What is crowdsec built with?

Q: Which repos have a stack like crowdsec's?

The ones that share most of its stack: Tencent/WeKnora, hashicorp/vault, and photoprism/photoprism.

crowdsec is a Go repo built with Gin and k8s.io/apiserver. It stores its data in github.com/bluele/gcache, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/kinesis, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs, MySQL, SQLite, and 1 more, reaches it with entgo.io/ent, signs people in with github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4, makes its content with github.com/beevik/etree, validates its data with validate, github.com/getkin/kin-openapi, and github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6, is tested with github.com/stretchr/testify, github.com/jarcoal/httpmock, github.com/sanity-io/litter, and go.uber.org/goleak, deploys with github.com/sirupsen/logrus, Prometheus, github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, and 6 more, and uses go-sqlite3, kafka-go, pgx, s3, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager. It has 136,939 written lines, with 238 test files.

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Frontend

Interface 2

github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v628 files
github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v25 files

Backend

The base 1

Gin15 files

Data 11

github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs3 files
MySQL3 files · pkg/csconfig/database.go, line 14
SQLite3 files · pkg/database/drv_sqlite_mattn.go, line 8
Postgres2 files · pkg/database/drv_postgres.go, line 7
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager1 file
kafka-go
s3
github.com/bluele/gcache5 files
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/kinesis3 files
go-sqlite3
pgx

Data access 1

entgo.io/ent16 files

Sign-in 1

github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v42 files

Support

The base 1

k8s.io/apiserver1 file

Content 1

github.com/beevik/etree1 file

Validation 3

github.com/getkin/kin-openapi1 file
github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v61 file
validate

Testing 4

github.com/stretchr/testify187 files
github.com/sanity-io/litter1 file
github.com/jarcoal/httpmock6 files
go.uber.org/goleak1 file

Deploy 11

Prometheus75 files
github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog8 files
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v27 files
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config3 files
github.com/moby/moby/client3 files
github.com/prometheus/client_model3 files
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatchlogs2 files
github.com/moby/moby/api2 files
github.com/prometheus/common1 file
github.com/sirupsen/logrus226 files
gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v22 files

Tools 6

esbuild3 files
github.com/spf13/cobra62 files
github.com/davecgh/go-spew6 files
github.com/hexops/gotextdiff2 files
ariga.io/atlas1 file
golang.org/x/mod1 file

Other 42

github.com/expr-lang/expr25 files
github.com/go-openapi/strfmt23 files
github.com/goccy/go-yaml20 files
HashiCorp9 files
Google7 files
github.com/tetratelabs/wazero4 files
github.com/Masterminds/semver/v33 files
github.com/go-co-op/gocron/v22 files
containerd1 file
github.com/agext/levenshtein1 file
github.com/gin-contrib/gzip1 file
github.com/gorilla/websocket1 file

30 more

github.com/hashicorp/go-version1 file
github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v31 file
github.com/slack-go/slack1 file
google.golang.org/grpc1 file
gopkg.in/yaml.v340 files
github.com/fatih/color30 files
golang.org/x/sys17 files
golang.org/x/sync8 files
gopkg.in/yaml.v26 files
github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v55 files
golang.org/x/crypto5 files
github.com/oschwald/geoip2-golang4 files
github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v44 files
github.com/wasilibs/go-re24 files
github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify3 files
github.com/mohae/deepcopy3 files
k8s.io/apimachinery3 files
k8s.io/client-go3 files
github.com/cespare/xxhash/v22 files
github.com/mattn/go-isatty2 files
golang.org/x/text2 files
golang.org/x/time2 files
github.com/buger/jsonparser1 file
github.com/nxadm/tail1 file
github.com/oschwald/maxminddb-golang1 file
golang.org/x/net1 file
google.golang.org/protobuf1 file
k8s.io/api1 file
errors
swag

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Frequently asked questions

What language is crowdsec written in?

crowdsec is written in Go, with 136,939 written lines.

What framework does crowdsec use?

crowdsec is built with Gin and k8s.io/apiserver.

What database does crowdsec use?

crowdsec stores its data in github.com/bluele/gcache, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/kinesis, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs, MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres and reaches it with entgo.io/ent.

What does crowdsec sign people in with?

crowdsec signs people in with github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4.

What services does crowdsec use?

crowdsec uses go-sqlite3, kafka-go, pgx, s3, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager.

Does crowdsec have tests?

Yes. crowdsec has 238 test files and is tested with github.com/stretchr/testify, github.com/jarcoal/httpmock, github.com/sanity-io/litter, and go.uber.org/goleak.

Which repos have a stack like crowdsec's?

The ones that share most of its stack:Tencent/WeKnora hashicorp/vault photoprism/photoprism