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The Backbone: Infrastructure Projects Every Operator Should Know

Battle-tested open-source infrastructure for orchestrating containers, routing traffic, monitoring systems, and running your own platform end to end.

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Created by Sanjeet Pal Singh
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Ranked by the curator, with their reason for including each one.

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kubernetesGo
New126.4K GitHub starsApache-2.0
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: The de facto standard for container orchestration, built on Google's production experience and now the foundation most modern infrastructure is assembled on.
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prometheusGo
New66K GitHub starsApache-2.0
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: The cloud-native monitoring and time-series system that defined how modern infrastructure collects metrics and fires alerts.
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traefikGo
New64.8K GitHub starsMIT
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: A reverse proxy and load balancer that discovers services from your orchestrator and configures itself, removing a whole class of routing toil.
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mobyGo
New72.1K GitHub starsApache-2.0
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: The open toolkit behind Docker, offering the building blocks for containerization that nearly every other project on this list depends on.
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coolifyPHP
New61.5K GitHub starsApache-2.0
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: A self-hostable platform-as-a-service that turns any server reachable over SSH into a deploy target for apps and databases.