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DevOps projects on GitHub

Practices and tooling that unite development and operations: CI/CD, infrastructure, observability.

As of , the most-starred DevOps projects on GitHub are developer-roadmap (369.6K stars), awesome-python (328.1K stars) and the-book-of-secret-knowledge (250.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 455 DevOps repositories with 10.1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ruflo, with +461 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+461

ruflo

ruvnet/ruflo · ★ 75.8K

Ruflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.

+311

the-book-of-secret-knowledge

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge · ★ 250.7K

A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

+303

awesome-python

vinta/awesome-python · ★ 328.1K

Awesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'

+274

agency-agents

msitarzewski/agency-agents · ★ 160.7K

A growing roster of meticulously crafted AI agent personalities — each a specialized expert with its own voice, workflows, and deliverables, ready to plug into your AI coding assistant.

The all-time top

Top 100 of 455 · by stars

  1. #1 · nilbuild/developer-roadmap

    developer-roadmap

    Community-driven roadmaps, guides and resources that show developers what to learn next and in what order — from frontend and backend to AI, DevOps and dozens of other paths.

    369.6K
  2. #2 · vinta/awesome-python

    awesome-python

    Awesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'

    328.1K
  3. #3 · trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

    250.7K
  1. 4

    agency-agents

    160.7Kmsitarzewski/agency-agents · Shell

    A growing roster of meticulously crafted AI agent personalities — each a specialized expert with its own voice, workflows, and deliverables, ready to plug into your AI coding assistant.

  2. 5

    claude-code

    151.2Kanthropics/claude-code · TypeScript

    Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that runs in your terminal. It understands your codebase and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows through natural language commands.

  3. 6

    free-for-dev

    139.7Kripienaar/free-for-dev · HTML

    A curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings that have free tiers useful for DevOps engineers, sysadmins, and infrastructure developers.

  4. 7

    kubernetes

    128.3Kkubernetes/kubernetes · Go

    Kubernetes (K8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, handling the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of those applications.

  5. 8

    frp

    110Kfatedier/frp · Go

    frp is a fast reverse proxy that lets you expose a local server sitting behind a NAT or firewall to the internet, forwarding TCP, UDP, HTTP and HTTPS traffic, with an optional P2P mode for direct client-to-client transfers.

  6. 9

    nodebestpractices

    105.7Kgoldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · Dockerfile

    A curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.

  7. 10

    uv

    90.8Kastral-sh/uv · Rust

    uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. It aims to replace pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, twine, and virtualenv with a single tool.

  8. 11

    devops-exercises

    84.9Kbregman-arie/devops-exercises · Python

    A massive collection of over 2600 DevOps and SRE interview questions and exercises covering Linux, networking, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and many other technical topics.

  9. 12

    lazygit

    83.3Kjesseduffield/lazygit · Go

    Lazygit is a simple terminal UI (TUI) for git that lets you stage, commit, rebase, merge and branch through an interactive visual interface instead of memorizing git CLI commands.

  10. 13

    netdata

    81Knetdata/netdata · Go

    Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform that collects per-second metrics, visualizes them, and detects anomalies with machine learning.

  11. 14

    code-server

    79.6Kcoder/code-server · TypeScript

    code-server runs VS Code on a remote machine and lets you access the full editor through a web browser, so you can code from any device.

  12. 15

    ruflo

    75.8Kruvnet/ruflo · TypeScript

    Ruflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.

  13. 16

    awesome-scalability

    74.8Kbinhnguyennus/awesome-scalability

    A curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.

  14. 17

    act

    72.4Knektos/act · Go

    act lets you run your GitHub Actions workflows locally instead of pushing to GitHub every time to test a .github/workflows change.

  15. 18

    moby

    72.2Kmoby/moby · Go

    Moby is Docker's open-source upstream project: a 'Lego set' of toolkit components (build tools, registry, orchestration, runtime) plus a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems.

  16. 19

    ansible

    71Kansible/ansible · Python

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system for configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc tasks, network automation, and multi-node orchestration.

  17. 20

    node

    68.3Kbase/node · Shell

    A Docker build for running a Base node. Base is a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly Ethereum L2 built on Optimism's OP Stack, with base-reth-node as the execution client and base-consensus as the consensus client.

  18. 21

    prometheus

    66.6Kprometheus/prometheus · Go

    Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring tool: it scrapes metrics from configured targets at set intervals, evaluates rule expressions over that data, displays results, and fires alerts when conditions are met.

  19. 22

    nocode

    65.9Kkelseyhightower/nocode · Dockerfile

    It is a satirical joke project that claims the best way to write secure and reliable applications is to write nothing and deploy nowhere. There is no actual code, feature, or product here.

  20. 23

    traefik

    65.3Ktraefik/traefik · Go

    Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer built to make deploying and exposing microservices easy, with automatic configuration based on your infrastructure.

  21. 24

    localstack

    65.1Klocalstack/localstack · Python

    LocalStack is a cloud service emulator that runs AWS services like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS and SNS entirely on your local machine or CI environment, so you can develop and test cloud apps without hitting a real AWS account.

  22. 25

    coolify

    63.1Kcoollabsio/coolify · PHP

    Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel that lets you deploy static sites, databases, full-stack apps, and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.

  23. 26

    minio

    61.3Kminio/minio · Go

    MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server, built to power AI/ML, analytics, and other data-intensive workloads.

  24. 27

    architect-awesome

    60.8Kxingshaocheng/architect-awesome

    A curated technical roadmap in Chinese for backend engineers aiming to become architects, mapping out data structures, algorithms, concurrency, databases, middleware, and system design.

  25. 28

    gitea

    58.5Kgo-gitea/gitea · Go

    Gitea is a self-hosted, all-in-one software development service: Git hosting, code review, issue tracking, project kanban, wiki, team collaboration, a package registry and CI/CD in one package.

  26. 29

    PowerShell

    55.8KPowerShell/PowerShell · C#

    PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework that includes a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a framework for processing cmdlets, optimized for structured data like JSON, CSV, XML and REST APIs.

  27. 30

    dive

    54.6Kwagoodman/dive · Go

    dive is a CLI tool that breaks a Docker or OCI image into its layers, shows what each layer contains, and points out where the image wastes space so you can shrink it.

  28. 31

    awesome-openclaw-skills

    53.2KVoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills

    This is a curated awesome-list of 5,400+ community-built skills for OpenClaw, a locally-running AI assistant, sourced and filtered from OpenClaw's official public registry (ClawHub).

  29. 32

    lazydocker

    53.2Kjesseduffield/lazydocker · Go

    Lazydocker is a simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library - 'the lazier way to manage everything docker', as its tagline goes.

  30. 33

    Docker-OSX

    53Ksickcodes/Docker-OSX · Shell

    Docker-OSX lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM, giving near-native performance for security research, CI/CD, and development without owning a real Mac.

  31. 34

    container

    50.7Kapple/container · Swift

    A tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac, optimized for Apple silicon.

  32. 35

    kubernetes-the-hard-way

    50.4Kkelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

    A step-by-step tutorial that walks you through bootstrapping a Kubernetes cluster manually, without any automation scripts, so you learn how every component actually works.

  33. 36

    brew

    50KHomebrew/brew · Ruby

    Homebrew is a free, open-source package manager that lets you install, update and manage command-line tools, libraries and apps on macOS and Linux straight from the terminal.

  34. 37

    terraform

    49.9Khashicorp/terraform · Go

    Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently, letting you describe cloud and on-prem resources in declarative configuration files instead of clicking through consoles.

  35. 38

    tmux

    49.9Ktmux/tmux · C

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer that lets you create, access, and control multiple terminals from a single screen, and detach/reattach sessions later.

  36. 39

    awesome-design-patterns

    49.4KDovAmir/awesome-design-patterns

    A curated list of links to resources about software and architecture design patterns, covering everything from language-specific patterns to cloud, serverless, microservices, IoT, big data, ML, databases, DevOps, mobile, front-end and security.

