Open-source IT Glue alternatives

Outline is a knowledge base for teams, built with React and Node.js. It focuses on fast, collaborative writing: documents are edited together in realtime, stay compatible with Markdown, and are organized into collections so a growing team can find what it has written down.

The maintainers offer a hosted version at getoutline.com, and the repository contains the source that runs Outline and its associated services. If you only want to use Outline you do not need to run the code yourself, while teams that want their own copy can follow the documentation for a production configuration and use the published container images. Topics also mention a Slack integration.

The repository license is listed as 'Other', so review it before commercial redistribution. Outline suits teams looking for a wiki or internal documentation tool with a clean editor, as an alternative to products such as Confluence or Notion for company knowledge. The project does not accept AI-generated pull requests.

BookStack is a platform for storing and organizing information and documentation, built with PHP and the Laravel framework. It is deliberately opinionated: the aim is a pleasant, intuitive experience out of the box where only basic word-processing skills are needed to create content, so non-technical colleagues can contribute.

Content is organized in a book metaphor, with shelves, books, chapters and pages. Advanced capabilities are available for those who want them, but the project says they should never get in the way of the simple core experience, and it is not intended as a general extensible platform for unrelated purposes. Development is relaxed and positive, evolving slowly while keeping upgrades stable and easy. There is a demo instance, installation instructions, documentation and a blog.

BookStack is licensed under MIT and is now managed on Codeberg, which is where the primary repository and issue list live. You host it on your own server with PHP and a database. It suits teams, schools and small organizations that want an approachable internal wiki rather than a highly configurable knowledge system.

Scanopy is network documentation software that builds and maintains diagrams for you. A single daemon scans your infrastructure on a schedule and turns each scan into a model of what is actually running, so teams no longer have to redraw diagrams by hand whenever something changes. It is written in Rust.

Each scan produces four views: a physical layer 2 view of switches, ports and links, a logical layer 3 view of subnets, a workloads view and an applications view. The project contrasts this with hand-drawn diagrams that go stale quickly and with infrastructure-as-code state that can miss drift. Maps can be exported as SVG, Mermaid or Confluence content, embedded as live maps, or fed into an existing source of truth.

Scanopy is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and is aimed at home labs, network administrators and IT teams that want accurate network docs. You can host it yourself, or use the vendor's cloud version, which the README says is available with a free trial.