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Acknowledgements

This project is made possible by the excellent open-source software and tools created and maintained by their respective communities. We are grateful for all the contributions made by developers worldwide.

Table of Contents

Core Infrastructure

Colima

Project: Containers on Linux on macOS Website: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima License: MIT Purpose: Lightweight container runtime for macOS, providing the foundation for our entire development environment

Docker

Project: Docker Engine Website: https://www.docker.com/ License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: Container runtime and tooling

Docker Compose

Project: Docker Compose Website: https://docs.docker.com/compose/ License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: Multi-container orchestration and service definition

Alpine Linux

Project: Alpine Linux Website: https://alpinelinux.org/ License: Various (mostly MIT, GPL-2.0) Purpose: Minimal container base images for PostgreSQL, Redis, and other services

Container & Orchestration

QEMU

Project: QEMU Website: https://www.qemu.org/ License: GPL-2.0 Purpose: Virtualization backend for Colima (Intel Macs)

Lima

Project: Linux virtual machines on macOS Website: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: VM management layer used by Colima

Databases

PostgreSQL

Project: PostgreSQL Database Version: 16.6 Website: https://www.postgresql.org/ License: PostgreSQL License Purpose: Primary relational database for Forgejo and development workloads

MySQL

Project: MySQL Community Server Version: 8.0.40 Website: https://www.mysql.com/ License: GPL-2.0 Purpose: Relational database for legacy application support

MongoDB

Project: MongoDB Community Edition Version: 7.0 Website: https://www.mongodb.com/ License: SSPL Purpose: NoSQL document database for flexible data structures

PgBouncer

Project: PgBouncer Website: https://www.pgbouncer.org/ License: ISC Purpose: Lightweight PostgreSQL connection pooler

Caching & Message Queue

Redis

Project: Redis Version: 7.4 Website: https://redis.io/ License: BSD-3-Clause (Redis Source Available License 2.0 for versions 7.4+) Purpose: In-memory data store and cache, configured as a 3-node cluster

RabbitMQ

Project: RabbitMQ Version: 3.13 Website: https://www.rabbitmq.com/ License: MPL-2.0 Purpose: Message broker for asynchronous task processing and event streaming

Secrets Management & Security

HashiCorp Vault

Project: Vault Version: 1.18 Website: https://www.vaultproject.io/ License: BSL 1.1 (Business Source License) Purpose: Secrets management, PKI infrastructure, and dynamic credentials

OpenSSL

Project: OpenSSL Website: https://www.openssl.org/ License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: TLS/SSL certificate generation and cryptographic operations

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus

Project: Prometheus Version: 2.48.0 Website: https://prometheus.io/ License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: Time-series metrics collection and monitoring system

Grafana

Project: Grafana Version: 10.2.2 Website: https://grafana.com/ License: AGPL-3.0 Purpose: Metrics visualization and dashboarding platform

Loki

Project: Loki Version: 2.9.3 Website: https://grafana.com/oss/loki/ License: AGPL-3.0 Purpose: Log aggregation system optimized for label-based indexing

Vector

Project: Vector Version: 0.50.0 Website: https://vector.dev/ License: MPL-2.0 Purpose: Unified observability pipeline for metrics and logs

cAdvisor

Project: Container Advisor Version: 0.47.2 Website: https://github.com/google/cadvisor License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: Container resource usage and performance monitoring

Redis Exporter

Project: Redis Exporter Version: 1.55.0 Maintainer: oliver006 Website: https://github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter License: MIT Purpose: Prometheus exporter for Redis metrics

Prometheus Client Libraries

Projects: prometheus-client (Python), client_golang (Go), prom-client (Node.js) Website: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/ License: Apache 2.0 Purpose: Application-level metrics instrumentation

Reference Application Frameworks

FastAPI

Project: FastAPI Version: 0.104.1 Website: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ License: MIT Purpose: Modern Python web framework for building APIs (used in 2 reference implementations)