  37. 40

    awesome-java

    49.3Kakullpp/awesome-java

    A curated list of frameworks, libraries, tools and resources for the Java programming language, organized into categories like AI, build tools, caching, CLI, bytecode manipulation and more.

  38. 41

    acme.sh

    47.8Kacmesh-official/acme.sh · Shell

    acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

  39. 42

    serverless

    46.9Kserverless/serverless · JavaScript

    The Serverless Framework is a tool that lets you build and deploy applications on AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services, so they auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and need minimal upkeep.

  40. 43

    cli

    46.7Kcli/cli · Go

    GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub's official command line tool that brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to your terminal, right next to git and your code.

  41. 44

    awesome-compose

    46.5Kdocker/awesome-compose · HTML

    Awesome Compose is a curated list of Docker Compose samples: ready-made project setups showing how to integrate different services via a Compose file and manage their deployment with Docker Compose.

  42. 45

    sentry

    45.6Kgetsentry/sentry · Python

    Sentry is a developer-first platform for error tracking and performance monitoring that helps teams detect, trace, and fix issues in their code faster.

  43. 46

    kong

    44.3KKong/kong · Lua

    Kong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.

  44. 47

    pm2

    43.3KUnitech/pm2 · JavaScript

    PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js and Bun applications that keeps them running forever, reloads them without downtime, and includes a built-in load balancer.

  45. 48

    diagrams

    42.7Kmingrammer/diagrams · Python

    Diagrams is a Python library that draws cloud system architecture as code: you describe your AWS, Azure, GCP or Kubernetes setup in Python and get a rendered diagram. It was built for prototyping architecture designs without design tools.

  46. 49

    fastlane

    42.2Kfastlane/fastlane · Ruby

    fastlane is a tool for iOS and Android developers that automates tedious tasks like generating screenshots, managing provisioning profiles, and releasing applications.

  47. 50

    wrk

    40.4Kwg/wrk · C

    wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool that generates significant load against a server using a single multi-core machine, measuring latency and throughput.

  48. 51

    portainer

    38.7Kportainer/portainer · TypeScript

    Portainer is a lightweight management platform for Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments, letting you manage containers, images, volumes and networks through a web GUI or API.

  49. 52

    cli

    38.6Khttpie/cli · Python

    HTTPie is a command-line HTTP client built to make interacting with APIs and web servers from the terminal as human-friendly as possible. It ships two commands, http and https, for sending arbitrary HTTP requests with simple syntax and colorized, formatted output.

  50. 53

    harness

    38.6Kharness/harness · Go

    Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform combining source code hosting, CI/CD pipelines, hosted dev environments (Gitspaces), and artifact registries in one self-hosted application.

  51. 54

    trivy

    38.5Kaquasecurity/trivy · Go

    Trivy is an all-in-one security scanner that finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and software licenses across container images, filesystems, git repositories, VM images, and Kubernetes clusters.

  52. 55

    istio

    38.4Kistio/istio · Go

    Istio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, giving you a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices with few or no code changes.

  53. 56

    compose

    38.4Kdocker/compose · Go

    Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications, configured through a single Compose file (compose.yaml).

  54. 57

    dokploy

    37.8KDokploy/dokploy · TypeScript

    Dokploy is a free, self-hostable PaaS for deploying and managing applications and databases — an open-source alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.

  55. 58

    arthas

    37.6Kalibaba/arthas · Java

    Arthas is a Java diagnostic tool from Alibaba that lets developers troubleshoot production issues on a live JVM without modifying code or restarting the server.

  56. 59

    1Panel

    37.2K1Panel-dev/1Panel · Go

    1Panel is an open-source Linux server management panel and lightweight AI management platform: a web GUI that gives you one-stop control over servers, websites, apps and AI agents.

  57. 60

    awesome-docker

    37.1Kveggiemonk/awesome-docker

    A curated ('awesome list') index of Docker-related projects and resources: engines, image builders, registries, orchestration tools, networking/security tooling, desktop/terminal UIs and learning materials.

