons

Addons created and maintained by the Home Assistant team.

DuckDNS - This updates your Duck DNS IP address and generate SSL using Let's Encrypt.
Almond - An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant.
HomeMatic - HomeMatic central based on OCCU.
Let's Encrypt - Get a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt; an open and automated certificate authority (CA).
MariaDB - An open source relational database (fork of MySQL).
File editor - Browser-based configuration file editor.
Mosquitto - Fast and reliable MQTT broker.
Terminal & SSH - Allows logging in remotely to using a web terminal or SSH client.
Samba - Access your configuration files using Windows network shares.
NGINX SSL proxy - Reverse proxy with SSL termination.
deCONZ - Control a ZigBee network using ConBee or RaspBee hardware by Dresden Elektronik.
TellStick - Run a TellStick and TellStick Duo service.
Ada - Ada is voice assistant powered by Almond which is open and privacy-preserving.
Fully Kiosk Browser is a powerful kiosk browser for Android devices. It provides a number of features for monitoring and controlling your Android device. This integration gives you access to control your device and view the status in Home Assistant.

Home Assistant Third Party Add-ons

Add-ons created by the community.

Dasshio - Easily use your Amazon Dash Buttons.
InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
Grafana - Open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring.
Tor - Protect your privacy and access your instance via Tor.
Spotify Connect - Spotify Connect client for playing music on your Home Assistant device.
SSH & Web Terminal - SSH and Web-based terminal with tons of pre-loaded useful tools.
UniFi Controller - The UniFi Controller allows you to manage your UniFi network using a web browser.
Node-RED - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things.
Plex Media Server - Your recorded media beautifully organized and ready to stream.
IDE - Advanced web-based IDE, based on Cloud9 IDE.
zigbee2mqtt - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges.
Matrix - A secure and decentralized communication platform.
AdGuard Home - A network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with parental control.
Traccar - Traccar is modern GPS Tracking Platform.
Home Panel - A touch-compatible web frontend for controlling the home.
Hass.io Google Drive Backup - A complete and easy to configure solution for backing up your snapshots to Google Drive.
Grocy - A groceries & household management solution for your home.
EmonCMS - A powerful open-source web app for processing, logging, and visualizing energy, temperature, and other environmental data.
CrowdSec - A next-gen collaborative IPS/IDS to protect you from intrusion.
AppDaemon - Python Apps and HADashboard.
TasmoAdmin - Centrally manage all your Sonoff-Tasmota devices.
Aircast - AirPlay capabilities for your Chromecast players.
AirSonos - AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos players.
Log Viewer - Browser-based live log viewing utility.
Tautulli - Monitor and get statistics from your Plex server.
motionEye - Simple, elegant and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your cameras.
JupyterLab - Create documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text.
Glances - A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.

Home Assistant Custom Cards

The Home Assistant Dashboards allows people to build custom cards on top of it, which you can easily add to your instance.

Simple Thermostat - A simpler and more flexible thermostat card.
Card Modder - Style your Lovelace cards.
Bar Card - Customizable animated bar card.
forked-daapd Card - Control a forked daapd instance.
Dual Gauge Card - Shows two gauges in one.
Atomic Calendar Revive - Calendar card with advanced settings.
Simple Weather Card - A minimalistic weather card, inspired by Google Material Design.
Auto-Entities Card - Dynamically adds entities.
Canvas Gauge Card - Use awesome gauges from canvas-gauges.com.
Big Number Card - Display big numbers for sensors, including severity level as background.

Animated Weather Card - Nice looking card showing the weather, with subtle animations.
Thermostat Card - Thermostat control card that looks like a Nest Thermostat.

Raspberry Pi Status Card - Show status of your Raspberry Pis.
Mini Media Player - A minimalistic media player card.
Mini Graph Card - A minimalistic sensor graph card.
Button card - Button card for your entities.
Slider Entity Row - Add a slider to adjust, e.g., the brightness of lights in lovelace entity cards.
Power Wheel Card - An intuitive way to represent the power that your home is consuming or producing.
Home Card - A quick glance of the state of your home.
Banner Card - A fluffy linkable banner with interactive glances to spice up your home dashboards.
Spotify Card - List and select from current available devices and users top playlists on Spotify.
Battery Entity - Displaying battery levels for battery entities.
Multiple Entity Row - Show multiple entity states or attributes on entity rows.
Home Feed Card - Display a combination of persistent notifications, calendar events, and entities in the style of a feed.
Config Template Card - Allow using templates in Lovelace.
RGB Light Card - Colorful buttons to control your RGB Lights.
Restriction Card - A card to provide restrictions on Lovelace cards defined within.
Vacuum Map Card - This card provides a user-friendly way to fully control Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Dreame/Roidmi) and Neato (+ possibly other) vacuums.
Vacuum Card - A card to card for controlling a vacuum cleaner robot.
Purifier Card - A card for controlling air purifiers.

Home Assistant Custom Integrations

Additional integrations for Home Assistant created by the community.

Lutron Caseta Pro - Integrates Lutron Caseta Smart Bridge PRO / RA2 Select.
SmartIR - Integrates devices using Broadlink IR.
Alexa Media Player - Allow control of Amazon Alexa devices.
Circadian Lighting - Circadian Lighting slowly synchronizes your color changing lights with the regular naturally occuring color temperature of the sky throughout the day.
Volkswagen Carnet - Integrates Volkswagen Carnet (requires valid Carnet subscription).
Untappd - Connects with your Untappd account.
Elasticsearch - Publishes events to Elasticsearch.
HASS Aarlo - Asynchronous Arlo integration. Similar to the Arlo web site; monitors events and states for all base stations, cameras and doorbells.
Xiaomi Cloud Map Extractor - Presents a live view of a map for Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Roidmi/Dreame) vacuums without a need for rooting.
Xiaomi Hygrothermo - Sensor platform for Xiaomi Mijia BT Hygrothermo temperature and humidity sensor.
WebRTC Camera - View RTSP streams from IP Cameras in real-time through WebRTC or MSE with Pan/Zoom controls.
Sonoff LAN - Control Sonoff devices with eWeLink (original) firmware over LAN and/or Cloud.
Spotcast - Start Spotify playback on an idle Chromecast device as well as control Spotify connect devices.
The Watchman - Keep track of missing entities and services in your config files.

Home Assistant integrations. Credit: Home Assistant

Homebridge is a software framework that allows you to integrate with smart home devices that do not natively support HomeKit. There are over 2,000 Homebridge plugins supporting thousands of different smart accessories.

Homebridge UI is a tool that provides an easy to use interface to manage your Homebridge plugins, configuration and accessories.

Install and configure Homebridge plugins.
Monitor your Homebridge server via a fully customisable widget-based dashboard.
View and control Homebridge accessories.
Backup and Restore your Homebridge instance.

Homebridge Raspberry Pi Image is a free Raspbian based Raspberry Pi image with Homebridge and Homebridge Config UI X pre-installed.

Homebridge Config UI X is a web based management tool for Homebridge that allows you to manage all aspects of your Homebridge setup.

Homebridge webOS TV is a plugin for homebridge which allows you to control your LG webOS TV from your Home app! It should work with all TVs that support webOS2 and newer.

Homebridge Unifi Protect is a Homebridge plugin that provides HomeKit support to the UniFi Protect device ecosystem. UniFi Protect is Ubiquiti's next-generation video security platform, with rich camera, doorbell, and NVR controller hardware options for you to choose from, as well as an app which you can use to view, configure and manage your video camera and doorbells.

Homebridge Camera FFmpeg is a Homebridge Plugin Providing FFmpeg-based Camera Support.

Homebridge Mi Aqara is a homebridge plugin for XiaoMi Aqara plugin.

Homebridge Camera UI is a tool that allows you to expose cameras from camera.ui to HomeKit via Homebridge.

HOOBS is a tool that makes smart accessories(over 2000 options) compatible with your favorite ecosystem. Whether you prefer Apple Homekit, Google Home, or Amazon Alexa, you’re unlikely to find compatible accessories and services that all work together nicely under one roof.

ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

Shelly Cloud is a Smart home control tool that has been perfected and provides precise monitoring of your Shelly devices no matter where you are. Shelly devices are compatible with Alexa, Google Home, Android, and iOS.

Homey is an applciation to control, automate and monitor your entire smart home from your phone, tablet or desktop.

Ecobee is a home automation company in Canada that makes thermostats for residential and commercial use.

Lutron Caséta is a smart lighting control system that is a great solution for giving any client smart lighting control. It was purposely built to work in homes of all ages and it works with older wiring as well as new.

Insteon switches is a Hub for controlling and configuring your home's devices is quick, easy and fun. The setup takes a couple of minutes and a few moments per light switch, sensor, etc. It bridges your devices to 3rd party services like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, while being controlled from any smartphone or tablet.

Jeedom is an open source software; taht gives you complete access to the software that manages your home automation. It's compatible with various protocols such as, ZigBee, Z-Wave, EnOcean, KNX, LoRaWAN, BACnet, Modbus, etc..

Beestat is a tool that connects with your thermostat and provides you with useful charts and analytics so that you can make informed decisions and see how the changes you make lower your energy footprint.

MQTT is an OASIS standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport that is ideal for connecting remote devices with a small code footprint and minimal network bandwidth.

Zigbee is the full-stack, secure, reliable, and market-proven solution used by a majority of large smart home ecosystem providers, such as Amazon's Echo Plus, Samsung SmartThings, Signify (Philips Hue), and more.

openHAB is a cross-platform software with the aim to integrate all kinds of Smart Home technologies, devices, etc.

Z-Wave is the leading wireless communications protocol behind many of the secure, trusted brands that are working to make everyone's home smarter and safer.

pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD.

Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for use on embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but it can be used on other machines running Linux and cloud implementations.

AdGuard Home is a DNS relay station with ad/tracker/other blocking, IP address redirections, and DNS-over-HTTPS.

OpenWRT is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic.

ZoneMinder is a full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system. Monitor your home, office, or wherever you want.

Plex media server is a application that gives you the power to add, access and share all the entertainment that matters to you, on almost any device. With 50,000+ on demand titles and hundreds of channels of live TV, plus your own personal media collection, using one powerful app.

Voice Assistants

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Conversation is an integration allows you to converse with Home Assistant. You can either converse by pressing the microphone in the frontend (supported browsers only (no iOS)) or by calling the conversation/process service with the transcribed text.

Piper is a fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.

Mycroft is an open source voice assistant that is private by default and completely customizable.

DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers.

Leon is your open-source personal assistant.

Olivia is an open-source chatbot built in Golang using Machine Learning technologies. Its goal is to provide a free and open-source alternative to big services like DialogFlow.

Alan SDK is an voice assistant SDK to build a voice interface for websites and web apps (JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, Ember, Electron).

OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.

Video Surveillance

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Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.

hkcam is an open-source implementation of an HomeKit IP camera. It uses ffmpeg to access the camera stream and publishes the stream to HomeKit using hap. The camera stream can be viewed in a HomeKit app.

OpenDataCam is an open source tool to quantify the world. It quantifies and tracks moving objects with live video analysis. It is designed to be an accessible, affordable and open-source solution to better understand interactions in urban environments. It never records any photo or video data. The system only saves surveyed meta-data, in particular the path an object moved or number of counted objects at a certain point.

Viseron is a Self-hosted, local only NVR and AI Computer Vision software.

zmninja is a high performance, cross platform ionic app for Home/Commerical Security Surveillance using ZoneMinder.

Moonfire NVR is a security camera network video recorder.

Shinobi Pro is a Next Generation in Open-Source Video Management Software with support for over 6000 IP and USB Cameras.

WyzeHacks is a project contains a set of scripts trying to provide additional features not implemented by the official firmware. Currently, it provides the following functions:

Enable telnetd on your camera.
Customize the default root password for telnet login.
Redirect all the recordings to an NFS share.
Redirect console logs into an NFS share.
Automatically reboot the camera at certain time.
Automatically archive the recordings.

Text-To-Speech Synthesis (TTS)

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whisper.cpp is a high-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.

WaaS is a Whisper as a Service (GUI and API for OpenAI Whisper).

Web Whisper is a OpenAI's whisper on your web browser. Demo

Vosk is an offline open source speech recognition toolkit. It enables speech recognition for 20+ languages and dialects.

Coqui TTS is a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production.

Mozilla TTS is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It's built on the latest research, was designed to achieve the best trade-off among ease-of-training, speed and quality.

NVIDIA NeMo is a conversational AI toolkit built for researchers working on automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), large language models (LLMs), and natural language processing (NLP).

Video and Audio Processing

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Intel® Quick Sync Video is a tools that uses the dedicated media processing capabilities of Intel® Graphics Technology to decode and encode fast, enabling the processor to complete other tasks and improving system responsiveness.

Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) is a scalable, flexible, and extendable way to accelerate data encryption/decryption and compression for applications from networking to enterprise, cloud to storage, and content delivery to database.

FFmpeg is a leading multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge ones on multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, and Linux.

FFmpeg.guide is a simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly, without having to mess with the cumbersome filter syntax.

HandBrake is a tool for transcoding video from almost any format with a selection of widely supported codecs. It is supported on Window, macOS, and Linux.

Tdarr is a cross-platform conditional based transcoding application for automating media library transcode/remux management in order to process your media files as required. It can set rules for the required codecs, containers, languages etc that your media should have which helps keeps things organized and can increase compatability with your devices. A common use for Tdarr is to simply convert video files from h264 to h265 (hevc), saving 40%-50% in size.

SRS is a simple, high efficiency and realtime video server, supports RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT and GB28181.

obsws-python is a Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0.

Video/Audio Standards

AAC(Advanced Audio Coding) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. It's endorsed by ISO and IEC as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards for video streams.

H.264(AVC) is a video compression standard based on block-oriented and motion-compensated integer-DCT coding that defines multiple profiles (tools) and levels (max bitrates and resolutions) with support up to 8K.

H.265(HEVC) is a video compression standard that is the successor to H.264(AVC). It offers a 25% to 50% better data compression at the same level of video quality, or improved video quality at the same bit-rate.

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a communications protocol developed by Apple that sends live and on‐demand audio and video to iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and PC.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is an adaptive streaming protocol that allows for a video stream to switch between bit rates on the basis of network performance, in order to keep a video playing.

OpenMAX™ is a cross-platform API that provides comprehensive streaming media codec and application portability by enabling accelerated multimedia components to be developed, integrated and programmed across multiple operating systems and silicon platforms.

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing. Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently.

Media Source Extensions (MSE) is a W3C specification that allows JavaScript to send byte streams to media codecs within Web browsers that support HTML5 video and audio. Also, this allows the implementation of client-side prefetching and buffering code for streaming media entirely in JavaScript.

WebRTC is an open-source project that adds real-time communication capabilities to your application that works on top of an open standard. It supports video, voice, and generic data to be sent between peers, allowing developers to build powerful voice- and video-communication solutions.

Podcasting

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Castopod is an open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.

Sovereign Feeds is a tool to Search for your podcasts and add them to your favorites.

IPFS Podcasting is a Decentralized Podcast Distribution over IPFS where you can crowd hosting podcast episodes with storage & bandwidth provided by volunteer nodes.

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

Vod2Pod-RSS is a tool that converts a YouTube or Twitch channel into a podcast with ease. It creates a podcast RSS that can be listened to directly inside any podcast client. VODs are transcoded to MP3 on the fly and no server storage is needed.

Podverse is creating an open source podcast app for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and Web.

Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning App for your Browser.

Alby wallet API is an implemented OAuth an open standard that apps use to provide client applications with secure delegated access. Thus Podverse users create an Alby wallet account or use their existing Alby account to grant specific access rights to their Alby wallet.

Blubrry is a podcast hosting service for publishing platform, live customer support, stress-free migration, and impactful statistics.

SATurn is a tool that lets you connect your getalby.com Account and see which content resonates most with your audience and recognize your top contributors.

AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial interest, so it respects your privacy while giving you full control.

Podgrab is a self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.

Podify is a self-hosted service that allows you to download videos and audio from any source supported by youtube-dl, sort the downloads into feeds, and subscribe to these feeds using your favorite podcast app.

dir2cast is designed to turn a directory of MP3s into a podcast - automatically. Perfect for, say, radio shows - upload the MP3s to a folder, and use dir2cast.php as your PodCast URL.

Snipd is an AI-powered podcast player. Search for moments in the transcript, get summaries, share clips to social media, and export to your second brain & note taking apps. Discover, save, and share highlights from podcasts.

Wave Share is a serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound.

KBD Audio is a collection of command-line and GUI tools for capturing and analyzing audio data.

AudioBooks

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Audioserve is a simple personal server to serve audio files from directories. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent directories structure will do. Focus here is on simplicity and minimalist design.

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

Jellyfin Bookshelf Plugin

Health

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Connect is the swiss army knife of healthcare integration.

Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 1000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics

ERPNext is a Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for managing businesses.

OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application. It features fully integrated electronic health records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalization, free support, a vibrant community, and a whole lot more. It runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS, and many other platforms.

Ryot (Roll Your Own Tracker) is a self hosted platform for tracking various facets of your life - media, fitness etc.

Gardening

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OpenSprinkler is an open-source, web-based smart sprinkler controller for lawn and plant watering, drip irrigation, farm irrigation, hydroponics etc. The current version is OS 3.2, with built-in WiFi (based on ESP8266) and OLED display.

Droplet is an ALL-IN-ONE Irrigation and monitoring system for ESPHome and Home Assistant.

9 Valve Sprinkler Controller is a 9 valve sprinkler controller for use with customized firmware such as ESPHOME.

GardenBot is an open source garden monitoring system. Their website is a collection of tutorials for how to build things (like a soil moisture sensor), software for running GardenBot, resources, links, and more.

farmOS is a web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping. It is developed by a community of farmers, developers, researchers, and organizations with the aim of providing a standard platform for agricultural data collection and management.

OpenFarm is a free and open database and web application for farming and gardening knowledge. One might think of it as the Wikipedia for growing plants, though it functions more like a cooking recipes site.

Growstuff is an open source/open data project for food gardeners. They crowdsource information on what our members are growing and harvesting, aggregate it, and make it available as open data via their API.

Harvest Helper is a tool that provides growing, harvesting and recipe information for the 45 plants in the database as well as a json api so that people can hopefully use this data to build other apps.

HappyPlants is a mobile web application that's all about collecting, organising, and adding all kinds of information of your plants. Basically, creating your own plant database in a visual way.

Automated irrigation system is an open source application to water plants automatically. Up to now there is almost no free professional software and instructions available to build a DYI irrigation that is scalable, accurate and most importantly, durable.

Pigrow is a garden automation suite designed to help gardeners monitor, log, graph and control their grow space using a raspberry Pi, various sensor and a few relay modules.

Tania is a farm management software for the hobbyist and smallholder farmer.

Maps

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Magic Earth is aTurn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit.

Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware.

MapTiler Server is a self-hosted Aerial and satellite imagery maps of the entire world from your own server or laptop.

GPSLogger is a GPS tool that uses the GPS capabilities of your Android phone to log coordinates to GPS format files at regular intervals. This can be particularly useful if you want to geotag your photos after a day out or share your travel route with someone.

KelperJs is a open source full-stack geosocial network platform.

OpenStreetMap(OSM) is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license. Hosting is supported by UCL, Fastly, Bytemark Hosting, and other partners.

uMap is a tool that lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.

Martin is a tile server able to generate vector tiles from large PostGIS databases on the fly, or serve tiles from PMTile and MBTile files. Martin optimizes for speed and heavy traffic, and is written in Rust.

MapLibre GL JS is an open-source library for publishing maps on your websites or webview based apps. Fast displaying of maps is possible thanks to GPU-accelerated vector tile rendering.

MapLibre Native is an Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.

Maplibre-rs is an Experimental Maps for Web, Mobile and Desktop.

Bookmarks

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Linkding is a simple bookmark service that you can host yourself. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

Linkwarden is a fully self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. Linkwarden Docker Image

LinkAce is a self-hosted bookmark archive to collect links of your favorite websites.

Eagle is a tool to collect, search and organize your design files in a logical way and all in one place.

Shlink is a self-hosted URL shortener that keeps control over all your shortened URLs, by serving them under your own domains, using this simple yet powerful tool.

Pinry is a tiling image board system for people who want to save, tag, and share images, videos and webpages in an easy to skim through format.

Shaark is a self-hosted platform to keep and share your content: web links, posts, passwords and pictures.

Maglit is an encrypted and privacy respecting Link Shortener service that supports not only your regular website links but also Magnet Links which are extensively used to download and share torrents.

Photos

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PhotoPrism® is an AI-powered app for browsing, organizing & sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.

Immich is a high performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

Piwigo is a full featured, self-hosted, and open source photo gallery application for the web. It comes with more than 200 templates, plugins, and configurations that let you personalize how your photos are presented. It allows users to upload photos from digiKam, Shotwell, Lightroom or mobile applications. Lastly, users can create galleries and give viewing permissions to their clients. They can download individual photos or whole albums, post comments, give ratings, mark photos as favorites, and perform searches.

Czkawka is a Multi-functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, etc.

Phockup is a Media sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day.

PiGallery 2 is a fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on Raspberry Pi).

Photoview is a simple self-hosted and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.

digiKam is a free and open-source Professional Photo Management tool.

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

PhotoSync is a service to wirelessly transfer, backup & share photos/videos to your computer, NAS, other phones and popular cloud/photo services. It's available for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

Lychee is a great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.

Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.

Gimme-iPhotos is a tool uses pyicloud to synchronize photos and videos from iCloud to your local machine.

PyiCloud is a module which allows pythonistas to interact with iCloud webservices. It's powered by the fantastic requests HTTP library.

Pixelfed is a fresh take on photo sharing. It decentralized ActivityPub protocol so you can comment, follow, and interact with remote Pixelfed, Mastodon and Pleroma posts and profiles from your Pixelfed account as if you were both on the same website.

Chevereto is an image hosting software that allows you to create a beautiful and full-featured image hosting website on your own server.

Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS.

Upscayl is a free and open source desktop application that lets you upscale your low resolution images using advanced AI Models. Upscayl is a Linux-First Application that prioritizes Linux builds but is also cross-platform.

Librephotos is a self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.

Librephotos frontend is a self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the frontend.

Librephotos Mobile is an open-source Android and iOS Mobile Application for self-hosted Librephotos Server.

Librephotos Docker is the Dockerfiles for the automated build process of LibrePhotos.

Pastebins

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Bepasty is a pastebin for all kinds of files.

Bin is a paste bin that's actually minimalist.

Dpaste is a Simple pastebin with multiple text and code option, with short url result easy to remember.

Drift is a Self-hosted Github Gist clone.

EdPaste is a Self-hosted pastebin written in Laravel (PHP Framework).

ExBin is a pastebin with public/private snippets and netcat server.

Fiche is a Command line pastebin, all you need is netcat.

Filite is a simple, light and standalone pastebin, URL shortener and file-sharing service.

FlashPaper is a one-time encrypted zero-knowledge password/secret sharing application focused on simplicity and security. No database or complicated set-up required.

Hasty Paste is a place to quickly paste some text and share it. Mostly used for sharing debug logs and such to help developers provide tech support. The project aims to be both fast and minimal.

Lenpaste is a Web service that allows you to share notes anonymously, an alternative to pastebin.

LogPaste is a Minimal pastebin web app that's easy to self-host and persists data to any S3-compatible backend.

MicroBin is a super tiny, feature rich, configurable, self-contained and self-hosted paste bin web application. It is very easy to set up and use, and will only require a few megabytes of memory and disk storage. MicroBin Docker install setup.

Opengist is a Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git.

Paaster is a secure by default end-to-end encrypted pastebin built with the objective of simplicity.

Pastefy - Beautiful, simple and easy to deploy Pastebin with optional Client-Encryption, Multitab-Pastes, an API, a highlighted Editor and more.

Pastila is a Minimalistic paste service. Single page, zero click experience.

Pasty is a fast and lightweight code pasting server.

PrivateBin is a minimalist, opensource online pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data.

Prologic pastebin is a Simple pastebin service with convenient api and CLI.

PurritoBin is a Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin, where the server has no knowledge of the paste data.

Rustypaste is a minimal file upload/pastebin service.

Spacebin is a Reliable Pastebin server in Golang and Fiber.

Sup3rS3cretMes5age is a simple to deploy and use secret message service using Hashicorp Vault as a secrets storage.

Wastebin is a Lightweight, minimal and fast pastebin with an SQLite backend.

YABin is a pastebin that contains plentiful features while remaining simple. Supports optional E2E encryption, a client-side CLI app, syntax highlighting, minimalistic UI, APIs, keyboard shortcuts, and more. It can even be run in serverless environments.

Note-Taking

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Joplin is an open source note-taking app that you can securely access from any device.

HedgeDoc is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor.

Lapce is a Lightning-fast And Powerful Code Editor written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust).

nb is a CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

Rustpad is an open-source collaborative text editor based on the operational transformation algorithm. Share a link to this pad with others, and they can edit from their browser while seeing your changes in real time.

Turtl is a secure, collaborative notebook for bookmarks or passwords, files or shopping lists.

The Everything App is an app where you can do everything: Protect your thoughts & data with end-to-end encryption. Local, on-device encryption. Only you have encryption keys. Offline account creation: control your keys, own your data. No server, no gatekeeper: peer-to-peer sync on local networks. Locally store your data, self-host your backups where you please.

TiddlyWiki is a single-file mode wiki application for todo lists, effective project management tool and of course writing drafts and notes. It has extensions for all the major browsers.

Laverna is a note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Consider it like open source alternative to Evernote.

Notesnook is a fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

Zettlr is an open-source Markdown editor for the 21st century.

Carnet is a complete open source note taking app. It has extensions for all the major browsers.

Frog is a tool that quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers inspired by Dash.

Time Monitoring

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ActivityWatch isn app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices.

Kimai is a free & open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand.

TimeTagger is an open source time-tracker based on an interactive timeline and powerful reporting.

Traggo is a tag-based time tracking tool. In Traggo there are no tasks, only tagged time spans.

Wikis

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Archivy is a self-hostable knowledge repository that allows you to learn and retain information in your own personal and extensible wiki.

BookStack - BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organizing and storing information. It allows for documentation to be stored in a book like fashion.

Cowyo - Cowyo is a feature-rich wiki for minimalists.

django-wiki - Wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.

Documize - Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.

Dokuwiki - Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.

Gitit - Wiki program that stores pages and uploaded files in a git repository, which can then be modified using the VCS command line tools or the wiki's web interface.

Gollum - Simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

Instiki - Instiki is a wiki clone so pretty and easy to set up, you'll wonder if it’s really a wiki. Runs on Rails and focuses on portability and stability.

Mediawiki - MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP. It serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, used by hundreds of millions of people each month.

Pepperminty Wiki - Complete markdown-powered wiki contained in a single PHP file.

PineDocs - Simple, fast, customizable and lightweight site for browsing files.

PmWiki - Wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

PukiWiki - PukiWiki is a free, simple, open-source wiki management system. Minimalistic and simple design with many tools for collaborative work. Created in Japanese, so translator needed.

Raneto - Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.

TiddlyWiki - Reusable non-linear personal web notebook.

Tiki - Wiki CMS Groupware with the most built-in features.

TWiki - TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal.

WackoWiki - WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine.

Gaming

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Cartridge is a self-hosted game library made with Laravel + Vue.js.

Cartridge Features

Scan for ROM files and match with IGDB game information
Serve ROM download links alongside game details
Manage access to library with user creation and permissions (WIP)
Allow users to request games (Planned)
Play select ROMs in-browser using JS emulators (Planned)
Track played and favorite games (even ones that aren't available for download) (Planned)

Moonlight Game Streaming is a program that let you stream from your PC games over the Internet with no configuration required. Stream from almost any device, whether you're in another room or miles away from your gaming rig. Sunshine is a Game stream host for Moonlight that is a self-hosted, low latency, cloud gaming solution with support for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs. It is an open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream.

Chiaki is a Free and Open Source Software Client for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch and potentially even more platforms.

Game Emulators

EmuDeck is a tool that takes care of everything for your retrogaming needs from RetroArch Configuration, Bezels, Gamepad Configuration for GameCube, Wii, Citra, SNES, etc. EmuDeck will even install EmulationStation Desktop Edition and carry over all their custom configurations and no need to configure ROM paths or anything.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) is a frontend application for browsing and launching games from your multi-platform game collection. It's available for Unix/Linux, macOS(M1 & Intel) and Windows.

RetroPie is a frontend for emulators that allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up.

RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players. It enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all. RetroArch Flatpak

Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.

LinuxGSM (Linux Game Server Managers) is a command-line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of Linux dedicated game servers.

Cartridge is a self-hosted game library made with Laravel + Vue.js.

Cartridge Features

Scan for ROM files and match with IGDB game information
Serve ROM download links alongside game details
Manage access to library with user creation and permissions (WIP)
Allow users to request games (Planned)
Play select ROMs in-browser using JS emulators (Planned)
Track played and favorite games (even ones that aren't available for download) (Planned)

Cartridge UI

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more.

Citra is an open-source emulator for the Nintendo 3DS capable of playing many of your favorite games.

yuzu is an experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.[

m64p is a Nintendo 64 Emulator. It uses mupen64plus-gui, a brand new mupen64plus frontend written in Qt5. It supports all of the things you’d expect from a frontend (savestate management, pausing, screenshots).

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator.

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

bsnes is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator focused on performance, features, and ease of use.

mGBA is a new emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack.

DOSBox is an open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.

Flycast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator derived from reicast.

PCSX2 is a PlayStation 2 'emulator', a free program that tries to replicate the PlayStation 2 console to enable you to play PS2 games on your PC.

RPCS3 is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows and Linux. RPCS3 started development in May of 2011 by its founders DH and Hykem. The emulator is currently capable of running over 1800 commercial titles powered by Vulkan and OpenGL.

MAME is a Arcade Machine Emulator.

xemu is an original Xbox emulator.

Xenia is an Xbox 360 Emulator.

Also checkout these subreddits for more great Game Emulators recommendations

Foundations/Projects

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Matter is an open standard for smart home technology that lets your device work with any Matter-certified ecosystem using a single protocol. Matter comes from the Connectivity Standards Alliance, an organization of hundreds of companies(Amazon, Apple, Google, Comcast, Zigbee Alliance, and Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) creating products for the smart home.

Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is a non-profit organization that advocates for open-source hardware. It aims to act as a hub of open source hardware activity of all types while actively cooperating with other initiatives such as the TAPR Open Hardware License, open-source development groups at CERN, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

The Open Connectivity Foundation is dedicated to ensuring secure interoperability for consumers, businesses and industries by delivering a standard communications platform, a bridging specification, an open source implementation and a certification program allowing devices to communicate regardless of form factor, operating system, service provider, transport technology or ecosystem.

Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.

OpenSSF(Open Source Security Foundation) is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security.

OpenJS Foundation is the premier home for critical open source JavaScript projects, including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, Node.js, and webpack, and 27 more.

EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral project under the Linux Foundation. The initiative is aligned around a common goal: the simplification and standardization of the foundation for edge computing architectures in the Industrial IoT market, while still allowing the ecosystem to add significant value.

Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable and commercially-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation.

System Hardware

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CPUs

Intel Processors(x86)

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I recommend using Intel CPUs no older than the second generation of the Intel Core processors (Core i7, i5, i3) AKA Sandy Bridge(Jan. 2011) for those that want to utilize Intel® Quick Sync Video. Though, if you're concerned about power efficiency(~5W idle) I would recommend 7th Generation or newer.

Also, I recommend using Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) a scalable, flexible, and extendable way to accelerate data encryption/decryption and compression for applications from networking to enterprise, cloud to storage, and content delivery to database. Available in 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and Intel Atom® Processor C Series/P Series.

AMD Processors(x86)

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Devices

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Note: Will be adding more device soon!

Raspberry Pi
Turing Pi 2
Home Assistant Yellow
ZimaBoard
ODROID-H3 and H3+
Intel® NUC Mini PCs
Beelink mini PC
M1 Mac Mini
Nexcom Industrial Computers
Aeotec MultiSensor 7, 6-in-1 Zwave Sensors
reTerminal Raspberry Pi (CM4 module) all-in-one board
KOOLCORE R1 - The smallest mini PC with 4 x 2.5G LANs
Khadas VIM1S
Asustor DriveStor 4 NAS
TRENDnet TEG-S350 (2.5 GbE) Switch
Storinator™ is a line of Ultra-Large, Direct-Wired storage Servers by 45Drives.
LattePanda Sigma is a powerful and compact x86 Windows single board computer (SBC). It features the 13th Intel® Core™ i5-1340P Rapter Lake (12-Core, 16-Thread) processor and 16GB Dual-Channel LPDDR5-6400MHz memory.
Apex Storage X21 is a storage solution that gives you have the freedom to choose system hardware thatworks best for you with the following benefits.
- Host 21 x M.2 Gen 4 NVME SSD’s
- 168 TB + Storage Per Card
- 31 GBps Read/Write Speeds
- Industry Leading IOPS
- 100 PCIe 4.0 Lanes
- Full UEFI/Secure Boot Support
GL.iNet is a leading developer of OpenWrt Wi-Fi and IoT Network Solutions. They build Wi-Fi routers, IoT gateways and remote device management platforms for a wide range of scenarios. All their routers include powerful built-in firewall, Shadow also supports OpenVPN, WireGuard® and customized DNS server in order to level up your online security.
Protectli Vault is a series of small computers that have firewalls with advanced firmware protection to keep your network safe. All Vaults are Opertaing System (OS) agnostic and support a variety of popular open source software distributions. Run a firewall like OPNsense, pfSense, or others. Also, run any hypervisor on your system.
Pockethernet is a smartphone connected Ethernet network analyzer & cable tester that fits into your pocket. It helps any IT admin dealing with Ethernet network installation and maintenance. It lets you check the ethernet link, find cable faults, PoE voltage, VLAN, DHCP results and much more with the press of a button.
ATOM ECHO is a Programmable Smart Speaker based on the M5ATOM design. Music can be played using the BT (Bluetooth Technology) capabilities of the ESP32 from a mobile phone or tablet. The device could be programmed to access AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms, using the built-in microphone and speaker for voice interaction.

Operating Systems

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Creating a bootable media device(USB/MicroSD card)

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.

Rufus

OR

Etcher is an open source, cross-platform software that makes it easy to flash operating system images to a microSD card or USB device.

Etcher UI

A List of Operating Systems that are great for either settig up a personal Home Server or a Enterprise Server for your Organization/Company.

Home Assistant OS is a container-based system for managing your Home Assistant Core installation and related applications. The system is controlled via Home Assistant which communicates with the Supervisor. The Supervisor provides an API to manage the installation. This includes changing network settings or installing and updating software.

Home Assistant OS

Umbrel is an OS for running a personal server in your home. It can Self-host open source apps like Nextcloud, Bitcoin node, and more.

Umbrel

CasaOS is a simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Home Cloud system.

CasaOS

TrueNAS® CORE is the world's most popular storage OS because it gives you the power to build your own professional-grade storage system to use in a variety of data-intensive applications without any software costs. It's based on FreeBSD and Linux, using the OpenZFS file system.

TrueNAS CORE

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Xfce4 Desktop

Enable the Community repository, then execute command:

apk add xfce4

Alpine Linux Xfce

Mate Desktop

Enable the Community repository, then execute command:

apk add mate-desktop-environment

Alpine Linux MATE

Ubuntu is a modern open source operating system on Linux for the enterprise Server, Desktop, Cloud, and IoT developed by Canonical.

Ubuntu Server
Ubuntu for ARM
Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu Flavours is for those that prefer an alternative desktop environment such as KDE Plasma Desktop, MATE, Xfce, LXQt, Budgie, and UKUI you can download a Flavour for your preferred desktop environment and use that to install Ubuntu, pre-configured for the desktop environment of your choice.

Ubuntu

Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.

Debian 11

Linux Mint is a modern, elegant, and comfortable open source operating system(based on Debian and Ubuntu), which is both powerful and easy to use for both new and advanced users. The flagsip version of Linux Mint uses the Cinnamon desktop environment similiar to Windows 7.

Linux Mint

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) uses Debian Bullseye as the base for a very stable and rock solid user experience with the Cinnamon desktop.

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)

Pop!_OS created by System76.

Pop!_OS

Fedora Linux is a polished, easy to use operating system for laptop & desktop computers, with a complete set of tools for developers and makers of all kinds. The OS serves as the foundation for which you can scale existing apps and roll out emerging technologies across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments.

Fedora Spins is for those that prefer an alternative desktop environment such as KDE Plasma Desktop, MATE; or Xfce, you can download a spin for your preferred desktop environment and use that to install Fedora, pre-configured for the desktop environment of your choice.
Fedora Server is a powerful, flexible operating system that includes the best and latest datacenter technologies. It puts you in control of all your infrastructure and services.
Fedora ARM is an initiative to bring versions of Fedora tailored for running on ARM-based systems.
Fedora Silverblue is a variant of the Fedora Workstation that uses rpm-ostree to provide an immutable OS image with reliable updates and easy rollbacks.
Fedora Kinoite is an immutable desktop operating system. It aims to be extremely stable and reliable. It also aims to be an excellent platform for developers and for those using container-focused workflows. Kinoite is a variant of the Fedora KDE Spin.
Fedora CoreOS is an automatically-updating, minimal operating system for running containerized workloads securely and at scale.

Fedora Linux

CentOS Stream is a continuously delivered distro(uses the Fedora OS base) that tracks just ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, positioned as a midstream between Fedora Linux and RHEL.

CentOS Stream

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) the world's leading enterprise Linux platform. The OS serves as the foundation for which you can scale existing apps and roll out emerging technologies across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

AlmaLinux is an open source enterprise-ready Linux distribution forked from Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL). It's a very stable/solid operating system especially for production envrionments such as servers, though, you can also install a GUI on AlmaLinux and use it as a desktop OS. It was founded by the team behind the CloudLinux OS.

AlmaLinux Desktop Setup and Install

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible and forked from Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) now that its downstream partner(Red Hat) has shifted direction.

Rocky Linux Desktop

SUSE is a leading Linux OS most adaptable Linux operating system and the only open Kubernetes management platform thanks to their acquistion of Rancher. They also developer of SUSE Linux Enterprise and the primary sponsor of the community-supported openSUSE Project, which develops the openSUSE Linux distribution.

openSUSE Leap is a brand new way of building openSUSE and is new type of a hybrid Linux distribution. Leap uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best stable Linux experience available.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a pure rolling release version of openSUSE containing the latest "stable" versions of all software instead of relying on rigid periodic release cycles. The project does this for users that want the newest stable software.
openSUSE Kubic is a multi-purpose Standalone & Kubernetes Container Operating System based on openSUSE MicroOS. Kubic uses kubeadm to provide an easy way of configuring a Kubernetes cluster across multiple machines, while our MicroOS base keeps your operating system updated automatically, with fully atomic rollbacks if required.
openSUSE MicroOS is a M icro Service OS providing Transactional (Atomic) Updates upon a read-only btrfs root filesystem. It's designed to host container workloads with automated administration & patching.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

openSUSE

NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. It has tools dedicated to DevOps and deployment tasks. NixOS Guide

Nix Tour is an interactive tour that uses the actual package manager to learn you the language by example, in the browser.
Nix is a package manager and build system that parses reproducible build instructions specified in the Nix Expression Language, is a pure functional language with lazy evaluation. Nix expressions are pure functions taking dependencies as arguments and producing derivation specifying a reproducible build environment for the package. Nix stores the results of the build in unique addresses specified by a hash of the complete dependency tree, creating an immutable package store that allows for atomic upgrades, rollbacks and concurrent installation of different versions of a package, essentially eliminating dependency hell.
Nix Expression Language is a pure, lazy, functional language. Purity means that operations in the language don't have side-effects (for instance, there is no variable assignment). The language is not a full-featured, general purpose language. Its main job is to describe packages, compositions of packages, and the variability within packages.
Nixpkgs is the largest repository of Nix packages(over 80,000 packages) and NixOS modules. The repository is hosted on GitHub and maintained by the community, with official backing from the NixOS Foundation. Additionally, checkout Language-specific package helpers and Alternative Package Sets.
NixOS Packages Search is a tool for searching through NixOS packages.

NixOS Packages Search

NixOS Desktop with the new Calamares Installer

NixOS with the Plasma Desktop

BSD

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FreeBSD is an Unix-like operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

FreeBSD Software ports. Source: FreeBSD Software

OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution. It comes with a secure minimal firewall, webserver, mailserver, and an optional graphical desktop.

NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices.

NetBSD Documentation

DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8.

DragonFly Documentation

The BSD Desktop for the average user

GhostBSD is a simple desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD with MATE, OpenRC and OS packages for simplicity. GhostBSD has a selection of commonly used software preinstalled and required to start using it to its full potential.

GhostBSD Desktop. Source:GhostBSD

Storage

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Useful Tools for Storage Management

Scrutiny is a WebUI for smartd Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.

smartd is SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon for Linux. It controls and monitors storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

DUA (Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible. Optionally delete superfluous data, and do so more quickly than rm.

Perkeep is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data. It can be easily accessed via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.

duf is a Disk Usage/Free Utility for Linux, BSD, macOS & Windows.

Dirstat-rs is a fast, cross-platform disk usage CLI, similar to Windirstat.

Dutree is a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.

Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows to create multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes.

btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.

Btrfs maintenance toolbox is a set of scripts supplementing the btrfs filesystem and aims to automate a few maintenance tasks. This means the scrub, balance, trim or defragmentation.

File systems

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FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file system to a compressed archive file. The file system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file system.

WekaFS is the world's fastest shared parallel file system and delivers unmatched performance at ANY scale while offering the same enterprise features and benefits of traditional storage. It meets all storage challenges, delivering 10x the performance of legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems and 3x the performance of local server storage.

GlusterFS is a free and open source scalable network filesystem. Gluster is a scalable network filesystem. Using common off-the-shelf hardware, you can create large, distributed storage solutions for media streaming, data analysis, and other data- and bandwidth-intensive tasks.

Ceph is a software-defined storage solution designed to address the object, block, and file storage needs of data centers adopting open source as the new norm for high-growth block storage, object stores and data lakes. Ceph provides enterprise scalable storage while keeping CAPEX and OPEX costs in line with underlying bulk commodity disk prices.

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed file system that handles large data sets running on commodity hardware. It is used to scale a single Apache Hadoop cluster to hundreds (and even thousands) of nodes. HDFS is one of the major components of Apache Hadoop, the others being MapReduce and YARN.

ZFS is an enterprise-ready open source file system and volume manager with unprecedented flexibility and an uncompromising commitment to data integrity.

ZFSBootMenu is a Linux bootloader that attempts to provide an experience similar to the FreeBSD bootloader. It takes advantage of ZFS features, it allows a user to have multiple “boot environments” (with different distros, for example), manipulate snapshots before booting, and even bootstrap a system installation via zfs recv.

OpenZFS is an open-source storage platform. It includes the functionality of both traditional file systems and volume manager. It has many advanced features including:

Protection against data corruption.
Integrity checking for both data and metadata.
Continuous integrity verification and automatic "self-healing" repair.

Btrfs is a modern copy on write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while also focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Its main features and benefits are:

Snapshots which do not make the full copy of files
RAID - support for software-based RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10
Self-healing - checksums for data and metadata, automatic detection of silent data corruptions

Composefs is a native Linux file system designed to help sharing filesystem contents, as well as ensuring said content is not modified. The initial target usecase are container images and ostree commits.

MergerFS is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

MergerFS Features

Configurable behaviors / file placement
Ability to add or remove filesystems at will
Resistance to individual filesystem failure
Support for extended attributes (xattrs)
Support for file attributes (chattr)
Runtime configurable (via xattrs)
Works with heterogeneous filesystem types
Moving of file when filesystem runs out of space while writing
Ignore read-only filesystems when creating files
Turn read-only files into symlinks to underlying file
Hard link copy-on-write / CoW
Support for POSIX ACLs

Proxmox Cluster File System (PMXCFS) is a File System used to transparently distribute the cluster configuration to all cluster nodes.

UnionFS is a filesystem service for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD which implements a union mount for other file systems. It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system.

OverlayFS is a modern union filesystem that is similar to AUFS, but faster and with a simpler implementation. It's typically used on systems running on embed devices, like OpenWRT, where is useful to preserve a basic set of configurations and at the same time allowing the user to perform modifications.

Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem. Scalability has been tested to 50+ TB, will eventually scale far higher.

Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, or xz compression to compress files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimize data overhead.

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.

CubeFS is a cloud native distributed storage platform. It's commonly used as the storage infrastructure for online applications, database or data processing services and machine learning jobs orchestrated by Kubernetes.

Apple File System (APFS) is the default file system for Mac computers using macOS 10.13 or later, features strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, fast directory sizing, and improved file system fundamentals.

NTFS(New Technology File System) is the primary file system for recent versions of Windows and Windows Server—provides a full set of features including security descriptors, encryption, disk quotas, and rich metadata, and can be used with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) to provide continuously available volumes that can be accessed simultaneously from multiple nodes of a failover cluster.

exFAT(Extended File Allocation Table ) is the file system that was the successor to FAT32 in the FAT family of file systems. It was optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards.

Books

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Self-hosted Cookbook is a cookbook, for docker-compose based recipes, for self-hosted applications and services.
Geek's Cookbook is a collection of guides for establishing your own highly-available "private cloud" and using it to run self-hosted services such as GitLab, Plex, NextCloud, etc.
Database Books(PDFs)

Podcasts

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Self-Hosted Podcast is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you along for the journey as they learn new ones.
Self-Hosted SRE(Site Reality Engineer) Podcast is a feed to say thank you to our Self-Hosted Site Reality Engineers!
Home Assistant Podcast is a biweekly podcast with the latest news and interesting guests.

WireGuard

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What is WireGuard?

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WireGuard® is a straight-forward, fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec while avoiding the massive headache. WireGuard is designed as a general-purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many circumstances. Initially released for the Linux kernel, it is now cross-platform (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Android) and widely deployable.

What is Tailscale?

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Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale. It works like an overlay network between the computers of your networks using all kinds of NAT traversal sorcery.

How NAT Traversal works on a Home router. Credit: Tailscale.

Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server.

What is Netmaker?

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Netmaker is a tool that enables you to create relays, gateways, full VPN meshes, and even zero trust networks. It's fully configurable to let you maximize the power of Wireguard.

NetMaker Architecture. Credit: Netmaker.

WireGuard Tools

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Wiretrustee is a WireGuard®-based mesh network that connects your devices into a single private network.

Wireguard Manager is a tool that enables you to build your own vpn under a minute.

Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale. It works like an overlay network between the computers of your networks using all kinds of NAT traversal sorcery.

Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server.

Firezone is a self-hosted WireGuard®-based VPN server and Linux firewall.

NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.

Mistborn is a secure platform for easily standing up and managing your own cloud services: including firewall, ad-blocking, and multi-factor WireGuard VPN access.

Mistborn CLI is a Command-line interface for Mistborn.

BoringTun is an implementation of the WireGuard® protocol designed for portability and speed. It's successfully deployed on millions of iOS and Android consumer devices as well as thousands of Cloudflare Linux servers.

PiVPN is the simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi.

Algo VPN is a set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal WireGuard and IPsec VPN. It uses the most secure defaults available and works with common cloud providers.

Pro Custodibus is a tool for managing WireGuard with a variety of business VPN (Virtual Private Network) use cases, such as site-to-site connectivity, secure remote access from anywhere, secure access to the cloud (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc), and more.

Drago is a flexible configuration manager for WireGuard designed to make it simple to configure secure network overlays spanning heterogeneous nodes distributed across different clouds and physical locations. Drago is in active development, and we welcome contributions from the open-source community.

Netmaker is a tool that helps connect any computers together over a secure, fast, private network, and manage multiple networks from a central server.

Kilo is a multi-cloud network overlay built on WireGuard and designed for Kubernetes. Kilo connects nodes in a cluster by providing an encrypted layer 3 network that can span across data centers and public clouds. The Pod network created by Kilo is always fully connected, even when the nodes are in different networks or behind NAT. By allowing pools of nodes in different locations to communicate securely, Kilo enables the operation of multi-cloud clusters. Kilo's design allows clients to VPN to a cluster in order to securely access services running on the cluster.

Subspace is a simple WireGuard VPN server GUI.

WG UI is a basic, self-contained management service for WireGuard with a self-serve web UI.

WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, PiHole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create and deploy a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities (via Pihole), and DNS caching with additional privacy options (via Unbound).

Gluetun is a lightwieght VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and uses OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

Ethr is a cross platform network performance measurement tool written in golang. The goal of this project is to provide a native tool for comprehensive network performance measurements of bandwidth, connections/s, packets/s, latency, loss & jitter, across multiple protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, and across multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux and other Unix systems.

Setting up WireGuard with PiVPN

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Installing PiVPN:

sudo apt install curl -y

curl -L https://install.pivpn.io | bash

Setting up WireGuard on Unraid

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Select Apps, then search for WireGuard and install Wireguard-Easy.

VPN manager

Almost all of the settings can stay as default, however, there are a few that we will modify.

Set the WG_HOST variable to be the IP address of your Unraid server.
If you’d like to modify the WireGuard port (51820), you can do that here.
Change the default Web GUI password.

Setting up WireGuard on pfSense

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When looking at how to set up WireGuard on pfSense, the first thing that we need to do is install the package. Follow the instructions below to install the WireGuard package on pfSense.

Open the Package Manager and search for WireGuard, then Install the latest version of the package.

After the package has installed, select VPN then WireGuard and under the Tunnels section, select Add Tunnel.
In the Tunnel Configuration, set the Description as WireGuard, the Listen Port as 51820, then Generate private and public keys.
Copy the Public Key. We will need this for our client configuration.
Create the tunnel, then select Settings, and ensure that Enable WireGuard is selected. Then Save and Apply.

Setting up WireGuard on OpenWRT

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Quick Links:

In your router’s webUI, navigate to System - Software, click Update lists:

In the Filter field, type WireGuard, locate and install the wireguard, wireguard-tools, kmod-wireguard, and luci-app-wireguard packages. Note: The wireguard package is included in version 22.02.

Generate WireGuard keypair

SSH into your router as ‘root’ (OpenWrt Wiki):

ssh [email protected]

Generate WireGuard keys:

wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey

chmod 600 privatekey

Note your Private & Public keys, you will need them later:

cat privatekey

cat publickey

Creating an Interface

Navigate to Network - Interface,

Click the Add new interface... button and enter the following configuration:

Name - give it any name
Protocol - WireGuard VPN

Create interface

In the General Settings tab:

Bring up on boot - Checked
Private Key - copy and paste the generated previously Private key
IP Address - enter the WireGuard IP Address obtained in the Client Area ending with /32, e.g. 172.27.124.169/32

Add a Firewall zone

Navigate to Network - Firewall

Click the Add button and enter the following configuration:

Name - Give it any name
Input - Reject
Output - Accept
Forward - Reject
Masquerading - Checked
MSS clamping - Checked
Covered networks - select the previously created VPN tunnel interface
Allow forward to destination zones - Unspecified
Allow forward from source zones - lan

DNS

Navigate to Network - Interfaces

Click on the Edit button next to the WAN interface

In the Advanced Settings tab, uncheck the Use DNS servers advertised by peer and specify one of the following DNS servers in the Use custom DNS servers field:

172.16.0.1 = regular DNS with no blocking
10.0.254.2 = standard AntiTracker to block advertising and malware domains
10.0.254.3 = Hardcore Mode AntiTracker to also block Google and Facebook domains

Click the Save button.

Last Steps

A device reboot is not required, though it may be useful to confirm that everything behaves as expected.
Run a leak test at https://www.dnsleaktest.com via one of the internal network clients attached to your OpenWRT router.

Setting up WireGuard on Home Assistant

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Install Wireguard Add-on in Home Assistant

Next, open up Home Assistant. Go to Supervisor > Add-on store, and search for WireGuard.
Click the WireGuard addon, and the click Install.

Configure Wireguard Settings

After installing WireGuard, do not start it yet. We need to configure a few options first.

Click the Configuration tab at the very top.
There are two blocks of code here: server and peers. The server section is the WireGuard server info, and the peers section is where you’d add new devices that will connect to your VPN.

Server Configuration

Host: add the subdomain you just created. (vpn.mydomain.com)
Addresses: If your internal network is using the 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x range, you can leave the default IP addresses WireGuard has provided. (see note above)
DNS: Set to your router’s internal IP address (Open CMD > ipconfig /all > Under DNS servers) If you have Adguard or PiHole installed, you can use the IP address of those instead. This will allow you to block ads even when connected to the WireGuard VPN.

Peers Configuration

This is where you’ll create WireGuard configuration files for each of the devices you want to connect to WireGuard with. For this example, I’m using my phone and leaving allowed_ips and client_allowed_ips as is. If you adding multiple devices, then you’ll need to copy the entire block of code starting at name, give it a different name, and add the next available IP address (For example: 172.27.66.4)

Click Save once finished.

Then, go back to the Info tab and click Start.

Port Forward

The next step is to forward port 51820 from your Home Assistant server through your router. Unfortunately, there are so many different types of routers, each with different steps to port forward. The important thing to note is that you’ll be port forwarding 51820(wireguard port) from the internal IP of your Home Assistant instance (for example: 192.168.68.24) and choosing the UDP protocol only.

Download Wireguard app on mobile device

Download the WireGuard app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. You will need it for the next step.

If all goes well, you can click into the new tunnel connection from within the app. If you see data flowing under the Transfer section, that means you are good to go.

Improving Security

Once you have everything setup and working correctly, you should read through the WireGuard Addon docs to setup up allowed_ips and client_allowed_ips to further secure your VPN instance. There’s also some other helpful options you can configure such as log level, but these are all optional.

Nextcloud

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Nextcloud is an industry-leading, on-premises content collaboration platform for file sync & share and communication server. It is fully open source and you can host it yourself or pay a company to do it for you. Also checkout the following links below:

Nexcloud login screen

Nextcloud Hub is a tool that allows you to share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks. As fully on-premises solution, Nextcloud Hub provides the benefits of online collaboration without the compliance and security risks.

Nexcloud Hub

Nextcloud AIO (All In One) is a tool that provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.

Features it includes:

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Nextcloud Office
High performance backend for Nextcloud Files
High performance backend for Nextcloud Talk
Backup solution (based on BorgBackup)
Imaginary
ClamAV
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