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Top 23 Nginx Open-Source Projects
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Kong Gateway OSS is the open-source version of Kongโs popular API gateway, offering routing, proxying, load balancing, health checks, authentication, and more. Built for scalability, it runs well in self-hosted and Kubernetes-based environments.
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Project mention: Deploying a Simple Flask API Using Gunicorn, Supervisor & Nginx | dev.to | 2025-04-30
Nginx: A reverse proxy to handle client requests and route them to Gunicorn.
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Nginx Proxy Manager
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
NGINX Proxy Manager - GUI for NGINX proxy management
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nginx-proxy becomes almost a must have if you have multiple services and prefer remembering domain names instead of port numbers https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy
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GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
I use https://goaccess.io/ to parse the logs and generate a html report.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there is a lot of bot activity there, that using JS might cleanup a bit.
If you are interested, I have a write up of my setup here, with the report generation down at the bottom:
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Project mention: Host Multiple Services in EKS with One LoadBalancer: A Cost-Effective Approach | dev.to | 2025-04-23
helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
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SaaSHub
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SafeLine
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
Project mention: What Is a WAF and Why Do You Need One? (Beginner-Friendly Guide) | dev.to | 2025-04-30๐ See the Live Demo ๐ GitHub Project
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Many purpose-built AI gateways lack distributed tracing, forcing engineers to cobble together metrics. In contrast, API gateways like Apache APISIX provide built-in integrations with Prometheus and Grafana, enabling token-level dashboards.
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Project mention: Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on the Nginx | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-03
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ModSecurity
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.
Coraza and ModSecurity have a high detection rate, but they are not adapted to reality scenarios, resulting in too many false positives.
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Project mention: Show HN: BunkerWeb โ The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-06
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Project mention: Ngtop โ Request analytics from the Nginx access logs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-30
ngxtop is also very useful for providing real-time metrics:
https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
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serge
A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
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Project mention: H5ai โ A modern HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd, and Nginx | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-28
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Project mention: Future AI Deployment: Automating Full Lifecycle Management with Rollback Strategies and Cloud Migration | dev.to | 2025-03-15
Canary Deployment with Kubernetes (Flagger): Flagger Documentation
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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).
Nginx discussion
Nginx related posts
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Show HN: Wiredoor adds OAuth2 login to protect self-hosted services
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Killing Bots at the Gate: Detecting Malicious Crawlers with Nginx
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Show HN: Wiredoor โ Securely expose private services
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Wiredoor VS frp - a user suggested alternative
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Host Multiple Services in EKS with One LoadBalancer: A Cost-Effective Approach
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[part 1] Stylish modern "autoindex" in Angie/nginx without sms and third-party modules
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The Good Karma Kit
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nginx projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Kong | 40,803 |
| 2 | nginxconfig.io | 28,076 |
| 3 | Nginx | 26,808 |
| 4 | Nginx Proxy Manager | 25,977 |
| 5 | nginx-proxy | 19,307 |
| 6 | GoAccess | 19,299 |
| 7 | ingress-nginx | 18,520 |
| 8 | SafeLine | 16,304 |
| 9 | apisix | 15,099 |
| 10 | CapRover | 13,975 |
| 11 | nginx-admins-handbook | 13,659 |
| 12 | tengine | 12,961 |
| 13 | server-configs-nginx | 11,358 |
| 14 | Xray_onekey | 9,312 |
| 15 | ModSecurity | 8,800 |
| 16 | Heimdall | 8,350 |
| 17 | BunkerWeb | 7,937 |
| 18 | ngxtop | 6,496 |
| 19 | serge | 5,719 |
| 20 | h5ai | 5,711 |
| 21 | dperf | 5,322 |
| 22 | flagger | 5,063 |
| 23 | one_click_script | 4,932 |
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