Self-host racktables
RackTables-0.22.0Datacenter asset management system
- Stars
- 813
- Requires
- MySQL/MariaDB
What is racktables?
A web-based solution for datacenter operators documenting hardware, rack layouts, networks, and IP addresses. Features include user management with granular permissions, flexible tagging for organizing devices, IP allocation tracking, physical port documentation, load balancer configuration storage, NAT rule management, and file attachments. The application deploys via archive extraction on Linux distributions with Apache or Nginx, PHP 7.0+, and MySQL or MariaDB 5+ databases.
Should you self-host racktables?
racktables scores 47/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #16 of 19 in Infrastructure Monitoring. It has 813 GitHub stars.
There was no stable release in the past 12 months, so check the repository's recent activity before you rely on it.
Setup is advanced: plan for several services and some ongoing maintenance. It is GPL-2.0-licensed and written mostly in PHP.
Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is Beszel (81/100, 26 614 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See racktables vs Beszel side by side.
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