title: Open Source
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subtitle: Open Source literally created ungleich
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## History of Open Source at ungleich

Open Source at ungleich is deeply rooted. It is actually Open Source
that started ungleich in 2013: You might now that I am one of the two
original authors of [cdist](https://cdi.st), an Open Source
configuration management system (Steven Armstrong being the other
crazy person).

In 2013 a company from France requested commercial support for
cdist and soon after other Swiss companies were asking for Open Source
Software consultancy. This is how ungleich was originally born.

Whenever possible, we ask our customers to make the code that we
create for them also Open Source and some of our customers very much
welcome this approach.

In 2017 we started the [Data Center Light
project](../data-center-light), which turns old buildings (like
factory halls) into data centers.
We realised that many problems that we solve are repeating
infrastructure problems.
For that reason we created the [Open
Infrastructure project](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure).
in 2018 to open source our infrastructure and have others profit from
our experiences. We also released the
[ungleich-tools](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools)
that we use to manage or support the infrastructure. Or you can find
checkout the [backup tool
ccollect](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/) that we maintain.


## Open Source at ungleich today

Almost all of our products are based on Open Source Software, which is
why we contribute back to projects that we use.

While we still have [our github
account](https://github.com/orgs/ungleich/), most of our public code
can be found on
[code.ungleich.ch](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/).

We also think that **Open Communication** is important and for that
reason we allow [free access to our company chat](../open-chat) via
Mattermost and Matrix.


## SEE ALSO

* [ccollect](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/)
* [Open Chat](../open-chat)
* [Open Infrastructure](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure)
* [Public ungleich git repositories](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/)
* [uncloud repository](https://code.ungleich.ch/uncloud/uncloud)
* [ungleich-tools](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools)