awesome-sysadmin-tools

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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.
- Bup - Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem.
- Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
- restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
- SafeKeep - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup`.
- ZBackup - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.
- Backup - Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.
- DREBS - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies.
- Brebis - A fully automated backup checker.
- Backuppc - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme.
- Snebu - client deduplication and transparent compression.
- SafeKeep - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup`.
- Bacula - Another Client-server model backup tool.
- Lsyncd - File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default).
- Attic - A deduplicating backup program written in Python.
Blogs
- DevOpsGuys - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
- Code as Craft - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts.
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.
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.
- CloudBot - The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot.
- Lazlo - A chatops automation framework in Go.
- Eggdrop - The world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use.
Cloning
- Redo Backup - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore.
- Redo Backup - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore.
Cloud Computing
- Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- Archipel - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt.
- Tsuru - Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.
- AppScale - Open source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility.
- Terraform - Terraform allows you to practice infrastructure as code and is commonly used for AWS/GCE.
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.
- doozerd - Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data.
- etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
- Overcast - Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH.
- BOSH - IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems.
- serf - Serf is a tool for cluster membership.
- consul - It is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure.
- Juju - Cloud orchestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles.
- MCollective - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
- Cloudify - Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
Cloud Storage
- nextCloud - Provides access to your files via the web
- Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.
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.
- Phabricator - Code review tool build by facebook and used by WikiMedia, FB, dropbox etc. Comes with an integrated wiki, bug tracker, VC integration and a CLI tool called arcanist.
Collaborative Software
- SOGo - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.
- EGroupware - Groupware software written in PHP.
- Citadel/UX - Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs.
- Horde Groupware - PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management.
Configuration Management
- Salt - It's written in Python.
- (R)?ex - It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent.
- mgmt - Next generation config management written in Go.
- 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.
Configuration Management Database
- Clusto - Helps you keep track of your inventory, where it is, how it's connected, and provides an abstracted interface for interacting with the elements of the infrastructure.
- Collins - At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge.
- Ralph - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks.
- Sicekit - The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on MediaWiki).
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
- Concourse CI - A pipeline-based CI system written in Go.
- TeamCity - Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box
- Go - Open source continuous delivery server.
- Drone - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
- Buildbot - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration.
- Jenkins - An extendable open source continuous integration server.
Control Panels
- Feathur - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.
- Virtualmin - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.
- VestaCP - Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx.
- ZPanel - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows.
- Ajenti - Control panel for Linux and BSD.
- Webmin - Linux server control panel.
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).
- Mina - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based).
Diagramming
- drawthe.net - Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons.
- 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.
- 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.
- LeoFS - Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.
- Lustre - A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.
- MogileFS - Application level, network distributed file system.
- DRBD - Distributed Replicated Block Device.
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.
- Bind - The most widely used name server software.
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.
- Haroopad - Markdown editor with live preview.
- IntellijIDEA - Capable and ergonomic IDE, written in Java, It has a lot of plug-ins.
- jotgit - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing.
IT Asset Management
- Netbox - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.
- RackTables - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration.
LDAP
- OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS.
- OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java.
- Apache Directory Studio - The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client
- 389 Directory Server - Developed by Red Hat.
Log Management
- Flume - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.
- Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
- Elasticsearch - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis.
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.
- Maildrop - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.
- Qpopper - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3.
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.
- Candy - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript.
- Lets-Chat - A self hosted chat suite written in Node.
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.
- Collectd - System statistic collection daemon.
- ~~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.
- Smashing - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms. Fork of Dashing.
- Diamond - Python based statistic collection daemon.
- Freeboard - A damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into delicious UI.
- NetData - Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
- OpenTSDB - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
- Ganglia - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process.
- InfluxDB - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
- KairosDB - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.
- Statsd - Application statistic listener.
- Collectl - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool.
- RRDtool - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
- Facette - Time series data visualization and graphing software written in Go.
Monitoring
- Icinga - Fork of Nagios.
- Naemon - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.
- 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.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- Flapjack - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.
- Seyren - An alerting dashboard for Graphite.
- Adagios - Web based Nagios configuration interface.
- Dash - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine.
- Cabot - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.
- Zabbix - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications.
- Uchiwa - Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework.
- Centreon - IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.
- check_mk - Collection of extensions for Nagios.
- Shinken - Another monitoring framework.
- Alerta - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.
- LibreNMS - fork of Observium.
- Sentry - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation.
Network Configuration Management
- GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.
- Oxidized - A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage.
- trigger - Robust network automation toolkit written in Python.
- rConfig - Another network device configuration management tool.
Newsletters
- DevOpsLinks - A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat.
- DadaMail - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl.
- DevOpsLinks - A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat.
NoSQL
- Couchbase - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.
- LevelDB - Google's high performance key/value database.
- Redis - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.
- Hypertable - C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop.
Packaging
- fpm - Versatile multi format package creator.
- tito - Builds RPMs for git-based projects.
- omnibus-ruby - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby).
Project Management
- Taiga - Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.
- The Bug Genie - Written in PHP.
- Gogs - Self-hosted Git service written in Go.
- GitLab - Clone of GitHub written in Ruby.
- GitBucket
- Trac - Written in python.
Queuing
- Gearman - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.
- BeanstalkD - A simple, fast work queue.
RDBMS
- Firebird - True universal open source database.
- MariaDB - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.

Programming Languages

Python 7 Go 6 JavaScript 4 Ruby 4 Java 2 CSS 1 C++ 1 CoffeeScript 1

awesome-sysadmin-tools

Backups

Blogs

Books

Build Automation

ChatOps

Cloning

Cloud Computing

Cloud Orchestration

Cloud Storage

Code Review

Collaborative Software

Configuration Management

Configuration Management Database

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

Control Panels

Deployment Automation

Diagramming

Distributed Filesystems

DNS

Editors

IT Asset Management

LDAP

Log Management

Mail Servers

Messaging

Metric & Metric Collection

Monitoring

Network Configuration Management

Newsletters

NoSQL

Packaging

Project Management

Queuing

RDBMS