Uvicorn

Project: Uvicorn Version: 0.24.0 Website: https://www.uvicorn.org/ License: BSD-3-Clause Purpose: ASGI server for FastAPI applications

Gin

Project: Gin Web Framework Version: 1.9.1 Website: https://gin-gonic.com/ License: MIT Purpose: High-performance HTTP web framework for Go

Express.js

Project: Express Version: 4.18.2 Website: https://expressjs.com/ License: MIT Purpose: Minimalist web framework for Node.js

Actix-web

Project: Actix Web Version: 4.4 Website: https://actix.rs/ License: MIT/Apache-2.0 Purpose: Powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust

Python Libraries

Database Drivers

  • asyncpg (0.29.0) - PostgreSQL async driver - BSD-3-Clause
  • aiomysql (0.3.0) - MySQL async driver - MIT
  • motor (3.4.0) - MongoDB async driver - Apache 2.0
  • pymongo (4.6.3) - MongoDB sync driver - Apache 2.0

Redis & Caching

  • redis (4.6.0) - Redis Python client - MIT
  • hiredis - High-performance Redis protocol parser - BSD-3-Clause
  • fastapi-cache2 (0.2.1) - FastAPI response caching - MIT

Message Queue

  • aio-pika (9.3.1) - RabbitMQ async client - Apache 2.0

HTTP & Networking

  • httpx (0.25.2) - HTTP client with async support - BSD-3-Clause

Utilities & Security

  • pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints - MIT
  • pydantic-settings (2.1.0) - Settings management - MIT
  • cryptography (≥41.0.0) - Cryptographic recipes and primitives - Apache 2.0/BSD-3-Clause
  • slowapi (0.1.9) - Rate limiting for FastAPI - MIT
  • pybreaker (1.0.1) - Circuit breaker pattern - BSD-3-Clause

Logging & Observability

  • python-json-logger (2.0.7) - JSON logging formatter - BSD-2-Clause
  • prometheus-client (0.19.0) - Prometheus metrics - Apache 2.0

Testing

  • pytest (7.4.3) - Testing framework - MIT
  • pytest-asyncio (0.21.1) - Async support for pytest - Apache 2.0
  • pytest-cov (4.1.0) - Code coverage plugin - MIT
  • pytest-mock (3.12.0) - Mocking support - MIT

Go Libraries

Database Drivers

  • pgx/v5 (5.5.4) - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit - MIT
  • go-sql-driver/mysql (1.7.1) - MySQL driver - MPL-2.0
  • mongo-driver (1.13.1) - MongoDB driver - Apache 2.0

Redis & Caching

  • go-redis/v9 (9.3.0) - Redis client - BSD-2-Clause

Message Queue

  • amqp091-go (1.9.0) - RabbitMQ client - BSD-2-Clause

Vault Integration

  • vault/api (1.22.0) - HashiCorp Vault API client - MPL-2.0

Observability

  • client_golang (1.23.2) - Prometheus metrics - Apache 2.0
  • logrus (1.9.3) - Structured logger - MIT

Utilities

  • uuid (1.4.0) - UUID generation - BSD-3-Clause

Node.js Libraries

Core Framework & Middleware

  • express (4.18.2) - Web framework - MIT
  • cors (2.8.5) - CORS middleware - MIT
  • helmet (7.1.0) - Security headers - MIT
  • express-rate-limit (7.1.5) - Rate limiting - MIT

Database Drivers

  • pg (8.11.3) - PostgreSQL client - MIT
  • mysql2 (3.6.5) - MySQL client - MIT
  • mongodb (6.3.0) - MongoDB driver - Apache 2.0

Redis & Message Queue

  • redis (4.6.12) - Redis client - MIT
  • amqplib (0.10.3) - RabbitMQ client - MIT

Vault Integration

  • node-vault (0.10.2) - HashiCorp Vault client - MIT

Observability

  • prom-client (15.1.0) - Prometheus metrics - Apache 2.0
  • winston (3.11.0) - Logging library - MIT

