FAUNĀ·dev() - Empowering Developers
FAUNĀ·dev() is a developer-first platform built around a simple idea: pay attention to what engineers actually care about. It aggregates, curates, and distributes tools, articles, and resources across the modern software stack.
The ecosystem is organized around a broader platform where developers can publish posts, curate and share tools, keep up with latest tech news and innovations, create dedicated pages to showcase their own projects, learn through structured educational content via FAUNĀ·sensei(), and stay up to date through focused weekly newsletters covering DevOps, Kubernetes, AI/ML, programming and more!
DevOpsLinks tracks infrastructure, cloud, and delivery tooling. Kaptain focuses on Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem. Kala covers AI, ML, and MLOps. VarBear centers on programming languages, frameworks, and core developer tools. Together, they reach a broad and technically diverse audience, from platform engineers to application developers.
Every week, thousands of readers interact with tools surfaced through these channels. Those interactions create a stream of real-world signals: what developers pause on, investigate further, and come back to.
This work presents a ranked list of the 100 developer tools developers paid the most attention to in 2025, based on aggregated platform-level interaction signals across the FAUN.dev() ecosystem (not based on surveys or editorial opinion). The ranking reflects consistent, intentional engagement from thousands of developers reading DevOpsLinks, Kala, VarBear, and Kaptain, spanning DevOps, Kubernetes, AI/ML, programming and more.
A small fraction of the repositories on this list are not tools in the traditional sense, but collections of resources, learning materials, or curated lists. We kept them because they also reflect important developer interests and trends.
Interpreting the 2025 Developer Tooling Landscape
The list is long and before diving into individual entries, it's worth stepping back to identify some patterns we've observed across the top-ranked tools of 2025.
The top tools show a clear shift from "AI demos" to "AI systems." The dominant pattern is standardization around the Model Context Protocol and its ecosystem: curated MCP registries, frameworks for building servers and clients, official vendor implementations, and deployment helpers.
Developers are converging on a common integration surface so agents can reliably talk to real tools, real data, and real infrastructure. In parallel, coding agents are becoming workflow-native - terminal-first, repo-first, CI-friendly - with projects that emphasize orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and practical ergonomics instead of flashy UX and gimmicks.
A second strong signal is the rise of "computer use" and ops automation: browser-driven agents and GUI agents that operate the same interfaces humans do, plus a heavy Kubernetes thread where clusters are increasingly treated as agent-addressable control planes. Around the edges, the trends highlight growing pressure on operations fundamentals - cost visibility, privileged access, fleet management, monitoring, and incident response: as AI workloads and automation sprawl expand rapidly, teams are looking for better ways to govern. Even the more chaotic non-tool entries (like leaked prompt collections) point to a real demand: developers want guardrails, observability, and security patterns for agentic systems, not just another framework.
Top 100 Developer Tools of 2025
browser-use/browser-use
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 100/100
ā GitHub stars: 74309
Description: Make websites accessible for AI agents
URL: https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #472 - Sec-Gemini Strikes, CUAs Rise, and Llama 4 Leads the AI Charge
punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers.
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 80/100
ā GitHub stars: 77763
Description: A collection of MCP servers
URL: https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #471 - Invisible AI for Interviews, Llama 4 Herd and OpenAIās Worst Nightmare
manusa/kubernetes-mcp-server
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 74/100
ā GitHub stars: 916
Description: Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift
URL: https://github.com/manusa/kubernetes-mcp-server
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #472 - Sec-Gemini Strikes, CUAs Rise, and Llama 4 Leads the AI Charge
jujumilk3/leaked-system-prompts
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 69/100
ā GitHub stars: 13799
Description: Collection of leaked system prompts
URL: https://github.com/jujumilk3/leaked-system-prompts
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #477 - AI at Scale: Saudi Supercomputers, GPU Giants & Serverless Agents
jlowin/fastmcp
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 68/100
ā GitHub stars: 21525
Description: The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients
URL: https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #479 - Google I/O 100, OpenAIās Smartest Model Refuses Shutdown, and the Prompt That Breaks LLMs
getzep/graphiti
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 66/100
ā GitHub stars: 21463
Description: Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents
URL: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #479 - Google I/O 100, OpenAIās Smartest Model Refuses Shutdown, and the Prompt That Breaks LLMs
Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 59/100
ā GitHub stars: 4375
Description: Collection of decent Community-made GRUB themes.
URL: https://github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #475 - AI Agents Take Over DevOps, Debian Debates Ethics, and SFTP vs FTPS Showdown
resemble-ai/chatterbox
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 51/100
ā GitHub stars: 18926
Description: SoTA open-source TTS
URL: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #481 - Disrupting Malicious AI Uses, End of Static AI & Meta's Scale AI Investment
microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 48/100
ā GitHub stars: 47704
Description: 10 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
URL: https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #472 - Sec-Gemini Strikes, CUAs Rise, and Llama 4 Leads the AI Charge
awslabs/mcp
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 47/100
ā GitHub stars: 7738
Description: AWS MCP Servers ā specialized MCP servers that bring AWS best practices directly to your development workflow
URL: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #473 - Sec-Gemini Drops, eBPF Gets Practical, and SSL Certs Get Shorter
browser-use/web-ui
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 47/100
ā GitHub stars: 15359
Description: Run AI Agent in your browser.
URL: https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #472 - Sec-Gemini Strikes, CUAs Rise, and Llama 4 Leads the AI Charge
kagent-dev/kagent
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 46/100
ā GitHub stars: 1989
Description: Cloud Native Agentic AI
URL: https://github.com/kagent-dev/kagent
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #470 - Every Pod Eviction Explained, Critical Ingress-nginx CVE and AI-Driven Kubernetes
openai/swarm
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 45/100
ā GitHub stars: 20744
Description: Educational framework exploring ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration. Managed by OpenAI Solution team.
URL: https://github.com/openai/swarm
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #473 - Geminiās Thinking Budget, Dockerās AI Boost & OpenAIās Visual Sleuth
medialab/xan
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 45/100
ā GitHub stars: 3569
Description: The CSV magician
URL: https://github.com/medialab/xan
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #471 - The SE Identity Crisis, K8s The Hard Way and The Best AI for Coding in 2025
freelensapp/freelens
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 43/100
ā GitHub stars: 4278
Description: Free IDE for Kubernetes
URL: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #471 - New GUI for K8s, Recyling a Smartphone into a K8s Node and How Google Will Evolve K8s in the AI Era
alibaba/spring-ai-alibaba
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 42/100
ā GitHub stars: 7661
Description: Agentic AI Framework for Java Developers
URL: https://github.com/alibaba/spring-ai-alibaba
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #477 - OpenAIās UAE Megacenter, CI/CD Speed Boost, & Terraform Loop Magic
liam-hq/liam
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 41/100
ā GitHub stars: 4584
Description: Automatically generates beautiful and easy-to-read ER diagrams from your database.
URL: https://github.com/liam-hq/liam
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #471 - The SE Identity Crisis, K8s The Hard Way and The Best AI for Coding in 2025
ravikiranvm/aws-finops-dashboard
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 37/100
ā GitHub stars: 1003
Description: A terminal-based AWS cost and resource dashboard built with Python and the Rich library. It provides an overview of AWS spend by account, service-level breakdowns, budget tracking, and EC2 instance summaries.
URL: https://github.com/ravikiranvm/aws-finops-dashboard
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #475 - AI Agents Take Over DevOps, Debian Debates Ethics, and SFTP vs FTPS Showdown
openai/codex
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 37/100
ā GitHub stars: 54886
Description: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
URL: https://github.com/openai/codex
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #498 - The New OpenAI Apps SDK - Building Apps Inside ChatGPT
fleetdm/fleet
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 36/100
ā GitHub stars: 5868
Description: Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
URL: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #471 - The SE Identity Crisis, K8s The Hard Way and The Best AI for Coding in 2025
NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 35/100
ā GitHub stars: 1043
Description: KAI Scheduler is an open source Kubernetes Native scheduler for AI workloads at large scale
URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #472 - Sec-Gemini Strikes, CUAs Rise, and Llama 4 Leads the AI Charge
InftyAI/Awesome-LLMOps
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 34/100
ā GitHub stars: 180
Description: An awesome & curated list of best LLMOps tools.
