Self-hosted projects using Kubernetes

Tyk Gateway is an open source, cloud-native API gateway for securing, managing, and scaling REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP APIs with auth, rate limits, and policies.

Actively maintained

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Amazon API Gateway+6

Open-source database backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and MongoDB with scheduling, encrypted archives, multiple storage backends, and notifications.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Veeam Backup & Replication+13

Self-hostable observability platform for uptime monitoring, alerting, incident management, on-call, status pages, logs, and APM in one integrated suite.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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OneUptime+19

Eclipse Che provides Kubernetes-based cloud development environments (CDEs) with containerized workspaces, a web IDE, and Devfile-based project configuration for teams.

EPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Codenvy Developer Workspaces+6

Open-source, local-first Slack and Notion alternative combining team chat, rich docs, databases, and file management with offline-first sync and self-hosting.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Notion+19

Scraperr is a self-hosted web scraping app with a web UI, XPath extraction, job queueing, domain spidering, media downloads, and CSV/Markdown export.

MITSlowing down

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Apify+3

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

Homarr is a modern, drag-and-drop server homepage dashboard with many integrations, built-in authentication, permissions, and fast search across your services.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Homarr Cloud+13

Cerbos is a scalable, language-agnostic authorization layer for defining and evaluating context-aware access control policies via a dedicated Policy Decision Point (PDP) API.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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OSO Cloud+17

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

Kite is a modern Kubernetes dashboard for multi-cluster management, resource operations, and Prometheus-powered monitoring with logs, terminal access, and live YAML editing.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+4

Open-source tool that monitors IRC, Torznab/Newznab and RSS feeds, applies regex filters, and forwards matching torrents/usenet releases to download clients or *arr apps.

Starts workloads on demand and automatically stops them after inactivity; integrates with reverse proxies and supports Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Amazon Lambda+6

Canine is an open source Kubernetes deployment platform that provides a Heroku-like PaaS experience with Git-driven deploys, web UI management, and built-in SSL and secrets.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Heroku+10

Developer-focused platform for automated, omnichannel messaging (email, SMS, push, WhatsApp) with low-code journeys, segmentation, templates, and self-hosting.

MITActively maintained

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Customer.io+19

Convoy is a cloud-native webhooks gateway to ingest, persist, debug, and reliably deliver incoming and outgoing webhooks with retries, rate limiting, and security controls.

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Svix+2

Open-source, production-ready OCI-native container image and artifact registry with single-binary deployment, S3/local storage, web UI and CLI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Docker Hub+3

Parseable ingests, analyzes, and extracts insights from MELT telemetry data with predictive analytics and a unified SQL/NL querying interface.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Datadog+15

AnyCable is a realtime server for reliable two-way communication over WebSockets and SSE, designed to power chats, notifications, presence, and streaming updates for any backend.

MITActively maintained

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Socket.IO Cloud+4

Self-hostable web video conferencing app built on LiveKit, with large-meeting performance, screen sharing, chat, recordings, and transcription features.

MITActively maintained

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Zoom+19

Secure low-code honeypot framework that uses LLMs to simulate high-interaction systems across SSH/HTTP/TCP and MCP, with metrics and cloud-native deployment options.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Thinkst Canary+1

Lightweight open-source feature flag system with a relay proxy, OpenFeature support, file/cloud retrievers, and exporters for usage data.

MITActively maintained

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Unleash+4

Vince is a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics with a lightweight script, cookie-free tracking, goal conversions, custom events, and shareable dashboards.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Google Analytics+12

Open-source Auth0/Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative with passkeys, MFA, SSO (OIDC/SAML), user management portal, and extensible auth flows for web and mobile apps.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Auth0+19

Open-source, self-hosted feature flag management platform with progressive rollouts, targeting rules, A/B testing, audit logs, and APIs for automated releases.

MITActively maintained

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LaunchDarkly+4

Kubetail is a real-time Kubernetes logging dashboard and CLI that merges multi-container workload logs into a single timeline, running on desktop or inside your cluster.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Datadog Log Management+9

MongooseIM is an open-source Erlang-based XMPP server designed for large-scale messaging, offering multi-tenant deployment, REST/GraphQL APIs, push, and robust observability.

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Firebase+4

Routr is a programmable SIP server (proxy/registrar/location) for building scalable VoIP infrastructure with APIs, multi-tenancy, and Kubernetes-ready deployment.

MITActively maintained

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Fonoster+7

Scalable enterprise search platform supporting full-text, vector, faceted and geospatial search with SolrCloud clustering and a web admin UI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Algolia+18

PinePods is a self-hosted podcast management server with multi-user support, gPodder sync, smart playlists, and apps for web, mobile, desktop, and CLI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Spotify+2