awesome-sysadmin-tools

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Backups
- 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.
- 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.
ChatOps
- CloudBot - The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot.
- Lazlo - A chatops automation framework in Go.
- Lita - A robot companion for your company's chat room.
- Hubot - A customizable, life embetterment robot.
Cloning
- Redo Backup - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore.
Cloud Computing
- Archipel - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt.
- Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
Cloud Orchestration
- 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.
- MCollective - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
- StackStorm - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python.
Cloud Storage
- nextCloud - Provides access to your files via the web
Collaborative Software
- EGroupware - Groupware software written in PHP.
- SOGo - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.
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).
Configuration Management
- mgmt - Next generation config management written in Go.
- (R)?ex - It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent.
- Salt - It's written in Python.
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
- Drone - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
- Concourse CI - A pipeline-based CI system written in Go.
- TeamCity - Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box
Deployment Automation
- Mina - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based).
- 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.
- drawthe.net - Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons.
Distributed Filesystems
- 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.
- 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.
Editors
- 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.
- Visual Studio Code - Fast, hackable, multi-platform code editor from Microsoft.
- 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.
Log Management
- Elasticsearch - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis.
- Flume - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.
- Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
Mail Servers
- Maildrop - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.
- 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.
Messaging
- Candy - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript.
- Lets-Chat - A self hosted chat suite written in Node.
- 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.
Monitoring
- 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.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- 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.
- Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
Metric & Metric Collection
- 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.
- ~~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.
Network Configuration Management
- Oxidized - A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage.
- trigger - Robust network automation toolkit written in Python.
- GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.
Newsletters
- DadaMail - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl.
- DevOpsLinks - A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat.
NoSQL
- FlockDB - Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database.
- LevelDB - Google's high performance key/value database.
- Couchbase - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.
Packaging
- fpm - Versatile multi format package creator.
Queuing
- BeanstalkD - A simple, fast work queue.
- Gearman - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.
Security
- Blackbox - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords.
- Glastopf - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data.
- Kippo - A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox.
- OSSEC - OSSEC is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more.
- 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
- Singularity - Flexible containers without root.
- 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.
SSH
- Advanced SSH config - Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.
- sshrc - sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.
Statistics
- Analog - Logfile Analyser.
- 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.
Status Pages
- Cachet - An open source status page system written in PHP.
Troubleshooting
- mitmproxy - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems.
- Wireshark - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer.
- Trinity Rescue Kit - Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting.
Project Management
- ChiliProject - Fork of Redmine.
- GitBucket
- The Bug Genie - Written in PHP.
- Trac - Written in python.
- Taiga - Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.
Version control
- Fossil - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking.
- Mercurial - Another distributed revision control.
- GNU Bazaar - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.
Virtualization
- Ganeti - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen.
- KVM - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.
- oVirt - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks.
- Packer - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
- QEMU - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
- Vagrant - Tool for building complete development environments.
- Xen - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.
- VirtualBox - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation.
VPN
- OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
- Pritunl - OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up.
- sshuttle - Poor man's VPN.
- strongSwan - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.
- 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
- uWSGI - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
- Varnish - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.
- Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS.
- Cherokee - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.
- HAProxy - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.
- Lighttpd - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.
- Nginx - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.
- Traefik - Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.
- Squid - Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
Webmails
- Roundcube - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface.
- Mailpile - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
Wikis
- Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
- MDwiki - Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client.
- MediaWiki - Used to power Wikipedia.
- Ōlelo Wiki - A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository.
- 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
- Code as Craft - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts.
- Rackspace Developers - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.
- DevOpsGuys - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
Books
- 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.
- The Practice of System and Network Administration - The first and second editions describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies.
- The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps - Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement.
- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook - Approaches system administration from a practical perspective.
- The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
Repositories
- Dotdeb - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.
- ElRepo - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
- Remi - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
- 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.
Build Automation
- Apache Ant - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java.
- GNU Make - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes.
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.
Control Panels
- Feathur - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.
- Virtualmin - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.
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.
LDAP
- OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS.
- OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java.
- Apache Directory Studio - The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client
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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awesome-sysadmin-tools

Backups

RDBMS

ChatOps

Cloning

Cloud Computing

Cloud Orchestration

Cloud Storage

Collaborative Software

Configuration Management Database

Configuration Management

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

Deployment Automation

Diagramming

Distributed Filesystems

Editors

Log Management

Mail Servers

Messaging

Monitoring

Metric & Metric Collection

Network Configuration Management

Newsletters

NoSQL

Packaging

Queuing

Security

Software Containers

SSH

Statistics

Status Pages

Troubleshooting

Project Management

Version control

Virtualization

VPN

Web

Webmails

Wikis

Blogs

Books

Repositories

Build Automation

Code Review

Control Panels

DNS

LDAP

Websites