Supabase
With over 107,000 GitHub stars and adoption by teams at Mozilla, 1Password, Peerlist, and thousands of startups, Supabase has become the most widely deployed open-source Firebase alternative — built entirely on PostgreSQL rather than a proprietary NoSQL store. Every project provisions a dedicated Postgres database with 40+ preinstalled extensions, auto-generating REST APIs via PostgREST, GraphQL via pg_graphql, and real-time change streams via an Elixir-based WebSocket engine that supports database change listeners, user presence tracking, and arbitrary broadcast messaging. Authentication covers email and password, phone OTP, magic links, and 20+ social providers including Google, GitHub, Apple, Azure, and SAML SSO, all enforced through Postgres Row Level Security policies that run inside the database itself. S3-compatible object storage delivers files through a CDN spanning 285+ cities with on-the-fly image transformations powered by imgproxy. Edge Functions run globally distributed TypeScript on the Deno runtime with Node.js compatibility and access to over two million NPM packages. The pgvector extension stores, indexes, and queries vector embeddings for AI-powered semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation workflows. Supabase Studio provides a browser-based dashboard with a table editor, SQL editor, schema visualizer, and log explorer. Official client SDKs ship for JavaScript, Python, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, C#, Go, and Ruby. The self-hosted Docker Compose stack runs fourteen coordinated services including Kong API gateway, Supavisor connection pooler, and Logflare analytics. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Floci
Floci is a local AWS emulator you run on your own server so your code can use S3, queues, Lambdas, and dozens of other AWS services without an AWS account, an auth token, or a bill quietly growing in another tab. Point the AWS CLI, SDKs, Terraform, CDK, or OpenTofu at port 4566 and keep the workflows you already have; every emulated service answers on that one endpoint, in any AWS region or partition. Existing LocalStack projects can swap the container image and keep going, because Floci accepts the same endpoint style and many of the same environment variables. Where emulation is not enough, real services come along too: RDS, ElastiCache, MSK, Neptune, DocumentDB, ECS, EC2, EKS, and CodeBuild run through actual Docker execution rather than a shallow stub, so tests meet behavior closer to production. A browser console starts on demand and lets you inspect the buckets, queues, tables, and other resources your emulator holds, without another tool to install. There is no telemetry, no credit meter, and no CI restriction; the whole feature set is the free set, ready for a developer laptop, a shared test host, or a pipeline runner. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Agent Gateway
Backed by the Linux Foundation with contributions from AWS, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Shell, Agentgateway is the first data plane built from the ground up for AI agent workloads — providing a unified Rust-based proxy that handles conventional HTTP and gRPC traffic alongside MCP tool servers, A2A agent communication, and LLM inference endpoints through a single deployment. The LLM gateway routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and other providers through an OpenAI-compatible unified API with per-tenant budget controls, spend tracking, prompt enrichment, load balancing across multiple model endpoints, and automatic failover when providers experience outages. The MCP gateway federates multiple tool servers behind one endpoint, supporting stdio, HTTP/SSE, and Streamable HTTP transports with built-in OAuth authentication compliant with the MCP auth specification, integrating Auth0 and Keycloak out of the box. OpenAPI integration exposes existing REST APIs as MCP-native tools without code changes, enabling legacy services to participate in agent workflows. Policy-based RBAC controls which agents access which tools, while OpenTelemetry integration provides distributed tracing across agent communication chains. Deploy as a standalone binary with flat YAML configuration or on Kubernetes using the built-in controller with Gateway API support for declarative infrastructure-as-code management. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Conductor
Originally built at Netflix to orchestrate microservices powering 230 million subscribers and now trusted in production at Tesla, LinkedIn, and J.P. Morgan, Conductor is the most battle-tested open-source workflow engine available — with 32,000 GitHub stars and horizontal scalability to billions of executions. The architecture cleanly separates orchestration from business logic: workflows are defined in declarative JSON while workers execute tasks in any of seven supported languages (Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, Rust) with zero framework constraints. Durable execution persists every state transition, enabling automatic retries, configurable timeouts, crash recovery, and instant replay from any failure point without re-executing completed tasks. Native AI agent orchestration supports 14+ LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Mistral, Cohere, HuggingFace, Ollama), MCP tool calling, function calling, human-in-the-loop approval gates, and vector database integration (Pinecone, pgvector, MongoDB Atlas) for RAG pipelines. Deploy with your choice of five persistence backends (PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, SQLite), six message brokers, and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for workflow indexing — all configurable via Docker Compose files included in the repository. The built-in web UI provides workflow visualization, execution monitoring, task queue inspection, and manual intervention controls. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
HAProxy Manager
HAProxy Cluster Manager puts a web console on top of HAProxy, so you publish services, issue certificates, and cluster nodes from forms instead of hand-editing haproxy.cfg. Publishing a service takes two inputs, the public URL and the backend address, and the wizard builds the frontend, backend pool, host condition, routing rule, HTTPS listener, certificate, and HTTP redirect, with a preview of the exact configuration before anything applies. Every change is rendered and checked with haproxy -c before it is written, and a failed reload rolls back to the previous file automatically. Certificates come from Let's Encrypt through acme.sh, using HTTP-01 or DNS-01 with about 190 DNS providers, and renewals reload HAProxy and push the new certificate to every node on their own. Any number of nodes share one virtual IP through Keepalived: configuration and certificates sync between them, only the node holding the address is editable, and the dashboard flags split brain, an unclaimed virtual IP, or a node running stale configuration. You can gate services behind basic sign-in or OIDC single sign-on enforced by HAProxy itself, watch traffic statistics and logs, take transition alerts by email, Pushover, or webhook, and expose Prometheus metrics and Home Assistant entities. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.
Prefect
With 23,600 GitHub stars, 13 million monthly PyPI downloads, and 425+ contributors automating over 200 million data tasks monthly for Fortune 50 companies like Progressive Insurance and disruptors like Cash App, Prefect is the most widely deployed open-source workflow orchestration framework for Python — turning any script into a resilient production pipeline with a single @flow decorator while eliminating rigid DAG structures entirely. The durable execution engine persists task results and automatically resumes from failures without replaying expensive upstream work, guaranteeing exactly-once execution for any Python function. Event-driven automation triggers workflows from webhooks, cloud events, or state changes through a real-time event bus that detects what happens or fails to happen across your entire data platform. Work pools decouple workflow code from infrastructure, enabling seamless switching between Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Azure Container Instances, GCP Cloud Run, and serverless environments without modifying pipeline logic. Native Ray and Dask task runners extend execution across clusters for compute-intensive workloads. The self-hosted server provides a monitoring dashboard with flow run timelines, task state visualization, scheduling, and automation configuration. The third-generation engine reduces overhead by over 90 percent compared to Prefect 2, supporting batch, event-driven, interactive, and background task workflows. Deploy via Docker Compose with PostgreSQL, Redis, server, background services, and worker containers, or use official Helm charts for production Kubernetes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Infisical
API keys hardcoded in repos, database passwords pasted into CI variables, .env files emailed between developers - Infisical, the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management, is the answer to all three. Secrets live in versioned stores scoped by project, environment, and path, with fine-grained identity-aware access control and full audit logging on every read and change. Delivery covers every consumption pattern: CLI injection into local dev, SDKs for Go, Node.js, and Python, an HTTP API, agents, a Kubernetes Operator, and secret syncs that push to GitHub, GitLab, AWS Secrets Manager, and Vercel. Automatic rotation replaces credentials for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, LDAP, AWS IAM, and Azure on a rolling schedule - new credentials issue while old ones stay temporarily valid, so nothing breaks mid-rotation. Dynamic secrets go further, generating ephemeral, time-bound database credentials on demand, and SSH access replaces static keys with short-lived CA-signed certificates that expire automatically. Secrets scanning catches hardcoded credentials in code and pipelines, certificate management automates X.509 issuance and renewal, and a built-in KMS handles encrypt/decrypt with central key control. Self-hosting keeps the keys to everything else on your own infrastructure.
ShellHub
Every server, embedded board, and edge gateway you manage becomes reachable through one SSH address in ShellHub, even when it sits behind NAT with no public IP and no open inbound port. A small agent on each device dials out to your server, so a box on a customer LAN or a cellular link needs nothing beyond outbound web access. Connect with the stock ssh client by typing [email protected]@server, or open a terminal in the browser, and scp, sftp, rsync, and port forwarding work unchanged. SSH identities tie every key to a named team member, so removing someone ends their access on every device at once. Default-deny access policies grant or block members, roles, users, or API keys by device tag, Linux login, and source address, and can require a fresh browser confirmation before a session opens. Provisioning keys enroll whole fleets through automatic, manual, webhook, or allowlist acceptance, with usage limits, expiry dates, and tags. The Sessions page records who connected to which device, as which login, and from where, and browser terminals can be recorded and replayed. A Docker connector turns containers into devices that policies can grant one by one. Four member roles shape what each person can change, and the HTTP API, API keys, and an MCP server let scripts and AI assistants list devices and review sessions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Ory Kratos
With 13,800 GitHub stars, adoption by OpenAI for ChatGPT's authentication infrastructure serving 800 million weekly active users, and governance under the Ory open-source ecosystem, Ory Kratos provides enterprise-grade identity management as a headless API server that separates authentication logic from user interface — enabling any frontend framework to consume standardized self-service flows for registration, login, recovery, verification, and profile management. Multi-factor authentication supports passkeys, WebAuthn security keys, TOTP authenticator apps, SMS one-time codes, email magic links, and backup recovery codes with configurable Authenticator Assurance Levels enforcing step-up authentication for sensitive operations. Social sign-in connects to any OpenID Connect provider including Google, GitHub, Apple, and Microsoft, plus enterprise SAML 2.0 federation for B2B single sign-on. Customizable identity schemas using JSON Schema define user profiles with flexible trait structures, while pre- and post-flow webhooks enable integration with CRMs, analytics, and compliance systems. The courier system handles email and SMS delivery for verification codes and password recovery links. Session management provides device tracking, forced logout, and configurable lifespans with privileged session elevation. Deploy alongside Ory Hydra for OAuth2/OIDC token issuance and Ory Keto for fine-grained permissions to build a complete identity platform. Docker Compose deployment with PostgreSQL. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Kuzzle
Kuzzle ships a production-ready backend from day one: data storage with Elasticsearch search, real-time pub/sub notifications, user authentication, role-based permissions, and a multi-protocol API serving HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT simultaneously on port 7512. Rather than rebuilding these standard features from scratch for each project, you get a ready-made backend that accepts connections from web applications, mobile clients, and IoT devices through one unified API surface. Elasticsearch provides persistent document storage with full-text search, geospatial queries, and aggregation pipelines, while Redis handles internal caching and memory storage operations. The Koncorde real-time engine powers pub/sub messaging and database notifications, enabling clients to subscribe to document changes with filter conditions that trigger instant updates when matching data is created, modified, or deleted. User management includes JWT-based authentication, role-based access control with granular permissions at the controller and action level, and pluggable authentication strategies via Passport.js. The extensible plugin framework allows developing custom business logic, additional authentication providers, storage connectors, and protocol handlers. Client SDKs for JavaScript, Dart, Kotlin, and C++ accelerate frontend development, while the Kourou CLI provides command-line API access and project scaffolding. The Vue.js Admin Console offers a web interface for managing indexes, collections, documents, users, profiles, and roles. Horizontal scaling through masterless cluster mode targets 99.99% uptime without single points of failure. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Supertokens Core
Authentication that lives inside your application rather than behind a redirect to an external identity provider - SuperTokens takes a fundamentally different architecture from Auth0 and AWS Cognito. Three tiers make that work - frontend SDKs (React, Angular, Vue, vanilla JS, React Native) render overridable login UI and manage tokens; backend SDKs (Node.js, Python, Go) expose auth endpoints on your own API domain; and SuperTokens Core, the piece you host here, is the stateless HTTP service handling core auth logic, password hashing, token signing, and database operations against PostgreSQL. The recipe system keeps features decoupled: use email/password, social login, passwordless (magic links, OTP), phone-password, multi-factor authentication (TOTP, WebAuthn), user roles, and microservice auth - individually or combined; you can even use SuperTokens purely for session management alongside another login provider. Sessions are where it shines: rotating refresh tokens with theft detection, automatic access-token refresh, CSRF protection, and secure cookie handling out of the box - the details that become vulnerabilities when hand-rolled. Verification happens locally in your backend via cached JWT signing keys, so the Core stays off the hot path. Self-hosted means no user limits, free forever, with all user data in your database. Apache-licensed.
EMQX
With over 16,500 GitHub stars and a track record powering connected vehicle fleets, smart city sensor networks, and industrial IoT deployments, EMQX is the MQTT messaging platform engineered to handle 100 million concurrent device connections in a single cluster while processing millions of messages per second with sub-millisecond latency. The protocol stack supports MQTT 5.0, 3.1.1, and 3.1 with full QoS 0/1/2 support, shared subscriptions, retained messages, and will messages, plus MQTT over QUIC for faster connection setup, reduced head-of-line blocking, and seamless connection migration on mobile networks. The gateway framework extends connectivity to MQTT-SN, CoAP, LwM2M, STOMP, and ExProto for bridging legacy industrial protocols. The SQL-based rule engine processes and transforms messages in real time with over 50 pre-built integrations including Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, Redis, AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, and Azure Event Hubs. The visual Flow Designer creates data processing pipelines without code. Built on Erlang/OTP with a masterless distributed architecture using Mria for state replication, the cluster separates Core nodes for data consistency and Replicant nodes for client-handling workloads. Authentication supports username/password, JWT, PSK, X.509 certificates, and LDAP with configurable ACL rules. The built-in dashboard provides real-time monitoring of connections, subscriptions, topics, message rates, and cluster health. Deployment runs via Docker, Kubernetes with the EMQX Operator, or native packages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSL 1.1 licensed.
Coder
With over 14,000 GitHub stars and enterprise adoption by security-conscious organizations, Coder transforms how development teams provision, manage, and secure their coding environments. Every workspace is defined as a Terraform template, meaning infrastructure engineers can standardize development environments across EC2 instances, Kubernetes pods, Docker containers, or any combination, while developers get self-service provisioning that launches in seconds rather than days of manual setup. The WireGuard-based networking layer establishes encrypted tunnels between developer machines and remote workspaces, providing low-latency access without exposing ports or configuring VPN concentrators. Automatic idle detection shuts down unused workspaces after configurable periods, directly reducing cloud compute costs for organizations running hundreds of developer environments. The Coder Agents feature introduces native AI coding capabilities where the agent loop executes entirely within the control plane on self-hosted infrastructure, keeping LLM API credentials out of individual workspaces and eliminating credential exfiltration risks. Centralized model governance allows platform teams to approve specific AI providers and models, set per-user spend limits, and maintain complete audit logs of all prompts, tool calls, and agent activity. IDE integration supports VS Code through a dedicated extension, JetBrains IDEs via Gateway and Toolbox plugins, and browser-based code-server for web access. The template registry provides pre-built configurations for common development stacks. DevContainer support builds environments from standard devcontainer.json specifications. Deploy on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
CrowdSec
With over 14,000 GitHub stars and a growing global network of security deployments, CrowdSec turns every attack on any participating server into protection for the entire community. The security engine operates as a combined IDS/IPS and WAF, analyzing log sources from Nginx, Apache, SSH, WordPress, and over 50 other services to detect brute force attacks, port scans, web vulnerability exploitation, and credential stuffing in real time. When one server detects a new threat, the attacker's IP is shared through the community blocklist, proactively protecting thousands of other installations before the attacker can reach them. The built-in WAF powered by Coraza v3 inspects HTTP requests at the application layer, validates against OpenAPI schemas, and applies custom rules with flexible AND/OR condition mixing for precise threat detection. Bot detection serves challenge pages with client fingerprinting to distinguish legitimate traffic from automated scrapers and scanners. Remediation components block malicious IPs at multiple infrastructure layers including iptables, nftables, Nginx, HAProxy, Cloudflare, and AWS Security Groups through the detect-here-remedy-there architecture. The scenario-based detection system ships with default rules for common attack patterns and supports custom scenarios written in YAML with an expressive filter language. A centralized console provides real-time visualization of alerts, threat intelligence analysis, and management of multiple distributed security engines. GDPR compliant by design, all log analysis happens locally and raw logs never leave your infrastructure. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Apache NiFi
Deployed at thousands of enterprises across financial services, healthcare, government, and telecommunications, Apache NiFi is the industry-standard platform for building automated data pipelines through a visual drag-and-drop browser interface that requires zero coding for common integration patterns. The flow-based programming model connects over 300 built-in processors covering relational databases via ExecuteSQL and PutDatabaseRecord, Apache Kafka with PublishKafka and ConsumeKafka, HTTP endpoints through InvokeHTTP and ListenHTTP, cloud storage for AWS S3, Azure Blob, and Google Cloud Storage, SFTP/FTP file transfers, and JSON, XML, CSV, and Avro transformations. Data provenance tracking logs every routing decision, transformation, and delivery for every FlowFile, creating a searchable lineage graph from source to destination with full content replay capability for auditing and debugging. Guaranteed delivery uses configurable backpressure thresholds, prioritized queuing with latency or throughput optimization, and automatic retry with exponential backoff, ensuring no data loss even during downstream outages. The zero-leader clustering architecture distributes processing across nodes with automatic load balancing, while site-to-site protocol enables secure data transfer between NiFi instances across network boundaries. Security includes OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 single sign-on, role-based access control with fine-grained policies per component, and TLS encryption for all communication. Custom processors can be written in Java and packaged as NAR bundles, or implemented directly in Python through the native scripting framework. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
PeerDB
Replicate PostgreSQL to data warehouses 10x faster than conventional CDC tools, proven across 400+ companies including AutoNation and LC Waikiki collectively moving 200 TB monthly. The architecture pairs a Rust-based Nexus query layer implementing the PGWire protocol with Go-based Flow workers orchestrated by Temporal. Because Nexus speaks native Postgres wire protocol, any client tool (pgAdmin, psql, Grafana, Tableau, Flyway) can manage replication through standard SQL commands like CREATE MIRROR. Three streaming modes serve different needs: log-based CDC via logical replication slots, cursor-based streaming through timestamp or integer columns, and XMIN-based capture for tables lacking logical replication. Parallel initial load achieves consistent snapshots through transaction snapshotting and CTID range scans, reducing 100+ GB migrations from days to minutes. Native TOAST column handling processes large JSONB payloads and IoT data efficiently without row expansion penalties. Destinations include ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Google PubSub, S3, and PostgreSQL with in-flight SQL transformations. Schema change propagation, partitioned table support, and slot growth alerts ensure production reliability. Docker Compose bundles Temporal, catalog Postgres, Flow API, workers, and the Next.js monitoring UI. Deployable on RepoCloud with dedicated VPS resources under AGPL-3.0.
Node-RED
Wire nodes together in a browser, deploy in one click, and real-time data flows from sources through transformations to outputs: Node-RED is the OpenJS Foundation's flow-based programming tool for event-driven applications. Born at IBM as a proof-of-concept for manipulating MQTT topic mappings, it has become the lingua franca of IoT and automation glue - home automation, industrial control, edge data collection - with a community library of over 5,000 contributed nodes and flows covering protocols, devices, and services. Where visual wiring runs out, JavaScript function nodes written in a rich in-editor code editor take over, and every flow serializes to importable, exportable JSON that shares cleanly and version-controls sensibly. Version 5.0 (2026) delivered the largest editor overhaul in the project's history: a rethought layout with Explorer and Information panels in a split sidebar, a native dark theme with theme variants, improved accessibility, and refreshed node appearance. The runtime is lightweight Node.js, exploiting the event-driven non-blocking model so the same flows run on a Raspberry Pi at the network edge or a cloud VM. Apache-2.0 licensed with 240+ contributors, it pairs naturally with dashboard nodes for live charts and controls.
Temporal
Powering mission-critical infrastructure at OpenAI, Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Retool, and Snap with over 22,000 GitHub stars, Temporal is the durable execution platform that originated from Uber's Cadence project — built by the creators of AWS SQS, AWS SWF, and Azure Durable Functions with nine years of production-proven reliability. The workflow-as-code model lets developers write business logic in Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, PHP, or Ruby using native SDKs, while the Temporal Server automatically persists state at every step, replays from failures, retries activities with configurable backoff policies, and manages task queues without developers writing reconciliation logic. Workflows support signals for external event injection, timers for scheduled delays, child workflows for decomposition, and queries for real-time state inspection — all backed by deterministic replay over an event-sourced history that guarantees exactly-once semantics. The Web UI provides visual workflow execution inspection with event timelines, pending activity monitoring, namespace management, and worker health dashboards. Persistence supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Apache Cassandra for horizontal scalability, with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for advanced workflow visibility queries. Multi-cluster replication enables global failover across data centers. The self-hosted stack deploys via Docker Compose with the auto-setup image, PostgreSQL, Web UI, and admin tools — operational within 30 minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.