Self-hosted projects using Dockerfile

Deploy and scale Docker Compose apps across multiple servers with automatic WireGuard networking, service discovery, load balancing, and HTTPS—without Kubernetes overhead.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Railway+11

WeTTY provides browser-based terminal access to local shells or remote SSH hosts using xterm.js and WebSockets for responsive interactive sessions.

MITActively maintained

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Puter+5

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ngrok+16

Offline-first file manager and personal knowledge workspace that organizes local files with tags, fast search, previews, and optional local AI features.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Evernote+19

Minimalistic document management and archiving platform for long-term storage, full-text search, tagging, and automated ingestion via email or folders.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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M-Files+11

Umbraco CMS is an open-source ASP.NET Core content management system with an editor-friendly backoffice, extensible architecture, and scalable deployment options.

MITActively maintained

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WordPress.com+13

Self-hosted live streaming server to ingest RTMP/SRT/RTSP, transcode with FFmpeg, and restream to platforms like YouTube Live and Twitch with an easy web UI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Restream+8

Pomerium is an identity-aware access proxy that provides zero trust, per-request authorization to internal web apps and services without a traditional VPN.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Access+12

Lightweight CalDAV/CardDAV server for syncing calendars, to-dos, and contacts with many clients, storing data on the filesystem and supporting auth and TLS.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Calendar+8

Diun monitors Docker/OCI images in registries and sends notifications when tags or digests change, with multiple providers and flexible scheduling.

MITActively maintained

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JFrog Artifactory+1

Headless Steam Docker image for remote game streaming with noVNC web desktop, Proton support, and NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU acceleration, compatible with Steam Link and Moonlight.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Shadow PC+14

sish is an open-source Serveo/ngrok alternative that exposes local HTTP(S), WebSockets, and TCP services to the internet using SSH reverse tunnels.

MITActively maintained

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ngrok+3

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deployment.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+12

Judge0 CE is an open-source, sandboxed online code execution system with an HTTP JSON API for running untrusted code in many programming languages at scale.

Self-hosted Heroku/Netlify-style PaaS for Kubernetes with GitOps pipelines, templates, add-ons, logs, and SSO—deploy from source or Docker without Helm charts.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Heroku+12

Docker images providing full Linux desktop environments in your browser, with multiple distro and desktop flavors and optional GPU acceleration.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Microsoft Remote Desktop+15

Efficient, minimal collaborative code editor with real-time editing in the browser, OT-based syncing, WebSocket communication, and optional SQLite persistence.

MITLikely dormant

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Replit+5

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy cache for accelerating web applications and APIs with flexible caching rules and detailed request logging.

Slowing down

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Cloudflare CDN+5

YaCy is a self-hostable search engine with crawler and indexing, supporting decentralized P2P search, standalone search portals, and intranet/file search.

Actively maintained

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Swiftype+13

Lightweight companion container to back up Docker volumes on a schedule or on demand, with rotation, encryption, notifications, and support for multiple storage backends.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Acronis Cyber Protect+9

Self-hosted, single-user bookmark manager and link sharing app with tags, search, RSS/Atom feeds, REST API, and plugins—using file-based storage (no database).

Actively maintained

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Pinboard+9

Fast, modern photo and video management for Nextcloud with timeline, albums, sharing, metadata editing, map view, and optional AI-based tagging integrations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+12

Open-source home automation platform to monitor sensors and control switches, lights, meters, and smart home devices from a responsive web interface with alerts.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Samsung SmartThings+13

Self-hosted web UI that exposes YAML-defined shell commands as buttons, dashboards and API endpoints with ACLs, auth and logging for safe, repeatable server operations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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PagerDuty Rundeck+11

WUD (What’s Up Docker?) monitors your running Docker containers and notifies you when newer images are available, helping keep deployments up to date.

Self-hostable ambient sound mixer with presets, sleep timer, Pomodoro, notepad, and shareable sound selections for focus and calm.

OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a sub-second latency live streaming server that ingests multiple protocols, transcodes to ABR, and delivers streams via WebRTC and Low-Latency HLS.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+15

Huntarr continuously scans your Arr libraries to find missing items and trigger quality upgrades in controlled batches, helping complete and improve your media collection.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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FileFlows Cloud

Lightweight DDNS client to keep DNS A/AAAA records updated across many providers, available as a container or standalone binaries with a built-in web UI.

MITActively maintained

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No-IP+3

Privacy-first, open-source home assistant for dashboards, device integrations, scenes, alerts, and local-first automation with optional secure remote access.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Home+10