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  • Backups

    • Bup - Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem.
    • 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.

  • RDBMS

    • PostgreSQL-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster.
    • Firebird - True universal open source database.
    • MariaDB - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.
    • MySQL - Most popular RDBMS server.

  • Cloud Storage

    • Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.

  • Monitoring

    • Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
    • 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.

  • Build Automation

    • Apache Ant - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java.
    • GNU Make - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes.

  • ChatOps

    • Hubot - A customizable, life embetterment robot.
    • Lita - A robot companion for your company's chat room.

  • Cloud Computing

    • Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
    • OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Configuration Management

    • Pallet - Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL.
    • (R)?ex - It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent.
    • Salt - It's written in Python.
    • Puppet - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL.

  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

    • Concourse CI - A pipeline-based CI system written in Go.
    • TeamCity - Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box

  • Control Panels

    • Feathur - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.
    • Virtualmin - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.
    • Ajenti - Control panel for Linux and BSD.

  • 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).

  • Diagramming

    • drawthe.net - Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons.

  • 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.
    • MogileFS - Application level, network distributed file system.
    • XtreemFS - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.

  • 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.
    • Yadifa - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain.
    • dnsmasq - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.

  • IT Asset Management

    • GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
    • OCS Inventory NG - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.

  • 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.

  • LDAP

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Messaging

    • Metronome IM - Fork of Prosody IM.
    • Openfire - Real time collaboration (RTC) server.
    • Prosody IM - XMPP server written in Lua.
    • Tigase - XMPP server implementation in Java.
    • Kaiwa - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives.

  • 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.
    • NetData - Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
    • KairosDB - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.

  • Network Configuration Management

    • GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.

  • Newsletters

    • DevOpsLinks - A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat.
    • phpList - Newsletter manager written in PHP.

  • Queuing

    • Gearman - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.

  • 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`

  • 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.

  • SSH

    • Mosh - The mobile shell.
    • sshrc - sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.

  • 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.

  • Project Management

    • Taiga - Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.
    • Redmine - Written in ruby on rails.

  • Version control

    • GNU Bazaar - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.
    • Mercurial - Another distributed revision control.

  • 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.

  • VPN

    • OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
    • SoftEther - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features
    • tinc - Distributed p2p VPN.
    • wireguard - New minimal VPN Solution that is very fast.

  • 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.

  • Webmails

    • Mailpile - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.

  • Wikis

    • BookStack - A simple, user-friendly wiki built with PHP that uses MySQL for storage.
    • DokuWiki - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database.
    • ikiwiki - A wiki compiler.
    • MoinMoin - An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users.

  • Blogs

  • Books

  • Websites

    • Digital Ocean Tutorials - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics.

  • Ticketing systems

    • OTRS - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications.

  • Troubleshooting

    • Trinity Rescue Kit - Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting.
    • Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.

  • 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.

  • NoSQL

    • Couchbase - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.
    • RavenDB - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features.
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Monitoring 16 Mail Servers 7 Web 7 Virtualization 6 DNS 6 Editors 6 Security 6 Distributed Filesystems 6 Backups 5 Messaging 5 Software Containers 5 Metric & Metric Collection 5 Log Management 5 Collaborative Software 4 RDBMS 4 Wikis 4 Configuration Management 4 VPN 4 LDAP 3 Code Review 3 Control Panels 3 Books 3 Statistics 3 Deployment Automation 3 NoSQL 2 Newsletters 2 ChatOps 2 Cloud Computing 2 IT Asset Management 2 Project Management 2 SSH 2 Troubleshooting 2 Version control 2 License 2 Blogs 2 Cloud Orchestration 2 Build Automation 2 Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment 2 Websites 1 Webmails 1 Diagramming 1 Network Configuration Management 1 Ticketing systems 1 Cloud Storage 1 Queuing 1 Repositories 1
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