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                                     DebOps
                     Your Debian-based data center in a box
                              https://debops.org/
                                     v3.4.0
                                   2013-2026


                                    FOUNDERS
                                    --------

                           Maciej Delmanowski (8005)
                Founder and lead developer of the DebOps project

                             Robin Schneider (2392)
                        Co-founder of the DebOps project

                             Reto Gantenbein (346)
                        Co-founder of the DebOps project

                              Hartmut Goebel (202)
                        Co-founder of the DebOps project

                              Nick Janetakis (119)
                        Co-founder of the DebOps project


                                  MAIN AUTHORS
                                  ------------

                              David Härdeman (432)
                           Rainer 'rei' Schuth (192)
                                Imre Jonk (150)
                             Patryk Ściborek (128)
                              Julien Lecomte (98)
                              Matthieu Bertin (96)
                          Nicolas Quiniou-Briand (83)
                               Markus Wigge (74)
                         Pedro Luis López Sánchez (70)
                               Thiago Talma (66)
                              Alin Alexandru (60)
                              Jérémy Gardais (60)
                            Mariska Hoogenboom (53)
                               Fabio Bonelli (47)
                               Andreas Bürki (46)
                              Alexy Gavrilov (44)
                                Émile Morel (41)
                              Leonardo Bechea (38)
                             Gaudenz Steinlin (34)
                           Stefan G. Weichinger (34)


                            ANSIBLE CONTENT CREATORS
                            ------------------------

                               Serge Victor (33)
                              Alban Browaeys (32)
                              Norbert Summer (29)
                               Thomas Blein (27)
                            Gabriel Lewertowski (27)
                             Jonathan Struebel (27)
                             Thomas Danielsson (25)
                               Ellen Papsch (24)
                                  Evilham (23)
                              Carl Alexander (21)
                             Berkhan Berkdemir (20)
                         Christoph Johannes Kleine (20)
                              Tobias Mueller (20)
                              Andreas Zilian (18)
                                seven beep (16)
                               Jan Kowalsky (16)
                              Steffen Lindner (16)
                               Robert Chady (15)
                              Patrick Gerken (13)
                              Patrick Heeney (13)
                                RedRampage (12)
                                  snipfoo (12)
                              Tobias Rüetschi (11)
                              Mariano Barcia (10)
                               Petr Gajdůšek (10)
                              Martin Kimmerle (10)
                              Stuart Mumford (10)
                                Mike Nowak (10)
                              Hendrik Visage (10)
                                 Oleg Dolya (9)
                           Dionysis Grigoropoulos (8)
                               Sandro Jäckel (8)
                                 Mathieu MD (8)
                             Benjamin Albrecht (7)
                               Mathias Behrle (7)
                               Julian Scheid (7)
                             Russell T. Sherman (7)
                                   Simon (7)
                               Matthew Grant (6)
                              Tomoyuki Harada (6)
                                  hungpr0 (6)
                                   joh6nn (6)
                               Julien Peeters (6)
                               Kim Rasmussen (6)
                                Chris Routh (6)
                                   Denis (5)
                              Pavel Derendyaev (5)
                              Alexander Mette (5)
                                   oxmie (5)
                             Korbinian Preisler (5)
                               Florian Rinke (5)
                                Jérémy Rosen (5)
                                 azman0101 (4)
                           André Jucovsky Bianchi (4)
                                Jeremy Bicha (4)
                              Julien Boulanger (4)
                                Petr Boušek (4)
                               Ivan Diachenko (4)
                                Marcos Dione (4)
                             Christian Fischer (4)
                               Douglas Heriot (4)
                                 Chris Kite (4)
                              Denis Krienbühl (4)
                                 Bao Nguyen (4)
                               Jonathan Piron (4)
                               Joseph Rawson (4)
                               Justin Backman (3)
                            Stanislav Bogatyrev (3)
                                  bpiselli (3)
                                   Bryan (3)
                               Antoine Cotten (3)
                              Rainer Goldmann (3)
                             Julian Kornberger (3)
                               Matthew Miller (3)
                               Anton Nesterov (3)
                              Peter Niederlag (3)
                               Tomas Pospisek (3)
                               Andrew Rowson (3)
                                Gábor Udvari (3)
                              Michael Weinrich (3)
                                  Sunny Wu (3)
                                   zpfvo (3)
                          Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (2)
                                 Yuval Adam (2)
                                  S. Arndt (2)
                              Peppo Brambilla (2)
                            Julian Vanden Broeck (2)
                               Pablo Escobar (2)
                               Capi Etheriel (2)
                                 Frederick (2)
                             Patrick Gansterer (2)
                                David Gilly (2)
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                                Adam Hamsik (2)
                               Huynh Gia Hung (2)
                                 inftech24 (2)
                                Alan Jenkins (2)
                                  JoelKle (2)
                                 Jan Katins (2)
                          Konstantinos Koukopoulos (2)
                                     lk (2)
                                Cyril Lopez (2)
                                Pedro Lucas (2)
                                 magicfelix (2)
                                David Martin (2)
                               Alex Matchneer (2)
                              Bruno Mattarollo (2)
                                Mike Mindel (2)
                                Zang MingJie (2)
                                 monsterry (2)
                               Oliver Mueller (2)
                                   multun (2)
                            Sergio E. Nemirowski (2)
                                Aloïs Oddon (2)
                                 Oldkarkass (2)
                                Andreas Palm (2)
                               Polichronucci (2)
                                  Raphael (2)
                                Stuart Read (2)
                                Eric Renfro (2)
                               Anthony Ruhier (2)
                                Paul Sarena (2)
                               Scott Saunders (2)
                               Sorin Sbarnea (2)
                                Anis Semmar (2)
                                Chad Sheets (2)
                             Amin Tootoonchian (2)
                                   Tr4sK (2)
                                 velvetant (2)
                              Damiano Venturin (2)
                            Hanno - Felix Wagner (2)
                                Phil Wetzel (2)
                               Jennings Zhang (2)
                                  4utomate (1)
                               Sergio Aguilar (1)
                                 Alexander (1)
                                asyncopation (1)
                               Aleksey Avdeev (1)
                              Leonidas Avdelas (1)
                                   Max B (1)
                               Markus Bajones (1)
                                Edwin Balani (1)
                              Florian Baumann (1)
                               Vincent Behar (1)
                                 benaryorg (1)
                                   bitblt (1)
                           Arnaud BEAUSSIER - BSO (1)
                                charmoniumQ (1)
                               Oussema Cherni (1)
                             Steven Samuel Cole (1)
                               Daniel Curran (1)
                            Dorota Czaplejewicz (1)
                              Antoine Delvaux (1)
                                    Deni (1)
                                 Tim Diels (1)
                                Peter Dixon (1)
                             Tomasz bla Fortuna (1)
                                 Tim Freund (1)
                               George Giannou (1)
                            Alexandros Giouzenis (1)
                                 Jan Grewe (1)
                               Chris Griffin (1)
                              David Gunzinger (1)
                               Michael Harder (1)
                                Alex Hermann (1)
                                Patrick Hetu (1)
                                James Hohman (1)
                              Matthew Huxtable (1)
                                Bjørn Håkon (1)
                                   jfefe (1)
                                   jon4hz (1)
                                Kenneth Joss (1)
                                  Keridos (1)
                                Marc Kohaupt (1)
                                Jinn Koriech (1)
                               Chinmay Kousik (1)
                              Werner M. Krauß (1)
                               Paweł Krawczyk (1)
                               Thomas Krille (1)
                                  marcidy (1)
                               Frank Masquefa (1)
                                  Mathieu (1)
                               Markus M. May (1)
                           David Messingschlager (1)
                                Kosma Moczek (1)
                              Rolf Morgenstern (1)
                                Igor Mukhin (1)
                                  neo-tahi (1)
                               Andrey Nikitin (1)
                                Ivan Novikov (1)
                                Ján Ondrušek (1)
                               Arjan Oosting (1)
                           Aleksandr Ovsiannikov (1)
                                 Peter33333 (1)
                              Tarvi Pillessaar (1)
                                Jon Pipitone (1)
                                  prk0ghy (1)
                             Dominique Rousseau (1)
                             Urs Schaufelberger (1)
                               Samuel Schill (1)
                                John Schmidt (1)
                                Alex Schmitz (1)
                               Erik Schnetter (1)
                                    sean (1)
                                Dan Sheridan (1)
                               Donghoon Shin (1)
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                                  Logan V (1)
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                                   vascop (1)
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                               KoS M. Walder (1)
                               Geoff Webster (1)
                               Marty Winkler (1)
                          Faun Winter & Ryan Wold (1)
                                Andreas Wolf (1)
                             Nicholas Zaccardi (1)


                          DEBOPS SCRIPTS CONTRIBUTORS
                          ---------------------------

                             Johannes Bornhold (6)
                       Helio Campos Mello de Andrade (2)
                               Matt Callaghan (2)
                                Georg Drees (2)
                               Jonatan Bjork (1)
                               Raphaël Bordet (1)
                               computerlyrik (1)
                                Thomas Lotze (1)
                               Jean Sorgemoel (1)
                                  stricte (1)


