# docker

Self-hosted Heroku/Vercel alternative

Open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify with 44K+ GitHub stars. Deploy static sites, APIs, full-stack apps, databases, and 280+ one-click services on your own VPS or bare metal via SSH. Features auto Let's Encrypt SSL, Git integration (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Gitea), S3 backups, Docker Swarm support, and a REST API for CI/CD automation. Self-hosted version is free forever with no features behind paywalls.

Benchmark for evaluating AI coding agents on real GitHub issues

SWE-bench is a benchmark from Princeton NLP that evaluates AI coding agents by testing their ability to resolve real GitHub issues from popular open-source projects. Each task provides an issue description and repository state, and the agent must produce a working patch that passes the project's test suite. With 4,600+ GitHub stars, it has become the standard yardstick for comparing autonomous coding tools like Devin, Claude Code, and OpenHands.

Open-source control plane for AI workloads across multi-cloud GPU infrastructure

dstack is an open-source platform that orchestrates AI training and inference workloads across heterogeneous GPU infrastructure spanning multiple clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and bare-metal servers. It abstracts away cloud-specific APIs so teams define GPU requirements declaratively and dstack automatically provisions the cheapest available resources from AWS, GCP, Azure, Lambda, or on-premises hardware.

Enterprise-grade RAG and MCP knowledge base with one-click deployment

MaxKB is an enterprise-grade RAG platform with 21,000+ GitHub stars from the 1Panel team. It provides one-click deployment of knowledge bases with built-in LLM integration, MCP support, and a streamlined approach to document ingestion and retrieval that prioritizes operational simplicity over configuration complexity.

No-code knowledge base platform with visual AI workflow and built-in RAG

FastGPT is an open-source no-code AI knowledge base platform with 27,000+ GitHub stars and 500,000+ users worldwide. It combines visual workflow orchestration, built-in RAG pipelines, QA-pair extraction, and API-aligned completions into a single deployable stack that runs on just 2GB RAM via Docker one-liner deployment.

2x faster LLM fine-tuning with 70% less VRAM on a single GPU

Unsloth is an open-source framework for fine-tuning large language models up to 2x faster while using 70% less VRAM. Built with custom Triton kernels, it supports 500+ model architectures including Llama 4, Qwen 3, and DeepSeek on consumer NVIDIA GPUs. Unsloth Studio adds a no-code web UI for dataset creation, training observability, model comparison, and GGUF export for Ollama and vLLM deployment.

Run GitHub Actions 2x faster at half the cost on bare-metal gaming CPUs

Blacksmith is a drop-in replacement for GitHub-hosted runners that executes Actions on bare-metal gaming CPUs with higher single-core performance. Migration requires one line change in YAML. Features colocated warm caches, persistent Docker layer caching on NVMe, CI observability with log search, and Firecracker microVM isolation. SOC 2 Type II certified, pay-as-you-go at ~$0.004/min versus GitHub's $0.008/min.

Extensibility-first open-source no-code/low-code platform for business apps

NocoBase is an open-source, self-hosted no-code and low-code platform built around a data-model-driven architecture and plugin-based microkernel. Unlike form-centric no-code tools, it separates data structure from UI, enabling unlimited block types and views per data collection. All functionality is delivered through plugins similar to WordPress. Features include AI Employees for in-app automation, visual workflow builder, RBAC permissions, and automatic REST/GraphQL API generation.

High-performance S3-compatible object storage built in Rust

RustFS is an open-source distributed object storage system built entirely in Rust, offering 2.3x faster performance than MinIO for small object payloads. It provides full S3 API compatibility, enabling seamless migration from MinIO, Ceph, and AWS S3 with existing SDKs and CLI tools. Released under Apache 2.0 license, it avoids MinIO's restrictive AGPL terms. Features include distributed architecture, erasure coding, WORM compliance, encryption via RustyVault, and a web management console.

Open-source observability platform unifying logs, traces, and session replays

HyperDX is an open-source observability platform that correlates session replays, logs, metrics, traces, and errors in a single interface powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. Acquired by ClickHouse in 2025, it now forms the visualization layer of ClickStack. It offers schema-agnostic querying on any ClickHouse cluster, intuitive full-text and property search syntax, and blazing-fast analytics. Available as a self-hosted Docker deployment or a managed cloud service with a free tier.

Open-source sandboxes and SDKs for AI agents that control desktops

CUA is an open-source infrastructure platform for building, benchmarking, and deploying AI agents that autonomously control full desktop environments. It provides secure sandboxed VMs across macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android with a unified Python SDK for screenshots, mouse/keyboard control, shell commands, and file I/O. Includes CuaBot CLI for running agents in sandboxes, Cua-Bench for standardized evaluation, and Lume for near-native macOS virtualization on Apple Silicon.

Identity-aware VPN and reverse proxy for zero-trust remote access

Pangolin is an open-source, identity-based remote access platform built on WireGuard that combines reverse proxy and VPN into a single self-hosted stack. It provides browser-based access to web apps and client-based access to private resources like SSH, databases, and RDP with zero-trust security. A self-hosted alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels, it handles routing, load balancing, health checking, and automatic SSL without exposing your network.

Zig-built headless browser engineered for AI agent workloads

Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser built from scratch in Zig for AI agents and automation. It strips away Chrome's rendering overhead, keeping only DOM and V8 JavaScript execution. Benchmarks show 11x faster execution and 9x less memory than headless Chrome, enabling ~140 concurrent sessions per server versus 15 with Puppeteer. Full CDP compatibility means existing Playwright and Puppeteer scripts migrate with zero code changes. Includes built-in MCP server for AI agent integration.

Free open-source local AWS emulator as a drop-in LocalStack replacement

Floci is a free open-source AWS emulator designed as a lightweight drop-in replacement for LocalStack Community Edition. It runs on port 4566 with the same endpoint conventions, supporting S3, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, ElastiCache, API Gateway, Cognito, IAM, and twenty-plus other services. The Docker image is ninety megabytes versus LocalStack's one gigabyte and starts in twenty-four milliseconds.

Sandbox any command with file, network, and credential controls

Zerobox is a security-focused command sandboxing tool that isolates command execution with fine-grained controls over file system access, network connectivity, and credential exposure. It wraps any shell command in a secure container that enforces policy restrictions, preventing unauthorized file reads, network calls, or environment variable leaks during execution.

Free and open-source Kubernetes IDE for managing clusters visually

Freelens is a free open-source Kubernetes IDE that provides a visual desktop interface for managing clusters, workloads, and configurations. Forked from the original Lens project after its licensing change, Freelens offers the same powerful cluster management experience with real-time monitoring, log viewing, and resource editing under the MIT license.

AI-powered vision-driven UI automation for web, Android, and iOS

Midscene.js is an open-source UI automation framework from ByteDance's Web Infra team that uses vision-based AI models to understand and interact with interfaces. It replaces fragile CSS selectors with natural language descriptions, supporting web browsers via Playwright and Puppeteer, Android via ADB, and iOS via WebDriverAgent from a unified JavaScript SDK.

Open-source PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku, and Netlify

Dokploy is a free open-source platform-as-a-service for self-hosting applications without cloud vendor lock-in. It provides automated deployments from Git repositories, built-in SSL certificates, database provisioning, Docker and Docker Compose support, and a clean web dashboard for managing multiple applications on your own servers. With 18,000+ GitHub stars, it fills the gap for teams wanting Vercel-like deployment simplicity on their own infrastructure.

Open-source ELT platform with 350+ data connectors

Airbyte is an open-source ELT platform with 350+ pre-built connectors for syncing data from any source to warehouses, lakes, and AI pipelines. It handles incremental syncs, schema evolution, and change data capture with a connector builder for custom integrations. Used by DoorDash, Replit, and thousands of data teams. Over 15,000 GitHub stars and $150M+ in funding.

Open-source authentication with self-hosting

SuperTokens is an open-source authentication solution with 14K+ GitHub stars providing email/password, passwordless, social login, MFA, session management, and user management. Designed for self-hosting with Docker — full control over user data with no vendor lock-in. Pre-built UI components for React, Vue, and vanilla JS. Backend SDKs for Node.js, Python, and Go. Managed cloud option also available. Emphasizes security with rotating refresh tokens and anti-CSRF protection by default.

ML model serving and deployment framework

BentoML is an open-source framework with 7K+ GitHub stars for packaging, deploying, and serving ML models as production-ready APIs. Bundles models, preprocessing, and serving logic into portable Bento archives with auto-generated REST/gRPC endpoints. Features adaptive batching for throughput optimization, GPU scheduling, multi-model inference pipelines, and containerization. Supports all major ML frameworks including PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and Hugging Face Transformers.

Container management GUI for Docker and Kubernetes

Portainer is an open-source container management platform with 32K+ GitHub stars providing a web-based GUI for Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. Simplifies container operations with visual management of containers, images, volumes, networks, and stacks without CLI expertise. Features user management with RBAC, environment templates, GitOps deployments, and edge computing support. Community Edition is free for up to 5 environments. Business Edition adds governance and support.

Self-hosted multi-model AI chat platform

LibreChat is an open-source ChatGPT-like interface with 35K+ GitHub stars supporting multiple AI providers in a single self-hosted platform. Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, local models via Ollama, and custom endpoints simultaneously. Features conversation branching, file uploads, code interpreter, plugins, presets, multi-user support with RBAC, and LDAP/SSO authentication. Privacy-focused alternative to commercial AI chat services with full data ownership.

Secure cloud sandboxes for AI agents

E2B provides secure cloud sandboxes that let AI agents execute code, run terminal commands, and interact with filesystems in isolated environments. Each sandbox spins up in ~150ms with its own OS, giving agents a safe space to run untrusted code. Supports Python, JavaScript, and any language via custom Dockerfiles. Used by AI coding assistants, data analysis agents, and code interpreters. SDK available for Python and JavaScript with a simple API for programmatic sandbox control.