HomelabOS
Offline privacy-centric data-center. Deploy over 100 services with a few commands.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 48 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.0 (May 2024).
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At a glance
HomelabOS quick facts
- Health score
- 67/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 1,290
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.0, May 2024
- Licence
- MIT
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
HomelabOS scores 67/100, #13 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 48 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.0, 2.5 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 1,290 stars add 12.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitLab API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
48 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
v1.0 released 2.5 years ago
- Stars 12.4 / 20
1.3k stars on GitLab (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 48
- Last 90 days
- 55
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between Tipi (#12) and Cloudron (#14) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v1.0 · 2.5 years ago |
| Stars | 1,290 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS ↗ |
HomelabOS vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with HomelabOS (Self-hosting Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbrel | 96 | 12k | ⊘ Proprietary | 1 month ago |
| DietPi | 85 | 6.4k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| xsrv | 80 | 411 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| HomelabOS (this tool) | 67 | 1.3k | MIT | 2 months ago |
| OpenMediaVault | 60 | 7k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Dropserver | 43 | 93 | Apache-2.0 | 4 months ago |
HomelabOS: common questions
Is HomelabOS still maintained?
HomelabOS had 48 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago; the latest tagged release, v1.0, is from 2.5 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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