Best Self-hosted Infrastructure & Operations tools in 2026

Single-binary TLS reverse proxy for self-hosted apps that provides SSH- and Telegram-based authorization, simple SSO, Let's Encrypt support and whitelist access control.

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Cloudflare Access+4

Lightweight C service that spoofs local IPs and sends Wake-on-LAN packets to automatically wake registered LAN machines when relevant traffic is detected.

Meshping measures per-target ICMP latencies, builds histograms and heatmaps, runs traceroutes with Path MTU discovery, draws SVG network maps, and exposes Prometheus metr...

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Pingdom+18

Open-source companion app for Plex Media Server to monitor live streams, enforce per-user device access, and automate session blocking with notifications and schedules.

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Tautulli

A minimal, Rust-based forward authentication middleware for reverse proxies (Traefik, Caddy, nginx) using a passwd file and signed auth tokens.

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Cloudflare Access+9

Automatically documents Unraid system and Docker configurations and generates Docker Compose, Unraid templates, restore scripts, and change logs for disaster recovery.

Node.js SOCKS5 proxy server with optional authentication, per-user statistics, Docker Compose deployment, CLI management scripts, and a Telegram admin bot.

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Bright Data+8

Kubek is a cross-platform web control panel for hosting and managing Minecraft Java and Bedrock servers, with plugin/mod management, file manager, FTP and role-based acce...

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TCAdmin+4

Compact, single-page dashboard that displays KaraKeep bookmarks organized by lists, running entirely in your browser with SQLite WASM.

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Karakeep

Modern, self-hosted file sharing platform built with Next.js. Integrates with ShareX, Flameshot, and KDE Spectacle; supports S3/local storage, OCR, previews, and admin to...

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WeTransfer+13

Simple Next.js dashboard that displays Sonarr and Radarr download progress and queue status, with optional Docker deployment and subpath support.

Dropserver is a Go-based platform for running small, sandboxed web applications (Deno app sandboxes) for personal or small-group use with per-app storage and user managem...

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Cloudron+12

Lightweight Python CLI that scans local .safetensors models, fetches Civitai metadata and previews, generates browsable HTML, and stores JSON backups and indexes.

Integrated installer and platform for home infrastructure. Provides VPN relay for NAT traversal, preconfigured email, automatic HTTPS, reverse proxy, and a web management...

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Cloudron+19

WAGMIOS is a self-hosted container management system that provides a Docker marketplace, admin UI, and an AI assistant (W.I.L.L.O.W) for workflow automation and container...

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+17

Self-hosted container management UI focused on templating and one-click deployments for Docker-based stacks.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+5

A small Debian-based server system for self-hosting email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks and other community services on modest hardware.

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YunoHost+5

Python-based Discord bot that lets authorized users list and control Docker containers and images via Discord commands, using the host Docker socket.

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Carl-bot

Stackspin is an open source platform that bundles common team collaboration apps with single sign-on, centralized user management, backups, and monitoring for admins.

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Google Workspace+19

On-premises IT task scheduler to centralize, schedule, and run scripts and commands across servers via SSH/WinRM, with workflows, logs, notifications, and an API.

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PagerDuty Rundeck+19

Self-hosted platform for capturing SIP/RTP traffic, analyzing call flows, and monitoring VoIP quality metrics with dashboards and alerts.

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VoIPmonitor Cloud+4

Self-hosted control panel to deploy, manage, and monitor Docker-based apps with domains, SSL, environment variables, and one-click services.

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Coolify Cloud+15

Automated web app installer and updater integrated with hosting control panels, providing one-click installs, updates, backups, and cloning for popular PHP apps.

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Softaculous+1

FreedomBox is a personal server platform that makes it easy to install and manage privacy-respecting apps at home, including chat, VPN, file sync, web hosting, and backup...

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Cloudron+19

Samba is an open source SMB/CIFS file and print server that also provides Active Directory Domain Controller and member server capabilities for Linux/Unix systems.

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Microsoft Windows Server+5

Self-hosted personal cloud platform that aggregates data from connected services, stores files, and provides apps for drive, photos, and personal data management.

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Google Drive+17

Open-source self-hosting and server management platform built on Kubernetes (k3s/RKE2) with an app store, strong app isolation, storage controls, and built-in HTTPS.

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Cloudron+15

GNUnet is a network protocol stack and framework for building secure, distributed, privacy-preserving peer-to-peer applications and services.

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ZeroTier

HomelabOS is an Ansible and Docker-based app platform to deploy, update, back up, and run 100+ self-hosted services with a simple “app store” experience.

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Cloudron+18

Command-line tool that manages large files with Git by keeping file contents out of commits, providing sync, backup, encryption and many storage backends.

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Git Large File Storage (Git LFS)