  58. 61

    og-aws

    36.5Kopen-guides/og-aws · Shell

    A free, community-maintained practical guide to Amazon Web Services — a living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices, written by engineers who use AWS.

  59. 62

    node

    36.4Kinkonchain/node · Shell

    A Docker Compose setup for running an Ink node (an Ethereum L2 built on the OP Stack), including the execution client, rollup node, and monitoring stack.

  60. 63

    vault

    36.4Khashicorp/vault · Go

    Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets such as API keys, passwords, and certificates, giving you a unified interface with tight access control and detailed audit logging.

  61. 64

    just

    36.3Kcasey/just · Rust

    'just' is a command runner that lets you save and run project-specific commands defined in a file called a justfile, with syntax inspired by make.

  62. 65

    manifesto

    35.6Kopentofu/manifesto · HTML

    This is the OpenTF Manifesto, a public document and petition opposing HashiCorp's move of Terraform's license away from open source, calling for it to be switched back to a truly open source license.

  63. 66

    awesome-sysadmin

    35.4Kawesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

    A curated list of free and open-source sysadmin tools, covering everything from backups and configuration management to monitoring, CI/CD, virtualization, and VPNs.

  64. 67

    mise

    35.1Kjdx/mise · Rust

    mise is a single CLI that manages your development tools, environment variables, and project tasks. Everything is declared in a mise.toml file you commit, so your shell, editor, and CI all share one setup.

  65. 68

    k9s

    34.8Kderailed/k9s · Go

    K9s is a terminal UI that lets you navigate, observe and manage Kubernetes clusters in real time instead of typing raw kubectl commands.

  66. 69

    k3s

    34.2Kk3s-io/k3s · Go

    K3s is a lightweight, fully conformant, production-ready Kubernetes distribution packed into a single binary under 100 MB that runs with roughly half the memory of standard Kubernetes.

  67. 70

    kafka

    34Kapache/kafka · Java

    Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

  68. 71

    glances

    33.8Knicolargo/glances · Python

    Glances is an open-source cross-platform system monitoring tool, a top/htop alternative that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, sensors, and running processes in one dashboard, reachable via terminal, web UI, API, or an MCP server for AI assistants.

  69. 72

    certbot

    33.3Kcertbot/certbot · Python

    Certbot is EFF's command-line tool that automatically fetches a free TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt and deploys it to your web server to enable HTTPS, and it can also work with any other certificate authority that speaks the ACME protocol.

  70. 73

    podman

    33.1Kpodman-container-tools/podman · Go

    Podman (the POD MANager) is a tool for managing OCI containers and images, volumes, and pods — groups of containers managed together. It is built on libpod, a container lifecycle management library included in the same repo.

  71. 74

    WindTerm

    32.5KkingToolbox/WindTerm · C

    WindTerm is a free professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client and terminal built for DevOps, combining remote connections, a local shell and file transfer in one application.

  72. 75

    signoz

    32.4KSigNoz/signoz · TypeScript

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards in one tool for debugging production apps and monitoring AI agents.

  73. 76

    minikube

    32.2Kkubernetes/minikube · Go

    Minikube runs a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, or Windows so developers can build and test Kubernetes applications on their own machine.

  74. 77

    dokku

    32.2Kdokku/dokku · Go

    Dokku is a Docker-powered PaaS (Platform as a Service) - a self-hosted, minimal Heroku alternative that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications on your own server.

  75. 78

    jj

    32.1Kjj-vcs/jj · Rust

    Jujutsu (jj) is a Git-compatible version control system that aims to be both simple and powerful, with a Git backend for storage so it works with your existing Git remotes and tools.

  76. 79

    k6

    32Kgrafana/k6 · Go

    k6 is a modern load-testing tool: you write test scripts that simulate real user traffic against your application to see how it performs. It is built for developers and testers in the DevOps era — like unit testing, but for performance.

  77. 80

    nginx

    31.9Knginx/nginx · C

    NGINX ('engine x') is a free, open source web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, API gateway and content cache — described as the world's most popular web server.

  78. 81

    jumpserver

    31.8Kjumpserver/jumpserver · Python

    JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform — a bastion host that gives DevOps and IT teams secure, on-demand access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, database, RemoteApp and other endpoints through a web browser.

  79. 82

    colima

    31.2Kabiosoft/colima · Go

    Colima provides container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup: it starts a Linux VM running Docker, Containerd or Incus, all managed through one simple command.

  80. 83

    xxl-job

    30.6Kxuxueli/xxl-job · Java

    XXL-JOB is a distributed task scheduling framework: a central scheduler triggers jobs across a cluster of executors, all managed from a web UI. It aims to be quick to develop with, simple to learn, lightweight and easy to extend, and many companies run it in production.

  81. 84

    opentofu

    30.5Kopentofu/opentofu · Go

    OpenTofu is an open-source tool for declaratively managing cloud infrastructure, letting you build, change, and version infrastructure safely and efficiently.

  82. 85

    algo

    30.4Ktrailofbits/algo · Python

    A set of Ansible scripts that spins up your own personal WireGuard and IPsec VPN server on a cloud provider, using the most secure defaults available.

  83. 86

    helm

    30.3Khelm/helm · Go

    Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. It manages Charts — packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources — so installing and managing applications in a cluster works like apt, yum or homebrew on your system.

  84. 87

    consul

    30.1Khashicorp/consul · Go

    Consul is a distributed, highly available, data center aware solution for connecting and configuring applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. It is built to be datacenter aware and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

  85. 88

    gitleaks

    30Kgitleaks/gitleaks · Go

    Gitleaks is a tool for detecting secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in git repos, files, or anything you pipe in via stdin.

  86. 89

    90DaysOfDevOps

    29.8KMichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps · Shell

    A structured learning curriculum for DevOps that grew out of a personal 90-day public learning challenge, now covering principles, processes, tooling, and real-world use cases like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.

  87. 90

    ProxmoxVE

    29.8Kcommunity-scripts/ProxmoxVE · Shell

    A community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.

  88. 91

    apollo

    29.8Kapolloconfig/apollo · Java

    Apollo is a reliable configuration management system. It centrally manages the configurations of different applications and different clusters, and is built for microservice configuration management scenarios.

  89. 92

    infisical

    29.8KInfisical/infisical · TypeScript

    Infisical is an open-source security platform teams use to centralize secrets, certificates, and privileged access, with syncing, rotation, and leak prevention built in.

  90. 93

    kestra

    29.7Kkestra-io/kestra · Java

    Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for building data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. You describe them in declarative YAML and manage everything from a built-in web UI.

  91. 94

    harbor

    29.6Kgoharbor/harbor · Go

    Harbor is an open source trusted cloud native registry that stores, signs, and scans content — mainly container images and Helm charts. It is a CNCF-hosted project.

  92. 95

    nx

    29.4Knrwl/nx · TypeScript

    Nx is a monorepo platform for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. It caches what didn't change, runs only the tasks affected by your edits, and comes with an integrated CI solution; the core is built with Rust for performance.

  93. 96

    loki

    29Kgrafana/loki · Go

    Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system from Grafana — like Prometheus, but for logs.

  94. 97

    awesome-actions

    28.3Ksdras/awesome-actions

    A curated, categorized index of GitHub Actions: ready-made actions, workflow examples, official resources and tutorials you can plug into your repository's automation.

  95. 98

    nginxconfig.io

    28.3Kdigitalocean/nginxconfig.io · JavaScript

    A free web-based NGINX configuration generator by DigitalOcean: you pick what your server needs and it produces a tuned config for your use case.

  96. 99

    locust

    28.2Klocustio/locust · Python

    Locust is an open source performance/load testing tool for HTTP and other protocols — you define your tests in regular Python code and run them from the command line or a web-based UI.

  97. 100

    vagrant

    27.2Khashicorp/vagrant · Ruby

    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing portable development environments that can run locally or in the cloud.

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