Top 9 Rust Infrastructure Projects

sonic

48 19,419 7.0 Rust

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

Project mention: What is Hybrid Search? | dev.to | 2024-02-06

Sonic - a project written in Rust, uses custom network communication protocol for fast communication between the client and the server.

warpgate

21 3,333 8.0 Rust

Smart SSH, HTTPS and MySQL bastion that requires no additional client-side software

Project mention: SSH With SSO | /r/selfhosted | 2023-07-02

It's rather for access control with like, 50+ clients. Possibly with access control. I'm currently testing with warpgate

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.
arroyo

13 3,275 9.6 Rust

Distributed stream processing engine in Rust

Project mention: FLaNK AI Weekly 18 March 2024 | dev.to | 2024-03-18

nickel

46 2,137 9.5 Rust

Better configuration for less

Project mention: Nix – A One Pager | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-06

So, its key features are:
1. domain-specific: designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations. This reason alone already justifies a new language, or an embedded domain-specific language (such as the Guile/Scheme for guix), or a mix of both (Starlark, the build language of Bazel embedded in a restricted Python-variant).
2. purely functional: this ties well into the philosophical backing of Nix the package manager, which aims to be purely functional, also known as hermeticity in other build systems (Bazel).
3. lazily evaluated: similar to other build systems (including Bazel), so that you can build only what you need on demand.
4. dynamically typed: this one is controversial. Being dynamically typed—in other words, not developing a type system—gets Nix out of the door first. But users often complain about the lack of proper types and modularity. There are experiments to address this, such as Nickel (https://github.com/tweag/nickel).
It is understandable that a one-pager may not have space for the whys.

vigil

12 1,629 6.8 Rust

🚦 Microservices Status Page. Monitors a distributed infrastructure and sends alerts (Slack, SMS, etc.). (by valeriansaliou)

Project mention: 6 Best Open Source Status Page Alternatives for 2024 | dev.to | 2024-02-20

6. Vigil

tensorbase

1 1,423 0.0 Rust

TensorBase is a new big data warehousing with modern efforts.
cli

1 284 7.6 Rust

Railway CLI (by railwayapp)
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.
goldboot

19 185 8.9 Rust

Immutable infrastructure for the desktop!

Project mention: Goldboot – packer alternative for machine images written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-10

vigil-local

3 21 4.8 Rust

🕯 Vigil Local daemon. Used as a slave service to monitor hosts behind a firewall and report their status to Vigil.

Project mention: OneUptime: Open Source StatusPage.io alternative that you can self-host. | /r/minilab | 2023-05-10

One thing I like using vigil is the vigil-local companion that pushes on-prem (private network) probes status to the vigil app running on an external cheap VPS. Vigil doesn’t historize anything, its purpose is only to give a status (and to push alerts), and it does it well.

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).