Self-hosted projects built with YAML

Open-source platform to control smart home devices, build automations and dashboards, with broad third-party integrations and local-first privacy.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Home+15

Grafana is an open source observability and data visualization platform for querying, graphing, and alerting on metrics, logs, and traces across many data sources.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Grafana Cloud+19

Open source, agentless automation engine for configuration management, app deployment, orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning using YAML playbooks over SSH.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+4

Glance is a lightweight self-hosted dashboard that aggregates RSS and other widgets (Reddit, YouTube, weather, markets, server stats) into customizable pages.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Start.me+12

Fast, self-hosted homepage/dashboard with Docker integrations and 100+ service widgets.

Grafana Loki is a Prometheus-inspired log aggregation system that indexes labels (not log contents) for cost-effective storage and fast querying, with Grafana integration.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Datadog Log Management+19

Dashy is a self-hosted personal dashboard for organizing services in one place, with widgets, themes, live status checks, search, and optional authentication.

MITActively maintained

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Start.me+9

MkDocs is a Python-based static documentation site generator that builds searchable HTML docs from Markdown using a simple YAML configuration and themes/plugins.

BSD-2-ClauseSlowing down

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Read the Docs+7

Open-source observability pipeline to collect, transform, and route logs and metrics with a single, high-performance binary and programmable transforms.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Elastic Logstash+13

Open-source flat-file CMS for PHP that uses Markdown, Twig templates and YAML configs with a package manager for fast, flexible sites.

MITActively maintained

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WordPress.com+13

Self-hosted Zigbee-to-MQTT bridge that lets you control Zigbee devices without vendor gateways and integrate them with home automation platforms via MQTT.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Tuya Zigbee Gateway+16

webhook is a lightweight Go server for creating HTTP endpoints that trigger scripts or shell commands with rule-based request validation.

MITActively maintained

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Webhook.site+2

Self-hosted status page and uptime monitoring tool with configurable health checks, dashboards, metrics, and alerting for HTTP, TCP, ICMP, and DNS endpoints.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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UptimeRobot+19

Homer is a lightweight static homepage dashboard configured via YAML to organize and quickly access self-hosted services, with search, theming, and PWA support.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Homarr Cloud+13

ESPHome generates custom firmware for ESP32/ESP8266 and other boards from YAML, enabling local smart home devices with Home Assistant, API, and MQTT integration.

Actively maintained

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Blynk+15

Self-hosted web file browser to manage files, users, access control, sharing links, previews, and fast indexed search with real-time UI updates.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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FileBrowser+19

Open-source, web-based collaborative Markdown editor for real-time notes, diagrams, and slide presentations with revisions and access controls.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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HackMD+17

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

Self-hostable Git server focused on SSH, featuring a terminal UI, access control, and Git LFS support, with cloning via SSH, HTTP, or the Git protocol.

Open-source EV charge controller that optimizes vehicle charging with PV, batteries and dynamic tariffs; supports many chargers, vehicles and smart-home integrations.

MITActively maintained

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Arduino IoT Cloud+15

Open-source DNS proxy and network-wide ad-blocker for local networks. Supports DoH/DoT, per-client rules, caching, deep CNAME inspection, Prometheus metrics, Docker and Helm.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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NextDNS+7

GraphHopper is an open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap, providing fast route calculation, turn-by-turn instructions, isochrones, and map matching via Java or HTTP APIs.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Mapbox+1

Open-source event-driven automation platform for DevOps and SRE, with rules, workflows, ChatOps, and hundreds of integration packs for auto-remediation and incident response.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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IFTTT+8

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

Minimalist, self-hosted WakaTime-compatible backend to track coding time with dashboards, leaderboards, badges, reports, and a REST API.

MITActively maintained

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WakaTime+3

Ansible-NAS is an Ansible playbook collection that turns an Ubuntu server into a NAS-style home server by deploying and configuring many self-hosted apps via Docker.

MITSlowing down

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+7

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

slskd is a modern Soulseek client-server daemon with a web UI for searching, downloading, and managing transfers, chats, and user shares from a browser.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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SoulseekQt

High-performance reverse proxy for self-hosted apps with Web UI, Docker/Podman auto-routing, HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, access control, and OIDC/ForwardAuth support.

Actively maintained

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Traefik Cloud+5

Kometa is a Python tool that automates Plex metadata, builds collections and playlists, and applies overlays using configuration files and third-party metadata sources.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+1