DevOps & Infrastructure Stack
A pragmatic, production-proven DevOps stack centered on containerized workloads, automated delivery, and operational visibility. This stack favors well-integrated tools that reduce operational overhead while supporting scalable, repeatable infrastructure practices.
Tools in this Stack
Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/docker) ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] [![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]](https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker#readme)
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
Self Hosted Git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. ([Demo](https://gitlab.com/), [Source Code](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss)) `MIT` `Ruby/deb/Docker/K8S`
Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts
HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. ([Source Code](https://github.com/traefik/traefik)) `MIT` `Go/Docker`
Video surveillance management system. `GPL-2.0` `Docker/Rust`
Open-source spotlight alternative and shortcut toolkit. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]](https://github.com/arjunkomath/trace)
A production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry. ([Demo](https://zothub.io), [Source Code](https://github.com/project-zot/zot)) `Apache-2.0` `Go/Docker`
Why This Stack Works
This stack is built around Docker as the universal container runtime, with CapRover providing a lightweight yet powerful PaaS layer for application deployment and lifecycle management. GitLab acts as the single source of truth for source control and CI/CD, tightly coupling code changes with automated pipelines, while Rundeck handles operational automation and runbooks for repeatable infrastructure and maintenance tasks. For traffic management and security at the edge, Traefik offers dynamic service discovery and ingress routing that integrates naturally with Docker-based environments. Observability is covered through SentryShot for monitoring and alerting and Trace for distributed tracing and log correlation, giving the DevOps team actionable insight into system health. Zot OCI Registry completes the stack by providing a reliable, open-source container registry that integrates cleanly into CI/CD workflows. Alternatives such as Nginx Proxy Manager or BunkerWeb could replace Traefik for teams preferring static configuration or stronger WAF features, while StackStorm (st2) could be used instead of Rundeck for event-driven automation. Overall, this stack balances maturity, ease of use, and extensibility for real-world DevOps teams.