URL: https://github.com/InftyAI/Awesome-LLMOps
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #469 - Scaling Prometheus, The State of FinOps and Multi-tenancy in 2025
basecamp/omarchy
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 34/100
ā GitHub stars: 18690
Description: Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup
URL: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #494 - Are Senior Devs Becoming AI Babysitters? Why Many Say It Works
modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 32/100
ā GitHub stars: 6744
Description: Specification and documentation for the Model Context Protocol
URL: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #477 - AI at Scale: Saudi Supercomputers, GPU Giants & Serverless Agents
dockur/windows-arm
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 32/100
ā GitHub stars: 2020
Description: Windows for ARM in a Docker container.
URL: https://github.com/dockur/windows-arm
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #470 - Every Pod Eviction Explained, Critical Ingress-nginx CVE and AI-Driven Kubernetes
charlax/professional-programming
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 30/100
ā GitHub stars: 50039
Description: A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers
URL: https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #470 - VMware Sues Siemens, The Sociotechnical Reality Engineer and Handling Billions of Serverless Invocations
MrLesk/Backlog.md
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 30/100
ā GitHub stars: 4283
Description: A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem
URL: https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #485 - Securing Cloud with Terraform, Inside Netflixās Observability System & Tudum Architecture
bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 30/100
ā GitHub stars: 20228
Description: A GUI Agent application based on UI-TARS(Vision-Language Model) that allows you to control your computer using natural language.
URL: https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #479 - Google I/O 100, OpenAIās Smartest Model Refuses Shutdown, and the Prompt That Breaks LLMs
von-development/awesome-LangGraph
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 29/100
ā GitHub stars: 1389
Description: A curated list of awesome projects, resources, and tools for building stateful, multi-actor applications with LangGraph
URL: https://github.com/von-development/awesome-LangGraph
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #471 - Invisible AI for Interviews, Llama 4 Herd and OpenAIās Worst Nightmare
GoogleCloudPlatform/agent-starter-pack
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 27/100
ā GitHub stars: 5330
Description: A collection of production-ready Generative AI Agent templates built for Google Cloud. It accelerates development by providing a holistic, production-ready solution, addressing common challenges (Deployment & Operations, Evaluation, Customization, Observability) in building and deploying GenAI agents.
URL: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/agent-starter-pack
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #477 - AI at Scale: Saudi Supercomputers, GPU Giants & Serverless Agents
github/spec-kit
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 27/100
ā GitHub stars: 58447
Description: Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development
URL: https://github.com/github/spec-kit
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #497 - Writing Load Balancer From Scratch In 250 Line of Code
automation-ai-labs/mcp-link
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 27/100
ā GitHub stars: 588
Description: Seamlessly Integrate Any API with AI Agents
URL: https://github.com/automation-ai-labs/mcp-link
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #470 - VMware Sues Siemens, The Sociotechnical Reality Engineer and Handling Billions of Serverless Invocations
oraios/serena
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 27/100
ā GitHub stars: 17846
Description: A powerful coding agent toolkit providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities (MCP server & other integrations)
URL: https://github.com/oraios/serena
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #494 - OpenAI is Stealing Your Job but Giving You a New One
googleapis/genai-toolbox
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 26/100
ā GitHub stars: 11977
Description: MCP Toolbox for Databases is an open source MCP server for databases.
URL: https://github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #485 - The Hunt for a Perfect Laptop, Best AIs For Job Seekers & Using a Foot Pedal for Vibe Coding
HKUDS/Vimo
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 26/100
ā GitHub stars: 1576
Description: Chat with Your Videos
URL: https://github.com/HKUDS/Vimo
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #489 - 100-Agent Research Swarms Emerge
VersusControl/versus-incident
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 26/100
ā GitHub stars: 376
Description: An open-source incident management tool supporting multi-channel alerting, customizable messages, and on-call integrations.
