DebOps
Your Debian-based data center in a box. A set of general-purpose Ansible roles that can be used to manage Debian or Ubuntu hosts.
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Still maintained? Yes: 356 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.3.2 (Sep 2026).
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At a glance
DebOps quick facts
- Health score
- 83/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,426
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.3.2, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "The DebOps project provides a set of general-purpose Ansible roles that can be used to manage Debian or Ubuntu hosts. In addition, a default set of Ansible playbooks can be used to apply the provided roles in a controlled way, using Ansible inventory groups."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
DebOps scores 83/100, #10 of 18 in Communication - Email - Complete Solutions: 356 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.3.2, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,426 stars add 12.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
356 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.3.2 released 1 month ago
- Stars 12.6 / 20
1.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 356
- Last 90 days
- 610
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 18 tools in Communication - Email - Complete Solutions by health , between Modoboa (#9) and Maddy Mail Server (#11) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Ansible, Python |
| Latest release | v3.3.2 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 1,426 |
| Open issues | 343 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | debops/debops ↗ |
DebOps vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with DebOps (Communication - Email - Complete Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| docker-mailserver | 97 | 20k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| Mailcow | 97 | 14k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Stalwart Mail Server | 97 | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Mailu | 96 | 7.6k | MIT | yesterday |
| DebOps (this tool) | 83 | 1.4k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Mail-in-a-Box | 63 | 15k | CC0-1.0 | 8 days ago |
DebOps: common questions
Is DebOps still maintained?
DebOps had 356 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v3.3.2, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.