awesome-sysadmin
System admin toolkit
A curated collection of open source resources and tools for system administration and IT operations management.
A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.
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Awesome Sysadmin / Backups | |||
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 | ||
Backupninja | Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system | ||
Backuppc | Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme | ||
Brebis | A fully automated backup checker | ||
Bup | 7,140 | 10 days ago | Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem |
Burp | Network backup and restore program | ||
Duplicity | Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm | ||
FreeFileSync | Folder comparison and synchronization tool | ||
Lsyncd | 5,750 | 5 months ago | File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default) |
Rsnapshot | Filesystem Snapshotting Utility | ||
SafeKeep | Centralized pull-based backup using | ||
Snebu | – Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression | ||
UrBackup | Another client-server backup system | ||
ZBackup | A versatile deduplicating backup tool | ||
Backup | 4,834 | 5 months ago | Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems |
DREBS | 34 | about 10 years ago | AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies |
Awesome Sysadmin / Build Automation | |||
Apache Ant | Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java | ||
Apache Maven | Build automation tool mainly for Java | ||
GNU Make | The most popular automation build tool for many purposes | ||
Gradle | Another open source build automation system | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / ChatOps | |||
CloudBot | 274 | 11 months ago | The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot |
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 | ||
Hubot | A customizable, life embetterment robot | ||
Lazlo | 148 | over 8 years ago | A chatops automation framework in Go |
Lita | A robot companion for your company's chat room | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Cloning | |||
Clonezilla | Partition and disk imaging/cloning program | ||
Fog | Another computer cloning solution | ||
Redo Backup | Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Cloud Computing | |||
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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | 3,267 | over 8 years ago | Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data |
etcd | 47,851 | 4 days ago | A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery |
Juju | Cloud orechestration 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 | ||
Rundeck | Simple orchestration tool | ||
Salt | Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ | ||
serf | Serf is a tool for cluster membership | ||
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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | ||
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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | ||
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 | ||
Review Board | Web-based collaborative code review tool | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Collaborative Software | |||
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 | ||
SOGo | Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability | ||
Zimbra | Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Configuration Management Database | |||
Clusto | 291 | over 3 years ago | 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 | ||
i-doit | Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB | ||
iTop | Complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool | ||
Ralph | 2,239 | 6 days ago | Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks |
Sicekit | 10 | about 11 years ago | The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on mediawiki) |
Awesome Sysadmin / Configuration Management | |||
Ansible | It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
(R)?ex | It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent | ||
Salt | It's written in Python | ||
Slaughter | It's written in Perl | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment | |||
Buildbot | Python-based toolkit for continuous integration | ||
Drone | 32,239 | 6 days ago | Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files |
GitLab CI | Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories | ||
Go | Open source continuous delivery server | ||
Jenkins | An extendable open source continuous integration server | ||
Vlad the Deployer | Deployment automation | ||
ciandcd awesome | 1,876 | 8 months ago | A curated list of awesome tools for Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment |
Awesome Sysadmin / Control Panels | |||
Ajenti | Control panel for Linux and BSD | ||
Cockpit | New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C | ||
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 | ||
Sentora | Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel | ||
VestaCP | Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx | ||
Virtualmin | Control panel for Linux based on webmin | ||
Webmin | Linux server control panel | ||
ZPanel | Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Deployment Automation | |||
Capistrano | Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based) | ||
Fabric | Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks | ||
Mina | Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based) | ||
Rocketeer | PHP task runner and deployment tool | ||
Vlad the Deployer | Deployment automation (rake based) | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Distributed Filesystems | |||
Ceph | Distributed object store and file system | ||
DRBD | Distributed Replicated Block Device | ||
LeoFS | Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system | ||
GlusterFS | Scale-out network-attached storage file system | ||
HDFS | Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework | ||
Lustre | A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing | ||
MooseFS | Fault tolerant, network distributed file system | ||
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 | ||
XtreemFS | XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | ||
Unbound | Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver | ||
Yadifa | Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Editors | |||
Atom | A hackable text editor from Github | ||
Brackets | Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers | ||
Eclipse | IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system | ||
Geany | GTK2 text editor | ||
GNU Emacs | An extensible, customizable text editor-and more | ||
Haroopad | Markdown editor with live preview | ||
ICEcoder | Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages | ||
jotgit | 208 | over 10 years ago | Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing |
Light Table | The next generation code editor | ||
Lime | Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text | ||
TextMate | 14,227 | 6 months ago | A graphical text editor for OS X |
Vim | A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / IT Asset Management | |||
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 | ||
Ralph | 2,239 | 6 days ago | Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks |
Snipe IT | Asset & license management software | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Log Management | |||
Echofish | A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system | ||
Elasticsearch | A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis | ||
Fluentd | Log Collector and Shipper | ||
Flume | Distributed log collection and aggregation system | ||
Graylog2 | Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options | ||
Heka | Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation | ||
Kibana | Visualize logs and time-stamped data | ||
Logstash | Tool for managing events and logs | ||
Octopussy | Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report) | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | ||
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 | 725 | over 5 years ago | 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 | ||
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 | ||
iRedMail | Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Messaging | |||
ejabberd | XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP | ||
Metronome IM | Fork of Prosody IM | ||
MongooseIM | Fork of ejabberd | ||
Openfire | Real time collaboration (RTC) server | ||
Prosody IM | XMPP server written in Lua | ||
Tigase | XMPP server implementation in Java | ||
Candy | Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript | ||
Kaiwa | Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives | ||
Lets-Chat | A self hosted chat suite written in Node | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Monitoring | |||
Alerta | 2,387 | 10 days ago | Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system |
Cacti | Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool | ||
Cabot | Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty | ||
Centreon | IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance | ||
check_mk | Collection of extensions for Nagios | ||
Flapjack | Monitoring notification routing & event processing system | ||
Icinga | Fork of Nagios | ||
LibreNMS | 3,940 | 4 days ago | fork of Observium |
Monit | Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems | ||
Munin | Networked resource monitoring tool | ||
Naemon | Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features | ||
Nagios | Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application | ||
Node-Bell | Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor | ||
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 | ||
Riemann | Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis | ||
Sensu | Open source monitoring framework | ||
Sentry | Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation | ||
Seyren | 859 | almost 2 years ago | An alerting dashboard for Graphite |
Shinken | Another monitoring framework | ||
Xymon | Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother | ||
Zabbix | Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications | ||
Zenoss | Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope | ||
Adagios | Web based Nagios configuration interface | ||
Dash | 10,425 | 7 months ago | A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine |
Thruk | Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken | ||
Uchiwa | Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework | ||
OMD | The Open Monitoring Distribution | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Metric & Metric Collection | |||
Collectd | System statistic collection daemon | ||
Collectl | High precision system performance metrics collecting tool | ||
Dashing | 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 | 1,176 | over 7 years ago | Python based statistic collection daemon |
Facette | Time series data visualization and graphing software written in Go | ||
Freeboard | 6,453 | about 1 year ago | 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 | ||
Graphite | Open source scalable graphing server | ||
InfluxDB | Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies | ||
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 | ||
Prometheus | Service monitoring system and time series database | ||
RRDtool | Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data | ||
Statsd | 17,681 | 10 months ago | Application statistic listener |
Awesome Sysadmin / Network Configuration Management | |||
GestióIP | An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool | ||
NOC Project | Scalable, high-performance and open-source system for ISP, service and content providers | ||
Oxidized | 2,808 | 6 days ago | A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage |
RANCID | Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes | ||
rConfig | Another network device configuration management tool | ||
trigger | 551 | about 1 year ago | Robust network automation toolkit written in Python |
Awesome Sysadmin / Newsletters | |||
DadaMail | Mailing List Manager, written in Perl | ||
phpList | Newsletter manager written in PHP | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / NoSQL | |||
Apache HBase | Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store | ||
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 | ||
ElasticSearch | Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects | ||
MongoDB | Another document-oriented database system | ||
RavenDB | Document based database with ACID/Transactional features | ||
RethinkDB | Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON | ||
FlockDB | 3,338 | over 7 years ago | Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database |
Neo4j | Open source graph database | ||
Couchbase | In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore | ||
LevelDB | 36,564 | 3 months ago | Google's high performance key/value database |
Redis | Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability | ||
Riak | Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Packaging | |||
fpm | 11,164 | 2 months ago | Versatile multi format package creator |
omnibus-ruby | 1,292 | 3 months ago | Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby) |
packman | Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python) | ||
tito | 380 | 10 days ago | Builds RPMs for git-based projects |
Awesome Sysadmin / Queuing | |||
ActiveMQ | An open source message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client | ||
BeanstalkD | A simple, fast work queue | ||
Gearman | Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform | ||
Kafka | A high-throughput distributed messaging system | ||
NSQ | A realtime distributed messaging platform | ||
RabbitMQ | Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system | ||
ZeroMQ | High-performance asynchronous messaging library | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / RDBMS | |||
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 | ||