URL: https://github.com/VersusControl/versus-incident
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #469 - Scaling Prometheus, The State of FinOps and Multi-tenancy in 2025
ripienaar/free-for-dev
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 26/100
ā GitHub stars: 116599
Description: A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
URL: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #483 - Broadcom Bullying Enterprises with VMware Audits, Cloudflare Blocks Largest DDoS Attack & Agentic DevOps
jumpserver/jumpserver
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 25/100
ā GitHub stars: 29296
Description: JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) tool that provides DevOps and IT teams with on-demand and secure access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, Database and RemoteApp endpoints through a web browser.
URL: https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #477 - OpenAIās UAE Megacenter, CI/CD Speed Boost, & Terraform Loop Magic
karpathy/rendergit
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 25/100
ā GitHub stars: 1982
Description: Render any git repo into a single static HTML page for humans or LLMs
URL: https://github.com/karpathy/rendergit
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #491 - Code a MCP-powered Agent in ~70 Lines of Code
Zie619/n8n-workflows
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 25/100
ā GitHub stars: 48700
Description: A professionally organized collection of 2,057 n8n workflows with a lightning-fast documentation system that provides instant search, analysis, and browsing capabilities.
URL: https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #499 - OpenAI Needs $400 Billion. This Year!
google/yamlfmt
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 24/100
ā GitHub stars: 1662
Description: An extensible command line tool or library to format yaml files.
URL: https://github.com/google/yamlfmt
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #492 - AI Architecture Upends Computing: Can Kubernetes Remain The AI-Native Platform?
eduardoagarcia/shef
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 24/100
ā GitHub stars: 278
Description: Shef is a powerful CLI framework for cooking up advanced shell recipes.
URL: https://github.com/eduardoagarcia/shef
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #470 - VMware Sues Siemens, The Sociotechnical Reality Engineer and Handling Billions of Serverless Invocations
zxh326/kite
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 23/100
ā GitHub stars: 1969
Description: A modern, lightweight Kubernetes dashboard
URL: https://github.com/zxh326/kite
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #484 - K8s FinOps 2.0 AI Cost Optimization, K8s Usage Insights & K8s Complexity Killer
manaskamal/XenevaOS
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 22/100
ā GitHub stars: 630
Description: The Xeneva Operating System
URL: https://github.com/manaskamal/XenevaOS
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #483 - Broadcom Bullying Enterprises with VMware Audits, Cloudflare Blocks Largest DDoS Attack & Agentic DevOps
azurekid/blackcat
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 21/100
ā GitHub stars: 152
Description: BlackCat is a PowerShell module designed to validate the security of Microsoft Azure. It provides a set of functions to identify potential security holes.
URL: https://github.com/azurekid/blackcat
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #471 - The SE Identity Crisis, K8s The Hard Way and The Best AI for Coding in 2025
Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 21/100
ā GitHub stars: 1232
Description: MCP Server for kubernetes management commands
URL: https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #475 - Kubernetes 1.33 Features, EKS Auto-Heals, and Uber Goes All-In on K8s
hcengineering/platform
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 20/100
ā GitHub stars: 23998
Description: Huly ā All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
URL: https://github.com/hcengineering/platform
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #470 - VMware Sues Siemens, The Sociotechnical Reality Engineer and Handling Billions of Serverless Invocations
alibaba/spring-ai-alibaba
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 20/100
ā GitHub stars: 7661
Description: Agentic AI Framework for Java Developers
URL: https://github.com/alibaba/spring-ai-alibaba
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #479 - Google I/O 100, OpenAIās Smartest Model Refuses Shutdown, and the Prompt That Breaks LLMs
github/github-mcp-server
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 19/100
ā GitHub stars: 25500
Description: GitHub's official MCP Server
URL: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #471 - Invisible AI for Interviews, Llama 4 Herd and OpenAIās Worst Nightmare
edoardottt/cariddi
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 19/100
ā GitHub stars: 2915
Description: Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more
URL: https://github.com/edoardottt/cariddi
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #477 - OpenAIās UAE Megacenter, CI/CD Speed Boost, & Terraform Loop Magic
jnesss/bpfview
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 19/100
ā GitHub stars: 32
Description: BPFView: Process and Network Activity Correlation
URL: https://github.com/jnesss/bpfview
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #481 - AWS AI Agentic Coding Experience, Uber's Multi-Cloud Secrets Management & DevOps Tools Cryptojacking
RchGrav/claudebox
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 18/100
ā GitHub stars: 756
Description: The Ultimate Claude Code Docker Development Environment - Run Claude AI's coding assistant in a fully containerized, reproducible environment with pre-configured development profiles.
