🚀 Awesome DevOps

• A curated list of awesome DevOps tools, technologies, and resources to help you build, deploy, and maintain modern applications.
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📋 Table of Contents

• Version Control
• CI/CD
• Container Technologies
• Container Orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code
• Configuration Management
• Monitoring & Observability
• Logging
• Cloud Platforms
• Open Source Cloud Platforms
• Operating Systems
• Distributed Filesystems
• Internal Developer Platforms
• Artifact Management
• Service Mesh
• Service Discovery
• Chaos Engineering
• API Gateway
• Code Review
• Distributed Messaging
• Programming Languages
• Chat and ChatOps
• Security & Compliance
• Incident Management
• Project Management
• Bug Tracking
• Code Editors
• Continuous Testing
• AI SRE Tools
• VPN
• Databases
• Web Servers
• SSL
• GitOps
• MCP
• Networking Tools

Version Control

Tool	Description
Azure DevOps	Microsoft's comprehensive DevOps platform integrating Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, project boards, testing tools, and artifact management.
Bitbucket	Atlassian's Git repository hosting platform with pull requests, code reviews, branch permissions, and built-in CI/CD.
Gitea	Lightweight self-hosted Git service written in Go, offering issue tracking, pull requests, and wiki pages.
Git	Distributed version control system for tracking code changes, enabling branching, merging, and collaborative development.
Gitblit	Pure Java Git solution providing web interface, user management, access control, and repository mirroring.
GitHub	Web-based platform for Git hosting, code collaboration, pull requests, issues, wikis, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
GitLab	Complete DevOps platform with Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, security scanning, monitoring, and container registry.
Gogs	Simple self-hosted Git service with web interface, issue tracking, and wiki support.
Phabricator	Collection of web tools for code review, repository browsing, task management, and project collaboration.
Radicle	Sovereign peer-to-peer network for decentralized Git collaboration with issue tracking and patch management.
RhodeCode	Centralized repository manager supporting Git, Mercurial, and Subversion with web interface and CI/CD integration.

CI/CD

Tool	Description
Argo	Open Source Kubernetes native workflows, events, CI and CD.
ArgoCD	Declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes applications.
Bamboo	Atlassian's CI/CD server that ties automated builds, tests, and releases together in a single workflow.
Bitrise	CI/CD for mobile applications.
Buildbot	Automate all aspects of the software development cycle.
Buildkite	Run fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines on your own infrastructure.
CircleCI	Cloud-based CI/CD platform with fast builds and easy configuration using YAML files.
Cirrus CI	Continuous integration system built for the era of cloud computing.
Codefresh	GitOps automation platform for Kubernetes apps.
Concourse	Pipeline-based continuous thing-doer.
Dagger	CI/CD as Code that Runs Anywhere.
Drone	Container-native continuous delivery platform built on Docker.
Earthly	Develop CI/CD pipelines locally and run them anywhere.
Evergreen	A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB.
Flagger	Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments).
GitHub Actions	Workflow automation platform integrated directly into GitHub repositories for CI/CD pipelines.
GitLab CI/CD	Built-in continuous integration and deployment tool within GitLab platform.
GitLab Pipelines by puzl.cloud	Blazing-fast, cost-effective execution layer for GitLab CI/CD pipeline jobs, offering per-second billing and k8s API for runner management.
goCD	Delivery and Release Automation server.
Integrity	Continuous Integration server.
Jenkins	Open-source automation server for building, testing, and deploying software with extensive plugin ecosystem.
Kraken CI	Modern CI/CD, open-source, on-premise system that is highly scalable and focused on testing.
PipeCD	Continuous Delivery for Declarative Kubernetes, Serverless and Infrastructure Applications.
Semaphore Community Edition	Open-source CI/CD for building, testing, and deploying projects.
Spinnaker	Fast, safe, repeatable deployments for every Enterprise.
Strider	Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration platform.
TeamCity	JetBrains' build management and continuous integration server with powerful features.
Tekton	Cloud-native CI/CD framework for creating pipelines on Kubernetes.
Travis CI	Hosted continuous integration service for testing and deploying projects hosted on GitHub.
werf	Open Source CI/CD tool for building Docker images & deploying them to Kubernetes using a GitOps approach.
Zuul	Drives continuous integration, delivery, and deployment systems with a focus on project gating.

Container Technologies

Tool	Description
containerd	Industry-standard container runtime focusing on simplicity, robustness, and portability.
CRI-O	Lightweight container runtime specifically for Kubernetes.
Docker	Platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in isolated containers.
LXC/LXD	Linux container technology providing OS-level virtualization.
Podman	Daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers.

Container Orchestration

Tool	Description
Amazon ECS	AWS's fully managed container orchestration service.
Amazon EKS	Managed Kubernetes service on AWS.
Azure AKS	Managed Kubernetes service on Microsoft Azure.
Docker Swarm	Native clustering and orchestration tool for Docker containers.
Google GKE	Managed Kubernetes service on Google Cloud Platform.
Kubernetes	Open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management.
KubeVela	Modern application delivery platform for hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
Nomad	HashiCorp's flexible workload orchestrator for containers and non-containerized applications.
OpenShift	Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes platform with developer and operational tools.

Infrastructure as Code

Tool	Description
Atlantis	Terraform Pull Request Automation for automated infrastructure code reviews.
AWS CloudFormation	AWS service for modeling and provisioning cloud resources using templates.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)	Deployment and management service for Azure with template-based deployments.
CDK (Cloud Development Kit)	AWS framework for defining cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.
Crossplane	Open-source Kubernetes add-on for managing cloud infrastructure.
Digger	Open-source Infrastructure as Code management tool for CI/CD systems.
Deployment.io	DevOps co-pilot for developers to automate deployments to AWS.
Google Cloud Deployment Manager	Infrastructure deployment service for Google Cloud Platform.
Pulumi	Modern infrastructure as code platform supporting multiple programming languages.
Selefra	Open-source policy-as-code software providing analytics for multi-cloud and SaaS.
Spacelift	Flexible orchestration solution for Infrastructure as Code development.
Stacktape	Developer-friendly Infrastructure as Code framework built on top of AWS.
Terraform	HashiCorp's tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Terrateam	Open-source alternative to Terraform Cloud with GitOps-first approach.
Terragrunt	Thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for managing multiple Terraform modules.

Configuration Management

Tool	Description
Ansible	Agentless automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.
CFEngine	Lightweight configuration management system focused on high-scale automation.
Chef	Configuration management tool using Ruby-based DSL for system configuration automation.
Puppet	Automated configuration management and deployment platform for infrastructure as code.
SaltStack	Python-based event-driven automation and configuration management platform.
RapidForge.io	Create endpoints, forms, and tasks using scripts to automate workflows.
CloudRay	Centralized platform for managing servers and automating infrastructure tasks.

