AppScale - Open
source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility.
Archipel - Manage and
supervise virtual machines using Libvirt.
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.
Eucalyptus - Open source
private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
Mesos - Develop and run
resource-efficient distributed systems.
OpenNebula - An user-driven
cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops.
Openshift Origin - Open
source upstream of OpenShift, the next generation application hosting
platform developed by Red Hat.
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.
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.
Ansible - Contains modules for
controlling many types of cloud resources.
Cloudify - Open source TOSCA-based
cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
consul - It is a tool for
discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure.
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.
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.
Overcast -
Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and
scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH.
StackStorm - Event Driven
Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written
in Python.
zookeeper - ZooKeeper is
a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming,
providing distributed synchronization, and providing group
services.
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
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.
Swift - A
highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob
store.
Syncthing - Open Source system
for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data.
Code Review
Web Based collaborative code review system.
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.
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.
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.
Mail Transfer Agents (SMTP servers).
Exim - Message transfer agent
(MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
Haraka - A high-performance,
pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript.
MailCatcher - Ruby gem that
deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in
web interface. Useful for debugging or development.
Maildrop - Open
Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.
OpenSMTPD - Secure SMTP server
implementation from the OpenBSD project.
Postfix - Fast, easy to
administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
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.
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.
Facette - Time series data
visualization and graphing software written in Go.
Freeboard - A
damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into
delicious UI.
Ganglia - High
performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of
servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection
process.
Grafana - A Graphite &
InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor.
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.
PostgreSQL -
Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS).
PostgreSQL-XL - Scalable
Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster.
SQLite - Library that implements a
self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL
DBS.
Security
Security tools.
Blackbox -
Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically
encrypt secrets like passwords.
Denyhosts - Thwart
SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.
Fail2Ban -
Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious
behavior.
fwknop - Protects
ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.
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.
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)
ApachePython
Service Discovery
Consul - Consul is a tool for
service discovery, monitoring and configuration.
Doozerd - Doozer is a
highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of
extremely important data.
ZooKeeper - ZooKeeper is
a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming,
providing distributed synchronization, and providing group
services.
Software Containers
Operating system–level virtualization.
Bitnami - Produces open source
installers or software packages for web applications and development
stacks as well as virtual appliances.
Docker - Open platform for
developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed
applications.
LXC - Userspace
interface for the Linux kernel containment features.
[Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches]
(https://www.manning.com/books/learn-cisco-network-administration-in-a-month-of-lunches)
- A tutorial designed for sysadmins who need to learn how to administer
Cisco switches and routers.
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.
Securing
DevOps - A book on Security techniques for DevOps that reviews state
of the art practices used in securing web applications and their
infrastructure.
Newsletters
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.
Repositories
Debian-based distributions.
Dotdeb - Repository with LAMP
updated packages for Debian.
RPM-based distributions.
ElRepo -
Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
EPEL - Repository
for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
Remi - Repository with
LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
