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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Editors
- Visual Studio Code - Fast, hackable, multi-platform code editor from Microsoft.
- Haroopad - Markdown editor with live preview.
- GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more.
- 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.
- jotgit - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing.
- IntellijIDEA - Capable and ergonomic IDE, written in Java, It has a lot of plug-ins.
- Haroopad - Markdown editor with live preview.
- Light Table - The next generation code editor.
Virtualization
- VirtualBox - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation.
- OpenNebula - Flexible enterprise cloud made simple.
- Archipel - XMPP based virtualization management platform.
- KVM - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.
- Vagrant - Tool for building complete development environments.
- KVM - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.
- Ganeti - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen.
- Packer - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Security
- 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.
- Denyhosts - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.
- fwknop - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.
- Glastopf - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data.
- 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`
- Blackbox - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords.
- Kippo - A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox.
- Glastopf - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data.
- Denyhosts - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.
- Fail2Ban - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior.
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
- TeamCity - Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box
- Concourse CI - A pipeline-based CI system written in Go.
- 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.
- GitLab CI - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories.
Cloud Computing
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
- The Foreman - Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS.
- 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.
- CloudStack - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
- Cobbler - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.
- The Foreman - Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS.
Software Containers
- Docker Compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
- LXD - LXD is a container "hypervisor".
- 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.
- OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux.
- Singularity - Flexible containers without root.
- OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux.
ChatOps
- Lita - A robot companion for your company's chat room.
- Hubot - A customizable, life embetterment robot.
- Err - A plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable.
- 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.
- Err - A plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable.
- KeyBase - Encrypted chat, cloud and git.
Mail Servers
- Mail-in-a-Box - Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box.
- 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).
- Maildrop - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.
- Qpopper - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3.
- 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.
- Exim - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
- MailCatcher - Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development.
- Sendmail - Message transfer agent (MTA).
- iRedMail - Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot.
Web
- Lighttpd - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.
- Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS.
- 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.
- HAProxy - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.
- Cherokee - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.
- Nginx - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.
- Varnish - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.
- Varnish - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.
Project Management
- Taiga - Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.
- ChiliProject - Fork of Redmine.
- The Bug Genie - Written in PHP.
- Gogs - Self-hosted Git service written in Go.
- GitLab - Clone of GitHub written in Ruby.
- ChiliProject - Fork of Redmine.
- GitBucket
- OpenProject - Project collaboration with open source.
Code Review
- 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.
- 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.
VPN
- wireguard - New minimal VPN Solution that is very fast.
- OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
- Pritunl - OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up.
- SoftEther - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features
- strongSwan - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.
- tinc - Distributed p2p VPN.
- sshuttle - Poor man's VPN.
- OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
Monitoring
- Riemann - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis.
- Icinga - Fork of Nagios.
- Naemon - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.
- Shinken - Another monitoring framework.
- OMD - The Open Monitoring Distribution.
- Thruk - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.
- Adagios - Web based Nagios configuration interface.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
- Centreon - IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.
- Flapjack - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.
- Sensu - Open source monitoring framework.
- Serverstats - A simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool. ([source on github](https://github.com/ddanier/serverstats))
- Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.
- Zenoss - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope.
- Uchiwa - Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
- Seyren - An alerting dashboard for Graphite.
- Dash - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine.
- Flapjack - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.
- Adagios - Web based Nagios configuration interface.
- Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- Cabot - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.
- Uchiwa - Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework.
- Zabbix - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications.
- Centreon - IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.
- check_mk - Collection of extensions for Nagios.
- Shinken - Another monitoring framework.
- LibreNMS - fork of Observium.
- Alerta - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.
- Sentry - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation.
- Monit - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems.
- Munin - Networked resource monitoring tool.
- Nagios - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application.
- Observium - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux.
- Opsview - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.
- Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.
- OMD - The Open Monitoring Distribution.
Metric & Metric Collection
- 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.
- RRDtool - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
- Collectl - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool.
- 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.
- Packetbeat - Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing.
- 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.
- Freeboard - A damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into delicious UI.
- Diamond - Python based statistic collection daemon.
- OpenTSDB - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
- 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.
- NetData - Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
- InfluxDB - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
- Ganglia - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process.
- 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.
- Graphite - Open source scalable graphing server.
- NetData - Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
- Prometheus - Service monitoring system and time series database.
RDBMS
- MariaDB - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.
- Firebird - True universal open source database.
- Galera - Galera Cluster for MySQL is an easy-to-use high-availability solution with high system up-time, no data loss, and scalability for future growth.
- Percona Server - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.
- PostgreSQL-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster.
- Galera - Galera Cluster for MySQL is an easy-to-use high-availability solution with high system up-time, no data loss, and scalability for future growth.
- Galera - Galera Cluster for MySQL is an easy-to-use high-availability solution with high system up-time, no data loss, and scalability for future growth.
- Firebird - True universal open source database.
- MySQL - Most popular RDBMS server.
- Percona Server - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.
- PostgreSQL - Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS).
- SQLite - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS.
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.
- Echofish - A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system.
- Fluentd - Log Collector and Shipper.
- Heka - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.
- Octopussy - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).
Webmails
- Mailpile - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
- SquirrelMail - Another browser-based IMAP client.
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.
- Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
- Ōlelo Wiki - A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository.
- MDwiki - Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client.
- MDwiki - Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client.
- MediaWiki - Used to power Wikipedia.
- TiddlyWiki - Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript.
Build Automation
- Apache Ant - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java.
- GNU Make - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes.
- Apache Maven - Build automation tool mainly for Java.
Backups
- Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
- 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.
- 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`.
- restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
- Bup - Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem.
- Backup - Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.
- Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
- DREBS - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies.
- ZBackup - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.
- Brebis - A fully automated backup checker.
- Backuppc - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme.
- Snebu - client deduplication and transparent compression.
- Amanda - Client-server model backup tool.
- Attic - A deduplicating backup program written in Python.
- Bacula - Another Client-server model backup tool.
- Bareos - A fork of Bacula backup tool.
- Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers.
- Burp - Network backup and restore program.
- Duplicati - Multiple backends, encryption, web-ui and multi-OS backup tool.
- FreeFileSync - Folder comparison and synchronization tool.
- Lsyncd - File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default).
- Rsnapshot - Filesystem Snapshotting Utility.
- SafeKeep - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup`.
DNS
- dnsmasq - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.
- 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.
- 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.
- NSD - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server.
- Unbound - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.
- Yadifa - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain.
Messaging
- Kaiwa - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives.
- 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.
- Lets-Chat - A self hosted chat suite written in Node.
- Candy - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript.
- ejabberd - XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP.
- MongooseIM - Fullstack real-time mobile messaging platform (XMPP+REST) in Erlang
- Kaiwa - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives.
Queuing
- Gearman - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.
- BeanstalkD - A simple, fast work queue.
- NSQ - A realtime distributed messaging platform.
- RabbitMQ - Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system.
- ZeroMQ - High-performance asynchronous messaging library.
Statistics
- Open Web Analytics - Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs.
- Analog - Logfile Analyser.
- AWStats - Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically.
- Webalizer - Fast, free web server log file analysis program.
- AWStats - Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically.
- GoAccess - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.
- Analog - Logfile Analyser.
- Piwik - Web analytics application.
Websites
- Digital Ocean Tutorials - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration 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.
- Securing DevOps - A book on Security techniques for DevOps that reviews state of the art practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure.
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.
- Clonezilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.
- Fog - Another computer cloning solution.
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.
- Juju - Cloud orchestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles.
- consul - It is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure.
- MCollective - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
- Ansible - Contains modules for controlling many types of cloud resources.
- Cloudify - Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
- zookeeper - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
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.
- CFEngine - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language.
- Chef - It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL.
- Slaughter - It's written in Perl.
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.
- git-annex assistant - A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services.
- ownCloud - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.
- Seafile - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.
- SparkleShare - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend.
- Syncthing - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data.
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.
- 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.
- Kolab - Another groupware suite.
- Zimbra - Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client.
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.
- Cockpit - New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C.
- Froxlor - Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support.
- ISPConfig - Hosting control panel for Linux.
- Sentora - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel.
- 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).
- Capistrano - Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (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.
- Lustre - A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.
- MogileFS - Application level, network distributed file system.
- LeoFS - Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.
- DRBD - Distributed Replicated Block Device.
- GlusterFS - Scale-out network-attached storage file system.
- MooseFS - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.
- XtreemFS - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.
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.
- GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
- OCS Inventory NG - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.
- RackTables - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration.
- Snipe IT - Asset & license management software.
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.
- 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.
- OpenLDAP - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project.
Network Configuration Management
- GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.
- NOC Project - Scalable, high-performance and open-source [OSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_support_system) system for ISP, service and content providers.
- RANCID - Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes.
- trigger - Robust network automation toolkit written in Python.
- Oxidized - A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage.
- phpIPAM - Open source IP address management with [PowerDNS](https://www.powerdns.com/) integration.
- RANCID - Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes.
- rConfig - Another network device configuration management tool.
Newsletters
- DadaMail - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl.
- phpList - Newsletter manager written in PHP.
- Servers for Hackers - Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server.
- 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.
- phpList - Newsletter manager written in PHP.
- Servers for Hackers - Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server.
NoSQL
- Riak - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.
- Couchbase - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.
- LevelDB - Google's high performance key/value database.
- FlockDB - Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database.
- Redis - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.
- Cassandra - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.
- Hypertable - C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop.
- CouchDB - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system.
- MongoDB - Another document-oriented database system.
- RavenDB - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features.
- RethinkDB - Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON.
- Neo4j - Open source graph database.
- Riak - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.
Packaging
- packman - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python).
- fpm - Versatile multi format package creator.
- tito - Builds RPMs for git-based projects.
- omnibus-ruby - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby).
- packman - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python).
SSH
- Advanced SSH config - Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.
- autossh - Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption.
- Cluster SSH - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.
- DSH - Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line.
- parallel-ssh - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools.
- pdsh - Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility.
- SSH Power Tool - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys.
- stormssh - A command line tool to manage SSH connections.
- sshrc - sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.
- Advanced SSH config - Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.
- pdsh - Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility.
- SSH Power Tool - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys.
- parallel-ssh - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools.
- Mosh - The mobile shell.
- Cluster SSH - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.
- autossh - Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption.
- DSH - Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line.
Ticketing systems
- Cerb - Group-based e-mail management project.
- osTicket - Simple support ticket system.
- OTRS - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications.
- Request Tracker - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl.
- TheBugGenie - Ticket system with extensive user rights system.
- osTicket - Simple support ticket system.
- MantisBT - Web-based bug tracking system.
- OTRS - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications.
- Bugzilla - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project.
- Cerb - Group-based e-mail management project.
- Flyspray - Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP.
- Redmine - Open source project management/ticketing web application written in Ruby.
- Request Tracker - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl.
Troubleshooting
- Trinity Rescue Kit - Linux Live CD for general computer 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.
- Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
Version control
- GNU Bazaar - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.
- Git - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed.
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.
Repositories
- Dotdeb - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.
- EPEL - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Remi - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
- ElRepo - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
- EPEL - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
Configuration Management Database
- Ralph - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks.
- 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.
- Sicekit - The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on MediaWiki).
- i-doit - Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB.
- iTop - Complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool.
Status Pages
- Cachet - An open source status page system written in PHP.

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