awesome-sysadmin

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

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Backups
- Attic - A deduplicating backup program written in Python.
- Bareos - A fork of Bacula backup tool.
- Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers.
- Backupninja - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system.
- Backuppc - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme.
- Brebis - A fully automated backup checker.
- Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
- Snebu - client deduplication and transparent compression.
- UrBackup - Another client-server backup system.
- ZBackup - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.
- SafeKeep - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup`.
- 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
- 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
- Code as Craft - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts.
- DevOpsGuys - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
- Code as Craft - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts.
- Rackspace Developers - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.
Books
- The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
- 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.
- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook - Approaches system administration from a practical perspective.
- 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.
- Securing DevOps - A book on Security techniques for DevOps that reviews state of the art practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure.
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
- Err - A plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable.
- 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.
- KeyBase - Encrypted chat, cloud and git.
Cloning
- Clonezilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.
- Fog - Another computer cloning solution.
- 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.
- The Foreman - Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS.
- Archipel - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt.
- AppScale - Open source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility.
- Tsuru - Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.
- Terraform - Terraform allows you to practice infrastructure as code and is commonly used for AWS/GCE.
Cloud Orchestration
- BOSH - IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems.
- 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.
- Ansible - Contains modules for controlling many types of cloud resources.
Cloud Storage
- git-annex assistant - A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services.
- nextCloud - Provides access to your files via the web
- Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.
- Syncthing - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data.
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.
- 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
- EGroupware - Groupware software written in PHP.
- Horde Groupware - PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management.
- SOGo - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.
- Citadel/UX - Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs.
- EGroupware - Groupware software written in PHP.
- Horde Groupware - PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management.
- Kolab - Another groupware suite.
- Zimbra - Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client.
Configuration Management
- Salt - It's written in Python.
- (R)?ex - It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent.
- Slaughter - It's written in Perl.
- 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
- GitLab CI - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories.
- 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.
- Froxlor - Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support.
- ISPConfig - Hosting control panel for Linux.
- ZPanel - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows.
- 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.
- Sentora - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel.
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.
- DRBD - Distributed Replicated Block Device.
- MogileFS - Application level, network distributed 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
- Bind - The most widely used name server software.
- djbdns - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.
- Designate - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend.
- dnsmasq - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.
- Knot - High performance authoritative-only DNS server.
- NSD - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name 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
- SciTE - A SCIntilla based Text Editor.
- 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.
- Vim - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.
IT Asset Management
- RackTables - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration.
- OpenDCIM - A web based Data Center Infrastructure Management application.
- 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
- 389 Directory Server - Developed by Red Hat.
- Apache Directory Server - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java.
- Fusion Directory - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP.
- OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS.
- OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java.
- OpenLDAP - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project.
- 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.
- Heka - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.
- Octopussy - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).
- Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
- Heka - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.
- Logstash - Tool for managing events and logs.
Mail Servers
- Courier IMAP/POP3 - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server.
- Cyrus IMAP/POP3 - Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in.
- Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind.
- Qpopper - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3.
- Exim - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- ejabberd - XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP.
Metric & Metric Collection
- Collectl - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool.
- ~~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.
- Ganglia - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process.
- Graphite - Open source scalable graphing server.
- KairosDB - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.
- 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.
- RRDtool - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
- Collectd - System statistic collection daemon.

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