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A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.
https://github.com/epcim/awesome-sysadmin2

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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.
    • Fileprune - delete archived backup files with diverse constraints.
    • FreeFileSync - Folder comparison and synchronization tool providing highly optimized performance and usability without a needlessly complex user interface.
    • TarSnap - Secure backup service with a portable client in C.
    • UrBackup - Another client-server backup system.
    • storeBackup - Advanced, yet simple and easy to use backup suite, better suited for personal backups.
    • storeBackup - Advanced, yet simple and easy to use backup suite, better suited for personal backups.
    • Backup - Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.
  • Monitoring

    • Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Shinken - Another monitoring framework.
    • Thruk - Multibackend monitoring webinterface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.
    • Zenoss - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope.
    • Whoops - Self-hosted tool for logging application events like errors or background worker completion.
    • Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
  • Hosting Control Panels

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

    • DRBL - Diskless Remote Boot in Linux. Open source solution for managing deployment across many clients. Includes Clonezilla and a PXE boot server.
    • iPXE - iPXE is an open source boot firmware project as a livecd that can get obscure network devices to recognize and boot from remote PXE servers.
    • Redo Backup - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore.
  • Cloud Computing

    • Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
    • Openshift Origin - Open source upstream of OpenShift, the next generation application hosting platform developed by Red Hat.
    • OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
  • Cloud Orchestration

    • MCollective - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
  • 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 - Available as free software uner the MIT License.
    • 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.
    • Puppet - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL.
    • Salt - It's written in Python.
  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

  • 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.
  • IMAP/POP3

  • IRC

  • IT Asset Management

    • GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
    • OCS Inventory NG - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.
    • TeemIP - IP and Network address management.
  • LDAP

    • OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS.
    • OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java.
  • Load Testing

  • Log Management

    • Echofish - A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system.
    • Flume - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.
    • Log.io - Real-time log monitoring in your browser.
    • nxlog - NXLOG is a universal log collector and forwarder supporting different platforms (BSD, Unix, Linux, Windows, Android), log sources and protocols (Syslog, ...
    • pylog - pylog generates logs, events or metrics (randomly, or otherwise) and sends them using different transports (UDP, AMQP, File, etc..)
    • nxlog - NXLOG is a universal log collector and forwarder supporting different platforms (BSD, Unix, Linux, Windows, Android), log sources and protocols (Syslog, ...
    • Octopussy - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).
    • Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
    • Logstash - Tool for managing events and logs.
  • RDBMS

    • Error Monitoring

      • 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.
  • Metric & Metric Collection

    • Error Monitoring

      • Dashing - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms.
      • Graphite-ng - Next generation graphite server.
      • OpenTSDB - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
      • KairosDB - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.
  • Network Configuration Management

    • Error Monitoring

      • GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.
      • Netdot - A NETwork DOcumentation Tool, designed to help network administrators collect, organize and maintain network documentation.
  • Packaging

    • Error Monitoring

      • TWW Toolsets - Hyper package management system,both toolsets and package sources are free (Python).
  • Queuing

    • Error Monitoring

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

    • Error Monitoring

      • winexe - Remotely run commands on Windows from Linux using RPC.
  • Security

    • Error Monitoring

      • nprobe - NetFlow analysis/audit toolkit.
      • Samhain - Host-based intrusion detection system, with file integrity checking, log file monitoring/analysis, rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID execs and hidden processes.
      • SpamAssassin - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection techniques.
      • Tripwire (Open Source) - Data integrity tool, useful for monitoring and altering on specific file changes.
      • Wazuh - HIDS based on OSSEC with the Elastic Stack
      • Yasat - Scan configuration files, kernel parameters and shows the best practices for each cases.
      • Ossec - Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
  • Service Management

    • Error Monitoring

      • Corosync - The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications.
      • Systemd - systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts.
  • SMTP

    • Error Monitoring

      • 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.
      • Sendmail - Message transfer agent (MTA).
  • SSH

    • Error Monitoring

      • Mosh - The mobile shell.
      • Socketpipe - Very efficient TCP connection between remote processes.
  • Statistics

    • Error Monitoring

      • Analog - The most popular logfile analyser in the world.
      • Webalizer - Fast, free web server log file analysis program.
  • Version control

    • Error Monitoring

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

    • Error Monitoring

      • Bitnami - Freely available VMs for applications described in this list: [GitLab](https://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab), [Jenkins](https://bitnami.com/stack/jenkins), [MantisBT](https://bitnami.com/stack/mantis), [Redmine](https://bitnami.com/stack/redmine), [Trac](https://bitnami.com/stack/trac) and [more](https://bitnami.com/stacks).
      • 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.
      • OpenNebula - Flexible enterprise cloud made simple
      • oVirt - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks.
      • QEMU - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
      • Xen - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.
  • VPN

    • Error Monitoring

      • 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.
      • SigmaVPN - SigmaVPN is simple, light-weight and modular VPN software for UNIX systems, deploying the NaCl encryption library.
  • XMPP

  • Webmails

    • Error Monitoring

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

    • Error Monitoring

      • 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.
  • Wikis

    • Error Monitoring

      • 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

  • Editors

    • Error Monitoring

      • 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
  • Websites

    • Error Monitoring

      • Digital Ocean Tutorials - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics. (Note: Digital Ocean pays authors for this content)
      • CONTRIBUTING
  • Cloud Storage

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

    • Error Monitoring

      • Otrs - A free and open-source trouble ticket system software package that a company, organization, or other entity can use to assign tickets to incoming queries and track further communications about them.
  • Troubleshooting

    • Error Monitoring

      • Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
      • TRK - CPR for your computer! Trinity Rescue Kit is a linux toolkit as a livecd for general computer troubleshooting. Useful for Win, Linux, and OSX.
  • Newsletters

    • Error Monitoring

      • phpList - Newsletter manager written in PHP.
  • NoSQL

    • Error Monitoring

      • Couchbase - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.
  • Software Containers

    • Error Monitoring

      • OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux.