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[OPEN SOURCE] · Operations platform

Ops Center

One place to run Linux infrastructure.

status: Active development · v0.1.0 · 2026-10-02

Ops Center is a self-hosted operations platform for Linux and Docker hosts. Server inventory, Ansible automation, patching, monitoring and logs, vulnerability scanning and an optional high-availability deployment live in one web interface. AI agents are an optional layer on top.

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open source · MIT · contributions and issues on GitHub

ops-center — overview.png
Ops Center overview with service health and a fleet summary, synthetic data

Overview: platform health and fleet summary (synthetic data).

# why

It began as a homelab learning project. I wanted to stop switching between monitoring dashboards, Ansible, scanners, Docker tools and SSH sessions, and I wanted a realistic platform for trying AI-assisted operations where people still approve the changes.

It runs my own homelab, active/active across two Docker hosts with a witness VM for quorum. The public repository is the portable version: your own hosts, your own monitoring sources, and runtime secrets kept outside the repository.

who it's for: Linux administrators, DevOps engineers, homelab users and small infrastructure teams. The installer targets AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and RHEL 9/10.

# what it does today

  • Linux server inventory and SSH-based management, checking the SSH host key before any credentials are sent.
  • Docker workload overview per host.
  • An Ansible execution worker, a scheduler and a playbook library for scheduled operations.
  • Patch management with patch groups and schedules.
  • Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager and Blackbox Exporter, plus a searchable log view.
  • Trivy vulnerability scanning and security findings per host.
  • A Traffic Map with persistent history, and authentication alerts for application logins, SSH and WireGuard.
  • Optional HA: two application nodes and a witness, PostgreSQL with Patroni and etcd, Redis Sentinel, and switchover from the UI.
  • Optional AI agents on a 2D/3D Operations Floor. Ops Center works without any AI provider configured.
  • An MCP endpoint that exposes reviewed operational tools to AI clients with OAuth, explicit tool scopes and human approval of changes. It starts disabled, with no clients.
  • An optional installable PWA and dedicated wallboards.

# screenshots

Ops Center 3D Operations Floor with specialist agents
The Operations Floor, where agent activity is visible.
Ops Center Traffic Map with country counts and timeline, synthetic data
Traffic Map with history and authentication banner.
Ops Center HA cluster status for PostgreSQL and Redis, synthetic data
HA cluster status: Patroni roles and Redis Sentinel health.
Ops Center human approval of an MCP change request
Human approval of a change requested over MCP.

# written about it here

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