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Top 23 Shell DevOps Projects
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Dokku is the smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen. It's a self-hosted Heroku alternative that runs on a single server. Push code with git push — Dokku builds, deploys, and manages your apps.
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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90DaysOfDevOps
This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the community. We have 3 years under our belt covering all things DevOps, including Principles, Processes, Tooling and Use Cases surrounding this vast topic.
Project mention: 10 GitHub Repositories That Will Actually Teach You DevOps in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-05-05github.com/MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps. 29k stars. Three years of community-curated 90-day plans.
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lynis
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.
Project mention: audit-pi VS lynis - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/audit-pi | 2026-07-17Lynis is the established, comprehensive option — agentless, deep compliance testing (ISO27001/PCI/HIPAA), huge ruleset. audit-pi is lighter on purpose: zero dependencies (just python3 + bash), one command, and the output is a single readable HTML report in English or French. It targets Raspberry Pi and homelab users who want a quick, digestible security snapshot rather than a full compliance suite.
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DevOps-Bash-tools
1200+ DevOps Bash Scripts - AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Hadoop, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Spotify, MP3, LDAP, Code/Build Linting, pkg mgmt for Linux, Mac, Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, Golang, Advanced dotfiles: .bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig, .screenrc, tmux..
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sysbox
An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.
Project mention: Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-06 -
vps-audit
lightweight, dependency-free bash script for security, performance auditing and infrastructure monitoring of Linux servers.
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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spin
🚀 Replicate your production environment locally using Docker. Just run "spin up". It's really that easy. (by serversideup)
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90DaysOfDevOps
This repository is a Challenge for the DevOps Community to get stronger in DevOps.The reason for making this Public is so that others can learn from the community and help each other grow. (by TrainWithShubham)
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git-extra-commands
A collection of git utilities, useful extra git scripts, tutorials and other useful articles.
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bash-commons
A collection of reusable Bash functions for handling common tasks such as logging, assertions, string manipulation, and more
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mlops-v2
Azure MLOps (v2) solution accelerators. Enterprise ready templates to deploy your machine learning models on the Azure Platform.
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kubectl-plugins
A Collection of Plugins for kubectl Integration (exec as any user, context switching, etc). (by jordanwilson230)
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awesome-platform-engineering
Curated list of tools and resources for Platform Engineering (by shospodarets)
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unix-and-linux-sysadmin-notes
Unix and Linux system administration handbook by Evi Nemeth Garth Snyder Trent R. Hein Ben Whaley Dan Mackin
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source DevOps projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Dokku | 32,123 |
| 2 | 90DaysOfDevOps | 29,697 |
| 3 | lynis | 16,292 |
| 4 | DevOps-Bash-tools | 8,395 |
| 5 | Compose-Examples | 7,361 |
| 6 | sysbox | 3,853 |
| 7 | vps-audit | 3,019 |
| 8 | devops-basics | 1,877 |
| 9 | ansible-interactive-tutorial | 1,500 |
| 10 | spin | 1,489 |
| 11 | 90DaysOfDevOps | 1,385 |
| 12 | git-extra-commands | 1,170 |
| 13 | cipi | 1,136 |
| 14 | awesome-k8s-tools | 1,070 |
| 15 | geodesic | 1,052 |
| 16 | bash-commons | 808 |
| 17 | ansible-for-kubernetes | 728 |
| 18 | slickstack | 700 |
| 19 | mlops-v2 | 654 |
| 20 | kubectl-plugins | 637 |
| 21 | ansible-for-devops-manuscript | 603 |
| 22 | awesome-platform-engineering | 519 |
| 23 | unix-and-linux-sysadmin-notes | 489 |
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