Cicada: A FOSS, Self-Hosted Alternative to GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI

In plain words

Cicada is a self-hosted CI/CD platform that works with GitHub and GitLab. It lets users write automation workflows using a custom domain-specific language instead of YAML, with support for variables and shell commands. The same workflows run on both GitHub and GitLab without modification. Cicada is open-source under AGPL-v3 and designed for developers who want to manage their CI/CD infrastructure independently.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Developer first software solutions.

Cicada is building developer first tooling, utilities, platforms and other software solutions for the modern day developer. Our goal is to provide developers with tools that are: We are seeing a real-time erosion of industry standard technologies and companies which developers rely on. Cicada is rebuilding these technologies to meet the demands of modern developers, creating better tools by learning from the mistakes of our modern tools. We also provide software contracting and consulting services for a wide range of programming languages and technologies. We've worked with Python and PHP, C/C++ and CSS, VB.NET and Vlang, and most things inbetween. If you have a project you need help with,…from cicada.sh

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN! My name is Logan Hunt, and I am the founder and CEO of Cicada. Cicada is a self-hostable CICD platform that integrates with GitHub and Gitlab, allowing you to write workflows without caring about the underlying implementation details of the platform you are using. Source code (AGPL-v3 licensed) is available…

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