Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
A year ago, we launched Distr here to help software vendors manage customer deployments remotely. We had agents that pulled updates, a hub with a GUI, and a lot of assumptions about what on-prem deployment needed. It turned out things get messy when your software is running in places you can't simply SSH into. Over the last year, we’ve also helped modernize a lot of home-baked solutions: bash scripts that email when updates fail, Excel sheets nobody trusts to track customer versions, engineers driving to customer sites to fix things in person, debug sessions over email (“can you take a…
Distr 2.0 is a deployment management platform for software vendors distributing software to customer environments. It provides remote agents, a hub with GUI, and version tracking to handle on-premises deployments where… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Distr is designed to help software engineers distribute and manage their applications or agents in customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments. You only need a Docker Compose file or Helm chart—everything else for on-prem is handled by the platform. We’re are an open source dev tool company. Over the past couple of months, we’ve spoken with dozens of software companies to understand their challenges with on-prem deployments. We analyzed the internal tools they’ve built and the best practices from existing solutions, combining them into a prebuilt, Open Source solution that…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast, native, comprehensive issue tracking for GitHub
2017 · realartists.com · its alternatives →
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Distro▲404AI podcast cohost that turns conversations into social posts
2025 · youdistro.com · its alternatives →
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Unubo 2.0▲324Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases
2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →
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Over the last year or so I have worked on a research linux distribution in my spare time. It’s not a distribution for researchers (like Scientific Linux), but my personal playground project to research linux distribution development, i.e. try out fresh ideas.
2019 · michael.stapelberg.ch · its alternatives →
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Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability. - nullpo-head/wsl-distrod
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management. Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server. Policies are streamed to clients over mTLS/gRPC in real time—no polling—and currently support Firefox, Chrome, KDE, dconf, polkit and package management, with more coming. Version 0.8 introduces several new policy types - Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business and FirewallD zones, along with a number of improvements and fixes. I'd love feedback on the architecture, policy model, and whether this is something you'd consider for…
Aug 2026 · getbor.dev · its alternatives →
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Learn the core transferable skills of setting up Linux virtual servers and Docker containers. Provision web servers, application servers, workers, and databases.
2021 · deploymentfromscratch.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · diffmatic.com · its alternatives →
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QuickDeploy▲184Hi HN, I am Max and I am building QuickDeploy! It lets you deploy web applications of all sorts to your VPS with one command! Here is a little showcase of the tool itself: https://youtu.be/Feauj4OaePg Under the hood quickdeploy detects the language and framework you use, so e.g. Next.js and then creates a Docker image. After that it starts the container and waits until it is in a healthy state before using a reverse proxy to redirect traffic to the app. Added benefit is the use of your own domain with instant https! I am super happy with the result and the ease of use. After…
2025 · quickdeploy.dev · its alternatives →
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Happy Holidays! Today I am delighted to announce the first release of H2O, version 0.9.0; this is a christmas gift from me. github.com/h...
2014 · blog.kazuhooku.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · distro.tools · its alternatives →
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Decentralized Issue Tracking for git. Contribute to git-dit/git-dit development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise.
2014 · enterprise.github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A rest application to update firewalld rules on a linux server - GitHub - prashantgupta24/firewalld-rest: A rest application to update firewalld rules on a linux server
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Servicer is a CLI to create and manage services on systemd. I have used pm2 in production and find it easy to use. However a lot of its functionality is specific to node.js, and I would prefer not to run my rust server as a fork of a node process. Systemd on the other hand has most of the things I need, but I found it cumbersome to use. There are a bunch of different commands and configurations- the .service file, systemctl to view status, journald to view logs which make systemd more complex to setup. I had to google for the a template and commands every time. Servicer abstracts this setup…
2023 · servicer.dev · its alternatives →
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