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DevOps tools

============



A curated list of development and operational tools for Unix-like operating

systems.



All tools are [Open Source / Free

Software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software).



**Contents**



* [Backup](#backup)

* [Databases](#databases)

* [Data filtering and transformations](#data-filtering-and-transformations)

* [Desktop](#desktop)

* [Dev stubbing](#dev-stubbing)

* [Development aids](#development-aids)

* [Documentation](#documentation)

* [Filesystems](#filesystems)

* [Linting](#linting)

* [Networking](#networking)

* [Monitoring](#monitoring)

* [Security](#security)

* [Source control](#source-control)

* [Other lists](#other-lists)



## Backup



* **[borgbackup](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)**: BorgBackup

  is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and

  authenticated encryption.

* **[borgmatic](https://github.com/witten/borgmatic)**: Simple,

  configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations. A

  user-friendly wrapper around borgbackup.

* **[restic](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)**: Fast, encrypted

  remote incremental backups that works without a remote server in a chrooted

  remote SFTP. Single binary written in Go. **Warning**: Pruning old backups

  is very slow.



## Databases



* **[squirrelsql](http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/)**: Multi-database

  graphical SQL client. Supports anything JDBC supports (MySQL, Postgres,

  MSSQL, etc).

* **[dbeaver](https://github.com/serge-rider/dbeaver)**: Free universal

  database manager and SQL client.

* **[apache directory studio](http://directory.apache.org/studio/)**: A

  complete GUI LDAP management tool.



## Data filtering and transformations



* **[xmlstarlet](http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)**: Commandline tools to work

  with XML. Validate (DTD, XSD), XPath, XSLT, modify and visualize XML

  documents.

* **[xlstproc](http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc.html)**: Process XSLT on the

  commandline.

* **[xmllint](http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html)**: parses one or more XML

  files, specified on the command line as xmlfile. It prints various types of

  output, depending upon the options selected. It is useful for detecting

  errors both in XML code and in the XML parser itself.

* **[jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)**: a lightweight and flexible

  command-line JSON processor.

* **[meld](http://meldmerge.org/)**: a visual diff and merge tool targeted at

  developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version

  controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files

  and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.

* **[expect](https://linux.die.net/man/1/expect)**: Systematically interact

  with programs that can't be scripted but require human interaction.

* **[fop](https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/)**: XSL-driven documentation

  generator. Basically takes XML and XSL as input and generates PDF, PS, etc.

* **[dhex](http://www.dettus.net/dhex/)**: Console / curses-based hex editor

  with diffing mode.



## Desktop



* **[tilix](https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix)**: A tiling terminal emulator for

  Linux.

* **[zim](http://zim-wiki.org/)**: Powerful desktop wiki / note taking

  application.



## Dev stubbing



* **[fakesmtp](http://nilhcem.com/FakeSMTP/index.html)**: a Fake SMTP Server

  with GUI for testing emails in applications easily.

* **[mailslurper](http://mailslurper.com/)**: a Fake SMTP server with a web

  interface for testing emails without actually sending them. Simple

  single-package installation.

* **[mailhog](https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog)**: a Fake SMTP server with a

  web interface for testing emails without actually sending them. Simple

  single-package installation.

* **[tcconfig](https://github.com/thombashi/tcconfig/blob/master/README.rst)**:

  Easy to set up traffic control of network bandwidth/latency/packet

  loss/packet-corruption to a network interface.



## Development aids



* **[soapui](https://www.soapui.org/)**: A SOAP and REST testing tool.

* **[skajla](http://skajla.blogspot.nl/2010/05/jmx-command-line-client.html)**:

  Command-line [JMX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Management_Extensions)

  client.

* **[insomnia](https://github.com/Kong/insomnia)**: a cross-platform REST

  client, built on top of Electron.

* **[virtualbox](https://www.virtualbox.org/)**: Powerful x86 and

  AMD64/Intel64 virtualization lets you run full-fledged Windows, Linux,

  Solaris and BSD Virtual machines on your computer.