URL: https://github.com/RchGrav/claudebox
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #487 - š 10 Kubernetes Autoscaling Traps That Are Wasting Your Budget
stacklok/toolhive
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 18/100
ā GitHub stars: 1472
Description: ToolHive makes deploying MCP servers easy, secure and fun
URL: https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #498 - OpenAI Agent Builder - A Complete Guide
ByTheHugo/kubeboard
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 18/100
ā GitHub stars: 7
Description: KubeBoard dishes out a stylish Python/Flask GUI to reveal Kubernetes ingresses in all their glory. It comes loaded with customizations and dynamic updates to keep your dashboard snappy and alive.
URL: https://github.com/ByTheHugo/kubeboard
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #473 - Tanzu Ditches K8s, Docker Runs Models Locally, and Agents Take Over Ops
sgoedecke/gh-standup
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 18/100
ā GitHub stars: 94
Description: A CLI extension for generating an AI-assisted standup report
URL: https://github.com/sgoedecke/gh-standup
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #485 - Securing Cloud with Terraform, Inside Netflixās Observability System & Tudum Architecture
aelassas/servy
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 18/100
ā GitHub stars: 991
Description: Turn Any App into a Native Windows Service ā Open-Source Alternative to NSSM & FireDaemon
URL: https://github.com/aelassas/servy
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #491 - Can LLMs Replace On-Call SREs Today?
headlamp-k8s/headlamp
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 18/100
ā GitHub stars: 5226
Description: A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible
URL: https://github.com/headlamp-k8s/headlamp
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #468 - Hardening Docker Networking, 'Please Start a Cluster for Me,' and WebAssembly on K8s
obeli-sk/obelisk
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 394
Description: Deterministic workflow engine
URL: https://github.com/obeli-sk/obelisk
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #477 - OpenAIās UAE Megacenter, CI/CD Speed Boost, & Terraform Loop Magic
mindverse/Second-Me
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 14833
Description: Train your AI self, amplify you, bridge the world
URL: https://github.com/mindverse/Second-Me
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #469 - The DeepSeek R1 Tutorial, FAANG job will be Automated by 2026 and Lean AI Native Companies
log-forge/logforge
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 277
Description: Like Dozzle but with alerts and a one command set-up
URL: https://github.com/log-forge/logforge
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #484 - K8s FinOps 2.0 AI Cost Optimization, K8s Usage Insights & K8s Complexity Killer
stacklok/toolhive
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 1472
Description: ToolHive makes deploying MCP servers easy, secure and fun
URL: https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #499 - OpenAI Needs $400 Billion. This Year!
psviderski/unregistry
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 4417
Description: Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry
URL: https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #483 - Broadcom Bullying Enterprises with VMware Audits, Cloudflare Blocks Largest DDoS Attack & Agentic DevOps
portainer/kubesolo
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 424
Description: Ultra-lightweight Kubernetes
URL: https://github.com/portainer/kubesolo
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #482 - AWS EKS Flaw Exposes Credentials, Kubernetes 1.33 Resizing Pods & F5 AI Innovations
xpipe-io/xpipe
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 12199
Description: Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop
URL: https://github.com/xpipe-io/xpipe
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #469 - Scaling Prometheus, The State of FinOps and Multi-tenancy in 2025
automation-ai-labs/mcp-link
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 588
Description: Seamlessly Integrate Any API with AI Agents
URL: https://github.com/automation-ai-labs/mcp-link
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #471 - Invisible AI for Interviews, Llama 4 Herd and OpenAIās Worst Nightmare
winapps-org/winapps
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 13652
Description: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
URL: https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #494 - The 5 Sneaky AWS Cost Traps
serkanh/sre-bot
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 17/100
ā GitHub stars: 37
Description: A Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) powered assistant designed to help Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) with operational tasks and monitoring, particularly focused on Kubernetes interactions.
URL: https://github.com/serkanh/sre-bot
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #477 - Kubernetes 1.33 Powers Up, Azure Functions Join ACA & OrbStack Challenges Docker
jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 6635
Description: This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
URL: https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #487 - š§ Claude Is Replacing Developers at Anthropic ā No Code Needed
karpathy/nanochat
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 39436
Description: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.
URL: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #501 - CUDA Goes Mainstream: NVIDIA and Red Hat Bring GPU Power to Every Linux Distro
richardscollin/tmux-rs
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 772
Description: A Rust port of tmux
URL: https://github.com/richardscollin/tmux-rs
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #485 - Securing Cloud with Terraform, Inside Netflixās Observability System & Tudum Architecture
charmbracelet/crush
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 16478
Description: The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
URL: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #490 - AWS Deleted my 10-year Account and all Data Without Warning
kirodotdev/Kiro
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 2487
Description: Kiro is an agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production.
URL: https://github.com/kirodotdev/Kiro
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #486 - Zuck's AI Beast, Rethinking RAG & Self-Evolving Knowledge Graphs
kaito-project/kaito
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 852
Description: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator
URL: https://github.com/kaito-project/kaito
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #483 - Broadcom Bullying Enterprises with VMware Audits, Cloudflare Blocks Largest DDoS Attack & Agentic DevOps
chains-project/goleash
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 18
Description: Runtime enforcement of software supply chain capabilities in Go
URL: https://github.com/chains-project/goleash
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #481 - AWS AI Agentic Coding Experience, Uber's Multi-Cloud Secrets Management & DevOps Tools Cryptojacking
ServBay/ServBay
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 319
Description: ServBay is an all-in-one localized web development environment that simplifies and accelerates your web projects.
URL: https://github.com/ServBay/ServBay
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #482 - Weaponizing Dependabot Attacks, GitOps 2025 Transformations & Rethinking Automatic Rollbacks
charmbracelet/crush
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 16478
Description: The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
URL: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #489 - Google Releases AI Agent Jules for Programming
Linbreux/FlockRunner
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 3
Description: YAML command executor
URL: https://github.com/Linbreux/FlockRunner
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #482 - Weaponizing Dependabot Attacks, GitOps 2025 Transformations & Rethinking Automatic Rollbacks
sst/models.dev
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 1912
Description: An open-source database of AI models.
URL: https://github.com/sst/models.dev
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #484 - Google's A2A Protocol, Gemma 3n's Novel Techniques & The Ultimate LLM Evaluation Guide
roottusk/vapi
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 1319
Description: vAPI is Vulnerable Adversely Programmed Interface which is Self-Hostable API that mimics OWASP API Top 10 scenarios through Exercises.
URL: https://github.com/roottusk/vapi
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #479 - Why Are There So Many Databases, Scaling Azure Microservices and Improving EC2 Boot Time
simular-ai/Agent-S
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 16/100
ā GitHub stars: 9178
Description: An open agentic framework that uses computers like a human
URL: https://github.com/simular-ai/Agent-S
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #476 - Cloud Repatriation at 37signals, Rebuilding Kafka, & GPT-Powered Ansible Automation
Kilo-Org/kilocode
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 13579
Description: Open Source AI coding assistant for planning, building, and fixing code. We're a superset of Roo, Cline, and our own features.
URL: https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #486 - Asynchrony is not Concurrency, Scalability is not Performance & Crawling a Billion Pages in 24h,
paloaltodatabases/sequor
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 88
Description: Build complete API integrations with YAML and SQL. Rapid development without vendor lock-in and per-row costs.
URL: https://github.com/paloaltodatabases/sequor
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #482 - Weaponizing Dependabot Attacks, GitOps 2025 Transformations & Rethinking Automatic Rollbacks
tooka-org/cli
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 10
Description: A fast, rule-based CLI tool for organizing files.
URL: https://github.com/Benji377/tooka
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #482 - Weaponizing Dependabot Attacks, GitOps 2025 Transformations & Rethinking Automatic Rollbacks
kubermatic/fubectl
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 980
Description: Reduces repetitive interactions with kubectl
URL: https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #495 - Prometheus - Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly
a0xAi/kubeve
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 28
Description: Human Friendly Way to look for Kubernetes Events
URL: https://github.com/a0xAi/kubeve
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #477 - Kubernetes 1.33 Powers Up, Azure Functions Join ACA & OrbStack Challenges Docker
platform-engineering-labs/formae
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 639
Description: Infrastructure-as-Code Platform Built for the Future
URL: https://github.com/platform-engineering-labs/formae
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #503 - Terraform vs. Pulumi vs. Crossplane
anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 27866
Description: Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial
URL: https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #487 - š§ Claude Is Replacing Developers at Anthropic ā No Code Needed
gamemann/XDP-Proxy
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 255
Description: A stateless, high-performance NAT-like proxy that attaches to the XDP hook in the Linux kernel using (e)BPF for fast packet processing. This proxy forwards packets based on configurable rules and performs source-port mapping, similar to IPTables and NFTables.
URL: https://github.com/gamemann/XDP-Proxy
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #481 - AWS AI Agentic Coding Experience, Uber's Multi-Cloud Secrets Management & DevOps Tools Cryptojacking
marverix/gah
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 238
Description: gah is a GitHub Releases app installer, that does not require sudo
URL: https://github.com/marverix/gah
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #469 - Scaling Prometheus, The State of FinOps and Multi-tenancy in 2025
EzpieCo/GetHooky
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 52
Description: git hooks managing with stupidity as priority
URL: https://github.com/ezpieco/gethooky
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #481 - AWS AI Agentic Coding Experience, Uber's Multi-Cloud Secrets Management & DevOps Tools Cryptojacking
superdesigndev/superdesign
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 5599
Description: Cursor for design
URL: https://github.com/superdesigndev/superdesign
Latest appearance: VarBear Issue #489 - Google Releases AI Agent Jules for Programming
docker/docker-language-server
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 141
Description: The Docker Language Server taps into Buildx for its secret sauce. Shines a light on Dockerfile vulnerabilities with Docker Scout. Running Go 1.23+? Perfect. Snag the source, unleash tests straight from Docker, and watch the magic unfold.
URL: https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #473 - Tanzu Ditches K8s, Docker Runs Models Locally, and Agents Take Over Ops
koogle/claudebox
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 22
Description: Run claude code in a container
URL: https://github.com/koogle/claudebox
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #483 - Broadcom Bullying Enterprises with VMware Audits, Cloudflare Blocks Largest DDoS Attack & Agentic DevOps
okigan/awscurl
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 879
Description: curl-like access to AWS resources with AWS Signature Version 4 request signing.
URL: https://github.com/okigan/awscurl
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #471 - The SE Identity Crisis, K8s The Hard Way and The Best AI for Coding in 2025
HewlettPackard/terraschema
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 61
Description: Generate JSON Schema files based on a Terraform configuration
URL: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/terraschema
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #472 - GitHub at 20, YAML-Powered Backstage & Platform Engineering in Action
rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 81917
Description: Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step
URL: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #499 - OpenAI Needs $400 Billion. This Year!
verdaccio/verdaccio
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 17368
Description: A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry
URL: https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio
Latest appearance: Kaptain Issue #471 - New GUI for K8s, Recyling a Smartphone into a K8s Node and How Google Will Evolve K8s in the AI Era
laude-institute/terminal-bench
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 1266
Description: A benchmark for LLMs on complicated tasks in the terminal
URL: https://github.com/laude-institute/terminal-bench
Latest appearance: Kala Issue #495 - GitHub MCP Registry - The Fastest Way to Discover AI Tools
operacle/checkcle
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 1948
Description: CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.
URL: https://github.com/operacle/checkcle
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #489 - Perplexity Accused of Using Stealth Crawlers to Bypass Robots No-Crawl
sanaysarthak/git-laugh-track
š FAUNĀ·dev() popularity score: 15/100
ā GitHub stars: 154
Description: A Git hook that plays a sitcom laugh track every time you commit.
URL: https://github.com/sanaysarthak/git-laugh-track
Latest appearance: DevOpsLinks Issue #495 - Prometheus - Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly
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