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Top 23 Nginx Open-Source Projects

  1. Kong

    ๐Ÿฆ The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.

    Project mention: 10 Lightweight API Gateways for Your Next Project | dev.to | 2025-04-30

    Kong Gateway OSS is the open-source version of Kongโ€™s 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.

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. nginxconfig.io

    โš™๏ธ NGINX config generator on steroids ๐Ÿ’‰

  4. Nginx

    The official NGINX Open Source repository.

    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.

  5. Nginx Proxy Manager

    Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

    Project mention: Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab | dev.to | 2025-04-23

    NGINX Proxy Manager - GUI for NGINX proxy management

  6. nginx-proxy

    Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen

    Project mention: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-25

    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

  7. GoAccess

    GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

    Project mention: Open source Google Analytics replacement | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-07

    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:

  8. ingress-nginx

    Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

    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

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. 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 | 2025-04-30

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ See the Live Demo ๐Ÿ‘‰ GitHub Project

  11. apisix

    The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

    Project mention: What Is an AI Gateway: Differences from API Gateway | dev.to | 2025-03-27

    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.

  12. CapRover

    Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids

    Project mention: Caprover changed to source-available license | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-15
  13. nginx-admins-handbook

    How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.

    Project mention: Full Stack Developer's Roadmap ๐Ÿ—บ | dev.to | 2025-01-04

    โ˜„๏ธ Nginx Handbook ๐Ÿ’ก Apache ๐Ÿ’ฅ Caddy

  14. tengine

    A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features

    Project mention: Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on the Nginx | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-03
  15. server-configs-nginx

    Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs

  16. Xray_onekey

    Xray ๅŸบไบŽ Nginx ็š„ VLESS + XTLS ไธ€้”ฎๅฎ‰่ฃ…่„šๆœฌ

  17. 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.

    Project mention: Comparison on Six Self-Hosted WAF | dev.to | 2024-08-26

    Coraza and ModSecurity have a high detection rate, but they are not adapted to reality scenarios, resulting in too many false positives.

  18. Heimdall

    An Application dashboard and launcher

  19. BunkerWeb

    ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    Project mention: Show HN: BunkerWeb โ€“ The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-06
  20. ngxtop

    Real-time metrics for nginx server

    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

  21. serge

    A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.

  22. h5ai

    HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd and nginx.

    Project mention: H5ai โ€“ A modern HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd, and Nginx | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-28
  23. dperf

    dperf is a 100Gbps network load tester.

  24. flagger

    Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)

    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

  25. one_click_script

    install latest or LTS linux kernel and enable BBR or BBR plus

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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 Nginx projects? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
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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