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Top 23 docker-compose Open-Source Projects
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coolify
An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
The advisory credits bugbunny.ai and lists v4.0.0-beta.471 as patched. This is an analysis of that disclosure, not a claim of discovering or reproducing the Coolify vulnerability. Read the original advisory.
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AppSignal
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Codex runs on my MacBook. It reaches the private server through SSH and APIs over the LAN or Tailscale. The local home-infra repository supplies inventory, operating rules, runbooks and non-secret definitions. Stack work uses Komodo and Compose; Proxmox and host operations use their own SSH/API path.
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Project mention: My homelab stack in 2026: what runs, why, and how it all connects | dev.to | 2026-06-20
Portainer is the visual management layer. I use it for quick container inspection, pulling logs, and managing stacks without SSHing in every time. It doesn't replace Prometheus, they have different jobs. Prometheus tells me what happened and when; Portainer tells me what's running right now and lets me poke at it.
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Project mention: The "DB_PASSWORD" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string: fixing unset ${VAR} in Docker Compose | dev.to | 2026-10-06
The request to make this fail by default is years old: docker/compose#5505.
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Project mention: Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-10-10
Its called colima and its excellent.
https://colima.run/
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Project mention: iptables says your kernel needs upgrading. Upgrading the kernel is what broke it. | dev.to | 2026-08-27
That is also why the fix information is so hard to find. The canonical report is wg-easy#2614, which the maintainers closed as not planned — correctly, since it is not their bug. So the thread with twenty comments of people rediscovering the same thing sits in a project that has, accurately, disclaimed it.
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Project mention: dockge VS arcane - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/dockge | 2026-06-11
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SaaSHub
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Project mention: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-11
Winboat should be able to run them: https://www.winboat.app/
As far as compatibility goes, OnlyOffice is fairly good at it, more geared towards MS-compatibility than LibreOffice, which is more of its own thing (and pretty good at that).
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Self-Hosting-Guide
Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.
"Self-Hosting Guide" - GitHub repository by mikeroyal documenting self-hosted alternatives to cloud services. Available at: https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide
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Project mention: Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-13
- mailcow: redis saves data every 5 minutes https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/pull/7405
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Laradock
Full PHP development environment for Docker. Run Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Phalcon, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Moodle, or any PHP project with 70+ pre-configured services: Nginx, Apache, PHP-FPM, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch & more.
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self-hosted
Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept
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Testcontainers
Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
Project mention: Testcontainers VS keploy - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/testcontainers-java | 2026-10-13 -
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boilerplates
Create reusable templates and turn them into configurable workloads for homelabs and self-hosted infrastructure. Free and Open-Source.
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Project mention: dockge VS arcane - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/dockge | 2026-06-11
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Project mention: AIHOT Open-Sources a Configurable Industry News Site Framework | dev.to | 2026-10-06
Analysis: AIHOT’s useful distinction is that it treats an industry-news site as a configurable editorial system rather than as a generic chatbot wrapper. Exposed prompts, thresholds and evaluation hooks give an operator places to express domain judgement. But that also leaves the central quality problem with the operator: selecting authoritative sources, defining what is important, and checking whether generated titles, summaries and event groupings preserve the underlying reporting. The repository itself emphasizes that its included 18 public overseas AI sources are examples and that real sources should be replaced for another industry. The AIHOT repository
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ODS
ODS V3 Pre-Release: Public testing and refinement ahead of the official V3 launch. Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into a private AI server.
Project mention: Show HN: Dream Server – Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into a private AI server | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-14 -
SaaSHub
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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 docker-compose projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | coolify | 62,834 |
| 2 | awesome-compose | 46,500 |
| 3 | Portainer | 38,640 |
| 4 | Docker Compose | 38,360 |
| 5 | colima | 31,138 |
| 6 | wg-easy | 27,114 |
| 7 | dockge | 24,574 |
| 8 | winboat | 23,168 |
| 9 | Self-Hosting-Guide | 22,839 |
| 10 | vulhub | 21,335 |
| 11 | docker-elk | 18,385 |
| 12 | Mailcow | 13,577 |
| 13 | Laradock | 12,677 |
| 14 | kompose | 10,633 |
| 15 | self-hosted | 9,600 |
| 16 | Testcontainers | 8,749 |
| 17 | CompreFace | 8,336 |
| 18 | boilerplates | 7,986 |
| 19 | arcane | 7,841 |
| 20 | Mailu | 7,547 |
| 21 | AIHOT | 7,487 |
| 22 | Compose-Examples | 7,391 |
| 23 | ODS | 7,309 |
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