Monitoring & Observability

Tool	Description
Alerta	Scalable monitoring system with minimal configuration.
angle-grinder	Slice and dice log files on the command line.
AWS CloudWatch	Amazon's monitoring and observability service for AWS resources and applications.
Amon	Modern server monitoring platform.
Anemometer	MySQL Slow Query Monitor.
Apitally	Analytics, request logging and monitoring for REST APIs with a focus on simplicity and data privacy.
AppSignal	Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts, detect anomalies — all in one tool.
Autometrics	Open-source micro framework for observability.
Banshee	Real-time anomalies(outliers) detection system for periodic metrics.
BetterUptime	Free for 10 monitors, checked every 3 minutes, improved incident management capabilities.
Better Stack	Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.
BlueWave Uptime	Open-source, self-hosted monitoring tool built with React.js, Node.js, and MongoDB, designed to track server uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations.
Bolo	Building distributed, scalable monitoring systems.
Brubeck	Statsd-compatible stats aggregator written in C.
Bugsnag	Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation.
cAdvisor	Analyzes resource usage and performance of running containers.
Cachet	Beautiful open-source status page system.
Canary Checker	Open-source health check platform.
Cabot	Self-hosted monitoring and alerts service.
Cacti	Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
Centreon	IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.
Checkly	Code-first synthetic monitoring for modern DevOps. Monitor your APIs and apps at a fraction of the price of legacy providers. Powered by a Monitoring as Code workflow and Playwright.
check_mk	Collection of extensions for Nagios.
Collectd	System statistics collection daemon.
Dash	A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine.
Datadog	Cloud-scale monitoring and analytics platform for infrastructure and applications.
dish	A lightweight monitoring service that efficiently checks socket connections and can be configured remotely.
Dynatrace	AI-powered full-stack monitoring platform for applications and infrastructure.
elmah.io	Uptime monitoring combined with application error logging.
ElastiFlow	Network flow monitoring with the Elastic Stack.
Elastic APM	Application performance monitoring built on the Elastic Stack.
Facette	Time series data visualization software.
Flapjack	Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.
Fluere	Versatile network interface monitoring and analysis tool, capable of capturing network packets in pcap format, NetFlow data. supports lua based plugins.
Freeboard	Real-time dashboard builder for IoT and web mashups.
Freshping	Free for 50 monitors, checked every 1 minutes, supports websocket monitoring.
Glances	Monitoring information through a curses or web interface.
Globalping CLI	Run network commands like ping, traceroute, and mtr from global locations.
Grai	Open-source observability integrating data impact analysis into CI.
Grafana	Open-source platform for monitoring and observability with beautiful, customizable dashboards.
gvisor	Container runtime sandbox.
Graphite	Store numeric time-series data and render graphs.
Healthchecks	Cron monitoring tool.
Heap Analytics	Easy event tracking without coding.
HolmesGPT	Open-source AI assistant for investigating alerts and finding root causes.
Honeybadger	Monitor application errors, performance, uptime, and logs in one simple tool for developers.
Icinga	Monitors availability and performance.
InfluxDB	Time series database.
Instatus	Quick and beautiful status page.
Keep	Open-source alerting CLI for developers.
Last9	OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for APM, metrics, logs, and traces, built to handle high-cardinality data at scale.
Levitate	A Managed Time Series Metrics and Events Warehouse built to handle High Cardinality data.
LibreNMS	Fork of Observium.
Loggly	Aggregate & analyze logs from any source.
Logit.io	Centralise logs and metrics using the ELK Stack, Grafana & Open Distro.
Matomo	Take back control with Matomo – a powerful web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ownership.
Merlinn	Open-source AI on-call developer.
Middleware	Full-stack cloud observability platform.
Moira	Most powerful alerting system, backed by Graphite.
Monit	Managing and monitoring Unix systems.
Monitive	Free for 1 service, checked every 10 minutes with unlimited email & twitter alerts.
Munin	Networked resource monitoring tool.
Naemon	Fast, stable, and innovative monitoring framework.
Nagios	Powerful monitoring system for infrastructure, services, and applications.
Netdata	Instantly diagnose slowdowns and anomalies in infrastructure.
New Relic	Observability platform providing insights into application performance and user experience.
Observium	SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux.
openITCOCKPIT	Powerful open-source monitoring tool built upon Naemon or Nagios, featuring seamless integration with Grafana, an array of comprehensive reports, and visualizations.
OpenTelemetry	Vendor-neutral observability framework for collecting metrics, logs, and traces.
Opsview	Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.
openssl	Cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit.
OverOps	OverOps provides Automated Root Cause (ARC) analysis to reduce the time to identify and fix critical production application errors.
PCP (Performance Co-Pilot)	System performance analysis toolkit.
Phare	Free 100k monitoring events per months, 30s intervals, unlimited users, incident management, and sleek status pages.
Prometheus	Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit with powerful query language and time-series database.
Screpy	Screpy is a web analyzer and monitoring tool. Its powered by Google Lighthouse.
Sematext Cloud	Infrastructure and log monitoring with service and log auto-discovery. Basic plan is free.
Sematext Logs	Log monitoring with log auto-discovery and alerting; comes with out of the box dashboards, pipelines for transforming, masking, dropping, sampling log events and more. Basic plan is free.
Sematext Synthetics	Website uptime, API, and SSL certificate monitoring. Includes status pages and scriptable multi-page user transaction monitoring, etc.
Sensu	Simple, scalable, multi-cloud monitoring.
Sentry	Error monitoring that helps discover, triage, and prioritize errors.
Seyren	An alerting dashboard for Graphite.
Shinken	Monitoring framework.
Shynet	Modern, privacy-friendly, and cookie-free web analytics.
StatusList.app	Uptime monitoring with debug details and hosted status page in one dashboard.
StatusPal	Communicate incidents and maintenance effectively.
Tig	Text-mode interface for Git.
Steampipe	Universal SQL interface for any cloud API and dashboards.
UpTime.onl	Free for 10 URLs, checked every 5 minutes.
UpTime360	checked every 5 minutes. Monitor server, website, blacklist, custom services and publish status pages.
Uptime Kuma	An easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool.
UptimeRobot	Free for 50 monitors, checked every 5 minutes.
Zabbix	Enterprise-class monitoring solution for networks, servers, and applications.

Logging

Tool	Description
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)	Popular log management and analysis solution for centralized logging.
Fluentd	Open-source data collector for unified logging layer.
Graylog	Free and open-source log management platform with powerful search capabilities.
Loki	Horizontally scalable log aggregation system designed by Grafana Labs.
Seq	Centralized structured logging for .NET applications.
Splunk	Platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data.

Cloud Platforms

Tool	Description
Alibaba Cloud	Integrated suite of cloud products and services.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	Comprehensive cloud computing platform with 200+ services worldwide.
Microsoft Azure	Cloud computing platform with integrated tools for building and managing applications.
DigitalOcean	Developer-friendly cloud platform with simple pricing and easy-to-use interface.
Equinix	Global data center and colocation provider for enterprise network and cloud computing.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)	Suite of cloud computing services running on Google infrastructure.
IBM Cloud	Cloud platform combining PaaS and IaaS with AI and analytics capabilities.
Kinsta	Create and deploy web applications and databases in minutes.
Linode	Cloud hosting provider offering virtual machines and Kubernetes engine.
Oracle Cloud	Enterprise cloud computing platform with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
Scaleway	Single way to create, deploy, and scale infrastructure in the cloud.
Vultr	Easily deploy cloud servers, bare metal, and storage worldwide.

Security & Compliance

Tool	Description
Aqua Security	Container and cloud-native security platform.
Checkov	Static code analysis tool for infrastructure as code security and compliance.
Falco	Cloud-native runtime security tool for Kubernetes threat detection.
Open Policy Agent (OPA)	Policy-based control engine for cloud-native environments.
SonarQube	Platform for continuous inspection of code quality and security vulnerabilities.
Snyk	Developer security platform for finding and fixing vulnerabilities in code and dependencies.
Trivy	Open-source vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts.
Vault	HashiCorp's tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management.

Artifact Management

Tool	Description
AWS ECR	Fully managed Docker container registry on AWS.
Docker Registry	Storage and distribution system for Docker images.
Google Artifact Registry	Universal package manager for containers and language packages on GCP.
Harbor	Open-source container registry with security, identity, and management features.
JFrog Artifactory	Universal artifact repository manager with advanced features for DevOps.
Nexus Repository	Universal artifact repository manager supporting multiple formats.

Service Mesh

Tool	Description
AWS App Mesh	Service mesh providing application-level networking on AWS.
Consul	HashiCorp's service mesh solution with service discovery and configuration.
Istio	Open-source service mesh providing traffic management, security, and observability.
Linkerd	Lightweight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes.

GitOps

Tool	Description
ArgoCD	Declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
Flux	GitOps operator for Kubernetes that keeps clusters in sync with configuration sources.
Jenkins X	CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes with GitOps automation.
Weave GitOps	GitOps platform for continuous delivery on Kubernetes.

Open Source Cloud Platforms

Tool	Description
Apache CloudStack	Designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines.
Apache Mesos	Program against your data center like it's a single pool of resources.
DC/OS	Distributed operating system based on the Apache Mesos distributed systems kernel.
Eucalyptus	Building AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds.
LocalStack	Fully functional local AWS cloud stack for development and testing.
OpenNebula	Build private clouds and manage data center virtualization based on KVM, LXD, and VMware.
OpenStack	Open-source software for creating private and public clouds.

Operating Systems

Tool	Description
Atomic	Immutable infrastructure for deploying and scaling containerized applications.
CoreOS	Lightweight container host optimized for cloud-native applications.
OSv	Versatile modular unikernel for running unmodified Linux applications securely.
Photon	Linux container host optimized for cloud-native applications and VMware infrastructure.
Project Atomic	Red Hat's container OS and tools.
RancherOS	Containerized operating system for running containers.
Rocky Linux	Open-source enterprise operating system compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Snappy Ubuntu Core	Canonical's container OS.
Ubuntu	Enterprise open-source Linux distribution.

Distributed Filesystems

Tool	Description
Ceph	Highly scalable object, block, and file-based storage.
Gluster	Free and open-source scalable network filesystem.
LINBIT	Create, remove, and replicate block storage devices for datacenter-scale environments.
MinIO	High-performance, distributed object storage system.
XtreemFS	Fault-tolerant distributed file system.

Internal Developer Platforms

Tool	Description
Backstage	Open platform for building developer portals.
Kratix	Framework for platform teams to build custom platforms tailored to organizations.
Port	Platform for building no-code, holistic Internal Developer Portals.

Service Discovery

Tool	Description
Doozerd	Consistent distributed data store.
Serf	Decentralized cluster membership, failure detection, and orchestration.
ZooKeeper	Centralized service for configuration, naming, synchronization, and more.

Chaos Engineering

Tool	Description
Chaos Mesh	Chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes.
Chaos Monkey	Resiliency tool for random instance failures.
Chaos Toolkit	Open-source platform for chaos engineering.
Litmus	Identify weaknesses in infrastructures.
Pumba	Chaos testing, network emulation, and stress testing for containers.
Toxiproxy	Simulate network and system conditions for chaos testing.

API Gateway

Tool	Description
Ambassador	Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy.
API Umbrella	Proxy for APIs with management platform.
Cilium	API-aware networking and security using BPF and XDP.
Envoy	Cloud-native high-performance service proxy.
Gloo	Feature-rich Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway.
Kong	Connect all microservices and APIs.
Traefik	Reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP and TCP.
Tyk	API and service management platform.

Code Review

Tool	Description
CodeRabbit	AI-powered code review tool integrated with GitHub.
Gerrit	Web-based team code collaboration tool.
MeshMap	Visual designer for Kubernetes and cloud-native applications.
Potpie	AI agent for understanding code changes and computing blast radius.
Review Board	Web-based collaborative code review tool.

Distributed Messaging

Tool	Description
ActiveMQ	Multi-protocol messaging.
Beanstalkd	Simple, fast work queue.
Celery	Asynchronous task queue/job queue.
Dkron	Distributed, fault-tolerant job scheduling system.
Faktory	Repository for background jobs.
Kafka	Building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps.
KubeMQ	Kubernetes-native messaging platform.
NATS	Simple, secure, high-performance messaging system.
NSQ	Realtime distributed messaging platform.
RabbitMQ	Message broker.
RestMQ	Message queue using HTTP as transport.

Programming Languages

Tool	Description
Go	Open-source language for simple, reliable, efficient software.
Python	Programming language for quick integration and systems work.
Ruby	Dynamic language focused on simplicity and productivity.

Chat and ChatOps

Tool	Description
CloudBot	Simple, fast, expandable IRC bot.
Hubot	Customizable life embetterment robot.
Mattermost	Messaging platform for secure team collaboration.
Riot	Universal secure chat app.
Rocket.Chat	Open-source team communication.
Zulip	Real-time chat with email threading model.

Incident Management

Tool	Description
OpsGenie	Incident management and alerting.
PagerDuty	Incident response and alerting.
PagerTree	Incident response and alerting.
VictorOps	Incident management platform.

Project Management

Tool	Description
Asana	Work management platform for teams.
Azure Boards	Work item tracking for Azure DevOps.
Bitbucket Issues	Issue tracking for Bitbucket.
Clickup	All-in-one productivity platform.
GitHub Projects	Project management for GitHub.
GitLab Boards	Issue boards for GitLab.
Jira	Issue tracking and project management.
Linear	Issue tracking tool for software teams.
Monday.com	Work management platform.
Shortcut	Project management for software teams.
Taiga	Open-source project management platform.
Trello	Kanban-style project management.
Wrike	Work management and project collaboration.
Zoho Sprints	Agile project management.

Bug Tracking

Tool	Description
Bugasura	Bug tracking and management.
Bugsee	In-app bug reporting and crash reporting.
Bugzilla	Open-source bug tracking system.
Github Issues	Issue tracking for GitHub.
Instabug	In-app feedback and bug reporting.
Mantis Bug Tracker	Open-source bug tracking system.
Zoho BugTracker	Bug tracking and management.

Code Editors

Tool	Description
Atom	Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
Bluefish	GTK+ IDE for web development.
CodeLobster	PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor.
Eclipse	IDE for Java and other languages.
Eclipse Che	Cloud IDE.
gedit	Text editor for GNOME.
GNU Emacs	Extensible, customizable text editor.
GNU Nano	Simple command-line text editor.
IntelliJ IDEA	IDE for Java and other JVM languages.
Neovim	Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor.
Notepad++	Source code editor.
PyCharm	IDE for Python.
Sublime Text	Sophisticated text editor.
TextMate	Text editor for macOS.
UltraEdit	Text editor and hex editor.
Vim	Highly configurable text editor.
Visual Studio Code	Code editor with built-in Git and extensions.
WebStorm	IDE for web development.

Continuous Testing

Tool	Description
accelQ	Continuous testing platform.
Apache jMeter	Load testing tool.
Appium	Mobile application testing framework.
Bencher	Continuous benchmarking.
Cypress	End-to-end testing framework.
Diffblue	AI-powered automated unit test generation and code analysis platform.
Gatling	Load testing tool for web applications.
IBM Rational Functional Tester	Automated functional testing.
JUnit	Unit testing framework for Java.
k6	Load testing tool.
NUnit	Unit testing framework for .NET.
Selenium	Browser automation tool.
steadybit	Chaos engineering and testing platform.
TestComplete	Automated testing tool.
TestNG	Testing framework for Java.
TestRail	Test case management.
TestSigma	AI-powered test automation.
Tricentis Tosca	Model-based test automation.
Unified Functional Testing (UFT)	Functional testing tool.
Waitr	Web application testing framework.
Zephyr	Test management tool.

AI SRE Tools & SRE Copilots

Tool	Description
Deductive.ai	AI-powered SRE and DevOps automation.
Resolve.ai	AI for incident resolution.
Sherlocks.ai	AI SRE assistant for monitoring and alerting.

