One server can hold every package your builds pull, publish, and cache, so the team stops juggling a different registry for every language. Astrum Repository hosts your own artifacts, proxies public registries so builds keep working when an upstream is down, and groups both behind a single address your tools already understand. Thirty-nine formats share that address: Docker and OCI images, Maven, npm, PyPI, Cargo, Go modules, Helm charts, NuGet, Terraform modules, APT and Yum packages, Hugging Face models, browser extensions, Git LFS, and even remote caches for Nx and Turborepo. Blob storage grows with you, moving between disk, S3, and agent-connected stores that combine into groups without relocating data. Access stays deliberate through users, roles, privileges, and content selectors, with LDAP and OpenID Connect sign-in and access tokens minted for CI pipelines. Day-to-day operations are visible rather than guessed: health endpoints, Prometheus metrics, scheduled tasks, cleanup policies, audit trails, and backups are built in, and several servers can share one database when a single node is no longer enough. The web interface speaks twelve languages, so a platform team spread across regions still works in one console. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Artifact Keeper serves as a self-hosted universal software artifact repository that consolidates container images, application libraries, and infrastructure bundles under a unified management control plane. Software development teams can publish and resolve dependencies using their existing build tools, including Docker, Helm, npm, PyPI, Maven, Cargo, NuGet, and Terraform without installing proprietary client plugins. Remote repositories act as transparent pull-through caching proxies for public upstreams like Docker Hub and PyPI, accelerating internal CI/CD build speeds while insulating production pipelines from external registry outages. Virtual repositories combine multiple local, remote, and third-party endpoints into single URLs, resolving packages across prioritized internal teams and public registries automatically. Automated security scanners evaluate incoming packages for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures using Trivy and Grype engines, assigning letter grades and enforcing quarantine policies to block vulnerable binaries before production release. Administrators can sign package metadata with cryptographic GPG keys, configure peer mesh replication across geographic regions, and manage team permissions using OpenID Connect, SAML, and granular access tokens. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

The first container registry to reach CNCF graduated status with over 29,000 GitHub stars since VMware open-sourced it in 2016, Harbor transforms the basic Docker Distribution into a hardened enterprise registry with vulnerability scanning, supply chain signing, multi-datacenter replication, and project-level access control out of the box. Trivy scans every pushed image against the NVD, GitHub Advisory Database, and distribution-specific vulnerability feeds, with scan-on-push policies that block deployment of images exceeding configurable severity thresholds. Artifact signing through Cosign keyless signatures and Notation enforces content trust policies ensuring only cryptographically verified images reach production clusters. Policy-based replication synchronizes images and Helm charts between Harbor instances across multiple datacenters using repository, tag, and label filters with automatic retry and bandwidth throttling — enabling hybrid-cloud and disaster-recovery topologies. The RBAC model isolates projects with per-project quotas, robot accounts for CI/CD automation, webhook notifications, and audit logging that tracks every pull, push, delete, and configuration change. LDAP, Active Directory, and OIDC authentication integrate with existing identity providers, while the proxy cache transparently caches images from Docker Hub, Quay, and other upstream registries to reduce pull latency and rate-limit exposure. The RESTful API with embedded Swagger UI, tag retention policies, garbage collection scheduling, and immutable artifact rules complete the lifecycle management. Deploy via Docker Compose or Helm Chart on Kubernetes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Trusted by millions of developers and integrated into CI/CD pipelines at organizations worldwide, Sonatype Nexus Repository is the industry-standard binary artifact repository manager that stores, organizes, and distributes software components across every major package ecosystem. Community Edition supports over 20 formats including Maven for Java builds, npm for JavaScript packages, Docker for container images, PyPI for Python libraries, NuGet for .NET assemblies, Helm for Kubernetes charts, Go modules, RubyGems, Cargo for Rust crates, Conda for data science environments, APT for Debian packages, Yum for RPM distributions, and Hugging Face for AI/ML models. Three repository types serve different needs: hosted repositories store internally-produced artifacts, proxy repositories cache remote registries like Maven Central, npmjs.org, and Docker Hub reducing bandwidth and improving build reliability, and group repositories aggregate multiple hosted and proxy repositories behind a single URL endpoint. The web UI provides component browsing and search, repository configuration, blob store management with configurable cleanup policies, and direct artifact upload via drag-and-drop. Role-based access control enforces fine-grained permissions per repository with configurable security realms, while the comprehensive REST API enables automated repository provisioning, component management, and integration with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. External PostgreSQL database support enables Kubernetes deployments with improved backup, restore, and horizontal scaling capabilities. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Eclipse Public License 1.0 licensed.

