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24 alternatives to A Simple Way of Installing OpenStack

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Simple Way of Installing OpenStack launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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dstack▲190
Cost-effective LLM development
2023 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →
2
SaltStack For DevOps▲66
Fast and simple IT automation and configuration management
2016 · its alternatives →
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dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily▲134
Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…
2020 · its alternatives →
4
Dstack – an open-source engine for running GPU workloads▲101
dstack is a unified control plane for GPU provisioning and orchestration that works with any GPU cloud, Kubernetes, or on-prem clusters.
2024 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →
5
Stek.io▲161
Easily install open source software to get things done!
2017 · its alternatives →
6
Wick Editor▲88
The Internet's free and open-source creation suite
2016 · wickeditor.com · its alternatives →
7
Blockstack▲128
A new internet for decentralized apps
2016 · blockstack.org · its alternatives →
8
Fog Creek - The Problems with Open Source ▲70
And how to fix them with Justin Searls
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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OpenStandup – Share and connect with other GitHub developers▲8
2021 · openstandup.com · its alternatives →
10
Wick▲5
A free and open-source creation suite
2016 · wickeditor.com · its alternatives →
11
Openemacs – a tiny emacs clone, ≤ 1024 LOC (C), based on kilo (BSD)▲8
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
MiniStack▲6
The free LocalStack replacement
Apr 2026 · ministack.org · its alternatives →
13
Introspect - Python OODB Web CMS built on UNIX▲5
2020 · bitbucket.org · its alternatives →
14
BookStack▲5
Free Open Source Wiki Software with beautiful design
2016 · bookstackapp.com · its alternatives →
15SA
Simple and free Docker build as a service▲5
2021 · svennex.com · its alternatives →
16WA
Wish - A command line enhancement for Windows (Kickstarter)▲7
2012 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
17
Patching and making Ubuntu/Debian packages for Nginx made easy▲6
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Snappy▲5
Helpdesk software can be easy.
2015 · besnappy.com · its alternatives →
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Scoop▲3
A command-line installer for Windows
2019 · scoop.sh · its alternatives →
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Invoker 1.0 release with runtime agnostic .dev domain support and more▲9
2013 · invoker.codemancers.com · its alternatives →
21BT
BuildStack, The community Packer build service▲6
2014 · buildstack.io · its alternatives →
22
I built an open-source, local-first alternative to LangSmith▲6
Hey HN. Built this because LangSmith needs a cloud account just to see my own traces. pip install opensmith — everything shows up at localhost:7823. SQLite. No accounts. No config. Fully offline. 800+ downloads in 2 days. Surprised me. Would love honest feedback from this community.
May 2026 · pypi.org · its alternatives →
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A Quick Demo of Apache Beam with Docker▲5
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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openstack os▲2
Operating System for automation task of Companies.
Aug 2026 · openstackos.base44.app · its alternatives →

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