VPN

Tool	Description
Algo	Set up a personal VPN in the cloud.
Firezone	Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard.
Freelan	Peer-to-peer secure VPN.
OpenVPN	Flexible VPN for secure data communications.
Pritunl	Enterprise VPN server.
SoftEther	Cross-platform VPN program.
sshuttle	Transparent proxy as a poor man's VPN.
Streisand	Automated VPN service setup.
VyOS	Open-source network OS for routing and firewall.

Databases

Tool	Description
Apache HBase	Distributed, versioned, non-relational database.
Cassandra	Manage massive amounts of data fast, without losing sleep.
Couchbase	Distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database.
CouchDB	Database that completely embraces the web.
etcd	Distributed reliable key-value store for critical data.
LevelDB	Fast key-value storage library.
MariaDB	Fast, scalable, and robust relational database.
MySQL	Open-source relational database management system.
PostgreSQL	Powerful, open-source object-relational database.
RethinkDB	Open-source database for the real-time web.
RocksDB	Embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
ScyllaDB	NoSQL data store using the Seastar framework.
SQLite	Small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability SQL engine.
usql	Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
TiDB	MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database designed for horizontal scalability and high availability.
TiKV	Distributed, highly available transactional key-value store powering TiDB’s storage layer.

Tool	Description
Apache HBase	Distributed, versioned, non-relational database.
Cassandra	Manage massive amounts of data fast, without losing sleep.
Couchbase	Distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database.
CouchDB	Database that completely embraces the web.
etcd	Distributed reliable key-value store for critical data.
LevelDB	Fast key-value storage library.
MariaDB	Fast, scalable, and robust relational database.
MySQL	Open-source relational database management system.
PostgreSQL	Powerful, open-source object-relational database.
RethinkDB	Open-source database for the real-time web.
RocksDB	Embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
ScyllaDB	NoSQL data store using the Seastar framework.
SQLite	Small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability SQL engine.
usql	Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
TiDB	MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database designed for horizontal scalability and high availability.
TiKV	Distributed, highly available transactional key-value store powering TiDB’s storage layer.

Web Servers

Tool	Description
Apache	Web server and reverse proxy.
Caddy	Web server with automatic HTTPS.
Cherokee	Highly concurrent secured web applications.
Lighttpd	Optimized for speed-critical environments.
Nginx	High-performance load balancer, web server, and reverse proxy.
uWSGI	Application server container.

SSL

Tool	Description
Cert Manager	Kubernetes add-on for automating TLS certificate management.
Certbot	Automate using Let's Encrypt certificates on manually-managed websites.
Let's Encrypt	Free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.

Networking Tools

Tool	Description
dig	DNS lookup utility for querying DNS servers.
nslookup	DNS record lookup tool for troubleshooting DNS records.
tcpdump	Packet capture and low-level network traffic analysis tool.
mtr	Combined ping + traceroute tool for deep network diagnostics.
nmap	Network scanning and security auditing tool for discovering hosts & services.

MCP

Tool	Description
1Panel	Modern, open-source Linux server operation and management panel.
activepieces	No-code workflow automation platform.
context7	Context-aware AI assistant for developers.
fastmcp	Fast and lightweight MCP server for building AI agents.
Figma-Context-MCP	Figma design integration for AI assistants.
genai-toolbox	Google Cloud GenAI toolbox for AI model access.
github-mcp-server	GitHub integration for AI assistants.
mindsdb	AI-powered database management and analytics.
playwright-mcp	Browser automation and web scraping with Playwright.
serena	AI-powered development assistant.

Networking Tools

Tool	Description
dig	DNS lookup utility for querying DNS servers.
nslookup	Basic DNS lookup tool for DNS records troubleshooting.
tcpdump	Packet capture and network traffic analysis tool.
mtr	Combined ping and traceroute tool for deep network diagnostics.
nmap	Network scanning and security auditing tool for discovering hosts and services.

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📚 Documentation

Repository Structure

This repository maintains a curated list of DevOps tools organized by category. Each tool entry follows a standardized structure:

awesome-devops/
├── README.md                 # Main repository documentation and tool listings
├── .github/
│   └── copilot-instructions.md  # AI agent instructions for automation
├── tools/                    # Tool entries organized by category
│   ├── CategoryName/
│   │   └── ToolName/
│   │       └── README.md     # Individual tool documentation
├── logos/                    # Logo management system
│   ├── README.md            # Logo system documentation
│   ├── apply_logos.py       # Logo URL replacement script
│   ├── fetch_logos.sh       # Logo downloading automation
│   └── mapping.csv          # Logo download tracking
└── scripts/                  # Automation and validation scripts
    ├── create_readmes.sh    # Template generation for new tools
    ├── update_summaries.py  # Content synchronization
    └── validate_readmes.py  # Format validation and compliance checking

Tool Entry Format

Every tool follows this exact README structure:

# Tool Name

![Tool Name Logo](../logos/tool-logo.svg)

## Overview

[Description from main README table]

## Key Features

- Bullet points of main features

## Getting Started

Installation and usage examples with code blocks

## Resources

- [Official Website](url)
- [Documentation](url)
- [GitHub Repository](url)

Adding a New Tool

1. Create Directory Structure

   mkdir -p tools/CategoryName/ToolName
   cd tools/CategoryName/ToolName
   

2. Generate Template

   # From repository root
   bash scripts/create_readmes.sh
   

3. Add Logo

   # Fetch from Simple Icons CDN
   bash logos/fetch_logos.sh toolname
   
   # Apply local logo references
   python3 logos/apply_logos.py
   

4. Update Main README

   • Add tool entry to appropriate category table
   • Ensure description matches tool README overview

5. Validate

   python3 scripts/validate_readmes.py
   

Logo Management

The repository uses a comprehensive logo management system:

• Storage: Logos stored as logos/toolname.svg
• Referencing: ../logos/toolname.svg (from tool directory)
• Fetching: bash logos/fetch_logos.sh toolname
• Application: python3 logos/apply_logos.py replaces external URLs
• Validation: Logo existence checked during README validation

Validation & Quality Assurance

Before submitting contributions, run validation:

# Validate all READMEs
python3 scripts/validate_readmes.py

# Returns exit code 1 on validation failures
# Checks: header format, logo existence, required sections, content structure

Content Synchronization

Tool descriptions in main README tables are the source of truth:

# Sync descriptions from main README to individual tool READMEs
python3 scripts/update_summaries.py

Development Workflow

1. Fork and Clone the repository
2. Create Feature Branch for your changes
3. Add/Update Tools following the contribution guidelines
4. Run Validation to ensure compliance
5. Test Changes locally
6. Submit Pull Request with clear description

Automation Scripts

Script	Purpose	Usage
create_readmes.sh	Generate standardized README templates	bash scripts/create_readmes.sh
validate_readmes.py	Check README format compliance	python3 scripts/validate_readmes.py
update_summaries.py	Sync descriptions from main README	python3 scripts/update_summaries.py
fetch_logos.sh	Download logos from Simple Icons	bash logos/fetch_logos.sh toolname
apply_logos.py	Replace external logo URLs with local paths	python3 logos/apply_logos.py

AI Agent Integration

The repository includes comprehensive instructions for AI agents in .github/copilot-instructions.md, covering:

• Project architecture and structure
• Critical workflows and conventions
• Naming standards and path resolution
• Common pitfalls and validation requirements
• Integration points between components

Contributing Guidelines

• Follow the exact tool README format
• Ensure logos are available and properly referenced
• Run validation before submitting PRs
• Keep main README table descriptions synchronized
• Use PascalCase for tool directories, lowercase with hyphens for logo files
• Test all changes locally before submission

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This list is available under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license.