                           DOCUMENTATION CONTRIBUTORS
                           --------------------------

                                Tasos Alvas (29)
                                Lee Garrett (7)
                                Luke Cousins (3)
                           Thomas Finstad Larsen (3)
                               Aljosha Papsch (3)
                               Thiago Almeida (2)
                            Antonis Christofides (2)
                                  jlmitch5 (2)
                              Sam Pablo Kuper (2)
                              Armando Lüscher (2)
                                 mkgardner (2)
                               Robin Naundorf (2)
                                Josh Sanders (2)
                                 Josh Brown (1)
                               Michael Buluma (1)
                            Jonathan Araña Cruz (1)
                              Jonathan Dowland (1)
                                Rudy Gevaert (1)
                                 Jack Hill (1)
                             Krzysztof Jagiełło (1)
                                jedfrechette (1)
                            Rostislav Kandilarov (1)
                                Sean Leather (1)
                               Jason Lingohr (1)
                               Nilesh Londhe (1)
                               Marco Markgraf (1)
                               Artur Martins (1)
                              Christian Mayer (1)
                               Julien Palard (1)
                             Darshaka Pathirana (1)
                       The Right Honourable Reverend (1)
                              Michael Scherer (1)
                            Wojciech Sciesinski (1)
                                Ramit Surana (1)
                                Hüseyin Uslu (1)
                                 voidplayer (1)
                               Nick Volynkin (1)


                       (302 contributors, 14036 commits)


                                  LOGO DESIGN
                                  -----------

                                  Tasos Alvas
                        Designer of the DebOps SVG logo

                                    metallo
                 Author of the Debian logo ASCII art rendition

                               Maciej Delmanowski
                          Author of the ASCII art gear


                                 SPECIAL THANKS
                                 --------------

                                 Michael DeHaan
                  Creator of the Ansible automation framework

                                 Armin Ronacher
                    Creator of the Jinja2 templating engine

                                  Clark Evans
                        Creator of the YAML data format
                        also: Ingy döt Net, Oren Ben-Ki

                                  Georg Brandl
                    Creator of the Sphinx documentation tool

                                 David Goodger
                    Creator of reStructuredText and Docutils

                                 Theo de Raadt
               Creator of OpenSSH, founder of the OpenBSD project

                                Guido van Rossum
                   Creator of the Python programming language

                                  Ian Murdock
                         Founder of the Debian Project

                                  Ian Jackson
                      Creator of the dpkg package manager

                               Lennart Poettering
                       Creator of the systemd init system

                                   Brian Fox
                     Original author of the GNU Bash shell

                                  Werner Koch
                    Creator of GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard

                              Richard M. Stallman
                           Founder of the GNU Project

                                 Linus Torvalds
                      Creator of the Linux kernel and Git

                                  Ken Thompson
         Co-creator of the Unix operating system and the UTF-8 encoding
          also: Dennis Ritchie (creator of the C programming language)

                                Brian Kernighan
   Co-creator of the AWK language and co-author of The C Programming Language
                     also: Alfred V. Aho, Peter Weinberger

                                    Rob Pike
              Co-creator of UTF-8 and the Go programming language

                                 Bram Moolenaar
                         Creator of the Vim text editor

                                    Bill Joy
                         Creator of the Vi text editor

                                  Bruce Perens
 Co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, author of The Open Source Definition
             also: Eric S. Raymond (co-founder and first president)


                      SOFTWARE USED IN THE DEBOPS PROJECT
                      -----------------------------------

                      Ansible <https://docs.ansible.com/>
                  Automation framework that DebOps is built on

                  Jinja2 <https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/>
            Template engine for the Ansible roles and the DebOps CLI

                      Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/>
                   Documentation system that DebOps relies on

                        Python <https://www.python.org/>
               Programming language of the DebOps CLI and Ansible

                   Debian GNU/Linux <https://www.debian.org/>
                         The universal operating system

                           Git <https://git-scm.com/>
                       Distributed version control system

                 GNU Bash <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/>
                        Shell used by the DebOps scripts

                         GnuPG <https://www.gnupg.org/>
              Encryption of the DebOps keyring and secret storage

             git-crypt <https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/>
           Transparent encryption of files in the project repository

                     encfs <https://encfs.readthedocs.io/>
               Encrypted directory for the DebOps project secrets


                                 LLM ASSISTANCE
                                 --------------

                      Developed with assistance from LLMs

                            Cogito Mens [LLM] (180)
                           Patryk Ściborek [LLM] (23)
                            Thomas Blein [LLM] (17)
                            Tobias Mueller [LLM] (4)
                          Maciej Delmanowski [LLM] (1)


  "In my experience, the basis for having sustainable and maintainable systems
have been well known and tested in Debian, and several other distributions, for
over two decades. At FOSDEM, we thought that we need a name for such a mindset.
                 Between beers, that name came to be 'debops'."

                         -- Enrico Zini, "Debops", 2014


                       "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

                               -- Linus Torvalds