MariaDB | Community-developed fork of the MySQL | ||
MySQL | Most popular RDBMS server | ||
Percona Server | Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement | ||
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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Security | |||
Blackbox | 6,687 | about 2 months ago | 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 | 1,623 | about 1 year ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Service Discovery | |||
Consul | Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration | ||
Doozerd | 3,267 | over 8 years ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Software Containers | |||
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 | ||
OpenVZ | Container-based virtualization for Linux | ||
Fig | Fast, isolated development environments using Docker | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / 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 | ||
Mosh | The mobile shell | ||
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 | ||
sshrc | sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely | ||
stormssh | A command line tool to manage SSH connections | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Statistics | |||
Analog | Logfile Analyser | ||
AWStats | Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically | ||
GoAccess | Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal | ||
Open Web Analytics | Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs | ||
Piwik | Web analytics application | ||
Webalizer | Fast, free web server log file analysis program | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Status Pages | |||
Cachet | An open source status page system written in PHP | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Ticketing systems | |||
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 | ||
MantisBT | Web-based bug tracking system | ||
osTicket | Simple support ticket system | ||
OTRS | Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications | ||
Redmine | Open source project management/ticketing web application written in Ruby | ||
Request Tracker | Ticket-tracking system written in Perl | ||
TheBugGenie | Ticket system with extensive user rights system | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Troubleshooting | |||
mitmproxy | A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems | ||
Sysdig | Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze | ||
Wireshark | The world's foremost network protocol analyzer | ||
Trinity Rescue Kit | Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Project Management | |||
ChiliProject | Fork of Redmine | ||
GitBucket | 9,159 | 4 days ago | Clone of GitHub written in Scala; single jar install |
GitLab | Clone of GitHub written in Ruby | ||
Gogs | Self-hosted Git service written in Go | ||
OpenProject | Project collaboration with open source | ||
Phabricator | Written in PHP | ||
Redmine | Written in ruby on rails | ||
Taiga | Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods | ||
The Bug Genie | Written in PHP | ||
Trac | Written in python | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Version control | |||
Fossil | Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking | ||
Git | Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed | ||
GNU Bazaar | Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical | ||
Mercurial | Another distributed revision control | ||
Subversion | Client-server revision control system | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Virtualization | |||
Archipel | XMPP based virtualization management platform | ||
Ganeti | Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen | ||
KVM | Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure | ||
OpenNebula | Flexible enterprise cloud made simple | ||
oVirt | Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks | ||
Packer | A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration | ||
Proxmox VE | Complete open source virtualization management solution | ||
QEMU | QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer | ||
Vagrant | Tool for building complete development environments | ||
VirtualBox | Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation | ||
Xen | Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / VPN | |||
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 | ||
sshuttle | 8,892 | almost 7 years ago | Poor man's VPN |
strongSwan | Complete IPsec implementation for Linux | ||
tinc | Distributed p2p VPN | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Web | |||
Apache | Most popular web server | ||
Cherokee | Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy | ||
Lighttpd | Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments | ||
Nginx | Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server | ||
uWSGI | 3,463 | 26 days ago | The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services |
HAProxy | Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing | ||
Squid | Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more | ||
Varnish | HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Webmails | |||
Mailpile | A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features | ||
Roundcube | Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface | ||
SquirrelMail | Another browser-based IMAP client | ||
Awesome Sysadmin / Wikis | |||
DokuWiki | Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database | ||
Gollum | 13,844 | 2 months ago | A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend |
ikiwiki | A wiki compiler | ||
MDwiki | Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client | ||
Mediawiki | Used to power Wikipedia | ||
MoinMoin | An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users | ||
Ōlelo Wiki | 241 | almost 8 years ago | A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository |
TiddlyWiki | Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript | ||
Resources / Blogs | |||
Code as Craft | Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts | ||
DevOpsGuys | Devops consultants who blog about operations | ||
Rackspace Developers | Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics | ||
Resources / 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 | ||
The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps | Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement | ||
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook | Approaches system administration from a practical perspective | ||
Resources / Newsletters | |||
Servers for Hackers | Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server | ||
Resources / Repositories | |||
Dotdeb | Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian | ||
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 | ||
Software Collections | Community Release of . Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x | ||
Resources / Websites | |||
Ops School | Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer | ||
Digital Ocean Tutorials | A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics |