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Open sourceSelf-hostable

Open Source developer-centric and platform-agnostic workload specification.

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CategoryAutomation & Orchestration

PricingFree, open source

Self-hostableYes

Repositoryscore-spec/spec

LicenseApache-2.0

LanguageMakefile

Last activitySep 2026Active

Repository

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Open issues14

Last pushSep 2026

Related reading

Book · FreeSite Reliability Engineering ↗Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Murphy · O'Reilly · 2016 Book · FreeThe Site Reliability Workbook ↗Betsy Beyer, Niall Murphy, David Rensin, Kent Kawahara, Stephen Thorne · O'Reilly · 2018 Book · PaidInfrastructure as Code ↗Kief Morris · O'Reilly · 2016 Book · PaidThe DevOps Handbook ↗Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis · IT Revolution · 2016

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