* **[vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/)**: Quickly bring up Virtual Machines

  for development and testing using a single declarative configuration file.

* **[lxdock](http://lxdock.readthedocs.io/)**: Quickly bring up lightweight

  containers for development and testing.

* **[when-changed](https://github.com/joh/when-changed)**: Automatically run

  commands when files change on disk.

* **[entr](http://eradman.com/entrproject/)**: Automatically run commands when

  files change on disk.



## Documentation



* **[pandoc](https://pandoc.org/)**: convert files from one markup format into

  another. Supports a large number of formats.

* **[asciidoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/)**: a text document format

  for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web

  pages, man pages and blogs. AsciiDoc files can be translated to many formats

  including HTML, PDF, EPUB, man page.

* **[mkdocs](http://www.mkdocs.org/)**: a fast, simple and downright gorgeous

  static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation.

  Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a

  single YAML configuration file.

* **[yed](https://www.yworks.com/products/yed)**: cross-platform diagram

  editor.

* **[plantuml](http://plantuml.com/)**: Generate UML diagrams from a simple

  text-based description.

* **[graphviz](http://www.graphviz.org/)**: Use a simple text language to

  generate diagrams of abstract graphs and networks.

* **[wkhtmltopdf](https://wkhtmltopdf.org/)**: Convert HTML to PDF.



## Filesystems



* **[archivemount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivemount)**: Mount tar

  archives, including write-support. (changes are written when archive is

  unmounted).

* **[mhddfs](https://romanrm.net/mhddfs)**: join several filesystems together to

  form a single larger one.

* **[sshfs](https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs)**: allows you to mount a remote

  filesystem using SFTP. Most SSH servers support and enable this SFTP access

  by default, so SSHFS is very simple to use - there's nothing to do on the

  server-side.

* **[squashfs](http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/)**: Create and mount compressed

  filesystem images.

* **[xdiskusage](http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/)**: Visually represent

  disk usage in and below a directory.

* **[rsync](https://rsync.samba.org/)**: Provides fast, reliable, configurable

  incremental file transfer on local disk or over the network. Archive,

  mirror, etc.

* **[ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr)**: A disk usage analyzer with an

  ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server

  where you don't have an entire graphical setup available.

* **[fdupes](https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes)**: FDUPES is a

  program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within

  specified directories.



## Linting



* **[httpolice](https://github.com/vfaronov/httpolice)**: a validator for HTTP

  requests and responses. It can spot bad header syntax, inappropriate status

  codes, and other interoperability problems in your HTTP server or client.

* **[shellcheck](http://www.shellcheck.net/)**: a tool that gives warnings and

  suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts.



## Networking



* **[mtr](https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/)**: My TraceRoute. combines the

  functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network

  diagnostic tool.

* **[lft](https://linux.die.net/man/8/lft)**: display the route packets take

  to a network host/socket using one of several layer-4 protocols and

  methods. Basically traceroute for TCP, UDP and ICMP.

* **[netcat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat)**: a computer networking

  utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or

  UDP. Replacement for telnet. Can also act as a server.

* **[sshuttle](https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle)**: Sshutle is VPN over

  SSH without requiring a remote VPN server or admin rights. Instead, it

  builds up an ssh session and than locally forwards traffic over it by

  creating local PREROUTING firewall rules.

* **[stunnel](https://www.stunnel.org/)**: a proxy designed to add TLS

  encryption functionality to existing clients and servers without any changes

  in the programs' code.

* **[tcptraceroute](https://linux.die.net/man/1/tcptraceroute)**: A traceroute

  implementation using TCP packets

* **[wavemon](https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon)**: an ncurses-based

  monitoring application for wireless network devices.

* **[rinetd](https://www.boutell.com/rinetd/)**: Redirects TCP connections

  from one IP address and port to another. 

* **[dig](https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204644130/understanding-the-dig-command)**:

  The multitool for DNS enquiries.

* **[ipcalc](http://jodies.de/ipcalc)**: IP network calculator. Available as

  online tool as well as a downloadable package. (Ubuntu users: `apt install

  ipcalc`).

* **[netalyzr](http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/)**: Commandline tool that

  runs various network related tests and generates a report for potential

  problems. (careful: sends the results to Berkeley for research purposes).

* **[mitmproxy](https://mitmproxy.org/)**: An interactive console program that

  allows HTTP traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified and

  replayed.

* **[iftop](http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/)**: iftop does for network

  usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a

  named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of

  hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?".

* **[tinc](https://www.tinc-vpn.org/)**: A auto-routing meshing VPN.

* **[proxychains](https://github.com/haad/proxychains)**: a tool that forces

  any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy

  like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy.



## Monitoring



* **[monit](https://mmonit.com/monit/)**: a small utility for managing and

  monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and

  can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

* **[monitorix](http://www.monitorix.org)**: Lightweight monitoring tool that

  collects and displays many system usage graphs through a web interface.

* **[iotop](http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/)**: Show disk and swap I/O per

  process.

* **[logtail](https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/logtail/)**: Watch multiple

  log files on multiple machines.

* **[lnav](http://lnav.org/)**: An advanced log file viewer for the

  small-scale. Watch and analyze your log files from a terminal. No server. No

  setup. Still featureful.

* **[sentry](https://sentry.io/welcome/)**: Open-source error tracking that

  helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time.

* **[ts](https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/)**: Add timestamps to piped output

  (stdout). E.g. `rsync x y | ts '[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]'`.

* **[collectd](https://collectd.org)**: Collectd is a daemon which collects

  system and application performance metrics periodically and provides

  mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD

  files. Has many plugins and many frontends are available for viewing the

  data.

* **[osquery](https://osquery.io)**: Use SQL to query information from your

  device / system.



## Security



* **[fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)**: Fail2ban

  scans log files and bans IPs that show malicious signs. Easily protects your

  SSH ports against attacks.

* **[ferm](http://ferm.foo-projects.org/)**:  a tool to maintain complex

  firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and

  over again. 

* **[lynus](https://cisofy.com/lynis/)**: Lynis is a battle-tested security

  tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system. It

  performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system

  hardening and compliance testing.

* **[pwgen](https://github.com/jbernard/pwgen)**: Generate pronouncable and

  easy to type passwords.

* **[keystore explorer](http://keystore-explorer.org/)**: Java GUI for

  managing Java Key stores (SSL certificate databases). Also lets you convert

  all kinds of certificate formats.

* **[testssl.sh](https://testssl.sh/)**: a free command line tool which checks

  a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols

  as well as recent cryptographic flaws and more.

* **[qualys ssl server test](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/)**: Online tool

  for deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public

  Internet. Commandline [also

  available](https://github.com/ssllabs/ssllabs-scan).

* **[mozilla ssl configuration

  generator](https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/)**:

  Generate secure SSL configurations for the most common browsers.

* **[mozilla observatory](https://observatory.mozilla.org/)**: Scan hosts for

  HTTPS, TLS and SSH to see if they are configured safely and securely. Warns

  about missing and improperly configured Content Security Policies for

  websites.

* **[zed attack

  proxy](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project)**: A

  java desktop gui to perform PEN tests against web applications.

* **[simple event correlator](https://simple-evcorr.github.io/)**: an event

  correlation tool for advanced event processing which can be harnessed for

  event log monitoring, for network and security management, for fraud

  detection, and for any other task which involves event correlation.

* **[age](https://github.com/FiloSottile/age)**: age is a simple, modern and

  secure file encryption tool, format, and library. It features small explicit

  keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. Does symmetric and

  asymmetric encryption (public / private keys). Way simpler than GPG.



## Source control



* **[tig](https://github.com/jonas/tig)**: an ncurses-based text-mode

  interface for git.

* **[git cola](https://git-cola.github.io/)**: a sleek and powerful graphical

  user interface for Git.

* **[multi-git-status](https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status)**: Show

  uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos.



## Other lists



* **[awesome-sysadmin](https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin)**: A curated

  list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome

  PHP.