Top 7 Go Homelab Projects

router7

5 2,652 4.2 Go

router7 is a small home internet router completely written in Go. It is implemented as a gokrazy appliance.

Project mention: Securely Chaining Wi-Fi Routers (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-25

An "advert" for a BSD-licensed open-source codebase? Pointers to a comparable OSS networking project, implemented in memory-safe golang or rust, would be appreciated. There is https://router7.org, but for a narrow use case.

Gossa

13 842 5.0 Go

🎶 a fast and simple multimedia fileserver

Project mention: I created a minimalist file browser web UI, with streaming capabilites | /r/selfhosted | 2023-06-09

Reminds me of Gossa.

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
labca

4 287 8.5 Go

A private Certificate Authority for internal (lab) use, based on the open source ACME Automated Certificate Management Environment implementation from Let's Encrypt (tm).
caddy-wol

2 21 5.7 Go

Caddy plugin that sends wake-on-lan magic packets to remote hosts to wake up e.g. reverse proxy targets.
smartreboot

2 10 0.0 Go

Reboot a machine without interrupting ongoing work.
dns-updater

1 8 0.0 Go

Simple go app how update dns A and AAAA entry on each IP update (awesome for lab or server with dynamic ip)
Home-ddns

1 1 0.0 Go

Simple Golang script to update DNS records dynamically for home public IP (DDNS)
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).