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Top 13 Go Sysadmin Projects
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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gomplate
A flexible commandline tool for template rendering. Supports lots of local and remote datasources.
Tools like gomplate or even just using Python with Jinja2 can pre-process a template file into a final docker-compose.yml.
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openresty-manager
Modern, secure, and elegant server control panel, alternative to OpenResty Edge and Nginx Proxy Manager.
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network-doctor
Network Doctor is a cross-platform network troubleshooting TUI that turns interface, DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP, proxy, and path-MTU checks into one plain-English diagnosis.
Project mention: Looking for Contributors: Good First Issues in Network Doctor | dev.to | 2026-09-16 -
Hey no problem! I'll work on the demo more. I discuss this in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46889704&goto=item%3Fi...
and on the website: https://fluid.sh
But fluid lets AI investigate, explore, run commands, and edit files in a production-cloned sandbox. LLMs are great at writing IaC, but the LLMs won't get the right context from just generating an Ansible Playbook. They need a place to run commands safely and test changes before writing the IaC. Much like a human, hence the sandbox.
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lssh
A terminal-native remote access suite for SSH, cloud inventories, provider-backed connectors, parallel commands, mux workspaces, file transfer, and monitoring.
Project mention: Show HN: Lssh – Terminal-native remote access suite for SSH and cloud targets | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-29 -
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hyperv-control-plane
Declarative agent for Hyper-V hosts and failover clusters. The open-source component of Ballast.
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statedrift
git log for your infrastructure — tamper-evident host snapshots, diffable history, and drift rules for Linux (and your AI agent's config)
Project mention: Your AI coding agent's config is attack surface. I built a tool to version-control it (and the rest of your host). | dev.to | 2026-09-09Then sudo statedrift init, make a change, sudo statedrift snap, and sudo statedrift diff HEAD~1 HEAD. The agent-config tracking above is one more command — statedrift config enable harness (run as the user whose agent you're watching). There's a 30-second demo GIF and the full command list in the README: https://github.com/statedrift/statedrift
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Repo: github.com/hatam-abolghasemi/Auto-Doc Originally published on Medium
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dockdu
Find out where Docker's disk space actually went, and what prune would NOT give back. Read-only, one command.
Project mention: docker builder prune freed 0 B: two places Docker keeps disk space that no prune reaches | dev.to | 2026-10-14dockdu, a read-only CLI that explains Docker disk usage, does all three checks since 0.4.0:
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).
Go Sysadmin discussion
Go Sysadmin related posts
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docker builder prune freed 0 B: two places Docker keeps disk space that no prune reaches
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Claude Code for Infrastructure
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Show HN: Fluid.sh – Claude Code for Infrastructure
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SysBox: Sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
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OliveTin: Give safe, simple access to predefined shell commands from a web UI
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OliveTin: Give safe, simple access to predefined shell commands from a web UI
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www.saashub.com | 16 Oct 2026
Index
What are some of the best open-source Sysadmin projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | OliveTin | 3,832 |
| 2 | gomplate | 3,211 |
| 3 | openresty-manager | 1,467 |
| 4 | network-doctor | 415 |
| 5 | deer | 405 |
| 6 | lssh | 327 |
| 7 | joincap | 218 |
| 8 | gokatas | 163 |
| 9 | hyperv-control-plane | 30 |
| 10 | statixagent | 5 |
| 11 | statedrift | 2 |
| 12 | Auto-Doc | 1 |
| 13 | dockdu | 0 |
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