Codo-cmdb

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A CMDB combined with cloud management that syncs and operates resources across AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud and others, across accounts and regions.

Adopt it when

An ops team runs many accounts on Chinese and global clouds and wants one inventory and control point, inside the wider CODO platform.

Watch out

Still a beta release, depends on the rest of the CODO suite, and documentation is Chinese.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python and SQLAlchemy

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, latest release codo-beta-0.3.0.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Codo-cmdb → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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