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Ticketing systems
- OTRS - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications.
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Repositories
- Software Collections - Community Release of [Red Hat Software Collections](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/). Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.
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Control Panels
- Ajenti - Control panel for Linux and BSD.
- Feathur - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.
- Virtualmin - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.
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NoSQL
- Couchbase - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.
- Hypertable - C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop.
- RavenDB - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features.
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Backups
- Backupninja - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system.
- Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
- UrBackup - Another client-server backup system.
- ZBackup - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.
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Build Automation
- Apache Ant - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java.
- GNU Make - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes.
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ChatOps
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Cloud Computing
- Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
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Cloud Orchestration
- MCollective - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
- StackStorm - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python.
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Code Review
- Gerrit - Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes.
- Review Board - Web-based collaborative code review tool.
- Gerrit - Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes.
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Collaborative Software
- SOGo - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.
- Zimbra - Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client.
- Kolab - Another groupware suite.
- EGroupware - Groupware software written in PHP.
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Configuration Management
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Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
- Concourse CI - A pipeline-based CI system written in Go.
- TeamCity - Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box
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Deployment Automation
- Mina - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based).
- Rocketeer - PHP task runner and deployment tool.
- Vlad the Deployer - Deployment automation (rake based).
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Diagramming
- drawthe.net - Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons.
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Distributed Filesystems
- Ceph - Distributed object store and file system.
- Lustre - A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.
- OpenAFS - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support.
- TahoeLAFS - secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.
- XtreemFS - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.
- MogileFS - Application level, network distributed file system.
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Messaging
- Tigase - XMPP server implementation in Java.
- Metronome IM - Fork of Prosody IM.
- Openfire - Real time collaboration (RTC) server.
- Prosody IM - XMPP server written in Lua.
- Kaiwa - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives.
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DNS
- djbdns - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.
- Designate - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend.
- Knot - High performance authoritative-only DNS server.
- PowerDNS - DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features.
- dnsmasq - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.
- Yadifa - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain.
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Editors
- GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more.
- Haroopad - Markdown editor with live preview.
- ICEcoder - Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages.
- Lime - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text
- Nano - A popular text editor, by default comes with most Linux distributions.
- Visual Studio Code - Fast, hackable, multi-platform code editor from Microsoft.
- Geany - GTK2 text editor.
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IT Asset Management
- GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
- OCS Inventory NG - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.
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LDAP
- OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS.
- OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java.
- Apache Directory Studio - The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client
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Log Management
- Echofish - A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system.
- Flume - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.
- Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
- Octopussy - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).
- Logstash - Tool for managing events and logs.
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Mail Servers
- Courier IMAP/POP3 - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server.
- Haraka - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript.
- OpenSMTPD - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project.
- Postfix - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
- Qmail - Secure Sendmail replacement.
- Mail-in-a-Box - Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box.
- iRedMail - Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot.
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Monitoring
- Flapjack - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.
- Icinga - Fork of Nagios.
- Munin - Networked resource monitoring tool.
- Naemon - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.
- Node-Bell - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor.
- Opsview - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.
- Riemann - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis.
- Sensu - Open source monitoring framework.
- Serverstats - A simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool. ([source on github](https://github.com/ddanier/serverstats))
- Shinken - Another monitoring framework.
- Zenoss - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope.
- Adagios - Web based Nagios configuration interface.
- Thruk - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.
- Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
- Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
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Metric & Metric Collection
- ~~dashing~~ - __No Longer Maintained__ - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms.
- OpenTSDB - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
- Packetbeat - Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing.
- KairosDB - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.
- NetData - Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
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Network Configuration Management
- GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.
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Newsletters
- DevOpsLinks - A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat.
- phpList - Newsletter manager written in PHP.
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Queuing
- Gearman - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.
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RDBMS
- Firebird - True universal open source database.
- MariaDB - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.
- MySQL - Most popular RDBMS server.
- PostgreSQL-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster.
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Security
- fwknop - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.
- OSQuery - Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface.
- pfSense - Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution.
- Snort - Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch in 1998.
- SpamAssassin - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique.
- BounCA - BounCA is a personal SSL / Certificate Authority Key management tool. Create self-signed SSL certificates via your browser. ([Source Code](https://github.com/repleo/bounca)) `Apache` `Python`
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Blogs
- DevOpsGuys - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
- Rackspace Developers - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.
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Software Containers
- Bitnami - Produces open source installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances.
- LXC - Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features.
- LXD - LXD is a container "hypervisor".
- Docker Compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
- OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux.
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SSH
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Statistics
- AWStats - Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically.
- Open Web Analytics - Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs.
- Webalizer - Fast, free web server log file analysis program.
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Project Management
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Version control
- GNU Bazaar - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.
- Mercurial - Another distributed revision control.
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Virtualization
- Ganeti - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen.
- Vagrant - Tool for building complete development environments.
- VirtualBox - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation.
- QEMU - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
- oVirt - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks.
- Xen - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.
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VPN
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Web
- Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS.
- Cherokee - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.
- Lighttpd - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.
- Nginx - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.
- HAProxy - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.
- Squid - Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
- Traefik - Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.
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Webmails
- Mailpile - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
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Wikis
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Books
- The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
- The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps - Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement.
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - How DevOps techniques can fix the problems that happen in IT organizations.
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Websites
- Digital Ocean Tutorials - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics.
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Troubleshooting
- Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
- Trinity Rescue Kit - Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting.
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Cloud Storage
- Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.
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Monitoring
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Mail Servers
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Editors
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Web
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Security
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Virtualization
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DNS
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Distributed Filesystems
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Messaging
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Software Containers
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Metric & Metric Collection
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Log Management
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RDBMS
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Collaborative Software
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Wikis
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Configuration Management
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Backups
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VPN
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LDAP
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Code Review
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Control Panels
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Books
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NoSQL
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Statistics
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Deployment Automation
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Newsletters
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ChatOps
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Cloud Computing
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IT Asset Management
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Project Management
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SSH
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Troubleshooting
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Version control
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License
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Blogs
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Cloud Orchestration
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Build Automation
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Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
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Websites
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Webmails
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Diagramming
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Network Configuration Management
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Ticketing systems
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Cloud Storage
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Queuing
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Repositories
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