8 self-hosted GitHub Actions alternatives

CI/CD service integrated into GitHub for automating build, test, and deployment workflows triggered by repository events (push, PR, schedule). Provides GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, marketplace actions, workflow artifacts, secrets, and matrix builds.

Alternatives to GitHub Actions

OneDev is a self-hosted DevOps platform combining Git hosting, CI/CD pipelines, Kanban-style issue tracking, code review, and built-in package registries.

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15.1k stars965 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source web UI and API for running Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, Bash, and PowerShell tasks with project isolation and access control.

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13.9k stars1.3k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Komodo is a self-hosted build and deployment platform to automate builds and deploy Docker containers and Compose stacks across many servers with a web UI and API.

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11.7k stars359 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Woodpecker CI is an open source CI/CD system that runs pipelines in containers, supports multiple workflows per repo, and integrates with Git forges via webhooks.

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7.6k stars635 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Semaphore is an open-source CI/CD platform to automate builds, tests, and deployments with YAML pipelines, parallel execution, and container-friendly workflows.

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1.6k stars83 forkslast commit Actively maintained

RunsOn deploys scalable, ephemeral GitHub Actions runners in your AWS account with spot/on-demand support, integrated S3-backed caching, and workflow compatibility.

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1.3k stars49 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform providing Git repository hosting, issue tracking, merge requests, and built-in CI/CD pipelines for teams.

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SourceHut is an open source software development platform with Git/Mercurial hosting, continuous integration, mailing lists with code review, tickets, wikis, and more.

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What replacing GitHub Actions actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 6 of 8 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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