Utilities

  • uuid (9.0.1) - UUID generation - MIT

Testing

  • jest (29.7.0) - Testing framework - MIT
  • supertest (6.3.3) - HTTP assertion library - MIT

Development Tools

  • nodemon (3.0.2) - Development auto-reloader - MIT
  • eslint (8.56.0) - Linting utility - MIT

Rust Libraries

Core Framework

  • actix-web (4.4) - Web framework - MIT/Apache-2.0
  • actix-cors (0.7) - CORS middleware - MIT/Apache-2.0

Async Runtime

  • tokio (1.35) - Async runtime - MIT

Serialization

  • serde (1.0) - Serialization framework - MIT/Apache-2.0
  • serde_json (1.0) - JSON support - MIT/Apache-2.0

HTTP Client

  • reqwest (0.11.27) - HTTP client - MIT/Apache-2.0

Utilities

  • chrono (0.4.31) - Date and time - MIT/Apache-2.0
  • log (0.4) - Logging facade - MIT/Apache-2.0
  • env_logger (0.11.3) - Logger implementation - MIT/Apache-2.0

Development & Testing Tools

Git & Version Control

  • Forgejo - Self-hosted Git service - MIT
  • Git - Version control system - GPL-2.0

Testing Frameworks

  • Bash Test Framework - Shell script testing
  • pytest - Python testing - MIT
  • Jest - JavaScript testing - MIT
  • Go testing - Built-in Go testing package - BSD-3-Clause

Code Quality

  • ShellCheck - Shell script linter - GPL-3.0
  • ESLint - JavaScript linter - MIT
  • Ruff - Python linter - MIT

Security Scanning

  • Gitleaks - Secret scanning - MIT
  • TruffleHog - Secret scanning - AGPL-3.0
  • Trivy - Vulnerability scanner - Apache 2.0
  • Safety - Python dependency checker - MIT

Documentation & Specification

Markdown & Documentation

  • Markdown - Lightweight markup language
  • Mermaid - Diagram generation from text - MIT

API Specification

  • OpenAPI (3.1.0) - API specification standard
  • Swagger UI - API documentation interface - Apache 2.0

Package Managers

  • Homebrew - macOS package manager - BSD-2-Clause
  • pip - Python package installer - MIT
  • npm - Node.js package manager - Artistic-2.0
  • Cargo - Rust package manager - MIT/Apache-2.0
  • uv - Fast Python package installer - MIT/Apache-2.0

Special Thanks

We would like to extend special thanks to:

  • The Open Source Community - For creating and maintaining the thousands of projects that make modern software development possible
  • Alpine Linux Team - For providing minimal, secure container base images
  • HashiCorp - For Vault and their commitment to infrastructure tooling
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - For stewarding projects like Prometheus and maintaining cloud-native standards
  • Grafana Labs - For their observability stack (Grafana, Loki, and related tools)
  • PostgreSQL Global Development Group - For decades of database excellence
  • Redis Community - For building one of the most versatile data structures
  • Python Software Foundation - For Python and its thriving ecosystem
  • Go Team at Google - For the Go programming language
  • Rust Foundation - For Rust and its safety-first approach
  • Node.js Foundation - For the JavaScript runtime
  • Docker, Inc. - For containerization technology
  • All Contributors - Everyone who has contributed code, documentation, bug reports, or support to any of the projects listed above

License Information

This project (DevStack Core) is released under the MIT License. However, please note that the individual software components acknowledged above are distributed under their respective licenses. Users and contributors should review and comply with the licenses of all dependencies.

For license details of specific dependencies, please refer to their respective project repositories and documentation.

Contributing Acknowledgements

If you use this project and wish to acknowledge additional software or libraries, please submit a pull request updating this document.

Last Updated: October 28, 2025 Repository: https://github.com/NormB/devstack-core

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