Imbi

A DevOps Service Management Platform for managing complex service ecosystems

Imbi provides a centralized platform to manage, track, and understand all services and applications across your organization. It serves as a single source of truth for service metadata, dependencies, ownership, and operational information.

What is Imbi?

Imbi helps organizations answer critical questions about their service landscape:

• What services do we have? Complete inventory with ownership, type, and namespace organization
• How are they related? Graph-based dependency tracking and relationship visualization
• Who owns what? Clear ownership and team assignments
• What's deployed where? Environment-specific URLs and deployment tracking
• What needs attention? Project health scoring based on configurable factors
• Where's the documentation? Links to repos, CI/CD, monitoring, and other tools

Key Benefits

• Single Source of Truth: Centralized service catalog with comprehensive metadata
• Relationship Visualization: Graph database enables intuitive dependency mapping
• Automation Ready: API-first design enables integration with CI/CD, webhooks, and automations
• AI-Powered: Built-in vector search and conversational AI support for natural language queries
• Extensible: Blueprint system for customizable project metadata schemas
• Developer Friendly: Automatic data collection via GitHub webhooks and integrations

Version 2.0 (Alpha)

Complete rewrite using modern Python technologies for improved performance, scalability, and AI integration:

• FastAPI: Modern async web framework with automatic OpenAPI documentation
• Apache AGE: Graph database (PostgreSQL extension) for modeling service relationships and dependencies
• ClickHouse: Analytics and time-series data storage for operations logs and metrics
• Pydantic v2: Type-safe data validation and settings management

What's New in v2

• Graph Database: Apache AGE (PostgreSQL) for intuitive relationship modeling and AI-friendly Cypher queries
• Modern API: FastAPI provides automatic OpenAPI docs, async performance, and better type safety
• Simplified Architecture: Single PostgreSQL instance for relational and graph data
• Full Authentication: OAuth2/OIDC (Google, GitHub, Keycloak) and local password authentication with JWT tokens
• Fine-Grained Authorization: Permission-based access control with resource-level permissions and role management
• Analytics Ready: ClickHouse integration for operations logs and time-series metrics

For developers, see CLAUDE.md for development guide and architecture details.

Quick Start

Development Environment

# Set up development environment (install deps, pre-commit hooks)
just setup

# Start Docker services and run the development server with auto-reload
just serve --dev

# Initialize Imbi (first time only — seeds roles/permissions, creates admin user)
uv run imbi-api setup

# Access the API
curl http://localhost:8000/status

Testing

# Run all tests with coverage
just test

# Run pre-commit checks + type checking
just lint

Core Concepts

Data Model

Imbi organizes services using a flexible, graph-based data model:

• Organizations: Top-level organizational units

  • Unique slug identifier
  • Name, description, and optional icon
  • Foundation for hierarchical team structure

• Teams: Groups within organizations

  • Managed by an organization (MANAGED_BY relationship)
  • Own and maintain projects
  • Unique slug identifier within their scope

• Projects: Individual services or applications

  • Owned by a team (OWNED_BY relationship)
  • Categorized by project type (TYPE relationship)
  • Deployed in environments (DEPLOYED_IN relationship)
  • Links to external tools (GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, monitoring, etc.)
  • Environment-specific URLs (staging, production, etc.)
  • Custom identifiers (repo IDs, service IDs, etc.)

• Project Types: Service categorization

  • Web Services, APIs, Libraries, Databases, etc.
  • Unique slug identifier
  • Used to classify projects

• Environments: Deployment targets

  • Production, Staging, Development, etc.
  • Unique slug identifier
  • Projects can be deployed to multiple environments

• Blueprints: JSON Schema-based metadata templates

  • Apply to Organizations, Teams, Environments, Project Types, or Projects
  • Define custom fields with validation rules
  • Enforce required metadata
  • Priority-based application when multiple blueprints match
  • Optional filtering based on entity properties

• Users, Groups, and Roles: Authentication and authorization

  • Users with OAuth or local password authentication
  • Groups for organizing users
  • Roles with fine-grained permissions
  • Resource-based access control

API Access

Once the server is running, explore the API:

# Health check
curl http://localhost:8000/status

# Get authentication providers
curl http://localhost:8000/auth/providers

# API documentation
open http://localhost:8000/docs  # ReDoc UI

License

BSD 3-Clause License

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