Think of Zot as the registry equivalent of a well-run warehouse: OCI images and artifacts come in, get cataloged, checked, and shipped back out to any compliant client. The bundled web interface lets you browse repositories and tags, inspect image details, and copy ready-made pull commands for Docker, Podman, and Skopeo instead of memorizing registry URLs. Sync extensions mirror upstream registries such as Docker Hub on a schedule or on demand, which keeps air-gapped and rate-limited environments supplied without manual image ferrying. Scrubbing walks the storage in the background comparing blocks against their SHA-256 checksums, so silent bit-rot gets caught by the registry instead of by a failed production deploy. Signature verification with Cosign and Notation checks that images came from who they claim, search answers queries across the catalog, and CVE scanning flags vulnerable images before they spread. Prometheus metrics, a management API, and webhook events cover the operations side, while the minimal image strips everything but the distribution spec for embedded or high-security deployments. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Private npm packages without shipping code to the public registry or paying for npm Enterprise: Verdaccio is the standard lightweight, zero-config private registry and caching proxy. It runs as a single Node.js process with its own tiny embedded database; no external database is required to start. Point npm, yarn, or pnpm at it and everything behaves as expected: install, publish, unpublish, dist-tags, and deprecation all work against the standard npm endpoints. The uplink system is where it earns its keep: packages not found locally are fetched from configured upstreams (npmjs.org, yarn, JFrog, Nexus, or another Verdaccio), cached as tarballs, and served locally thereafter - cutting CI latency and surviving registry outages. Multiple uplinks chain for failover, and per-package glob patterns in config.yaml route scopes to specific upstreams while controlling access, publish, and unpublish rights per group. You can even override a public package by publishing a patched version under the same name locally. A plugin architecture swaps in auth backends (htpasswd default, LDAP and others available), storage drivers (S3, Google Cloud Storage), middleware routes, and metadata filters. With official Docker images and a Kubernetes Helm chart, it slots into any pipeline in minutes.

Instead of querying a private registry with curl and its HTTP API, open Docker Registry UI and click through repositories, tags, digests, and layers in a browser. The catalog groups images by namespace, shows tag counts, and filters as you type in the search bar, which Ctrl+F or F3 focuses. Each repository's tag list shows creation date, size, content digest, and CPU architecture, sorts numerically, and copies a ready-made pull reference with one click. A history page expands any tag into its operating system, entrypoint, environment variables, exposed ports, and layer-by-layer build steps, and a Dockerfile view reconstructs the file from those steps. The same view also covers multi-architecture images and OCI Helm exports. When the registry allows deletion, tags go one at a time or in bulk with checkboxes, Alt+Click for a whole page, and Shift+Click for a range. One interface can switch between several registries from its menu, or be locked to a single registry with your own title. Basic authentication passes through the browser, and a built-in proxy option forwards requests to your registry container so CORS needs no configuration. Light, dark, and automatic themes come with color variables for custom branding, and a weekly notice announces newer releases. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Used by over 100,000 organizations and ranked first in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, GitLab is the open-core DevSecOps platform that delivers the complete software development lifecycle — from planning and source code management through CI/CD, security scanning, and monitoring — in a single self-managed application. The built-in CI/CD engine executes pipelines defined in YAML with parallel jobs, directed acyclic graph scheduling, multi-project pipelines, and auto-scaling runners on Docker, Kubernetes, or bare metal. Merge requests provide inline code review with approval rules, code owners, merge trains for serialized merging, and five merge strategies including fast-forward and semi-linear history. The integrated container registry stores Docker images alongside code, while the package registry supports npm, Maven, NuGet, PyPI, Conan, Go, and generic packages. Issue boards with epics, milestones, and labels enable agile planning, while the built-in wiki and GitLab Pages provide documentation hosting and static site publishing. Security scanning in the Community Edition includes basic SAST, secret detection, and container scanning running as pipeline jobs. The Omnibus installer bundles Rails, Puma, Gitaly, Workhorse, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, and Prometheus into a single package installable in minutes, while Docker and Helm chart options support containerized and Kubernetes deployments. GitLab Duo AI assists with code suggestions, merge request summaries, and vulnerability resolution. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With 37,400+ GitHub stars and active daily development by the Harness engineering team, Gitness is the open-source developer platform that ships Git hosting, container-native CI/CD pipelines, a Docker-compatible artifact registry, and cloud developer environments in a single Go binary consuming approximately 100 MB of RAM — compared to GitLab's 4+ GB minimum footprint. Born as the next generation of Drone CI, Gitness inherits Drone's battle-tested pipeline engine while adding complete source code management with pull requests featuring threaded code review comments, suggested changes, required reviewer approvals, and merge strategies including squash and rebase. Branch protection rules enforce mandatory pull requests, minimum peer reviews, passing status checks, and force-push blocking. Pipelines use Drone-compatible YAML syntax with stages, steps, and service containers, triggered automatically on code changes with results displayed directly in pull request checks. The built-in container registry eliminates the need for separate Harbor or Docker Registry deployments, supporting Docker image push and pull plus Helm chart storage. Gitspaces provide on-demand remote development environments configured via industry-standard devcontainer.json files. Encrypted secrets management with Gitleaks-powered secret scanning blocks commits containing hardcoded credentials. One-click migration imports existing GitHub Organizations and GitLab Groups, automatically converting GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines to Gitness YAML. The REST API with OpenAPI specification enables programmatic management of all resources. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Governed by the non-profit Codeberg e.V. with over 150 contributors and quarterly major releases reaching v16.0 in July 2026, Forgejo delivers a complete code collaboration platform in a single Go binary that runs comfortably on 512 MB of RAM — providing full Git hosting with SSH and HTTPS, pull requests with inline code review, issue tracking with labels and milestones, kanban project boards, wikis, and an integrated package registry supporting Docker, npm, PyPI, Maven, NuGet, and Cargo. Forgejo Actions provides GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD with reusable workflows, OpenID Connect for secure third-party access, ephemeral runners for autoscaling, and dynamic matrix support for complex build pipelines. The platform implements ActivityPub-based forge federation allowing issues, pull requests, and stars to work across independent instances — enabling a decentralized development ecosystem similar to how Mastodon federates social networks. Organizations and team permissions provide fine-grained access control, while LDAP, OAuth2, and OpenID authentication integrate with existing identity infrastructure. Code search indexes repositories for fast discovery, LFS handles large files efficiently, and mirror synchronization imports repositories from GitHub, GitLab, and other forges. Deploy via a single static binary, Docker container, or official Helm charts with SQLite for small instances or PostgreSQL and MySQL for production workloads. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPLv3+ licensed.

With over 15,100 GitHub stars and seven years of battle-tested production use, OneDev replaces entire DevOps toolchains — GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Artifactory — with a single Java application that runs comfortably on a 1-core 2GB server for medium-sized projects. The platform unifies Git hosting with ANTLR-powered language-aware code search and symbol navigation, pull request workflows with configurable branch protection rules and required reviewers, and customizable issue tracking with scripted state transitions that automatically advance issues when code is committed, builds pass, or deployments complete. The GUI-based CI/CD editor creates pipelines without writing YAML, supporting typed parameters, matrix builds, job templates, cache management, and artifact publishing in a single visual interface. Jobs execute via Docker containers, bare metal shell, Kubernetes pods, or distributed agent pools, with web terminal access for live debugging and the ability to pause running jobs for inspection. Built-in package registries handle Docker images, npm packages, Maven artifacts, NuGet libraries, PyPI wheels, and RubyGems without external infrastructure. AI users can be assigned to issues and pull requests to autonomously implement features, review code, fix CI/CD failures, and resolve merge conflicts. The automated Kanban board supports rule-based card movement, time tracking, timesheets, and service desk ticket creation via email. Cluster deployment enables project replication across servers for high availability and horizontal distribution for scalability. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Stop hunting for a public mirror that still works this week: MirrorProxy puts every software source your builds depend on behind one domain you control, so GitHub releases, container images, npm and PyPI packages, and operating-system repositories all come from the same stable gateway. Point it at a source and it fetches and caches on demand, with no full mirror to store or sync, and when an upstream times out or starts rate-limiting, it fails over to the next endpoint and keeps your builds moving. Around thirty adapter types cover the everyday sprawl: Docker Hub and nine other registries, Cargo and Go modules, Maven and NuGet, Homebrew and WinGet, and more than thirty Linux and BSD distributions, plus custom static repositories you define yourself. Sharing the gateway is safe: invite users, set monthly quotas per person or team, restrict which sources each team may use, and gate access with rate limits and IP rules, while the console shows traffic trends, visitor regions, cache behavior, and the health of every source. Email and webhook alerts warn you before a quota runs out or an upstream outage drags on, and the cross-platform client switches a workstation's sources to your gateway and back. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Shipping commercial software to customer-managed infrastructure demands a reliable distribution hub, and Distr provides that control plane for vendors who sell into VPCs, on-prem data centers, and air-gapped networks. Vendors define Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, or Helm applications with versions and configuration templates, then roll releases out to every customer deployment from a single vendor portal. Prebuilt deployment controllers installed in customer environments apply updates and report status, container logs, live host metrics, and alerts back, so support teams can diagnose problems without touching anyone's infrastructure. Customers get a white-labeled portal with your branding, install instructions, registry credentials, version management, and customer-initiated support bundles. A built-in OCI registry distributes Docker images, Helm charts, Zarf packages, and other artifacts with per-customer tag access, pull-through caching, and download analytics showing which customer pulls which version. Entitlements control which application versions each customer may deploy, and Ed25519-signed JWT license keys let your own software verify usage limits offline, which keeps licensing working in air-gapped sites. An OpenTofu controller provisions and reconciles BYOC cloud infrastructure, while a REST API and SDK automate onboarding, releases, and entitlements from CI pipelines. Role-based access control manages permissions across vendor and customer organizations, while the Kubernetes compatibility matrix and vulnerability scanning help validate releases before they ship. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.