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Client-server model backup tool

A deduplicating backup program written in Python

Another Client-server model backup tool

A fork of Bacula backup tool

Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system

Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme

A fully automated backup checker

Bup

Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem

Network backup and restore program

Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm

Folder comparison and synchronization tool

Lsyncd

File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default)

Filesystem Snapshotting Utility

Centralized pull-based backup using

– Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression

Another client-server backup system

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

Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java

Build automation tool mainly for Java

The most popular automation build tool for many purposes

Another open source build automation system

CloudBot

The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot

The world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use

A plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable

A customizable, life embetterment robot

Lazlo

A chatops automation framework in Go

A robot companion for your company's chat room

Partition and disk imaging/cloning program

Another computer cloning solution

Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore

Open source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility

Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt

Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments

Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility

Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems

An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops

Open source upstream of OpenShift, the next generation application hosting platform developed by Red Hat

Open source software for building private and public clouds

Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS

Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software

IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems

Contains modules for controlling many types of cloud resources

Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML

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

Cloud orechestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles

Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs

Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH

Simple orchestration tool

Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ

Serf is a tool for cluster membership

Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services

A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services

Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices

Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution

Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend

A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store

Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data

Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes

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

Web-based collaborative code review tool

Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs

Groupware software written in PHP

PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management

Another groupware suite

Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability

Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client

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

At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge

Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB

Complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool

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)

It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH

Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language

It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL

Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL

It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL

It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent

It's written in Python

It's written in Perl

Python-based toolkit for continuous integration

Drone

Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files

Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories

Open source continuous delivery server

An extendable open source continuous integration server

Deployment automation

ciandcd awesome

A curated list of awesome tools for Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

Control panel for Linux and BSD

New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C

VPS Provisioning and Management Software

Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support

Hosting control panel for Linux

Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel

Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx

Control panel for Linux based on webmin

Linux server control panel

Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows

Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based)

Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks

Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based)

PHP task runner and deployment tool

Deployment automation (rake based)

Distributed object store and file system

Distributed Replicated Block Device

Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system

Scale-out network-attached storage file system

Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework

A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing

Fault tolerant, network distributed file system

Application level, network distributed file system

Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support

secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system

XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs

The most widely used name server software

A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns

DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend

A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks

High performance authoritative-only DNS server

Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server

DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features

Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver

Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain

A hackable text editor from Github

Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers

IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system

GTK2 text editor

An extensible, customizable text editor-and more

Markdown editor with live preview

Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages

jotgit

Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing

The next generation code editor

Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text

TextMate

A graphical text editor for OS X

A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing

Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface

Enables users to inventory their IT assets

Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration

Ralph

Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks

Asset & license management software

Developed by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation project written in Java

Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP

Fork of OpenDS

Another directory server written in Java

Developed by the OpenLDAP Project

The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client

A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system

A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis

Log Collector and Shipper

Distributed log collection and aggregation system

Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options

Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation

Visualize logs and time-stamped data

Tool for managing events and logs

Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report)

Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server

Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in

IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind

One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3

Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge

A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript

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

Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project

Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement

Secure Sendmail replacement

Message transfer agent (MTA)

Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box

Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot

XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP

Fork of Prosody IM

Fork of ejabberd

Real time collaboration (RTC) server

XMPP server written in Lua

XMPP server implementation in Java

Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript

Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives

A self hosted chat suite written in Node

Alerta

Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system

Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool

Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty

IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance

Collection of extensions for Nagios

Monitoring notification routing & event processing system

Fork of Nagios

LibreNMS

fork of Observium

Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems

Networked resource monitoring tool

Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features

Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application

Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor

SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux

Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments

Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis

Open source monitoring framework

Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation

Seyren

An alerting dashboard for Graphite

Another monitoring framework

Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother

Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications

Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope

Web based Nagios configuration interface

Dash

A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine

Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken

Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework

The Open Monitoring Distribution

System statistic collection daemon

High precision system performance metrics collecting tool

Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms

Diamond

Python based statistic collection daemon

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

High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process

A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor

Open source scalable graphing server

Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies

Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x

Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity

Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing

Service monitoring system and time series database

Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data

Statsd

Application statistic listener

An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool

Scalable, high-performance and open-source system for ISP, service and content providers

Oxidized

A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage

Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes

Another network device configuration management tool

trigger

Robust network automation toolkit written in Python

Mailing List Manager, written in Perl

Newsletter manager written in PHP

Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store

Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers

C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop

Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system

Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects

Another document-oriented database system

Document based database with ACID/Transactional features

Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON

FlockDB

Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database

Open source graph database

In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore

LevelDB

Google's high performance key/value database

Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability

Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database

fpm

Versatile multi format package creator

omnibus-ruby

Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby)

Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python)

tito

Builds RPMs for git-based projects

An open source message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client

A simple, fast work queue

Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform

A high-throughput distributed messaging system

A realtime distributed messaging platform

Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system

High-performance asynchronous messaging library

True universal open source database

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

Community-developed fork of the MySQL

Most popular RDBMS server

Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement

Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS)

Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster

Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS

Blackbox

Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords

Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks

Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior

Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall

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 is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more

Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface

Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution

Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch in 1998

A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique

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 is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services

Produces open source installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances

Open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications

Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features

Container-based virtualization for Linux

Fast, isolated development environments using Docker

Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent

Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption

Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console

Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line

The mobile shell

Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools

Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility

Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys

sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely

A command line tool to manage SSH connections

Logfile Analyser

Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically

Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal

Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs

Web analytics application

Fast, free web server log file analysis program

An open source status page system written in PHP

General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project

Group-based e-mail management project

Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP

Web-based bug tracking system

Simple support ticket system

Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications

Open source project management/ticketing web application written in Ruby

Ticket-tracking system written in Perl

Ticket system with extensive user rights system

A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems

Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze

The world's foremost network protocol analyzer

Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting

Fork of Redmine

GitBucket

Clone of GitHub written in Scala; single jar install

Clone of GitHub written in Ruby

Self-hosted Git service written in Go

Project collaboration with open source

Written in PHP

Written in ruby on rails

Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods

Written in PHP

Written in python

Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking

Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed

Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical

Another distributed revision control

Client-server revision control system

XMPP based virtualization management platform

Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen

Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure

Flexible enterprise cloud made simple

Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks

A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration

Complete open source virtualization management solution

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

Tool for building complete development environments

Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation

Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures

Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange

OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up

Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features

sshuttle

Poor man's VPN

Complete IPsec implementation for Linux

Distributed p2p VPN

Most popular web server

Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy

Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments

Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server

uWSGI

The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services

Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing

Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more

HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression

A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features

Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface

Another browser-based IMAP client

Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database

Gollum

A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend

A wiki compiler

Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client

Used to power Wikipedia

An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users

Ōlelo Wiki

A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository

Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript

Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts

Devops consultants who blog about operations

Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics

A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts

How DevOps techniques can fix the problems that happen in IT organizations

The first and second editions describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies

Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement

Approaches system administration from a practical perspective

Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server

Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian

Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc)

Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux)

Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora

Community Release of . Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x

Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer

A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics